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Health and Wellness, Lifestyle

Health Benefits of Surfing: How Riding Waves Boosts Physical and Mental Well-being

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Surfing is a lifestyle that is embraced by millions of people around the world. Moreover, this is not just a sport; surfing is a thrilling ride that offers many health benefits that contribute greatly to an individual’s mental well-being and physical fitness. Surfing is a sport that nourishes the mind and body and provides a holistic experience to individuals. The salty beach waves and adrenaline rush always cheer up the mood and surfs intertwined souls. So, if you are unaware of the physical and mental benefits of surfing, we are to talk about how diving and surfing in water can positively impact your overall well-being.
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Lacquered Wood ‘Sunset’ Cabinet By Pierre Cardin

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Photos By Gail

What a treat it is to experience the Pierre Cardin exhibit Future Fashion, currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. I admit to being unaware that Cardin also made furniture until I saw a selection of his amazing woodwork staged amongst his retro-space-age fashions. This cabinet, which emulates a sunset above ocean waves, is from 2018.
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Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art

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Unknown Pleasures Cover Art

Photo By Gail

This poster by Peter Savile, who first came to prominence for his designs for Factory Records, was issued to promote Joy Division’s 1979 debut album, Unknown Pleasures.  Band member Bernard Sumner found the image, a rendering of successive waves emitted by a pulsar, in an astronomy textbook.  Saville reversed the image from black-on-white to white-on-black, conjuring the darker atmospherics of the album’s sound. The Cover Art design has attained an iconic status, particularly of late, going so far as to spawn the term “joyplot,“ which refers to a method of data visualization that involves the layering of successive and comparative histograms.

Photographed as Part of the Exhibit, Too Fast To Live Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.

Design and Innovation

Eye On Design: Current Chair By Vivian Beer

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Current Chair By Vivian Beer
All Photos By Gail

The dynamic, curvilinear design of the Current Chair (2004) by Vivian Beer seems to defy the strength and hardness of the steel from which it is made. Historically, few women have worked in metal other than to fashion jewelry, and fewer still have made metal furniture.

Current Chair By Vivian Beer

About her innovative design, Beer remarked, “I wanted this chair to seem as if it had been cut and crushed out of a single sheet of metal. At the same time, I wanted it to feel as fast and clean as water its silhouette . . .The balance and the trickery are important.” The chair’s title suggests that the artist’s choice of  the color blue alludes to swiftly moving water.

Current Chair By Vivian Beer

Photographed in the Brooklyn Museum.

Arts and Culture

Mary Heilmann Geometrics: Waves, Roads, etc. at 303Gallery

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Rose Wave (All Photos By Gail)

303 Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of new works by Mary Heilmann, whose work you might remember from This Post.

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On view are an arrangement of paintings on canvas and handmade paper, glazed ceramics, and a group of her distinctive furniture sculptures.
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