As a final touch, ’56-3701F42′, the serial number of the destroyed weapon the metal is from, has been hand engraved beside the plate. It’s a subtle yet powerful reminder of just what this timepiece stands for. The Inversion Principle timepiece will be limited to just 20 pieces (10 in each metal) and will retail from US$350,000 with revenues from the sale of each timepiece used to fund the destruction of one thousand assault weapons in Africa.
Category: Culture
Rebuilding Violent Places
The architectural task in the long aftermath of such shootings is not only to repair structural damage but to calibrate a balance between remembering and forgetting sufficient for daily life to continue nearby—and to figure out how the shapes, materials, and details of buildings can participate in that calibration.
Let’s Save Great Ideas from the Ideas Industry
Guernica doesn’t offer any solutions to the problem of human suffering: it asks us to do something more vital, and more worthy: to reflect on, consider, and perhaps so gain a truer intimacy with the problem of war, violence, atrocity, and its permanence throughout history. Picasso would never have been invited to deliver a TED talk about Guernica because it offers no quick, easy, palatable solution. Instead, it offers the precise opposite: a hard, unflinching, uncompromising portrait of grief.
Histoire de Tourbillon 4
Une précision immuable et parfaitement maîtrisée, le rêve de tout horloger. Mais ce rêve est inéluctablement interrompu par la réalité. De nombreuses forces naturelles affectent la précision d’une montre, et parmi ces forces toutes puissantes, il en est une capable de maintenir les planètes en orbite et de tenir l’univers tout entier en place: la gravité.
How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art
But it wasn’t really until serious business journalists took note and came running to document the next hot market for High Net Worth Individuals that the art world took stock of its new situation. And what became clear to the more experimental, contrarian critical community was that what passes for fusion among uptown’s financial giants is uranium poisoning for everybody else.
Abnormal Capitalist 