Turner’s Dairy is a new collection of townhomes located at the corner of Ontario Street and West 17th Ave, Vancouver. This project will offer 13 contemporary townhouses, Sizes ranging from 695 square feet to 1,636 square feet. Contemporary and efficient living, designed for the modern family. Progressive meets heritage in these sleekly crafted and thoughtfully created homes. The building’s open and expansive spaces, high ceilings, and vast casement style windows harken back to the lofts and offices that were inhabited by generations of industrial businesses, starting with Turner’s Dairy.
There’s a lot to take into consideration when you look for a new golf course. The club’s history, reviews, members/frequent players, and the course itself are all important aspects to research if you’re trying to... Read more
2018 is more than halfway done, and I thought it would be a great time to update everyone on what has gone on in my real estate world. I set goals every year, and one of my challenges is making sure I am reviewing and paying attention to those goals. It is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day business activities and lose sight of the big picture. Luckily, I have a blog that keeps me mostly on track and accountable for my goals. I created house-flipping goals, rental property goals, real estate agent goals, and a few personal
We venture out west to Portland, Oregon to check in with Tsilli Pines, a Creative Director at FINE, a digital design and branding agency that spans the wine, hospitality, tech, architecture, and financial sectors. The were founded in San Francisco in 1994 before expanding to Portland in 2007. Pines landed at the agency in 2002 and since then she’s been at the helm of many digital experiences, launching award-winning projects of varying sizes. Along the way she co-founded Design Week Portland, a yearly festival that celebrates design and the design community through hundreds of well-curated events. In this Friday Five, Pines shares five things she loves, including music, dance, and her native language.
Image by Oded Ezer
1. Hebrew
My mother tongue. The letter forms above are a comparison between HaZvi, a classic sans-serif font designed by Zvi Hausman, and OE Beit-Hilel (one of my favorite modern Hebrew typefaces), a half-serif designed by Oded Ezer, an incredible Israeli designer and artist. On the left is the letter tzadik, which makes the “ts” sound in my name. Hebrew is written from right to left, and being able to read two languages that run in opposite directions provides a good foundation for seeing multiple perspectives.
Photo by Ian J. Whitmore for Outlet
2. Collaborators
I’m inspired daily by the creative people of Portland, Oregon. It’s nourishing to be surrounded by the incredible talent here, and I feel lucky to be able to call many of them collaborators. Pictured above is Kate Bingaman-Burt, an illustrator, educator, and co-conspirator, shown in her studio. She is incredibly generous with her time and resources, and she opened Outlet as a community space for workshops, pop-up events, printing, and exploration. The zine library and visual treats are super inspiring — there’s always something new to notice and pick up, and it’s incredibly activated with folks coming and going. It’s a great place to cross paths with friends old and new.
Photo courtesy of ArcLight Cinemas
3. Movies
My most seminal experience in a movie theater was a midnight showing of Apocalypse Now at the Cinerama Dome in LA in the 90s. I’ve always been a voracious consumer of films, and this was more or less a religious experience for me. In every city where I’ve lived, I’ve developed an attachment to certain theaters, especially the grand landmarks and arthouse venues. In Portland, the theater that has my heart is the Hollywood Theatre. Not only do they bring the best movies in (they’re one of the few 70mm venues on the West Coast), but they’re also a nonprofit that runs educational programs and hosts community events and film festivals. They recently brought Movie Madness, an important video store in town, under their wing when it was in danger from going under. They also opened a small theater at the PDX airport that plays a rotating selection of shorts, so you can get a dose of inspiration before your flight.
Solange on the cover of her album, A Seat At The Table
5. Dance
I grew up dancing, and I go to see as many shows as possible. In Portland, White Bird brings in world-class companies like Alvin Ailey, Batsheva, and Urban Bush Women. But my yearly highlight is the SF International Hip Hop Dance Festival, where you can see crews from around the world perform. I grew up in Berkeley, California, and I make a pilgrimage back to the Bay Area to see this festival every year. It’s a mix of local youth and the best of the best. They all give me life.
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Inside a small studio located at an armpit intersection conjoining the Los Angeles State Historic Park with one of the city’s most defiantly industrial zones, ceramicist Eunbi Cho has been busy conjuring the skyline of an imaginary city. Piece by piece, the LA ceramicist has diligently composed a cityscape once only mapped by memory, inspired by a 1972 Italian novel about imaginary cities.
A quartet of examples of Cho’s “Made for Play” catalog of geometric ceramics. Cho’s sense of humor adds a colorful veneer to the serious skill required to realize forms intended to be used daily.
Cho has steadily gained the attention of ceramic lovers locally and globally for a body of work characterized by its energetic combinations of colors drawn from traditional Korean textiles intermingled with a bizarro-geometric sensibility in the same vein of Ettore Sottsass.
Under the banner of “made for play”, each of Cho’s pieces operate with a notion of functional, but never without an emphasis upon the “fun”. A “brutalist” pour-over cone dripper inspired by the shapes of water towers, a cleverly executed “bake-n-wake” mug with its own built-in chillum and straw, tasting cups designed to be worn as pendants, a stash box formed into an intentionally cracked egg – it’s an architectural style riding the delicate edge between structure and collapse, function and imagination, sculpture and everyday object.
Cho’s latest efforts have taken a literal turn toward the architectural: a series of sculptures inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel, Invisible Cities. Spellbound by Calvino’s imaginary constructs describing 55 cities as narrated by Venetian explorer Marco Polo to Mongol ruler, Kublai Khan, Cho found inspiration to add a 56th city of ambiguity formed of her own imagination.
“After reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible City in one sitting, I immediately began visualizing my own city – a city visible on the horizon at night, its glow attracting seekers from afar. But upon arrival at the city’s boundaries, they’d discover they’re ‘nowhere’, without an entrance, with nothing to see nor hear.”
“It’s very much like many things in life.”
“I grew up in Seoul, Korea and one of my favorite memories of the city were the thousands of dots of light glowing from the cityscape. I loved staring out after the sunset…it seemed so mysterious and made the world seem so vast. I’ve always wanted to capture this feeling.”
For more examples of Eunbi’s work, visit her website and Instagram.
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Sometimes I toy with the idea of buying a large canvas and a multitude of paints to create a new piece of abstract wall decor for my home. Society6 lets me get that same look without the mess…AND I get to support artists at the same time. It’s a win-win! Here are a few painterly designs that speak to the the artist in me:
In an ongoing effort to support independent artists from around the world, Design Milk is proud to partner with Society6 to offer The Design Milk Dairy, a special collection of Society6 artists’ work curated by Design Milk and our readers. Proceeds from the The Design Milk Dairy help us bring Design Milk to you every day.
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I have completed over 155 flips in my career and have a lot of experience fixing up houses. I have also fixed up rental properties and my personal houses. I have learned a lot over the years about how to fix up houses, and I am still learning new things all the time. I have also made plenty of mistakes over the years that have taught me more than anything else. I don’t fix up the houses myself (I did one time, which was one of my biggest mistakes). I use contractors, subcontractors and my own crew. There are many
I try to keep this blog real estate related, but once in a while, I provide a review or recommendation for a product or service I think can help people. This time, I am providing a review to help people save time, money, and frustration by picking the wrong company to help with SEO (search engine optimization). Kris Reid contacted me in 2017 to be on my podcast to help promote his company Ardor SEO. He said he was an expert at helping real estate agents get traffic to their websites. Before I let him on my podcast, I wanted to
We still have another two and a half months before the official end of summer – consider this your wake-up call to finally make time to head to the beach if you’ve been putting it off! To make sure you’re staying cool and hydrated during these warmer months, Society6 launched can coolers to keep your drinks ice cold when you’re on the go!
With their wrap-around artwork and double-walled stainless steel construction, these coolers are both eye-catching and practical. Just drop your 12oz can in, twist on the plastic top, and sip until finished. I would use them even if I’m not heading outside (I have a tendency to forget I have an opened cold drink and only realize it when it’s turned lukewarm, yuck) and they make a great addition to throw into any goody bag you’re making for parties! Here are a few of my favorite can cooler designs that look cool (pun absolutely intended) next to the pool or on your desk:
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Wilson by BlueSky is a new 39-storey residential highrise development located located at 5977 Wilson Avenue, Burnaby. This project will offer 287 studio, 1- to 3-bedroom condominiums, and 6 townhomes. To compliment the garden-like setting of the Central Park East Neighbourhood, Wilson will boast substantial progressive landscaping with publicly-accessible pedestrian and cycling linkages to local greenspaces.
Summer is the “off season” for the contemporary art world in New York – a time when galleries close on weekends and organize exhibitions that tend to be smaller (no laser-rooms), but more experimental. Here are our top four picks for this summer that are 100% worth visiting on your lunch break.
Grant Worth, Season’s Premier 2018
Grant Worth, Season’s Premier 2018
Grant Worth, Season’s Premier 2018
Grant Worth’s sculptures at the Feature Hudson Foundation in the Lower East Side are technicolor rainbows of an element called Bismuth, in the form of a modified Oscar. If you’re unfamiliar with the material, check out YouTube for a demonstration on how to melt and crystalize this brittle, low melting-point metal. This is the first time I’ve seen it used in fine art, and it excels far beyond a “material gimmick”, with mysterious complexity: playing off the body, celebrity culture, and display itself, all with alien rainbow crystals that are each unique.
Mario Navarro, Future Islands, 2016, Photo by Ricardo Guzman
“Almost Solid Light” at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2018
“Almost Solid Light: New Work from Mexico” is an intriguing and appropriately-timed group exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, featuring several contemporary Mexican artists, many of which have never before exhibited in the USA. The entire show is flawless, but Mario Navarro’s “Future Islands” is my favorite: An unbroken chair and a simple white column create a curious impossibility that viewers can’t stop circling.
Yoshiaki Mochizuki, untitled 2/5, 2018
Yoshiaki Mochizuki, untitled 2/5 (detail)
Yoshiaki Mochizuki, untitled 3/21, 2018
Yoshiaki Mochizuki installation at Marlborough Contemporary, 2018
Artist Yoshiaki Mochizuki presents “Palenville” at Marlborough Contemporary in Chelsea. The geometric abstractions appear to change as you move around the room as thin metallic lines in each painting glow or disappear, catching the light from different angles. Made from gesso, clay and gold or palladium leaf, the lines are incised into the layered surfaces with an agate burnishing tool. Each abstraction is hung at the “artist’s height” of 5 feet 9 inches tall, higher than usual for a painting, lending to their collective unity and celestial vibe.
A mysterious 1974 light work titled “Wedgework V” by James Turrell is the hidden gem of the summer, located on the second floor of Lévy Gorvy Gallery uptown. A guard will kindly guide you through the pitch-black hallway to access the room-sized sculpture of red light and explain the rules, which include NOT stepping into the artwork and not using flash/flashlight. Your eyes will be rewarded while your brain will wonder what, or if, you’re actually seeing. It’s a mesmerizing mystery, and a space you’ll find difficult to leave.
Full information for visiting the four exhibitions is below:
We visited Jerusalem Design Week where Daniel Nahmias exhibited “Matchmaker,” a collection to promote traditional craftsmanship in Jerusalem by coming up with new collaborations between older artisans and young designers.
“I love walking around this place. There’s all sorts of people with crazy talent. You never know who you will meet,” Daniel Nahmias says as we follow him through the Old City of Jerusalem in the midday heat. It is our first day in Israel, and even though some of us have begun to tire with the weather, Nahmias has a sprightly spirit that makes us pick up our pace. It’s the same spirit we will later come to associate with his work. He leads us with childlike excitement through the alleyways and stone streets, through one turn and then another, through quarters unexplored by even the Jerusalemites themselves.
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
We turn a corner filled with colorful rugs and emerge onto a wide alley with skylight, shuttered storefronts, and men sitting on the ground. Dan wanders into a shop filled with metal goblets and lamps. “Here,” he says as he emerges, “I’d like you to meet Muhammed!”
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
Muhammed abdalghani abed aljawad is an metal craftsman that Dan came across on one of his saunters around the flea market in the Old City. He does what Dan calls “soft metal processing,” which includes soldering and cutting metal by hand.
Photo by Or Kaplan
While many a passer-by may walk through this street unaware, Dan immediately recognized Muhammed’s exceptional skill with metal. So when Dan got the idea to pair artisans with young designers in a bid to promote heritage crafts, he encouraged Muhammed to work with Galia Sasson, a multi-disciplinary designer and Holon graduate.
Together, they came up with a series of tables and lights:
Photo by Or Kaplan
These objects, which combine manual and laser cutting, eventually made it to Jerusalem Design Week as part of Dan’s “Matchmaker” collection.
Dan said, “We compared the designs cut by a machine with those cut by Muhammed, and Muhammed’s is just so straight, so precise.”
After meeting Muhammed that afternoon in the Old City, Dan leads us down Via Dolorosa, a storied street where Jesus was said to make his final walk to Cavalry for his crucifixion, to the Blind Arab Association workshop located there.
This is also the birthplace of Dan’s project between the Blind Arab Association Workshop and Bar Horowitz. On first glance, the place is a storefront that sells brushes and brooms, but Dan leads us through a back door to a large courtyard and a factory building so we can learn how the men work.
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
The designer, Bar Horowitz, had spent weeks here as well, watching these men in order to learn about their unique method of working with their hands, and how they rely on an established, ritual order of actions to make their products.
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
For the “Matchmaker” collection, Bar and her collaborators: Aziz, Taher, Samir, Achmad, Abu Samir, and Abu Ballal, wanted to make a product that can be used at home, and enjoyed both by people who can see and people who cannot. Their end product is a scented home object called “Fawah” that distills fragrant smells through the room.
“Fawah” Home Scent distillers \\\ Photo by Oded Antman
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
When we visited Dan’s “Matchmaker” exhibition at Hansen House the next day, we also saw lamps at half mast that mourn the demise of reading; woven basket totes designed with twisted palm fronds and 3D printed embellishments; and gothic-styled bags made by a traditional violin maker and a fashion graduate duo.
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
Photo by Or Kaplan
Amir Zobel, the designer who worked with traditional engraver Eitan Goren on the atrophied lamps, summed up his Matchmaker experience: “I admire the wisdom he (Eitan) acquired with his own hands over many years of sometimes hard and Sisyphean work. I saw this as an opportunity to contact a world that was not completely foreign to me, but that I haven’t sufficiently experienced as a creative artist – before it is all replaced by smart machines and computers.”
Towards the end of the afternoon, after touring the rest of the exhibitions at Jerusalem Design Week, I’m sitting by the entrance of Hansen House and chatting with the curators Tal Erez and Anat Safran. From here, they spot Daniel Nahmias popping out of Hansen house and walking towards us. “He’s amazing,” Anat Safran says to me as she beams with pride. “We are so happy this was a part of our exhibition. He really brought it together.”
In case you missed it, we featured the Matchmaker story as a highlight on our Instagram page under “Jerusalem Design Week.” Our visit to Israel was organized by Vibe Israel, a non-profit foundation that supports education and culture.
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The year was 2008, and I had decided for sure that rental properties were how I was going to invest my money. It would be the end of 2010 before I bought my first rental. Even though I was in the real estate industry, it took a long time to figure out what kind of rental I wanted, how to pay for it, and how to get the guts to actually pull the trigger. Once I bought the property and found a tenant, I felt awesome about the investment. In this article, I go over why I decided rentals were the best investment, how I
It’s peak summertime, and that means some serious heat. You might be tempted to hold off on golf until the weather cools, but if you take the proper preparatory steps, you can still enjoy a... Read more
Dutch conceptual artist Bart Hess’ body of work reflects a mind envisioning the human body as potentially incomplete – an optimal and personal platform for technological enhancements yet to be fully explored. His latest work, Epistēmē, a video installation produced for skincare brand Aesop, spans more than sixty meters, exploring the nebulous borders between the physical and the digitally-enhanced.
Hess’ fascination for depicting the body through the veil of technological advancement is explored as a poetic collection of scenography in Epistēmē – the Ancient Greek word for knowledge and understanding – an indirect evocation of Aesop’s line of skin, body, hair, and personal care products.
Color, movement, and form are combined with the ambient soundscape composed by Ricky van Broekhoven into various theatric sequences exhibiting the skin as a biological interface between body and the environment. Pieces of paper, layers of foil, julienne of film, and pools of watercolor are digitally manipulated, transforming real world movements and interactions into surreal time-lapse sequences.
Epistēmē traces similar territory explored by Hess in 2011 with the Dutch artist’s project, Echo, an analogous survey of space, body, and time repetitively animating physical materials via digital manipulation. Split seconds of the physical are stretched, cut, rewound, and duplicated into a ambiguous chronology of time, taking the viewer into a dreamscape where the digital and physical coexist as imaginative glitches.
It felt like a natural instinct for me to start working on the body. When I create a new design I always place it on my own skin…By using a material on the body that is not the body’s own, but making it look like it could possibly be, I create a tension between the body and material.
The Aesop x Bart Hess installations will be one display at the Myer Melbourne, Myer Pitt Street, and Myer Brisbane Aesop shops till July 29th.
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