PROCATINATION: United Bamboo: Haute Cat-ure

“The idea of putting cats in clothes is kind of a national past time in Japan, so I’m told,” explains Noah Sheldon, who shot these decked-out feline portraits for cult brand United Bamboo's 2011 calendar. Sheldon credits the idea to the Japanese arm of the fashion design duo, Miho Aoki (the other half being Thuy Pham, who is Vietnamese). Fashion Institute of Technology graduates Aoki and Pham—favorites on New York’s downtown scene, whose clients and collaborators include Karen O, Kim Gordon, Sean Lennon and Terence Koh—culled looks from their fall and resort collections, as well as a few annual staples such as the parka, and recreated them in miniature for the furballs." Read full article and have a look at the photos in Nowness. E.T.P 4' 

OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

Image: Still of Eleanor Ambos: Interior World via Nowness.

Short video shared by our friend Carla about Eleanor Ambos, a lovely 'crazy' character that I didn't know before. It's called Eleanor Ambos: Interior World, it was directed by Michael Ellis and Nowness presents an extract of this documentary short that was an official selection at this year’s South by Southwest film festival. Watch the excerpt in Nowness. E.T.P. 3'25''

OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

Miranda July still via Nowness Vimeo.

Our lovely friend Carla DuArte Vidal sent us Miranda July's video made for Nowness. Definitely one of our favorites and always a good meaningful procrastination. Have a look at "A Handy Tip for the Easily Distracted" in Nowness Vimeo. E.T.P. 3' (no more, no less).

OUR WEEKLY PROCRASTINATION

Photo: Future/Perfect movie still via Nowness.

Tara Subkoff's Future/Perfect is a multimedia piece shot at the Palazzo Malipiero during this year’s 55th Venice Biennale where the artist's longtime friend and collaborator Milla Jovovich played the role of impulsive shopaholic who tweeted, facebooked and skyped in character for six hours while being simultaneously streamed live online. Have a look at an extract in Nowness.

Photo: The Procrastinator (some) Times

Friday and Saturday we spend all day long at the Barbican Centre experiencing some of the proposals of Hack the Barbican, an experimental playground of technology, art & entrepreneurship. Produced by The Trampery & the Barbican, it was an awesome experience where we get to be filmmakers with Archeology Project, have our 3D photo taken, created our own brew from fresh herbs and have a nice tea party with Emma Edmondson's 'I beg your pardon I never promised you an herb garden', play Donut Pong (best game ever, created by Special Moves) and see various musical, narrative, and experimental performances. Congratulations to everyone involved, hope to see you again next year!

Image: Catleidoscope screenshot.

And of course, there's another experimental website where you can spend several minutes (hours?) playing around with procrastinators' favorite animal (not very sure if this count as meaningful time-wasting or not, but it has cats on it), Matthew Guy's Catleidoscope. Read a little bit about him in It's Nice That, and play with the Catleidoscope here.