All Features articles – Page 11
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FeaturesPhone box art show celebrates seaside postcards
An art exhibition celebrating the humble seaside postcard is taking place inside a yellow phone box.
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FeaturesDrapers Talks: Ben Sherman sale
Drapers’ editorial director Eric Musgrave discusses the recent sale of Ben Sherman to Marquee Brands and the implications this could have for the menswear brand.
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FeaturesAll Aboard Spacebus Vol. 1
Fly High Society presents their latest compilation of out-of-this-world bleeps, cuts, and cosmic beats.
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FeaturesIsle of Man ferry takes 3300 bookings for 2016 TT races
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company has broken all previous records by taking more than 3300 bookings for over 8800 passengers to travel to the 2016 TT races in just 10 hours. The rush of bookings was up 33% on last year and saw a flood of orders made ...
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FeaturesHonda RC213V-S makes road debut in Japan
Ahead of it being wheeled out at a showcase event at the Catalunya MotoGP round, test rider Hiroshi Aoyama rode the new bike for the first time in public at the Asama Hill Climb in Japan.
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FeaturesHonda's new Africa Twin is spied on Frankfurt road
Honda’s CRF1000F Africa Twin has been spotted testing close to the German Research and Design centre in Frankfurt, Germany, where bikes are tested for European regulations.
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Timorous Beasties
Timorous Beasties is a design led manufacturing company based in Glasgow, who specialise in fabrics and wallpapers. Timorous Beasties was founded in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons. Winners of the Walpole Award for ‘Best Emerging British Luxury Brand’ in 2007 and ‘British Luxury Design Talent’ in 2010, they ...
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Color Transformation Language for Digital Motion Picture Pipelines
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Science and Technology Council has released a new software technology designed to enable color transforms and other pixel-based operations in motion picture imaging pipelines. The Color Transformation Language, or “CTL,” a portable and platform-independent scripting language and interpreter, is intended to be ...
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The digital dilemma
The Digital Dilemma Strategic Issues in Archiving and Accessing Digital Motion Picture Materials From MP3 players to cell phone cameras to the Internet, digital technology has made our lives easier, more fun and – online pet videos aside – more productive. But as anyone who has ever suffered the heartbreak ...
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FeaturesAcademy Museum
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is building the world’s leading movie museum in the heart of Los Angeles. Located in the historic Wilshire May Company building on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the six stories Academy Museum was greenlighted by the Academy’s ...
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Birdman takes flight but Boyhood suffers growing pains at Oscars
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s fantasia of mid-life crisis came out on top, but surely it’s an injustice that Boyhood failed to win best picture
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FeaturesVisit Gambia
The Gambia may be mainland Africa’s smallest nation, but it punches way above its weight in terms of attractions. With its glorious low-key beaches, bustling towns that combine colonial architecture and traditional activities and wealth of wildlife, The Gambia is the most approachable of all West African countries. ...
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FeaturesBelgian Beers
Waffles aren’t the only thing Belgium does well. Three travelling friends from Geneva sample other more liquid riches.
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FeaturesGalashiels base for Scottish Centre of Textiles agreed
Galashiels in the Scottish Borders has been selected as the site for a national centre of textiles, which is hoped will boost the reputation for Scottish textiles. MP Michael Moore said the decision brought the project, which it is hoped would boost tourism, a “step closer”. He has been working ...
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FeaturesForget cotton – make textiles from banana and pineapple
Cotton makes up a third of fibre consumption in the textile industry, and the cotton production industry is labour intensive and involves a lot of sweat, chemicals and fresh water. Could a number of innovations from natural sources and raw materials compete with the unsustainable product of the cotton plant? ...
