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New taxi cabs in a flooded car park in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in October. The superstorm devastated the Northwestern United States, costing an estimated $65 billion of damage. At least 250 people were killed in seven countries along the storm’s path.

True reality of 2012

12/05/2012 by chicquero

This is a “Wow” moment… here is a compilation of the Agence France Presse (AFP) most enduring images of this current year. We selected some impressive, shocking, saddening, funny and some very touching imagery as a retrospective of what had happened worldwide in 2012. Check this out! A Dutch local resident, standing in his house, looks to high waters level through his window, in Dordrecht on January 5, 2012. Gale force winds reaching up to 110 kilometres (about 70 miles) […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Agence France presse, better world, catastrophic, impressive, peace, photography, reality, retrospective 2012, sad, shocking, touching, war, worldwide

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Make food.. not war!

09/21/2012 by chicquero

Recipeace is a social movement aims to join conflicting people through food in celebration of International Peace Day on September 21, 2012. To build awareness, Leo Burnett Chicago is asking chefs, restaurants, food ambassadors and foodies around the world to join the Recipeace movement. People can pledge for peace by cooking a meal inspired by recipes that have resolved conflict in history, visit a participating restaurant reserving tables for peace meals or tweet ideas of individuals who should come together […]

Categories: Design • Tags: chefs, cooking, food, foodies, guns, history, leo burnett, meal, peace, peace day, recipeace, recipes, restaurants, war

World peace…

01/07/2012 by chicquero

Miss World Tony Kelly is a Dublin born photographer with world class experience.This is not the first time we post his work but this time I found out a little more about him. It´s interesting that his career started at Independent Newspaper Group and spent his formative years covering tons of people and places that many of us never want to see (nothing less than the civil war in Rwanda and the war in Afghanistan). After eight years of covering conflicts, tragedies Tony decided to move […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: Afghanistan, comic, fashion photography, men, Miss Congeniality, miss contest parody, miss universe, Miss World, plastic world, Rwanda, sex, Tony Kelly, voyeur, war, women

Killing me softly!

12/18/2011 by chicquero

Soft Guerrilla Kyle Bean is a Brighton, UK based designer who is specialized in hand crafted models, set design and art direction. His work is outstanding and for this latest series he has chosen a relevant set of objects to put his spin on given the current state of armed conflict in the world today. Kyle created ” Soft Guerrilla” for CUT Magazine and I´ll tell you what this is about… he got some devices/weapons considered usually harmful such as grenades, knives, among others and […]

Categories: Artsy, Laugh • Tags: art direction, artwork, cool, Cut Magazine, feather, hand crafted, harmful, harmless, Jello sculptures, Kyle Bean, no war, sculptures, Soft Guerrilla, war, weapon

Like a knight in shining armor.

10/25/2011 by chicquero

Paris based photographer Ishi and stylist Zeina Esmail collaborate to produce this editorial for French Revue de Modes. Featuring Naty Chabanenko, she sports armor-like and architectural silhouettes from Gucci, Chanel, Thom Browne, Maison Martin Margiela, Burberry Prorsum, Louis Vuitton, Sonia Rykiel, Prabal Gurung and others. Asymmetrically cropped tresses by Kayla MiChele and dramatic make-up by Lottie Stannard give Naty a tough as nails edge. It turned out pretty dope, enjoy! “The best armor is to keep out of range”.

Categories: Fashion • Tags: armor, art, Burberry Prorsum, Chanel, corset, designer clothing, edward, Fashion, Fashion editorial, fashionista, French Revue de Modes, frinje, fur, gucci, helmet, high fashion, Ishi, Lottie Stannard, louis vuitton, Maison Martin Margiela, make-up, metal, model, Naty Chabanenko, photo, photographer, Prabal Gurung, Sonia Rykiel, stylist, Thom Browne, tough, war, warrior, Zeina Esmail

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