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Best of the Month - Vol. 15
It's half-way through summer, the global heatwave is hitting us good and we're still drunk by the pool. It's a vibe. Here is a bunch of stuff we've found recently for you to look at, listen to and read about. Best of the Web Watch the unboxing of a sealed 18 year old Apple iBook G3. This baby had a whopping 6GB of hard drive space 😂 In Russia it’s illegal to display the LGBT pride flag. So during the World Cup these 6 football fans formed a hidden rainbow flag with their football jerseys, to protest Russia’s discriminatory laws in plain sight. Check out The Hidden Flag for more. Two giant hands seem to suspend a golden pedestrian bridge which recently opened at the Bà Nà Hills mountain resort just outside of the city of Da Nang, Vietnam. The 500-foot bridge rests in two outstretched palms which have been weathered with cracks and moss to give the appearance of age. Wingsuit Pilot Luke Rogers and fellow wingsuiter Chris Byrnes dive into an epic cloud cave on their jump with Skydive Ramblers in Toogoolawah, Australia. Ok we literally have no words to describe how incredible this is. Just watch. Tens Soundtrack Here are some of our office favourites, mostly new, some old. Who else should we be checking out? Visit our profile on Spotify to check out our previous months' soundtracks. Who To Follow Here are some of our favourite accounts to follow on Instagram. If you know anybody that we should be following, let us know! This month we've got @programzero, @rosie_matheson, @michael_mccluskey_, @doyenneskateboards & @briannamadia. #TensMoments At Tens we put our community first, no matter what it is that we're up to. Here's where we share some of our favourite photos with Tens from the last month. We love seeing your tags with Tens, so be sure to tag us in them for your chance to be featured! Photos submitted (in order) by @equiphogram, @matwss, @steffiholtz, @morabito92, @ronmcquade & @se.ph.ora. ~ What things have you discovered this month? Are we missing anything? Message us on Facebook with suggestions!
Heatwave ~ by Enzo Iriarte and Marty Bell
Saturday at The Parc del Laberint d'Horta in Barcelona with some styles from our new collection and a Nishika N8000 🔥
Best of the Month - Vol. 14
Drag, LimeWire, Nile Rogers, dogs & much more. Freshly picked 🍊.
Video: Tens 2018 Behind-the-Scenes
Shooting a sunglasses campaign in -15ºC? Seems legit...
Best of the Month - Vol. 13
70s babes, a Crayola makeup range and an avocado lost in NYC - check out volume 13 of our best of the month.
New Collection. New Everything.
As we write this blog, our 2018 campaign is going live and everything that we’ve been working on for the last year. You’ll notice quite a few changes here at Tens, and we think this is the start of a new chapter for us.
Best of the Month - Vol. 12
The clocks have adjusted, the days are getting much longer and that means sunglasses season is here! Spring is always such an exciting time here at Tens, creeping ever closer to beach days and rooftop bars. Where are you planning to go this summer? DM us and let us know! We've been very busy this past month putting together everything for our new launch, we're so excited to share it with you. In the meantime, here are some nice things to look at, listen to and read about. Best of the Web Apple have submitted to unicode a set of new accessibility emojis including people in wheelchairs, service dogs, and prosthetic limbs. Smartphone lens accessory makers Moment have taken to Kickstarter to launch a brand new anamorphic cinema lens set up for your device! Check out the video and funding project here. Adweek took a look at the making of Spike Jonze's latest Apple ad, featuring performer FKA Twigs. If you thought it was CGI... it's not. Watch here. Biodegradable balloon installation artist / genius Geronimo inflated 7,000 balloons for a display during Melbourne Design week. Read more. Watch this incredible behind-the-scenes look at the painstaking animation process behind Wes Anderson's latest film, Isle of Dogs. Have you seen it yet? Tens Soundtrack Here are some of our office favourites, mostly new, some old. Who else should we be checking out? Visit our profile on Spotify to check out our previous months' soundtracks. Who to Follow Here are some of our favourite accounts to follow on Instagram. If you know anybody that we should be following, let us know! This month we've got @j.essink, @hanphn.photo, @roomporn, @javiercastan & @miniature_co. #TensMoments At Tens we put our community first, no matter what it is that we're up to. Here's where we share some of our favourite customer photos with Tens from the last month. We love seeing your tags with Tens, so be sure to tag us in them for your chance to be featured! Photos submitted (in order) by @_roxie_jones_, @aziz.firat, @olivvvvvvve, @daretostray, @hanphn & @carminati_andrea.~What things have you discovered this month? Are we missing anything? Message us on Facebook with suggestions!
Infrared Palm Springs by Kate Ballis
“I had a mirrorless Sony camera converted for infrared, bought a variety of coloured filters and the results completely changed the way I viewed the place, and beyond that, it provided me with a window into another world.” Where tropical palms and modernist architecture meet the martian-like desert, Palm Springs isn't already too far from an alien world. With a method of camera wizardry and a fantastic eye, Palm Springs is transformed into a brand new, exaggerated hyper-coloured light. An almost alien landscape devoid of normality. Mid-twentieth century automobiles are found sleeping by empty roads and bubbling red pools contain nothing but novelty floats. All adding to the sinister nature of this other-worldly set. The ‘greenery’ in the set really pops through this modified camera, as the infrared spectrum of light emanating from the plants normally sits out with the humanly visible spectrum. Kate told Wallpaper magazine that ‘Adventure has to be the best part of my job,’ she says. ‘I’m constantly planning the next destination to photograph and finding ways to capture that place’s story in a way that feels as unexplored as the location itself.’ We love Kate’s mindset of seeing things in a new perspective, that’s why we were so enchanted by this alien-like photoset. Cameras can be modified to shoot in infrared by removing the infrared blocker from the sensor assembly, but often this is permanent. If you want to give this a go yourself, there are many tutorials on YouTube. View the full set on Kate’s website here.
Best of the Month - Vol. 11
Despite tundra-like conditions hitting our small country this month, winter is technically over! With a new month comes a new roundup of our favourite stories, photos, accounts and music that we've been uncovering to keep us cosy as we prepare for a very exciting spring / summer launch. Enjoy! Best of the Web Ikea partners with Hasselblad in an effort to offer more “inspiring” prints for its frames. Are you sick of the black-and-white-but-the-taxis-are-yellow prints of Times Square too? Grandfather becomes Spain's oldest Erasmus student. He is 80 years old, has suffered a heart attack and quadruple bypass, but this month, Miguel Castillo will head off to start a new semester as an Erasmus student in Italy. This flooded river in Bonito, Brazil turns a somewhat ordinary jungle path into a crystal clear underwater world. “Svart” from Norwegian architecture firm 'Snøhetta' is the first Arctic building to be built according to an energy standard where more renewable energy is produced over its lifetime in total than would be required to build, sustain daily operations, and demolish the building. Here's the winner of the urban category in National Geographic's photography competition 2018. See all the winning images here. Tens Soundtrack Here are some of our office favourites, mostly new, some old. Who else should we be checking out? Visit our profile on Spotify to check out our previous months' soundtracks. Who to Follow Here are some of our favourite accounts to follow on Instagram. If you know anybody that we should be following, let us know! This month we've got @kateballis, @jamies_jungle, @accidentallywesanderson, @josselin & @peggyseyes. #TensMoments At Tens we put our community first, no matter what it is that we're up to. Here's where we share some of our favourite customer photos with Tens from the last month. We love seeing your tags with Tens, so be sure to tag us in them for your chance to be featured! Photos submitted (in order) by @middlevancleave, @alexander_kirk, @hanphn, @urbantraveller & @humansafari.~What things have you discovered this month? Are we missing anything? Message us on Facebook with suggestions!
