Back to 82, a compilation for people who loves futuristic music. The groups are varied with one thing in common – the synthesizer – perhaps the most sophisticated instrument of the last century.

The sounds suggest an all out exploration of hard edged things, celestial iconography, geometric shapes, day glo, pyramids, sparkles. Think about cyberpunk, neuromancer, films like “Liquid Sky” or “Blade Runner”.

Apparently, 2010 has everything to be the year to the 80s movies remakes. In this futuristic mood, “Tron� is coming back as 3D “Tron Legacy�. The studios are looking back to the neon lights and all those pop-cultural artefacts that Fashion used to get from the past to the wardrobes.

Shhh… “Do androids dream of electric sheeps?â€�

Spring is coming in the Southern Hemisphere. Flowers pop up in the gardens and plays with a positive vibration in the hearts. The change of season requires changes of attitude in dress, eat and relate to. Now it’s the time of flowers & colors, setting the stage for the intensity of summer to come. Listen the sound of September.

It’s time to think how important gardens can be in our lifestyle living. Watch the Arcade Fire’s new interactive video.The gardens are about enjoying life outdoors, a place to reconnection with friends and Nature, relaxing and socializing. And where you can work with the hands, taking care of the plants as a green therapy.

Think of flowers, such as Dior-LVMH, which has just launched a new kind of rose, the Jardin de Granville. Grown for seven years,their culture is completely organic, no pesticides, a prerequisite for the rose could be part of the development of the new cosmetics luxury line Satine. To be launched in autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, Satine combines beauty, freshness and strength of the new pink.

Watch the vibration of exotic flowers from the collection of Haute Couture Autumn-Winter 2010/2011 by John Galliano, who rescues this passion about flowers at Dior.

In fashion, the delicate flowers draw the most important pattern of this season, decorating clothes with bouquets of vintage wallpaper and antique porcelain. Let’s paint our body and ideas with the Spring.

Shhh… Groove is in the heart.

With a sugarlove taste from “Aliceâ€�, Tate Britain and Tate Modern brings “Cake Britain – A Fairtrade Mad Artists Tea Party“, headlining as the worlds first ever edible exhibition. It reminds me how sweet can be the simple things of life. Or, how we are consuming everything in peaces/pills, as cupcakes, tracks, datas, tweets, IDs… The knowledge is a patchwork.

“Cake Britainâ€� is sponsored by Tate & Lyle Sugars and is based on Mad Artists Tea Party’s interpretation of the meaning of “fairâ€�. It will feature food art from David A Smith, Jellymongers – Bompas & Parrm, Crumbs & Dollies and Lily Vanilli.

All of the exhibits will be for sale with proceeds going to Richard House, We Make Peace and the Fairtrade Foundation. From 27th August until 29th August. Click here.

Reading about the future, I discovered some questions and answers that can change the anxiety to be there. After all, to be able to understand the future, you must know the past: what has taken us to where we are today and what has changed along the way. A breeze of naïve techno-optimism sounds better now.

Some especialists agree: “The world has changed a lot, but we are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago: food, sleep, sex, the feeling of being appreciated and loved. Will this change in the next 150 years? No.�

Shhh… “The future is unwritten”.

The era of overexposure suggests now it’s time to explore games of mistery, labyrinths of sensations and curiosities. See what the IAMAMIWHOAMI project generated on Internet, moving the blogosphere into a detective game to discover what is behind that curtain.

In time, the Neonico blogged a very interesting article revealing that the real person under those masks is, in fact, the swedish singer Jonna Lee. Read it here. This amazing case proves that everybody is a bit tired of all this Google Effect: Click here and discover! We have to create strategies to suprise and attract the new audiences.

We need the unexpected, even when your private life can be watched by the neighbourhhood, as shows the japanese architect Shigeru Ban with his 1995’s Curtain Wall House: an elegantly spare two-floor block of open living spaces with billowing white curtains around that can be opened or closed to regulate the degree of transparency (and privacy) between interior and exterior.

This strong relationship between the in and out can be seen either on the Metal Shutter House, the Shigeru Ban’s first American condominium residence in NY. It’s all about voyeurism versus exhibitionism.

At last but not least, the excentric music by Jonna Lee has the magnetism to transport us into metamorphosis & soundscapes, sewing nature grunts and human voices. It reminds me how surprisingly is to be infatuated by werewolves and vampires, as shown on “True Blood 3�.

And there is no limits to the new sexy monsters: the werewolf Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello) is catapulted to the american television drama serie’s next season while the new Rolling Stone’s cover undresses the love triangle of Sookie (Anna Paquin), Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skaarsgard) after a blood bath.

Shhh… Everybody is naked through the keyhole and into the mirror.

Uma viagem espacial. Psicodélica. Sensorial. Imagens manipuladas da Natureza. Sons que fazem voar. Ora noisy, ora synth. Uma sensação de acampamento dentro da própria roupa. A fuga começa aqui.

Ando interessado em artistas que criam paisagens com colagens e intervenções de cores e luz. Brandi Strickland, Hilary Pecis, Brian Beluga, Ryan McGinley.

Gente que pinta fotos cósmicas, enxerga através de espelhos caleidoscópicos, propõe camuflagens surreais. Um novo olhar sobre os espaços que nos cercam.

Shhh… É chegada a era da grande alucinação coletiva.

Não bastasse eles administrarem as próprias carreiras, divulgando-se na Internet, promovendo os próprios shows e lançamentos, os novos criadores musicais se afirmam como letristas e excelentes produtores, desenhando uma das tendências musicais do WGSN e Mindset para 2010.

Eles são jovens e contam suas próprias histórias de um jeito único e cheio de melodia. Criam arranjos singelos até mesmo para embalar dores de amor.

Aqui, o estilo naif de Marina & The Diamonds brilha ao lado do cortante universo de paixões e desencontros do Perfume Genius, projeto de Mike, natural de Seattle. Outros bons nomes dessa safra: o romantismo etéreo de Ellie Gouding e o cantar doce sobre temas dramáticos de Holly Miranda.

Shhh… A poesia está no ar.

+ Trends musicais:

_O Novo Som de Ontem
_A Invasão Teen
_Mindset

O novo som de ontem feito pelas bandas mais quentes do agora. É assim a mixtape inspirada nas trends musicais de 2010, segundo o WGSN e Mindset. Sonoridades antigas num mood totalmente fresh.

Com pitadas de melancolia em vocais atmosféricos e camadas sonoras que mixam eletrônico e acústico, é assim o som produzido pelos nomes mais promissores do rock e da dance music.

Eles puxam o estilingue até a inesgotável fonte de inspiração electropop oitentista, e arremessam com frescor suas idéias para o futuro, sugerindo uma nova atitude para o estilo musical produzido na seminal Manchester de duas décadas atrás.

Quem são eles: O duo Hurts, de Manchester; o quarteto britânico Egyptian Pop; The Drums, banda da Flórida; o duo Sleigh Bells, do Brooklyn; Memory Tapes, banda de um homem só; e Othello Woolf, que está sendo chamado de o novo Brian Ferry.

Shhh… Emoção nos beats perfeitos.

É chegada a nova era do pop. A partir de hoje, publicaremos as trends musicais para 2010 segundo o WGSN. Parceria entre Shhh.fm e Mindset, em quatro semanas mapearemos os novos caminhos da indústria fonográfica. E começamos com a Invasão Teen. Divirta-se.

Ke$ha, Justin Bieber, Sky Ferreira e Daisy Dares You são as estrelas desse movimento, embalando letras românticas com swing e atitude. O mood sugere um crossover de Glee e Gossip Girl.

Crias de Britney, Cristina Aguilerra e Justin Timberlake, essa nova geração de astros adolescentes são movidos por uma paixão pelo R&B em suas vertentes mais dançantes e melosas.

Adicione um pouco de Madonna no começo de carreira, doses ambiciosas de Lady Gaga mais vocais inspirados em Michael Jackson e está feito o coquetel molotov que segue pipocando nos ipods e pistas de dança.

E como convida a neodiva Ke$ha, o som tem cara de festa na casa do amigo rico. Para saber mais, clique aqui e aqui.

$hhh… A ambição está lançada.

“Alice is back!”, como diz o Chapeleiro Maluco no filme de Tim Burton. E sua aura de fantasia influencia jóias de Stella McCartney e Tom Binns, roupas de Sue Wong e os objetos decorativos de Aninha Strumpf. Inspirado por esse mood, proponho uma viagem misteriosa a Underland.

A linha idealizada por Aninha Strumpf e produzida pela ONG Orientavida é a primeira coleção brasileira High Concept de peças conceituais de design, utilitários e acessórios de moda oficialmente licenciados pela Disney.

A designer, que trabalhou com os artistas Nazareno Rodrigues, Marilia Teixeira e Denise Yui, se inspirou na magia do clássico de Lewis Carroll/Disney para criar almofadas, jogos americanos e banquetas.

Tem patchwork, bordado, tapeçaria e silk com as frases “Quem sou eu neste mundo� e “Wonderland é aqui?�.

A linha traz também canecas, copos, bules, pratos, moringas, vasos e porta-jóias em porcelana com decalques dos personagens do filme. E mais: echarpes e lenços em seda, bolsas e sacolas.

A iniciativa beneficia 300 famílias do interior de SP e a coleção será comercializada a partir de abril na loja virtual da ONG Orientavida.

Alice está em todo lugar. Tem perfil no Facebook – onde os fãs puderam ver o Green Carpet da estréia mundial, em Londres -; linha de make da Urban Decay; esmaltes glitterizados da OPI; estojo com batom da Paul & Joe; e edição especial do livro com desenhos do artista paulista Luiz Zerbini, em tiragem limitada.

Shhh… Welcome to Underland.