Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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Bellami retro digital super 8 camera
Chinon

Bellami retro digital super 8 camera

The expression "if it ain't broke ... etc" springs to mind here. The recent history of camera design has seen radical and rapid shifts as the fundamental mechanism by which images are captured has changed. We are currently seeing the disappearance of the reassuring mirror elements even from professional 35ml models. However, these changes of form often loose sight of the experience of holding and using the device in question. There is something undeniably sexy about  Super 8 camera's from the 60's. The Retro Bellami HD-1 digital Super 8 Camera from Japanese company Chinon eschews the relentless miniaturization and compulsive weight-loss of so much contemporary industrial design for something instantly covetable and I suspect profoundly usable. When the mere sight of a device makes your hands itch to hold it, you know something good has happened with the design.

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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
- Oscar Wilde, 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray