Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The Brothers Grimm uncut, solar bike paths, a $24 million watch and more in our look at the web this week

1. Keep Time for $24 Million Back in 1999, a watch sold at auction for $11 million, setting a record that was blown out of the water for the first time ever this week. A rare Supercomplication Patek Philippe pocket watch, made in 1932, has just sold at Sotheby’s for $24 million. Yes, it sports 24 complications and 920 components (including 70 jewels), but it …

Project Pietà

The Brothers Grimm uncut, solar bike paths, a $24 million watch and more in our look at the web this week

“Prison clothing” has taken on a whole new meaning with Project Piet, a new menswear line designed and made in one of the most world’s dangerous prisonsSan Pedro in Lurigancho, Peru. Former luxury fashion designer Thomas Jacob became a fashion activist the day he visited the prison. Through his project (now expanded to three prisons), the formerly idle prisoners have the opportunity to develop skills, …

800 Berlin Lights

The Brothers Grimm uncut, solar bike paths, a $24 million watch and more in our look at the web this week

This year, 9 November marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Together, light artist Christopher Bauder and director Marc Bauder constructed a 15 kilometer light installation featuring 800 completely biodegradable carbon fiber lights that outline where the wall once stood. Referred to as “Lichtgrenze,” the trail it follows touches upon many important elements of the original barrier, and along the way …