Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Films to watch next, sexy electrics, brain sculptures and more in this week's look at the web

1. Below the Brain Our creative friends M ss ng P eces recently pointed us to this experimental film documenting the 2010 Caribbean Carnival in Flatbush, Brooklyn estimated to be the U.S.’s largest parade. 2. Telluride Film Festival A.O. Scott’s great piece gives an in-depth run down of some of the films from this year’s Telluride Film Festival. “The Show” always features some serious talent …

Landscape Futures

Perception shifts as art and nature intersect at the Nevada Museum of Art

Promising “unexpected access to the invisible,” what exactly the Nevada Museum of Art’s current show Landscape Futures proposes isn’t immediately clear. On first blush, the work looks like the usual collection of forward-thinking designs. But here there’s a catch. The exhibit’s range of large-scale installations, experiments and devices all concern themselves less with the design itself than with the viewer’s reaction to it. Two years …

Boom SP Design

From Friends With You prints to a recent architectural marvel, highlights of São Paulo's annual design conference

Already in its fourth edition, the annual São Paulo conference Boom SP Design is evolving quickly—much like the Brazilian designers that it helps to bring to international attention. Inviting boldface names to participate in the cultural exchange, last week’s conference brought dozens of talks with such major figures in design, art and architecture as Karim Rashid, Dror Benshetrit and Matali Crasset. On top of a …