Glowing Man

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

Fashion photographer Jacob Sutton cast Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes in a glowing short film shot on the slopes of the French resort Tignes in the region of Rhone-Alpes. Hughes coasted down the mountain in a customized L.E.D. suit by electronics designer John Spatcher, saying “Filming in the suit was the most surreal thing I’ve done in 20 years of snowboarding.”

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

1. Isabelle Azais Just when we thought we couldn’t take another feather bauble, Belgian designer Isabelle Azais wins us over once again with hers, done in fur. Her whimsical and decadent earrings, brooches and other accessories offer a rich little puff of embellishment. 2. 78 Boxers Nicolai Howalts photographs this series of teenage boys between the ages of eleven and seventeen. The underdeveloped bodies appear …

Leanne Shapton Studio Visit

Glowing snowboarders, TED Quotes, DIY Airsoft machine guns and more in our look at the web this week

The graphic novelist and Paris Review contributor invites the publication into her light-filled studio north of Manhattan to talk about her brilliantly organic work process.