Spring playlist Here it is - available both on Spotify and Apple Music. Let me know your thoughts either in the comments below or by email sam.amdjadi@gmail.com or DM instagram @godshot.studio. Film scores is a subject close to my heart so it was difficult making a selection. In the end I could probably make 10 [...]
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Godshot Studio playlists
Click here to view Spring 2023 playlist I wanted to focus on film scores for this edition. As a big fan of film and instrumental music, this felt a great fit for me to undertake. When researching, I was less driven by the film (though it always plays a part) and more by the music [...]
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Autumn Playlist_ Nov 22
“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, [...]
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Grandmothers
Naturally, the details of personal experience vary enormously, but theres a charming ideal of what a grandmother is that we can imagine or piece together from fragments of benign memories.
The Friend who Listens
Given how much we value friendship, its strange that we’re not so focused on one of its central pleasures: being listened to.
Birds & Quantum Mechanics
Of all the head scratching theories scientists have thought up over the years, few have caused as many headaches as quantum mechanics.
Victor Castanera
Viewing Victor Castanera’s portfolio, you might imagine you’re looking at the work of two different people: some items reflect the precise thinking of a skilled technician; others, the gentle hand of an artist.
Being Up Late at Night
Its very late; more conventional people have long ago turned in, but we have stayed up, to read, to think, to talk with a long forgotten person: ourselves.
Seasonal Adaptations
The Ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said that constancy is an illusion.
Ferréol Babin
[minti_image img="3555"] Ferreol Babin was born in Dijon, France, and had an interesting transition from architectural design and engineering into a more artistic vocation. Initially, Ferreol studied Space Design at ENSA in Dijon, but quickly decided that his true calling to be found in designing objects as opposed to spaces. After undertaking an internship with [...]
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Estonian National Museum
DGT’s Estonian National Museum extends from the runway of a former Soviet airbase, but its bold conceptual design ensures it rises above …
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
An Augustan poet and a friend of Virgil, Sextus Propertius came to prominence as a result of his love elegies, which are the source …
Less is More
Over time, this phrase came to be linked to German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But as revealed in Mies van der Rohe …
Danish Design – ‘Hygge’ crises?
Things have got a bit too cosy in the state of Denmark. Now the country’s design establishment is facing up to some uncomfortable …
Kirsten Coelho
Rust spots bleeding into an otherwise pure white glaze might seem like a corruption of some sorts, as though the pot is spoiled. But in …
Ever tried, ever failed?
No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. For Samuel Beckett, failure was the ultimate goal of art. As he wrote in Three Dialogues: ‘to be …
Ruth Duckworth
Luminous and perfectly aligned, this complex work appears startlingly simple. Ruth Duckworth was a prolific artist who moved from …
Elbphilharmonie
Herzog & de Meuron’s super inflated Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg may mark the end of the era of heroic public projects, but it does …
The Universe
When you think about it, there is something peculiar about the universe we belong to. Its name, universe, comes from uni (‘one’) and verse …
Tower of Winds
When Japan’s ‘bubble’ economy peaked during the latter half of the 1980’s, values were easily swayed by information that often had no …
Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru
Tucked southwest of the Indian subcontinent, the Maldives archipelago stretches across 820km of the bright blue Indian Ocean. Surrounded …
Ruth Gurvich
The papery quality of this porcelain tableware is no coincidence. Argentinian designer Ruth Gurvich constructs vases from paper, sometimes …
Time Devours Everything
From Metamorphoses, one of the most influential works in Western Culture, the above quotation reminds us that we cannot escape the …
Dachang Muslim Cultural Center
Cultural buildings have always been a specialty of Chinese architect and professor He Jingtang. The Dachang Muslim Cultural Centre is …
Make a House a Home
Interior and design magazines have a lot to answer for when it comes to deconstructing our current notion of home. The tyranny of …
Terry Waite, A Patient Man
Terry Waite was held hostage for 5 years in Lebanon in the late 1980s, after having gone there as the Church of England’s envoy to …
Do we exist?
Do you and I exist? The easiest way to answer would be to defer to the great minds that have been wrestling with this question for …
Meet the Maker: Sakiyama Takayuki
Look deep into the material structure of this clay vessel and you can feel the unforgiving hardness of the fired stoneware Shigaraki clay …
Meet the Maker: Tony Marsh
Some of these pots are almost more hole than pot. Tony Marsh’s perforated vessels drift through light and hover in a way quite unexpected for a …
Meet the Maker: Samy Rio
The young French designer is making a name for himself as a master of unlikely material combinations. Samy Rio might have only …
Coffee Origins
Coffee is one of the world’s most valuable traded natural commodities, second only to oil. The prized bean is believed to have originally evolved …
Ceramic Revolution
Like disciples of any new industry, speciality coffee converts are a resilient bunch. We’re prepared to endure growing pains a trends arise …
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Charlie Kaufman film is fresh, original and has a romantic depth that makes this one of the most complete film going experiences I have had …
Loyly Sauna, Helsinki
Finland is so famously flat that Norway launched an online campaign last year to give its neighbour one of its many peaks. But what …
The Good Life
In different cultures and times, the question of what it means to live well has challenged some of the world’s greatest minds. Aristotle …
The Notion of Provenance
Where was it made? And who by? The rampant rise of globalisation has made these questions both more difficult to answer and more …
The Simple Life
A three hour hike through dense forests in northwest Spain, will lead you to an eco village called Matavenero in an isolated …
Casa Bonay Hotel Barcelona
Barcelona’s hotel sector in particular has failed to offer a faithful representation of local life. In 2015 the city registered 8.3million …
Anne Marie Laureys
Anne Marie Laureys likens the outer clay walls of her vessels to skin. She has a powerful sense of the physicality and the sensuality of clay, of …
Way Out West
The legends of the Old West are written in gold. In the Rocky Mountains of southwest Colorado, ancient mines currow the land like …
Ken Mihara
When Ken Mihara c signed up to join a pottery club, he had no idea that this decision would change the course of his life. The ceramic …
Northern Irelands Giant’s Causeway
I once a recall a friend saying she walked every Christmas in the footsteps of giants. Rough, blackened, hexagonal footsteps that …
The Number Zero
There probably aren’t many pages in the annals of human achievement dedicated to donkey traders. But perhaps there should be: without …
A Separation
A Separation, one of my top 10 films, deals with more issues than you can think of: family relationship across three generations, …
Vagelos Centre
Most medical schools are fit only for cadavers. Diller Scofidio and Renfro has injected a sense of life into the typology with a tower …
Crossness Pumping Station
It is invigorating when you encounter design. Not some temporary pavilion grasping at a purpose beyond burnishing its designer …
Kunstmuseum
Having seen off Chipperfield, Hadid and OMA in a 2009 competition, Christ & Gauntbein has unveiled a controlled exercise …
The Starlight Room
This tiny starlit cabin sees glamping reach new heights. Mounted on a pair of skis on top of the Dolmites, some two kilometres …
Belize: Central America
There are time in life when you need to get away. And then there are times when you need to get really, really far away. Belize is …
The Land of Heart’s Desire
Most of us carry without our hearts a list of places to visit. And what a lot of people don’t know is that my list has always begun …
SUM: Descent of Species
In the afterlife, you are treated to a generous opportunity: you can choose whatever you would like to be in the next life. Would …
Top Present
Norway has reached the peak of generosity with a plan to give Finland a special birthday gift: one of its mountains. A group …
