Cool Hunting
| 28 April 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
High Line T-Shirt Contest
by Josh Rubin
FHL is holding a T-shirt design contest. The winning design will be worn at an upcoming City Council hearing, and later available in local NYC stores. Full details after the jump.
If you're not familiar with the High Line project, it's aim is to convert a retired elevated railway to public green space. We've covered it here a few times before.
A New World Vision: Aram Danesh and the Super Human Crew
by Ari Bendersky
Aram Danesh and the Super Human Crew, sounds like a ridiculous amalgam of a Middle Eastern hip-hop collective, right? Wrong. More like a throwback to old school rap, the Crew represents all that is great about the Bay Area's music scene. Danesh, who lives in beautiful Tiburon, across the Bay from San Francisco, brings together disparate sounds, including pepper-infused salsa set to funky urban beats with electro-Latin guitar, world rhythms and flowy vocals. On The Spot, words are sung in English, Spanish, Portuguese and what could easily be called Street. Danesh was born in pre-revolution Iran and by the time he eventually made it out west, he had played with the likes of Carlos Santana (whose sound is reflected on The Spot) and Ravi Coltrane. Danesh directs the crew of rappers, singer and musicians through elements of jazz, reggae, funk and more. This is a true world vision that grooves, check it out yourself.
Laboratory5
by Josh Spear
Laboratory5 is a husband and wife team that makes a nice line of progressive greeting cards, stationary, note cards, and other hand made and unique goodies. I particularly like the note card set "urban pursuit," which is a line of comic like note cards. They're very crafty, and clearly made by a design conscious couple.
