Cool Hunting
| 13 June 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
More Ooms-y Goodness
by Parker Hutchinson
OOOMS design. He describes their production as a "change of value" that brings new life into an otherwise insignificant object. Intended primarily as a form of jewelry, these luxury pieces can be applied to clothing (or just about anything) with the help of your average stapler. See the results, as well as Ooms's "Rebellious Cabinet," after the jump.
How to Disappear Completely
by Parker Hutchinson
"City Hideout," from Dutch design studio OOOMS, is a portable temporary dwelling made to fit one seated adult. The collapsable metal box resembles the kind of streetside sheds that commonly house electrical devices such as streetlight controls, new-age parking meters, and small generators. The hideout can be easily assembled on any corner or rooftop as the ultimate urban camouflage.
The most intriguing feature of this seemingly simple structure is the stark duality inherent in the design. When viewed as a form of escape and asylum from the city, a shelter from metropolitan neurosis, the hideout exudes an OK Computer-like charm, allowing its owner an opportunity to innocuously disappear amidst the bustle he can no longer handle. At the same time, the hideout's slits create the perfect condition for a new breed of urban voyeurism, suddenly casting its inhabitant as a pathological threat to all passers-by.
See an additional image after the jump.
Lynne Golob Gelfman
by Ami Kealoha
Cloud-like layers, minimalist abstractions, mid-century palettes -- most would agree that the paintings by Miami-based Lynne Golob Gelfman appear to be art. Her most recent exhibit (she's been in over 80 to date), O the Games We Play, is a group show that opened on June 11th and runs through July 1st at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, the Miami gallery that's been representing her for over a decade. But when I ask how long she's been an artist, Lynne traces her beginnings back to childhood excitement over a new box of crayons and says, "I don't even like that term anymore ... art with a capital 'A' ... it's just so charged."
Refined Refreshment
by Parker Hutchinson
Every year, within certain social circles, seasonal consumption patterns invariably emerge, lending a discrete, however intangible, identity to a fleeting moment in time. This is never truer than in the ever-idyllic summertime, when spirits (both human and liquid) run free with the annual tacit promise of carefree living and fond memories. Our potables, alongside our foods, songs and dress, will always help to define when we are. And in the tradition of the inebriants that have shaped our summers past, the Mojito, the Capirinhia, and last year’s ubiquitous Manhattan, cultural confluence looks to be ordaining a new popular favorite: the Pimm's Cup.
