Cool Hunting
| 06 July 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Vanity Fair: Where One Design Guru Surfs
by Josh Rubin
Paul Warwick Thompson might not be an Internet junkie—he spends only a few hours a day online—but he knows a well-designed Web site when he sees one. That's because Thompson, 45, is the director of the Smithsonian's New York City–based Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States exclusively devoted to design...
Given his credentials, it's no surprise that Thompson has an eye for innovative Internet sites. He thinks Josh Rubin's Cool Hunting, a site about inspiring objects, is a must-click "for the less cerebral, more amusing trend-spotting and product-spotting information."
by Jessica Flint
The Rotolog Watch
by Parker Hutchinson
"We make the little shit better," say the watchmakers at Nixon. And after seeing their newest design, we can't help but agree. Stylish, water-resistant and precise, the Rotolog is one of our favorite new timepieces. The watch boasts impressive-sounding technology ("custom right-read Direct Time Japanese quartz with LED") and a sleek inlay of real walnut wood in stainless steel, and it's available from Nixon for an affordable $200.
via Wrist Fashion.
Chocolat Moderne
by Evan Orensten
We love when people's lives change and they become obsessed with making artisinal Chocolat Moderne.
Outdoor Cinema at Socrates Sculpture Park
by Ami Kealoha
More in the way of open air cinema, this time in fair Long Island City. Braving Bryant Park hordes is its own brand of fun, but beyond Manhattan, the Socrates Sculpture Park, an artist-founded public space, hosts a Museum of the Moving Image-curated show of world cinema. Beginning tonight, July 6th, and running through August, the eclectic Wednesday-night lineup includes Wim Wenders' lushly shot doc, Buena Vista Social Club, Polanski's first feature, Knife in the Water, Reginald Hudlin's "Black New Wave" House Party, and a personal fave, Satyajit Ray's Pather Patchali. Attendees can picnic on food served by neighborhood restaurants and watch a pre-show of local musicians and dancers perform, all with a view of the glimmering Manhattan skyline in the background.
Food Critic
by Parker Hutchinson
Artist Nicolas Touron’s new exhibit at the Virgil de Voldère Gallery in New York City uses most unlikely objects to tell his startling fables of global affairs. Armed primarily with sugar and ceramics, he has set out to portray the world as he sees it, a sphere where the world’s daily machinations can be both overwhelming and terrifying, and things are rarely as sweet as they appear.
