Cool Hunting
| 11 July 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
The multi-format publication Visionaire, one of our perennial favorites, has teamed up with Distributed Art Publishers to create an ambitious bookstore with an expiration date. ARTBOOK AT VISIONAIRE will carry rare books from the fields of art and design in its New York showroom, but only until September 8, when its doors shut for good. Its inaugural event was a signing by Tina Barney for her book The Europeans, and future visits are planned for Richard Prince, Alex Katz and Vanessa Beecroft. The latter graces the store Thursday, July 14, for a screening of her performance art piece VB53, in which twenty-one models were planted in a plot of earth, all of them nude except for Helmut Lang shoes wrapped around their ankles. She'll be signing the book that documents her artistic undertaking, a commentary on the body, beauty and identity.
Colorful Kicks
by Parker Hutchinson
On a wave of rampant sneaker customization comes a clever and rather timely coloring book by Andrew Freeborn. The footwear fan has compiled his black-and-white drawings of classic kicks and is leaving it up to you to fill in the lines. If you can't quite afford to high-roll at the Nike iD Lab, dust off your crayons and create your fantasy pair from home. The book features over 25 shoes from yesteryear and today by Nike, Adidas, New Balance, Converse, Saucony, Asics, Reebok, Puma, and Vans, as well as sneaker-themed games like a word search, a maze and connect-the-dots. Whether for yourself or your hipster-in-training toddler, the book is available online for $14, including shipping. While the resulting designs won't be very wearable, they're sure to bring out the creative side in even the smallest of shoe lovers.
Sony Ericsson K750i
by Josh Rubin
On Friday I managed to procure a Sony Ericsson K750i and after spending the weekend with it I'm very impressed. In basically the same form factor as the T610, they've jammed in a 2 Megapixel camera, MP3 player, games and all the organizational tools I use in my Treo. While it's not a Treo replacement, it's definitely a great alternate phone for one who has come to expect massive functionality. I was able to sync easily with my Mac (after following this hack) to get all the calendar and address book data I needed. The high resolution screen afford easy viewing of both calendar and email.
The user interface on the 750i follows the same paradigm as other Sony Ericsson handsets. It has been improved, however, to take full advantage of the phone's more powerful processor. Little things like transparency and animation make moving around the device more pleasurable and well organized menus help you find what you're looking for pretty quickly. I especially appreciate how the interface rotates when the phone is in its horizontal camera mode.
For a fully detailed review, check out Mobile Review.
