The Ten Year Hotel

by Ami Kealoha

Shipping container mania continues, this time in the form of students Lee Ferguson and Jonathan Whittaker's concept hotel that incorporates the temporality of cityscapes into its design. The 26-room building suspends the containers as self-contained pods within a steel beam grid, enabling both adaptability to changing surroundings and a sunken bar/concert area on the ground floor.

via Hotel Chatter

Serious Stencilers

by Parker Hutchinson

When we stumbled upon Stencilry, what we found was not just a stencil website, but something like a community of D.I.Y. fanatics. This livejournal-based site serves as both a resource and a gallery for stenciling enthusiasts. Those looking to make shirts, stickers and street art will find a wealth of fun designs to use (they've got damn near everything), and those who'd rather create their own stencils can upload their newest works and enter monthly contests like "best self portrait." The community is over 600 members strong and growing, and offers tutorials for stenciling novices.

New DURKL

by Josh Rubin

Sometimes everyone around me thinks I'm ridiculous for taking a liking to one thing or another. In this case it's DURKL. Maybe it's the result of being a youth in Miami in the 80s. Anyway, I'm in to their new line which features such randomness as the deer-a-mid or the twin babes.