Cool Hunting
| 29 August 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
The Lamy Scribble
by Ami Kealoha
A friend came back from Europe last year toting this Lamy "propelling pencil" and has been addicted to its refined, ergonomic design ever since. A spring-loaded claw grips a 3.15 mm thick lead (also available in a 0.7mm diameters) that produces a smooth, satisfying line and makes the pocket-sized pencil perfect for jotting notes and quick sketches. Well-balanced with a pleasant weight, the Scribble is an example of elegant, characteristically solid German engineering.
More info is on Lamy's US website or you can pick one up from Joon.
Charlie White, 6 Questions
by Ami Kealoha
Charlie White's richly narrative work inserts otherwordly creatures into situations that range from banal to melodramatic: a puppet everyman sings forlornly on the scene of a car accident in an Interpol video, a naked alien character mingles at what looks like a suburban swingers' cocktail party, and doll-like children play in a clichéd oil painting of a rural yard. The effect is eerily compelling, a blend of the grotesque and the everyday that's landed him on the roster at New York's Andrea Rosen Gallery, put his work in the pages of Vogue Homme International among other notable mags, and will see two new books published within the next year. Here, in our second prelude to Semi-Permanent, White discusses violence and youth in his new work, gymnastics, and Los Angeles.
Streetsy
by Josh Rubin
Blue Jake and Wooster Collective just launched Streetsy, a street art photo blog. With over 2500 images and new ones added all the time, Streetsy promises to be a great daily fix. And like the art itself, the images are free to the public domain.
