Cool Hunting
| 21 September 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Josh Podoll
by Josh Rubin
Last week in LA I stopped in on my favorite Apartment No. 9's new Brentwood shop to check out their latest finds. They had just received their shipment of Trovata Vans which are pretty smooth and come in a beautiful wood box. Even more exciting, though, were the t-shirts from San Franciscan artist, Josh Podoll. The fauna-centric designs are printed on ring-spun cotton. One more pic after the jump.
New Seal-a-Meal Vacuum Food Sealers
by Evan Orensten
If you're not familiar with vacuum food sealers take note. They are a great way to store food and ingredients (no more dried out brown sugar, for example), and one of the easiest ways to cook or reheat food. Seal-a-Meal has a few new food sealers that are easy to use and are attractive enough to keep out on the counter. I use a vacuum sealer to marinate foods (either in special canisters or directly in the reuseable bags) and for sous vide cooking (where you prepare the food, vacuum seal it, and cook it in warm water). New features on the VS120CD (featured above) include a stainless finish to better compliment your trendy stainless appliances and a "soft-seal" feature that allows you to seal softer items without crushing them. A cord/cordless model is also available. Prices range from around $50 to around $100, depending on the model and accessories.
What Should I Read Next?
by Carol T Chung
For those of us that still enjoy and find the time to read actual books in this day and age, What Should I Read Next? is a little gift from the Database Gods that encourages literacy and for me to give my poor eyes a rest from my alternate life as an RSS crawler. It's fairly simple. You go to the website, enter a book you like, and based on other people's book lists, it spits out a list of other books you may enjoy. From there, you can create your own book list by entering your email address, which will stop the database from recommending books that you've already read as well as increase the pool of books in the database. This project is owned by Thoughtplay, a creative agency based in the UK, and was programmed by 3aims.
