Cool Hunting
| 05 October 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Ontour Tees
by Ami Kealoha
The Grimm's fairytale of the Bremen Town musicians tells the fable of a donkey, dog, cat, and rooster who, fed up with their day jobs, venture into the world to pursue lives as musicians. For Ontour, a new line out of the Netherlands, the tale was inspiration to launch their clothing label and became the source material for the four shirts in their debut collection. Using a cartoonish trumpet as a logo and images of balloon animals, the series features raining cats and donkeys, patterns made up of tiny versions of the creatures, and a playful reference to traditional imagery (and the Maurizio Cattelan sculpture) of the characters stacked on one another.
Currently Ontour tees are only available at select stores in Europe and online at Fresh Cotton.
3rd Annual Creativity Now Conference
by Ami Kealoha
Billed as the "definitive yearbook of popular culture for 2005," Tokion's 3rd annual Creativity Now Conference, brings together today's brightest like Antony (of Antony & the Johnsons), some of the more obscure, such as filmmaker Todd Haynes, and, on the design side, multimedia artist Julie Verhoeven. The progressive summit takes place this October 15th and 16th at Cooper Union's Great Hall in NYC. Panels stay true to Tokion's mix of culture and politics, including a line-up of Documentary-makers Bruce Sinofsky ( Metallica: Some Kind of Monster), Ondi Timoner (Dig!), and Jonathan Caouette (Tarnation), a discussion of advertising with Eric Grunbaum for iPod, Peter Wijk for Absolut, and Steve Bassett for Geico, and "Portraying War" featuring reporters Robert D. Kaplan, Evan Wright, and photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson.
As Carol reported here last year, Tokion's project (especially for such a young media outlet) is an ambitious one, but the list of speakers alone is worth checking out and promises a weekend with at least a few gems. Tickets are available (for the whole weekend or individual days) on their website or at Kim's Video located at 6 St. Marks Place between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
In Rotation
by Josh Rubin
We don't always get a chance to review the music we're listening to, so we came up a new feature called In Rotation. On the music page there is a listing of 9 of the albums we've got in heavy rotation. The regular (or irregular as it currently stands) music posts will still be there, just underneath the In Rotation section. Let us know what you think of it.
