Cool Hunting
| 18 October 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Supalife
by Ami Kealoha
Located on a Berlin street that borders Helmholtz Platz in bustling Prenzlauer, Supalife is a store, gallery, and design firm that opened its doors just under a year ago. Featuring an array of original silkscreened prints, tees, cards, books, and other objects, "everything from 2-D to 3-D," as co-owner and founder Jens Krisinger explains, the space is a platform for mostly handmade and limited edition objects and includes about 40 different Berlin-based young designers. Standouts include "Blackbook," (pictured, above right) a handbound tome of one-off artworks by 35-member street artist collective CBS, "Instant Labelling" packing tape, and the collage printed journals (images of last two after the jump).
Rotating monthly exhibitions, like puppet shows, Californian artist Mateo's prints, and, currently, works on paper by Ecuadorian artist Tomala, are holdovers from the talks and workshops held there since 1999 by the affiliated media lab File Sharing.
No Mas: Fall Classic
by Josh Rubin
Chris Isenberg, the creative force behind No Mas, wore a full Yankee uniform complete with stirrups and a plastic batting helmet almost every day from ages 4 to 7. Now in his early 30s, Chris' connection to pro sports is just as deep and much more complex. It will all come together at his first gallery show that opens this Friday, 21 October, at Melody Weir Gallery here in NYC. In true No Mas form, Fall Classic is a statement about fallen athletes like Rose, Tyson and Strawberry-- with whom Chris feels a sense of kinship. It's also an exploration of the intersection between sports, politics and culture.
The focus of the show will be a fantasized recreation of Chris' childhood bedroom decorated with recent works as well as creations from his childhood. Mixed in will also be some paintings by Mickey Duzyj and a selection of No Mas customized starter jackets and t-shirts.
Gallery information and pictures after the jump.
Little Traitor
by Josh Rubin
As some of you may have noticed, contributor Carol T Chung no longer resides in New York City. Although we miss her dearly, we wish her the best of luck on her chosen career path in the video game industry with Perpetual Entertainment (lucky them). But never fear, we haven't lost her yet. Our grip is still firmly in place. As a new resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Carol is on the look out for places to shop, events, and just all around great stuff. So needless to say, suggestions are highly welcome. As for Carol, although she may live in the land of eternal spring and fall, she'll always be an east coast girl. That damn deserter! She'll be back...
Alcoholica Esoterica
by Evan Orensten
Ian Lendler's new book Alcoholica Esoterica: A Collection of Useful and Useless Information As It Relates to the History and Consumption of All Manner of Booze is a new book in the "did you know?" category of miscellaneous and random facts that are essential while stalling client meetings, chatting up the person next to you on the plane, and adding to your already impressive knowledge of all things. Similar to Schott's Food Miscellany, it's an essential addition to the bookshelf.
Around $14 at Amazon
TriniTEA Electric Tea Maker
by Evan Orensten
We've been making our afternoon cuppa with the TriniTea for the last week and it has earned a place on our kitchen counter. It's a two carafed system that separates steeping and serving. We like the timer that allows you to set how long you want your tea to steep; when it's done steeping it whooshes into the second, warmed carafe where it stays until you're ready to drink it. Not the best looking contraption, nor the most refined, but it does the job. Makes about four cups and retails for $75.
We also had the opportunity to sample several teas from Adagio in their new visibiliTea packaging—canisters with see-through lids, obviously the best way to see what you're buying. The problem has always been that light spoils the delicate tea leaves, but this new packaging blocks the UV rays that do the damage.
