Cool Hunting
| 24 January 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Thumbthing
by Josh Rubin
Thumbthing is a brilliant little invention for bibliophiles and casual readers alike. The colorful molded plastic piece fits on your thumb and holds the book open making one-handed reading much more satisfying. Available with 4 different thumb hole sizes, the Thumbthing doubles as a bookmark when not in use.
$2.95 at ABC Stuff, via Cool Tools
CES 4: Oakley
by Josh Rubin
Our fourth video from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas features Engineer Colin Smith talking about his creation, the O ROKR Bluetooth headset sunglasses. Scott Bowers, VP of Marketing, adds a bit of insight to the mission of Oakley.
Cool Hunting Video - CES 4
by Josh Rubin
A Mini-Carrot Experience + Derek Aylward
by Ami Kealoha
East Coast-based artists Eddie Martinez and Derek Aylward will be in Stockholm this week for the opening of their respective solo shows at Galleri Loyal on Friday, 27 January, from 6-9pm. Both on the bill of the lauded 2003 Russian Doll Show (Martinez curated and Aylward contributed art), the two share an aesthetic populated with rounded shapes and bearded, almond-eyed men that touches on graffiti and folk art traditions. The rough-hewn kinship with nature in Aylward's work seems to make it particularly fitting for a Scandinavian context. See more images from Aylward after the jump.
Through 4 March at Loyal Galleri, Torsgatan 59, Stockholm, Sweden.
Also on Cool Hunting: Cool Hunting Gift Wrap.
Shotgun Wedding Volume 4
by Ami Kealoha
It's a gender battle between New York-based DJs Syrup Girls and Drop the Lime on this grime-heavy latest in the Shotgun Wedding series put out by Violent Turd, a sublabel of Tigerbeat6. Both vets of drum & bass scenes, Drop the Lime and the Syrup duo face-off on two tracks. Drop the Lime's three-turntable feat relentlessly mixes old school jungle, crunk, dubstep, and hip-hop, finishing off with ethereal Billie Holiday acapellas. When the girls take over, they bring an equally dirty blend of UK 4x4 garage, favela funk, and grime that's a high-energy answer to Drop the Lime's dark sound. Throughout the album, fans of Dizzee Rascal (who both DJs have opened for), M.I.A., Fannypack, Salt n' Pepa, and Gwen Stefani will recognize samples. It's a marriage made in heaven.
Check out the release party this Thursday, 26 January, at Rothko in NYC when they go up against UK-based DJs Plasticman, Jammer, and Skepta. See the flyer after the jump.
Pick up the CD ($7) from Tigerbeat6.
Flavorpill Sundance
by Josh Rubin
Describing Flavorpill Sundance, a blog devoted to the happenings of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, one is tempted to say it’s all over that indiefest like a cheap suit.
But that would be wrong. Flavorpill isn’t a cheap suit, it’s much more urbane than any draped piece of polyester. With its team of dozens of editors, reporters, and stringers, digging down into the dirt, bringing its readers the need-to-know, want-to-know buzz of the independent film market, it’s more of a dirty pair of coveralls.
Who’s in the film? Who wrote it? Directed it? Does it have a distribution deal? These are the kinds of questions its blog entries answer in a concise and witty fashion.
To accomplish this, Flavorpill literally hounds the major players of the indie “industry” as they ride the bus to and from the festival, printing the interviews verbatim complete with impromptu digital snaps of the hapless cinema hacks being harangued while riding public transport.
They do the legwork and get the story. This is shoeleather entertainment journalism at its finest.
