Cool Hunting
| 09 March 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Forcefeed:swede
by Lost At E Minor
Australian design team, forcefeed:swede, work across the full spectrum of creative spaces. As well as contributing artwork for 2005’s Basefield exhibition—themed around Aesop’s fables—they have also done some interesting cover artwork for Australian dance act Etherfox and more recently a resin toy customization for The Monkey Show exhibition, curated by AdFunture in Hong Kong. On the back of this, they have been invited to create an official ‘forcefeed:swede’ vinyl toy by a Hong Kong based company—one of only 30 international artists to receive the invite. Pictures of all this work, after the jump.
Marilyn Minter Billboards
by Ami Kealoha
New York-based artist Marilyn Minter's grit-meets-glam photorealism is the kind of attention-grabbing painting that stands out in the current Whitney Biennial. But the series of three photo billboards that Creative Time has installed in and around Chelsea are perhaps a better venue (and medium) for the lush imagery. Each 20-foot photograph employs a familiar Minter trope—soiled high heels on women's feet—that stretch over New York City streets and add a hyperreal, large-scale version of daily life transpiring below. Through 31 March 2006.
Limited edition prints are also available from Creative Time.
Breath Palette
by Ami Kealoha
The glut of minty toothpaste flavors leave refined palettes with little option when it comes time to brush. Breath Palette, a new line of flavored toothpastes and mouthwashes, are a welcome alternative for mouths bored with generic brands. Developed in Japan, the toothpaste is meant to address the problem of "taste disorders" and allergies in the mouth and is available in 32 varieties that range widely, from exotic Japanese Plum to the bizarre Fresh Yogurt flavor. A Ph-balanced flavorless version is purportedly used as a palatte-cleanser by chefs and sommeliers. The pastes are made with Xylitol, are less foamy (better for electric toothbrush users), mincrobeads mean they're less abrasive, and — because they don't have synthetic surface agents — better for user health and the environment. Both the toothpaste and a line of mouthwash are also alcohol-free, reducing dehydration and bad breath. Sold individually, as a set of 32, or as grouped flavors, like Sweet Tooth ( Vanilla, Bitter Chocolate, Caramel, L'Espresso, and Pumpkin Pudding) and East Meets West (Green Tea, Indian Curry, Tropical Pineapple, Darjeeling Tea, and Cinnamon), by retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, Breath Palette's making hygeine haute.
The entire line is $160 from Amazon or Neiman Marcus, or Nordstrom.
via Cooking With Amy.
Sibylle Baier: Colour Green
by Ami Kealoha
Sometimes it takes 35 years and a few detours to finally get to where you were going. Recorded in 1970, the songs that make up Colour Green, Sibylle Baier’s intimate underground folk album, have been released for the first time on the Orange Twin label. As experimental folk they find relevance with today’s audience, a new generation seeking to unearth these artist’s inspirations, discovering a once discarded music that has new cultural resonance. This new generation of listeners has come to her and similar artists like Vashti Bunyan.
As predecessors of minimal folk artists like Devendra Banhart, their bare intimate recordings have found a new place because they provide a counterpoint to rock and indie’s current obsession with dance. Listeners are rediscovering a music that is spare, honest, and immediate.
With the exception of a few tracks, the album was recorded as vocals backed only by guitar, its roots lying not in folk in the traditional story telling sense, but rather the bare pairings of voice and instrument. The songs evoke an effortless longing, hinting at the German singer’s sense of loss and doubt, but also at hopefulness.
by Patrick Speckman
Thanks to Sean Thomas for the find.
Pick it up directly from Orange Twin or from Amazon.
