Cool Hunting
| 16 March 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
(MALIN + GOETZ) Synthesized Lotus
by Josh Rubin
I don't usually wear a scent—they typically give me a headache or make me sneeze.
A couple months back I dropped in on our friends at (MALIN + GOETZ) and they gave me a preview of their new pair of unisex scents, Synthesized Lotus Root and Rum Tonic. Lotus Root, or Sophisticated Hippie as I've been calling it, really stuck in my head. Combining lotus, sandlewood, cedar and musk it has an earthy, leathery reference with a grown-up tone. It's meant to be paired with Rum Tonic on a single person or a couple, but I prefer it stand-alone.
The new scents just arrived at the (MALIN + GOETZ) shop today and are also available online. $45.
Related: (MALIN + GOETZ) Travel Kit, (MALIN + GOETZ) Video Installation
Juergen Teller: Do You Know What I Mean
by Ami Kealoha
Widely known for his off-the-cuff Marc Jacobs ads featuring candid portraits of celebrity friends, Juergen Teller's photographs tap into the current zeitgest of intimate, spontaneous, unstructured, and cleverly voyeuristic image-making. But in his current solo exhibition at Foundation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, Teller shows a body of work called Nürnberg. Taken over four seasons, the images document an abandoned Nazi propaganda site and—in typical Teller style—add a delicate romanticism to what otherwise would be a mundane, even desolate, scene.
The show also includes a selection of well-known images and a series shot in Japan, which—much like contemporaries Ryan McGinley and Nan Goldin—is highly personal work that results from the repoire he has with his subjects.
Through 21 May 2006.
Kat Cameron (Team Kitten)
by Lost At E Minor
Brisbane-based illustrator, Kat Cameron, shifts dramatically between cutesy Hello Kitty styled vector and darker sexually based themes with her Team Kitten work. Her quirky take on girls and cuddly creatures utlises a minimalist colour palette yet her characters seem strangely at ease within their rather incongruous surrounds. Cameron has done editorial work for a number of magazines in Australia including Yen and Stu and is currently exhibiting at Illicit Gallery in New Zealand. More pics after the jump.
Collapsible Kitchen Gadgets
by Evan Orensten
With an increase in "essential" kitchen gadgets fighting for limited storage space and the anything that can be silicone, will be silicone mantra of designers, consumers are benefitting from an overwhelming variety of new products. These handy measuring cups collapse down to a fraction of their height and can handle boiling liquids. Likewise, the colander and funnel, with their camera-inspired designs, are a huge improvement from their metal cousins at the outdoor store, and prove that sometimes you can (and should) reinvent the wheel.
Set of four measuring cups, $19.95 from Solutions. Funnel and colander, designed by Boje Estermann and inhouse designers at Normann Copenhagen.
SXSW: A Scanner Darkly Sneak Preview
by Ami Kealoha
Fifteen years ago, Richard Linklater irreversibly altered the course of American cinema when he made Slacker, a movie that defined a generation and precipitated the indie film movement. Now, with A Scanner Darkly, his animated adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novel about a drug-ravaged society, it looks like Linklater’s off in uncharted territory once again.
At SXSW yesterday, Cool Hunting was among the first to see a near final cut of the feature that required over 5,000 different characters made by a grassroots team of animators in Linklater's hometown of Austin. Using Flat Black Films' specialized software called RotoShop, A Scanner Darkly takes the same technology that Linklater first used in Waking Life and applies it to a plot-driven movie, painting an absurdist vision of fear, paranoia and addiction.
Stay tuned for a more in-depth chat with Linklater himself and two of the lead animators coming to Cool Hunting Video soon.
