Cool Hunting
| 31 May 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
New Media Art
by Ami Kealoha
Like most movements, "New Media" is not without its overarching generalizations, generic definitions, and ivory tower theories. The recent book New Media Art by Rhizome founder Mark Tribe and art critic Reena Jana anthologizes some of the innovative artists in the field, documenting a moment when the genre is at its apex (or over, according to some). The cast includes current new media darling Cory Arcangel, artist-programmer collective Radical Software Group, and robotics artist Ken Goldberg. Spreads profile specific projects, detailing the ways artists use and address technology in their works. This Friday, 2 June 2006, stop by The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York for a reception from 6:30-8:30 pm and a brief reading by the authors or pick it up from Taschen or Amazon.
RISD Works
by Ami Kealoha
Just across the river from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a store called RISD Works sells a wide range of products all designed by RISD alums. The collection includes big names (who you may be surprised to learn went to RISD) like literary installation artist Jenny Holzer, the creators of the Family Guy, and Michael Cousins who co-founded Cousins Design, the award-winning team who designed the Dixie Cup dispenser. You'll also find younger, more off-the-radar (but similarly talented) designers, such as Jonathan Glatt, a jewelry designer who makes elegant, quirky jewelry using industrial materials, and Yuki Murata, whose "Smush" tumbler bears subtle finger-shaped imprints. (See Smush, a bracelet by Glatt, and Cousin's garlic press their site.
Puma x Cubanbee RS 100 Contest Winner
by Ami Kealoha
Congratulations Leslie Siemer! Leslie was the winner picked out of the hundreds of entries we received in our recent Puma x Cubanbee RS 100 contest and will be receiving all three of the new styles soon. For the rest of you wanting to add some of that summery weave to your wardrobe, the shoes officially debuted at Barney's, ALIFE, and Classic Kicks last week and you can pick them up there. Thanks to all the entrants for playing!
Chocolat 15-18
by Evan Orensten
The humidor is the first sign that Montréal-based Chocolat 15-18 takes itself very seriously. So seriously, that they named the company after the temperature maintained by the humidor, an ideal 15º-18º Celsius (59º-64º Fahrenheit).
Inside the humidor are simple but elegant boxes that contain three flights of chocolate. Each flight contains four handmade chocolates of increasing intensity. They are all single-origin and meant to be eaten consecutively: Grenada (60% cocoa), Sao Tomé (70% cocoa), St. Domingo (67% cocoa) and Tanzania (73% cocoa). A little contrived, perhaps. A little pompous, perhaps. But there's no arguing with the results: Your tongue will thank you for the journey.
The man behind the chocolate is Christophe Morel, who won Canada's Chocolate Grand Prix in 2003.
Currently available only in Montréal at a few select locations.
We Feel Fine
by Josh Rubin
For almost a year now Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar have been scanning blogs to find and catalog human feelings. We Feel Fine is their database and visualization of several million emotional statements found by searching blog posts for the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling." Viewable in six different modes or movements as they call them, the site is a brilliant artistic interpretation of collective and individual feeling. Lots of ancillary data is collected as well— age, gender, location and local weather conditions during the time the blog post was written are also recorded and viewable.
via Josh Spear
