Cool Hunting
| 27 June 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Core: Social Hollywood
by Ami Kealoha
Creative collective Core recently produced an hour-long environmental installation adorning the bar of Jeffrey Chodorow's new Los Angeles restaurant, Social Hollywood. Projected on a 50-foot glass wall, the movie depicts a journey through a mythical forest populated with wolves, owls, and other animals, psychedelic mushrooms, and nymphs in the nude. The unconventional decor is right in line with Core's impressive oeuvre that combines print, motion graphics, web, and video for big name clients like Nike, Converse, and a touted Karl Lagerfeld campaign that included teasers and an iTunes download. See another image from the film after the jump.
Hulgerisation
by Josh Rubin
Hulger approached St. Martin's design students about applying their thinking towards technology on a variety of products. While some of it falls into the "Design Student" vortex, some of it's actually pretty interesting. My favorites were the wind-up lamp and Ben Raemer's Crop Camera (pictured), which makes the photoshop tool into a physical camera allowing infinite aspect adjustment. View them all at Hulgerisation.
Previously on CH: Hulger Bluetooth PIP, Custom Hulgers
by Ryan Tomorrow
Evany Thomas
by Wendy Dembo
Evany Thomas’ diary. I say “diary” because she started reporting the quotidian aspects of her life long before the blogging craze got started. (I am not being snobby, I am just telling it like it is.) She is such a witty writer and she covers topics that are close to my heart, like: shopping, cakes, lipstick, dating, the trauma and joy of freelance work, and many other highs and lows.
Earlier this month, Evany had a super funny reading/slideshow thing at Coliseum Books here in NYC, which featured excerpts from her book, The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple’s Guide to the Thirty-Nine Positions. Tomorrow night, she and her all-new "husky librarian" public speaking voice and special telescoping pointer-cum-pen-cum-laser are giving a repeat performance in the “How To Kick People” show, along with comics Matt Goldich and John Mulaney at 7:30pm this Wednesday, 28 June 2006 at Mo Pitkin's.
Mo Pitkin's
34 Avenue A
New York, NY 10009 map
tel. (212)-777-5660
Eleanor Voterakis
by Lost At E Minor
Melbourne-based artist Eleanor Voterakis works predominantly with a 2B mechanical pencil [Pacer]. "My drawings are quite stark and delicate," she says. "The drawn objects tend to be situated in a blank space, and I play around with form by leaving parts of objects unfinished or filled in as silhouettes." The detail and texture in her work is stunning, stamping her as one of the most exciting new illustration talents in Australia right now.
Gerhard Stochl: Skateboarders 1996-2006
by Wendy Dembo
If you are in Berlin for the World Cup excitement and have some downtime between matches (or if you just want to flee the excitement), you should check out New York-based photographer Gerhard Stochl's show at CircleCulture Gallery that opens this Thursday, 29 June 2006 and runs through 31 July 2006. For the last 10 years Stochl has been photographing professional as well as casual skaters for himself and for major skateboarding magazines. He has circumnavigated the globe–Vienna, Miami, Sao Paulo, NYC, etc.—to document the best skaters. For "Skateboarders 1996-2006" he focuses on the interplay between street skaters and their urban environments—whether they be public art, monuments, architecture, or homegrown half-pipes in industrial ruins. The results are stunning for fans of rad stunts as well as those who just love a pretty photo.
Circleculture Gallery
Gipsstraße 11
Berlin Mitte
Germany
tel. +49(0)30 275 817 80
