Cool Hunting
| 13 July 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
RE*Generation Charm Contest
by Josh Rubin
Virgin Mobile USA, Stand Up for Kids, and Youth Noise have teamed up to start the RE*Generation Movement to raise awareness about homeless and abused kids. To get teens involved, these companies launched the RE*Generation Charm Contest. Teens and young people are asked to design a cell phone charm and enter it by 20 July 2006 to be judged by a rock star panel who will pick the finalists that will go up on the site for final voting by anyone who visits. The Grand Prize winner will win a trip to South Africa to help first hand with the AIDS crisis there and their design will be made in to phone charms for all Virgin Mobile subscribers to hang on their phones to support RE*Generation.
Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!
by Ami Kealoha
Wonder Twins' call to action, "Wonder Twin Powers, Activate" is a group show opening tomorrow, 14 July 2006, at Chicago's Gescheidle gallery. Featuring works that are "aesthetically charged, and reference symmetry and metamorphosis," images range from Erik A. Lang's classically-composed homoerotic photographs to Colleen Asper's neo-icon paintings to the collaged psychedelia of Rob Yamabushi (pictured).
Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!
Opening 14 July 2006, 6-9pm
Through 26 August 2006
Gescheidle Contemporary Art
118 North Peoria, 4th floor
Chicago, IL 60607 map
tel. +01 312 226 3500
Blk/Mrkt One
by Ami Kealoha
Now in it's fifth year, Los Angeles' Blk/Mrkt Gallery has been showing the kind of artwork that if you haven't already heard about it on Cool Hunting (or elsewhere) you will soon. Their new book, Blk/Mrkt One is a catalogue of their first Artists' Annual, collecting more established and up-and-coming work, like Elaine Bradford's knitted sculptures, the haunting, visionary paintings of David Choe, and the black-and-white fantasies that WK Interact splashes a variety of surfaces with. With bios and four-page spreads (at minimum) on each artist, the anthology makes for a good primer on "the ones to watch," including Evan Hecox, José Parlá, and Leif Parsons.
Hardbound with traditionally styled faux-leather, add Blk/Mrkt One to the library by purchasing it from Die Gestalten or Amazon.
Also on Cool Hunting: WK Interact, Evan Hecox, David Choe, Leif Parsons
Ammoncontact: With Voices
by Ami Kealoha
Somewhere in between extraterrestrial innovators Sun Ra and Sa-Ra, in the outer regions of the musical galaxy, lies Ammoncontact. Hard to pigeonhole, Ammoncontact is as much hip-hop for free jazz heads as it is minimal techno for afro-funkateers. Dark, moody, spiritual, and deep, Carlos Nino and Fabian Ammon’s unique blend of acoustic and electronic beats has been evolving organically over the last five years, and is at its ripest yet on this new release.
With Voices—the third in their discography—refers to the album's many and varied featured vocalists and points to a change of course for the Los Angeles-based duo, whose previous work has been predominantly instrumental. One song, “Beautiful Flowers” features vocals from both Organized Konfusion emcee Prince Po and jazz great Yusef Lateef. Relative unknown, underground emcee Lil’ Sci delivers some of the more memorable moments, with his MF Doom-meets-Ghostface Killah flow. Ex-X-Clan frontman Brother J delivers a surprisingly fresh treat on “Drumriders,” as Cut Chemist juggles vinyl soundbites in the background over one of the cd’s bouncier tracks. As a whole, the release has an even broader sweep, from avant-tronic soundscape architecht Daedelus to neo-folk singer/songwriter Mia Doi Todd—disparate voices that meld with the album’s trance-inducing rhythms.
Pick it up from Dancetracks Digital or Amazon.
by DJ Scribe
NIKEiD Studio Tournament: Finals
by Josh Rubin
World Cup is over. Italy has won. And the NIKEiD Team of the Tournament has been chosen. Each of the winners shown here (click to zoom) will receive a copy of the much coveted Joga Bookzine plus another visit to the NIKEiD Studio on Nike's dime. The Player of the Tournament, who made a very tropical looking Dunk Low, will be allowed to make a pair of AF1 Lows—something not accessible to most people who enter the studio (which tends to be a bit inaccessible in the first place).
Sweet Meats Plushies
by Evan Orensten
Looking for a gift for your favorite butcher? Sweet Meats makes plushies of meat, providing comfort to carnivores outside of meal times. Steaks, ribs, sausages and ham are all represented.
