Cool Hunting
| 23 October 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
adicolor Online Winner
by Josh Rubin
New York-based painter Ari Lankin, 26, designed this winning pair of adidas adicolors that features a fresh purple-and-turquoise colorway and a Hokusai design—which is not only itself a perennial CH fave, but also a striking contrast to a logo pattern paying homage to the year adicolors debuted. Judged by Cey Adams, Fafi, and Crooked Tongues, Lankin's design was voted by the public out of a total of 20 finalists, the shoes will be produced in a limited edition of 25 and sold exclusively at New York's adidas Originals store. Set to release this Saturday, 28 October, you'd best start lining up now.
Also on Cool Hunting: adicolor Deluxe Box Set
David Rockwell and Bruce Mau: Spectacle
by Letizia Rossi
New from Phaidon, Spectacle is a detailed exploration of larger-than-life events from around the world. Aiming to capture "the power of real-time, real-space events in today's highly mediated world," Spectacle includes over 200 stunning photographs from events as diverse as the Olympic opening ceremonies, the biannual Brussels Flower Carpet (pictured center, click all images for detail), the Harbin Ice Festival, Burning Man, Cinco de Mayo (pictured right), Holy (pictured left) and the Spanish tomato-throwing festival Tomatina. Accompanying texts give concise historical and cultural context.
Authored by architect David Rockwell in collaboration with Bruce Mau, the book also includes interviews with award-winning authors, producers, directors and performers, including Muhammad Ali, John Waters, Quincy Jones and Dave Hickey. The "Getting There" chapter offers a calendar and vital information about how to attend 100 spectacles around the world.
Spectacle is available from Amazon or directly from Phaidon.
Lexus 460 Degrees Gallery
by Ami Kealoha
Celebrating the launch of their newest flagship luxury LS 460 sedan, the Lexus 460 Degrees Gallery opened 20 October 2006 in LA and runs through 3 November 2006. Curators Shamin Momin (of the Whitney) and Sebastian Agneessens helped Lexus commission artists Arne Quinze, Miranda Lichtenstein, and Pascual Sisto to create the "Light and Speed" exhibition. Featuring Quinze's massive arcing installation made from readymade 2x4s, the paranormal photos of meditation and levitation by Lichtenstein and Sisto's dazzling mandala-like videos of freeways and cars, the show interprets car culture both literally and figuratively. Events include a Teuscher chocolate tasting, a glassmaking and silversmithing seminar and Wired magazine's gadget lab. "Light and Speed" will also travel to New York, Miami and Chicago over November, December and January respectively. More images here.
The 460 Degrees Gallery
269 N. Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210 map
Art-O-Meter
by Evan Orensten
A project of Brazilian MIT programmer/designer Marcelo Coelho from 2003 that is starting to see some buzz, the Art-O-Meter is a device that scores works of art based on the ratio of the length of time people spend in front of art work to the duration of the exhibition. It operates as a clock until someone stands in front of it, activating its motion sensor and timer; an LED screen displays comments and calculates a fone to five star rating based on the cumulative viewing time.
His recent work includes explorations with "computationally enhanced materials" and "kinetic and electronically animated garments".
via WMMNA
Fleur Childs
by Lost At E Minor
Young Australian artist Fleur Childs was "staying at Arugam Bay, a remote beach community on the east coast of Sri Lanka, when the Indian ocean tsunami struck. With the works that make up Boxing Day, Childs relives and reimagines her experience of riding the wave that killed over 200,000 people." Childs is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts.
Her exhibition, "Boxing Day," is on at Sydney's Blank Space Gallery
26 October-1 November 2006
374 Crown Street
Surry Hills, NSW 2010
Australia
