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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Ami Kealoha
A truly unprecedented endeavor, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century, provides cutting-edge solutions and ideas for constructing a more livable future. With contributions from more than 60 acclaimed writers, including a forward by Al Gore and an introduction by Bruce Sterling, this volume has been likened to the hippie bible, The Whole Earth Catalog, but retooled for the iPod generation. Worldchanging contains 600 pages of novel ideas like urban farming, hydrogen cars, pop-apart cell phones, and plywood made from fast-growing bamboo as well as giving advice on whom to text to advocate international debt relief or how to build an iPod speaker from a recycled Altoid tin. Available from Amazon.
LVHRD MGZN
by Ted Cahill
The inaugural issue of LVHRD MGZN, a project by the New York City social event club, is hot off the internet. Through frank conversations and provocative images, LVHRD MGZN puts the spotlight on some of the more notable architects, editors, musicians, and artists who have been members of the club over the last two years. The quarterly e-format of the magazine allows for unique reader experiences and even includes an article contributed by one of Cool Hunting's own. Available for download here.
Deflower Vase
by Ami Kealoha
Alexander Reh's Fully Loaded chair made from shotgun shells, his new Deflower Vase is a clever and slightly subversive use of everyday objects. Where the chair adds an element of violence to a piece of furniture, the vase introduces a little something different, reinventing the condom by using it to sheath a common juice glass in color—Reh also calls it a "Banality preventer." Inspired by Trench Art, "a practice by which soldiers would take artifacts of war and transform them into objects of greater constructive value, the Deflower Vases are part of Reh's new series celebrating the accessibility of DIY called, "Time to D-I-Y."
Paul Chan: 3rd Light
by Ami Kealoha
His disorienting light installation was the final scene of CH's Whitney Biennial 2006 video and now the New York-based artist Paul Chan's first German exhibition is opening this Friday, 27 October 2006. Part of an ongoing series called The 7 Lights, Paul will show 3rd Light (pictured right and here), which continues his use of shadow-like digital projections of falling common objects, like sunglasses, cards and people, and introduces a 3-dimensional replica of the table in The Last Supper. You can also catch his piece, 1st Light, currently at Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and Museum through 18 November 2006.
3rd Light
Opening: 27 October 2006, 8pm
through 3 December 2006
Portikus
Alte Brücke 2
Maininsel
60594 Frankfurt Am Main
Germany
tel. +49 69 9624454
Hess Is More at Monkeytown
by Ami Kealoha
Hess Is More), makes his his stateside debut tomorrow, 25 October 2006, at the Brooklyn screening room-cum-restaurant Monkeytown. Accompanying Hess's eclectic mix of sweetly offbeat melodies—made with the likes of whistles, thumb pianos, music boxes and the "found" sounds of everyday objects—our own aestheticians m ss ng p eces and VJ Daniel Vatsky will fill Monkeytown's four screens with their visual creations. With opener (and Mark DeNardo, Monkeytown's avant-garde menu (think rose-pomegranate cheesecake with pistachio cardamom crust), and the loungey candlelit atmosphere, the night's a fresh take on dinner and a movie.
Make reservations at Monkeytown.
Hess Is More
25 October 2006, shows at 7:30pm and 10pm
Monkeytown
58 N 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 map
tel. 01 718 384 1369
