Cool Hunting
| 26 February 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Alexandre Herchcovitch Black
by Ami Kealoha
Alexandre Herchcovitch Black is a concept-driven line available exclusively at Surface To Air's new São Paulo boutique and Herchcovitch's Tokyo store. The collection consists of items from Herchcovitch's past lines dyed black, resulting in one-of-a-kind pieces in varying degrees of saturation. Each garment comes with a photo tag of the original garment (pictured above center, the black version is pictured at right) so you can see the clothing's past life. See more images here.
Bill Culbert: Light Sculpture
by Ami Kealoha
Pairing the humble plastic detergent bottle with the equally humble fluorescent light tube, Kiwi artist Bill Culbert's latest show features subtle re-workings of everyday objects into luminous sculptures. Arranging groups of identical empty, label-less bottles along the horizontal axis of the florescent light, his work evokes both products arranged on a shelf and the horizon line, a point he cheekily drives home with a photograph of a Dawn bottle (with the label on) illuminated by a glowing, pale gold sky in the background. The irony's not lost in his 2004 piece titled "Golden State" either, which appears to be made using empty quarts of motor oil. (Pictured above right.)
Bill Culbert: Light Sculpture
Opening reception: Thursday, 1 March 2007, 6-9pm
1 March-14 April 2007
Lincart Gallery
1632 C Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
tel. +1 415 503 1981
Concierge Mobile
by Josh Rubin
Concierge.com's services for travelers are going mobile with the introduction of Concierge Mobile, a version of their Insider Guides and Condé Nast's Gold List designed for mobile phones. As long as users have reception, they can access nearly 200 of Concierge's regularly updated guides and the Gold List of top hotels curated by the magazine's readers, all free of charge (except for air time of course). What's more, clicking on little phone icons that appear next to items on the site sends that info to a database that's easiy accessed on your mobile phone.
via Globerati
The Finches Giveaway
by Ami Kealoha
Embodying the perfect marriage of subtle skill and charming sincerity, The Finches thankfully deliver on the promise of their 6-song debut EP, maintaining that release's spare instrumentation and generally subdued tone on their latest, titled Human Like a House. The duo of Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs and Aaron Morgan thankfully resist the temptation to weigh down their songs with excessive overdubs and overblown production, relying instead on the delicate interplay of their finger-picked guitars to carry them through these twelve tracks and embellished here and there with the smallest flourishes of cello, pedal steel and recorder.
While many reviews I've read point to Vashti Bunyan as a key reference in describing The Finches, their undeniably North American sound more accurately calls to mind the self-titled 1970 album by Fraser & Debolt. In this post-Will Oldham world where our cups overfloweth with all things folk, it is the honest voice and singular wordplay of Riggs that float The Finches to the top. Listen to tracks on the Finches' MySpace or pick it up from Amazon or iTunes
If you're in NYC, don't miss them performing live this Thursday, 1 March 2007, at Cakeshop.
Cool Hunting readers have an opportunity to win a copy of the newly released album by The Finches or a lovely Finches tote bag. To enter, follow the contact link at the bottom of the page, select "Finches Giveaway" from the pull-down menu and send us your answers to both questions before this Wednesday, 28 February 2006, 11:59pm EST. The first two people to answer both of the following questions correctly will win either the CD or the bag.
Q. What was Carolyn's first choice of instrument?
Q. What French song does the Finches "The House with Two Front Doors" borrow a melody from?
by Michael Talbott
Omegamania Preview #2: Grima Ring Watch
by Watchismo
Ursula Andress (pictured), the original Bond girl, was the former owner of this jeweled Omega ring-watch by Andrew Grima that is up for auction at Omegamania taking place 14-15 April 2007. The force behind the 1969 "About Time" series for Omega, Grima was also a designer of only one-of-a-kind watches including the radically futuristic (for its time) solid gold LEDs originally featured here.
This 1972 ring-watch, like others by Rolex and LeCoultre, is built with very small mechanical movements but this vintage bling is iced with 28 diamonds, bark-finished platinum and a watch crystal of tourmaline. The expected price is on request only, so I can only imagine. Check it out here.
