Cool Hunting
| 02 April 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
phling!
by Josh Rubin
phling! is a new mobile service that lets you tune in to the music stored on your computer (PC only for the time being) from wherever you are. To use it you download applications to both your mobile phone and your PC. So long as the PC is turned on and connected to the internet you can stream your music files to your phone. phling! mediates all of the inconsistencies of the wireless network to ensure even playback. And they also offer a few stations of free internet radio.
Where the service gets more interesting is that you can see other phling! users—people also listening to the same song as you, others online with similar taste or people fitting whatever profile you're looking for. Once you connect with other users you can also listen to their music.
Ben Backhouse
by Lost At E Minor
Australian artist Ben Backhouse creates artwork across a number of mediums and channels, with his portfolio spanning illustration, paintings and typography, along with various cover designs for CDs, books and magazines. Diverse skills. Nice creations.
[Eds. note: To learn more about some of Backhouse's source material pictured in the above images see CH's Jill Greenberg video.]
Purest Cut
by Lost At E Minor
Showcasing Australia's acclaimed independent designs for fashionistas across the globe, Purest Cut is an online boutique featuring labels including Alpha60, LIFEwithBIRD, Material Boy, Mjölk and Schwipe. Freeing cutting edge fashion from the racks of chic boutiques and casting designers into the global online fashion market, Purest Cut has detected a market shift in recent times and believes "the edge is the new centre." We agree and edgy is what Australian designers do best. Does that mean Australian independent fashion could become the new center?
Penguin's Great Journeys Series
by SummerSeventySix
There's nothing like reading a book in the place about which it was written, which is why I fell in love with The Catcher In The Rye after reading it during my first time in New York. With one eye on summer travels, I ambled into Daunt's (my favourite London bookshop) this evening, and was drawn immediately to Penguin's Great Journeys series, which was published in the U.K. last month.
The series includes twenty tales about traveling by the likes of Herodotus, Chekhov and Orwell. They're all clad in a consistently excellent cover themes that authentically conjure up the kind of feeling of intrepid, parlous discovery that probably died with the advent of the jet age.
Available for £4.99 each from the usual outlets.
