Cool Hunting
| 20 April 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Sam Hatmaker
by m ss ng p eces
For this episode we traveled to the Manhattan apartment of Wonder Woman collector Sam Hatmaker. He took us on a private tour of his extensive collection that nearly takes up an entire spare room (not including his massive horde of comics and DVDs). Sam walks us through the rare and the absurd—from a box of tissues and a cookie jar to a thousand-dollar phone and posters—offering insight into his obsession with the superhero along the way.
The Rasterbator in Color
by Tim Yu
Apartment Therapy recently reminded us about the Rasterbator. Not the sort of thing one might deduce from the name alone, the Rasterbator is a free easy-to-use service that allows you to upload any image to their site and they will send it back blown up as a series of pdfs. Now available in color, piecing the image back together results in a huge decorative poster and provides an alternative to wallpaper.
Rasterbate your image here.
Also on Cool Hunting: Rasterbator
Opening Ceremony, L.A.
by Ami Kealoha
Opening Ceremony has long held court as New York's top spot for out-of-the-ordinary urban togs. Armed with big-city street cred and an A-list following, owners and designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim recently took the store cross-country, setting up shop on West Hollywood's La Cienega. Though the racks are lined with the best New York labels, including Proenza Schouler, Mayle, and Nom de Guerre, the L.A. Opening Ceremony has a distinct and verifiably West-Coast identity that Humberto admits inspired OC's current line. "Our spring collection came from the idea of East Coast relatives meeting West Coast relatives," he says. Track-home siding, ceramic elephants, hydraulic jewelry cases, animal floaties adorning mannequins and a labyrinthine arrangement that Humberto says "is meant to mirror driving in L.A.," create a store that's almost like it's own little neighborhood—an urban meets suburban nook designed for discovery.
by Loryn Hatch
Opening Ceremony
451 North La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048
map
tel. +1 310 652 1120
Erwin Olaf: Grief
by Jonah Samson
Photographer and filmmaker Erwin Olaf brings back his stylish combination of art, fashion and emotion to his new series called Grief, which opened yesterday at Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York. Olaf’s highly-stylized and digitally-manipulated pictures bring the beauty and glamor back into being depressed. Lone figures wearing perfect clothes and waiting in perfect rooms stare woefully at the floor or out the window, or wipe tears from their eyes (click on images for enlarged view). Even his color palette is flawlessly melancholy. His work was recently featured on the cover of the launch issue of Spread Art Culture Magazine. You can see more of his work, including his commercial campaign images for Diesel, Mooi and Kohler, on his website. Another image after the jump.
Erwin Olaf: Grief
19 April-2 June 2007
Hasted Hunt Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011 map
tel. +1 212 627 0006
Spoonbill
by Lost At E Minor
An electronic producer with a string of international sound installation accolades, Melbourne's Spoonbill delivers his second album Nestegg with a crispness and precision that plays across a broad audio spectrum. Blending both modern and antique sounds from live performances and electronic creations, Spoonbill delivers hard beats, sweeping musical landscapes and everything in between. It's an incredibly unique sound, and is riddled with conversational sound bytes taken from numerous sources, blending a heavily accented narrative with the surreal, electronic wonderland Spoonbill has crafted. Incredible, and addictive. It's an exploratory and rather ingenius release, and induces the craziest thoughts and visions as conversation dances across experimental tracks tempting our wildest imagination. Dream inducing, somewhat ground-breaking and undoubtedly chaotic.
The Basics: The Techniques of Continental Cooking
by Evan Orensten
This book of essential techniques and basic recipes was a success in Belgium, France and the U.K., and is finally coming out in the U.S. on 15 June 2007. This small black book with gilt pages packs a much larger punch than its size infers.
The basics covers all of the culinary bases, including classics and new techniques such as sous vide and foams. Each basic is presented on a single page, with a photo on the facing page. The writing and recipes are straightforward and very manageable (by Filip Verheyden), and the photography (by Tony Le Duc) is beautifully shot.
We've got three copies to give away to CH readers. To enter, go to the "Contact" form at the bottom of the home page and select "The Basics contest." Send us your favorite basic. The top three will be posted on the site, and each reader will receive an autographed copy of the book. Please submit your entry by Midnight, 24 April 2007.
The Basics: The Techniques of Continental Cooking is available at Amazon and Amazon UK.
