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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Behind the Scenes at the New York City Ballet's Romeo + Juliet
by Tim Yu
This week Cool Hunting Video presents a behind the scenes look at the New York City Ballet's new production of Romeo + Juliet.
Kristin Sloan, a dancer and editor of The Winger, a ballet blog, takes us into rehearsals for a first hand look at how a ballet classic is completely reinvented with new sets, costumes, choreography and even changes to its famous score. We hear from Romeo (Robert Fairchild) and Juliet (Sterling Hyltin) who discuss their first-hand experiences with one of the greatest tragic love stories of all time.
Kristin made a multi part video of this incredible production, and we are very excited to have an edit made exclusively for Cool Hunting's viewers. We'd like to thank Kristin and the New York City Ballet for sharing their journey with us.
If you're on the East Coast in early July you can catch the performance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Big-Game: Plus is More
by Ami Kealoha
Swiss designers Big-Game got some love in Milan for their latest collection called "Plus is More" and we thought it deserved a closer look.
Taking the premise that "fashion is a means of communication," the Swiss Apparel sweatshirt features a basic conversation guide for the four official Swiss languages, French, German, Italian and Romansh, printed on its sleeve.
We like how the Bold Chair mimics the design of a paperclip, but it also has removable sock-like sleeving.
Hybrid design that mixes in art, fashion, etc. is everywhere these days, but there's something irresistible about a rug that doubles as a toy freeway. Miles, as it's called, comes with three wooden toy cars.
Also on Cool Hunting: New Rich
Paper Pilot
by Ami Kealoha
Paper Pilot: The Paper Airplane Pilot's Manual is equal parts eye-candy, resource and DIY project. With hundreds of archival photographs of fighter jets, bombers and the like, it's a primer on (primarily U.S.) aviation design spanning over a half-century of innovation. Each plane gets a profile that includes basic info as well as a brief history outlining its strengths, weaknesses and the role it played in military history. Strangely, the section on model planes is little more than a brief pictorial, but the real fun starts in the back of the book.
Twenty–four punch–out models are full–color reproductions the planes profiled earlier, requiring little more than folds and glue to make them into working paper airplanes. It's the perfect book for aviation buffs or summertime boredom. Get it from Amazon.
