Cool Hunting
| 07 August 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
TV Fashion
by Fiona Killackey
It's not too often you find a possum wrapped around the sales assistant in an uptown boutique. Then again it's not often fashion finds itself welcoming in a label like TV.
Based in Melbourne, the coveted designs by duo Monika Tvanek and Ingrid Verner have been winning awards (and hearts) since their inception just two short years ago. Fresh out of design school and finding little comfort in available fashion jobs, the pair decided to launch their own venture. It was a risk that paid off with their first collection at Melbourne Fashion Festival sweeping up The Tiffany Award, one of the biggest accolades in Australia. Since then TV has become a label synonymous with eclectic designs (including the famous knitted Possum scarf), outrageous prints and quality craftsmanship.
Last month the girls finally gave in to the demand of stylists, photographers and style icons by opening the doors to their first flagship store in Prahran. Recently adding Henri Bendel in New York to their list of stockists, it won't be long before the whole world will be tuning in to a different TV set.
TV
2a Cecil Place
Prahran VIC 3181
Australia
map
tel. +61 3 9525 0355
Fun Night Lights
by Jacob Resneck
Okay, it's a generic title but there's something to be said for these bizarre night lights that are liable to scare a small child worse than whatever's lurking in the closet.
The purplish plasma bulb takes on a Frankenstein-esque quality while the fiber-optic blue looks like the head from a sci-fi Muppet character or Mystery Science Theater 3000.
For only $12 for the pair, these little knick-knacks would make a great White Elephant gift. Available online from Fred Flare.
ThisNext: ThisWorld Map
by Josh Rubin
A fun new ThisNext feature, ThisWorld uses Google Maps to create a live update of who's checking out what online worldwide. It's strangely entertaining to just sit back and watch products pop up—from an Irving, TX user looking at Puma's new Urban Mobility collection to someone in Spain checking out a gun-shaped hair dryer—like you're spying on the world. Geographical trends quickly become apparent and clicking through is a more passive but ultimately gratifying way to dig through ThisNext. We only wish that Google's nav features had some functionality here, so that features like zooming would let you narrow in on a region for case studies or .
Kemps Milk Carton Boat Races
by m ss ng p eces
In this video we travel to Minneapolis to witness the 37th annual Kemps Milk Carton Boat Races. Started as a publicity stunt by a local dairy, every year teams build and race boats made almost entirely out of empty milk cartons as part of Minneapolis' annual summer Aquatennial. With pirate galleons, floating tea parties and cow-themed entries all barely afloat on Lake Calhoun, the event is the epitome of Midwestern summer fun.
Adad Hannah: Living Stills
by Mike Giles
Born in New York in 1971, artist Adad Hannah spent his formative years in London and Vancouver before settling in Montreal, where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited in Seoul, Madrid, Poland, Amsterdam, Cardiff and Basel to mention but a few. The past six years of his career have been focused on "tableaux vivants" or "living stills," a process involves posing models and then asking them to stand completely still while they are recorded on video for 5-10 minutes. The result is both captivating and mesmerizing as the model’s breathing or blinking illuminates the space between photography and video. If you want to read an essay by artist and writer Steve Reinke about Adad’s work click here.
In late 2006 the Vancouver Art Gallery Asked Adad to stage a live “tableaux vivant” as part of a curated performance art series called Fuse. Adad wanted to create a performance piece that did not point to himself as the artist, standing behind the camera and capturing the performance. In “Internal Logic: Camping” five sets of identical twins perform in a mirror-image tableaux vivant; A family of four camps, while twin artists record them on matching video cameras. Looking at the piece it appears as if a mirror bisects the room, but it's a simulacra; there is no original and in this case no copy either. The piece was performed twice on 23 February 2007, with the models posing as still as possible for just over 10 minutes on each occasion. Adad was nice enough to share this hidden link from his site with the readers of CH for viewing photographs of the live performance. For videos of his captivating work you can visit his site.
