Cool Hunting
| 07 September 2007view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Giveaway: Cool Hunting x Modest Mouse
by Tim Yu
Cool Hunting is teaming up with rockers Modest Mouse to give you a special edition of their new album, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, and a Sony Portable DVD player.
To enter just follow the link, fill out a couple lines of info and give a listen to their new song, "Missed The Boat." It's a great tune with crunchy guitars and a melodic, catchy chorus that you'll be singing all day. It doesn't get much easier than this.
Cut&Paste Kick-off
by Tim Yu
The Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament kicks-off tomorrow in Boston at the Roxy, Saturday, 8 September, the first stop of an 11 city international tour (click on flyer for detail). You think you got what it takes? Any onsite audience can participate in the timed design competition for a chance to win a Wacom Intuos3 Tablet.
With 11 stops from Boston to Sydney, chances are the tournament will swing through a city near you. If you can't make it to any of the locales not to worry, all of the events will be webcast at Cut&Paste. During the tournament you can also vote in real-time, by text message or the online webcast, for any of the eight contestants in each city who will compete for an Adobe CS3 Master Collection. We're patiently waiting for next weekend, 15 September, when the Cut&Paste Tournament comes through New York.
Tomorrow in Boston doors open at 6pm, the competition is from 7-10pm and after party is from 9:30pm-2am. More info including the full schedule of their world tour here. Also check out last years Cut&Paste tournament on Cool Hunting Video.
Museum of Contemporary Horological Art
by Watchismo
Part of the Tempus Temple of Time watch fair in Singapore, Mocha (Museum of Contemporary Horological Art) just opened and they are hosting their first show ever. Housing some of the most important and rare contemporary watch collections, the first exhibition is a retrospective of sorts cataloguing changes in horological art over the past 30 years. Some of the modern masterpieces represented include, Urwerk, Vianney Halter, MB&F, DeBethune, Audemars, Piguet, among many others.
See all the watches from the exhibit at Watching Horology.
Now Play It
by Ami Kealoha
Whenever I get a tune in my head that I can't get rid of, not only do I end up humming along for hours, but I get an uncontrollable urge to bash it out on my axe - sorry, play it on my guitar. Most other players will no doubt agree, which is why Now Play It is a welcome addition to my bookmarks.
While there have been videos of amateurs playing their favorite tunes on YouTube for ages, this British website takes it to the next level. Around 300 video tutorials are available for guitar, bass and drums and are given a difficulty rating from 1 to 5. A lot just feature the chord shapes shown over the top of the music video, or a house tutor showing you what to do. Rather impressively though, many of them are taught by the actual artists themselves. Cough up, and Blur drummer Dave Rowntree (above right) will teach you how to play along to "Song 2," or KT Tunstall will patiently show you how to play "Suddenly I See" just like she did.
Tutorials start at £1.99 and are iTunes and iPod compatible.
Uninsu(red) Shirt
by Wendy Dembo
Last year when the Gap came out with their (red) campaign, the first word that popped into my head, was insu(red)/uninsu(red). They did a few kind of ironic shirts like bo(red) and ti(red), but I wondered why they didn’t make an uninsu(red) shirt.
With insurance looking like it's going to be the touch point for the 2008 Presidential election, I thought that making these shirts could hopefully get some uninsured kids to think about their need for health insurance, perhaps even the need for universal health care.
I ran into Jeff Staple of the Reed Space at a party and told him about my idea. He thought that it was a good idea too. It took some time, but starting today the shirts will be available at the Reed Space. We hope that they will start a much-needed dialogue.
The Reed Space
151 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002 map
tel. +1 212 253 0588
Duke Magazine
by Lost At E Minor
In the latest issue of the funny and offensive Duke Magazine, the all-guns-blazing Sydney kids behind the fashion bent publication launch well-argued attacks against the green recycle bags as fashion, Tsubi ruining op-shopping for everyone and some woman who collects rubbish to add to the junkyard within her home. Yes, this is hard-hitting journalism at it's best.
More info and subscriptions here.
