For many Somali‬ refugees, the film Black Hawk Down serves as one of their only memories of the civil war that has ravaged their country for the last two decades. This Thursday, 17 May 2012, thousands of expats—along with the rest of the world—will see their nation again in...

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa's contemporary art emblem William Kentridge has played an important role in the artistic revival that has taken place in the post-industrial city in recent years. With the launch of his edition in the Tate Modern Artists Series, Kentridge brings attention to the vibrant creative...

For centuries model-makers and artists have played with the challenge of building a ship in a bottle, and in May 2010, British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE erected the largest to date for the Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square. On view for the past 18 months, the five-meter-long bottle...

Timed to launch for today's Cyber Monday online shopping extravaganza, the new service OneReceipt provides a solution to keep track of all your proofs of purchase. Whether you have receipts from Black Friday, plan to accrue some more over the holidays or simply have an overflow of receipts and...

For its 15th anniversary Paris Photo will celebrate African photography with a unique anthology of emerging and established photographers at the Grand Palais. The sweeping four-day exhibition, dubbed "From Bamako to Capetown," offers real insight into the continent's diverse range of cultures, from fast-growing capitals in the northwest to...

Step into a Wagamama restaurant and you expect friendly service served alongside contemporary Asian dishes. U.K. visitors to the chain will now get a taste of nine emerging English artists too. Working with Moniker Projects, the new program goes by the name Art and Eat. With Moniker, Wagamama started...

For their fifth annual fall festival, the French Institute Alliance Française turned the average museum audio tour into a mysterious game of fact or fiction. Made in collaboration with the conceptual sound collective Soundwalk, "Crossing the Line" leads listeners on an hour and a half tour of NYC's Museum...

When a mutual friend connected me with filmmaker Sebastian Lindstrom, he mentioned something about camel milk. A little research brought up several amusing web domains, including a site about camels, BeTheCheese.org, and one about where Lindstrom sleeps, WhatAreWeDoingNowThatWeAreHere.com. But when I met Lindstrom in Manhattan recently and he pulled...

Far from the days when it was just Pandora and Last.fm competing for internet radio space, today there seem to be as many music streaming sites as there are mashups that helped drive the phenomenon. Whether you regard the remix as a modern artform or scourge of the entertainment...

Five years ago, Shane Zucker and Steven Peterman, fed up with the challenge of making a living as artists, founded Art House as a student project. Now, the active online community has over 50,000 users and an art library that is traveling the United States. Art House's beginnings go...

Whether traveling the world, making documentaries or just pretending you're Jason Bourne, we put together a few special-ops tools to enhance any photographer or filmmaker's on-the-go lifestyle and resulting images. POV.HD Mounted to a helmet or vest, POV cameras offer an exciting—if not slightly frightening—first-person perspective. For skiing down a...

"Art in advertising? Why would anyone do that after Warhol?" The joke may come from the most recent episode of Mad Men, but the punchline is just as clear in Carl Burgess' video for "Drugs"—Ratatat's latest single off their album LP4. Composed solely of stock footage typically reserved for...

Keeping your cards and cash secure, vegan-friendly Holstee wallets are made from found materials sourced around the streets of Delhi. The slim Holstee wallets are the brainchild of brothers Mike and Dave Radparvar and friend Fabian Pfortmüller—an entrepreneurial trio who quit their day jobs in favor of providing a...

Since its inception four years ago, MoMA's "Meet Me" program for dementia and Alzheimer's patients has not only grown increasingly successful, but it has inspired museums around the U.S. to take part. The program provides an opportunity for the patients—most of whom were artists or frequenters of the museum...

As lightweight devices tailored for on-the-go activity, the iPad and iPhone has already made fans out of filmmakers who want to stay in touch on set. Increasingly, clever applications are turning these digital tools into integral parts of the filmmaking process itself. Below we highlight several apps that make production...

The iPhone 4's new five-megapixel camera and HD video capability makes capturing snapshots and footage on-the-go easier than ever. A bounty of applications and accessories out there help you get the most from the smartphone's camera functions, but which are the essentials? We picked out a few of our favorites...

Kanye West has been kicking up controversy right and left recently—showing up at both the Facebook and Twitter HQs, turning his teeth to diamonds and engaging the public with his crude and prolific Tweets. After noticing Marco Brambilla's "Civilization" video installation in the elevators at The Standard New York...

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals—the ambitious list of global objectives put together by world leaders in September of 2000—have just five years until the deadline and are seriously behind schedule. With pie-in-the-sky targets like education for everyone everywhere and ending extreme poverty and hunger, students at the Knight...

The New York Photo Festival celebrated its third year this past May, but that wasn't enough for the event's cofounder Daniel Power (who's also the PowerHouse Books CEO and a former VII Photo director). Today the NYPH announced a contest called Capture Brooklyn. Photographers can submit their work for...

Thanks to our tech-enabled world, the idea of global transparency is more of a reality now than ever. But in an industry as large as fashion, it's still difficult still to know the conditions of many production facilities. That's where the labor conditions group Fair Wear Foundation comes in....

Over the last year, droves of filmmakers have been ditching traditional video cameras in favor of the stunningly rich images produced by the ultra-shallow depths of field, bigger sensors and interchangeable lenses of DSLRs with HD capabilities. With the consumer-led phenomenon showing no signs of slowing, both Panasonic and Sony...

Ever wondered how you could get your film in front of David Lynch, Roman Coppola or Vincent Laforet? Bridging online and offline, on 8 October 2010 Vimeo will launch its first video festival with two days of events in New York City. We're submitting our Cool Hunting Videos under...

Launched today, Flipboard aggregates content posted by friends on Facebook and Twitter. Instead of reading feeds and clicking on links, the well-funded app transforms the links into a magazine-style format for iPad reading. With the news sweeping the Internet, Flipboard's server has been up and down all day, but...

Dubai-based Brownbook Magazine celebrates the 22nd issue of their "urban guide to the Middle East" with a focus on North Africa—all done up in their recently-debuted redesign. The fresh look includes a new Arabic-inspired font that blends seamlessly with text (primarily in English) for a magazine with a style...

While we're always on the lookout for major food innovations that overhaul form, ingredients and more, we still appreciate a classic brand—particularly when reinvented with new addictive flavors. Below, learn more about a few we recently sampled that hit the mark. Jelly Belly While cocktail-flavored Jelly Bellys may seem an...

Recently, we've been taking well-deserved midday breaks from the heat with a Viennese treat that joins two classic summer coolers—ice cream and iced coffee. When we asked Austrian chef Eduard Frauneder (owner of NYC's Seasonal restaurant) to tell us more about Eiskaffes, he showed us his slightly more petite...

Ariane Daguin, daughter of famed French foie gras specialist André Daguin, continues the family's culinary legacy (they introduced the U.S. foie gras 25 years ago) as the first to import Mangalica ham stateside. Her company, D'Artagnan sells the cured meat from the long-haired Hungarian pig to the New York...

Fungi expert Paul Stamets' Life Box infuses cardboard with seeds for a plantable shipping container. Simply tear up the box, bury it in the ground and water the area to get various forms of vegetation to sprout. Made from recycled paper and printed with soy-based inks, the box contains...

In 2005, Giuseppe Russo started One Small Seed in his adopted hometown of Cape Town, South Africa. Russo's own story—after just a couple of months spent visiting the country, he felt the urge to create a cultural mouthpiece—embodies the concept. Since planting his own small seed in Cape Town...

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Jesse Zook Mann's latest documentary project delves into the radical Judaism scene in New York. Originally announced on the crowd-sourced funding site Kickstarter, Punk Jews just reached their goal of raising $10,000 to make the film. Featuring musicians, artists, fashion designers and philosophers, Zook Mann describes Punk...

Recently featured on Good, Gordon Murray's new 74-mpg T.25 City Car—while a little slower than the MacLaren F1 supercar he's known for—still packs in just as much punch. With a hinged front frame that lifts up in place of traditional doors (so as not to hit nearby vehicles, etc.),...

As we learn more about dietary health for dogs, it's clear that—just like us—finding tasty alternatives to processed food makes a big difference. Making food for pups that might even appeal to their owners is exactly what Amy Augustine hoped for when she started the Lazy Dog Cookie Company...

This is it! We're giving away our last two iPads. Next Monday, 5 July 2010, we will announce the final two winners in our celebration for our new Cool Hunting iPad app sponsored by Cadillac. Both winners will receive an awesome little package consisting of an iPad, custom Speck...

The ultra-lightweight Anabatic MK. II shell from newish U.K.-based label Finisterre makes an attractive example of the brand's forward-thinking approach. Committed to product, people and the environment, Finisterre's outdoor gear not only looks and feels great but also keeps sustainability at the forefront—a notion that has earned them several...

With Shadow Box technology, your ride doesn't end when you leave the slopes or the water. The box, engineered by Joe Van Niekerk of Stanford's winning D.A.R.P.A Challenge team, mounts on anything from snowboards to blimps and uses GPS and G-Force readings to record a "Ride Path." Tracking location,...

The images and sounds of Europe and Africa clash in Congolese artist Baloji's new music video "Siku Ya Baadaye." His video reflects his sound, a blend of hip-hop lyrics with distinct African instrumentals, that has made fans of other hybrid genre musicians like Vampire Weekend and Beck. Calling himself...