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Phuong-Cac Nguyen
Phuong-Cac Nguyen is a Los Angeles-bred expat sending Cool Hunting news directly from São Paulo, Brazil. Phuong-Cac names writing as her official trade, with lots of editorial experience from the Los Angeles Times, URB magazine, LA Weekly and other publications. She's also well-versed in the ways of marketing through work with Pacific Sunwear and Nokia—so keeping an eye out for what's worthy or not comes naturally to her. These days (besides writing and teaching a few English classes) she's putting effort into establishing her line of accessories called SISU—but even more effort into losing the tourist look. She invites all tips and suggestions.
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Jaime Hayon x Gaia & Gino: Valencia Collection
The prolific Spanish designer Jaime Hayon's elegant Valencia collection for luxury label Gaia & Gino applies his talent for refreshing the modern to must-have iterations of classic candlestick and tea-light holders in crystal. The handmade pieces make an apt addition to the Turkish design studio's line of "affordable yet rare" products. Sandblasting each holder by hand, each incorporates a pattern mixing shapes and clefts...
The prolific Spanish designer Jaime Hayon's elegant Valencia collection for luxury label Gaia & Gino applies his talent for refreshing the modern to must-have iterations of classic candlestick and tea-light holders in crystal. The handmade pieces make an apt addition to the Turkish design studio's line of "affordable yet rare" products. Sandblasting each holder by hand, each incorporates a pattern mixing shapes and clefts...
Via Public Art Project
Traffic usually sucks in L.A., but until 9 March 2010 Angelenos gridlocked on Sunset Boulevard may have a slightly more pleasant experience as they watch Mexican artist Gonzalo Lebrija's short films unfold on giant videotrons. The movies are part of "Via," the first of four public art projects organized by the new non-profit art group Los Angeles Nomadic Division. LAND counts associate curator Christine...
Traffic usually sucks in L.A., but until 9 March 2010 Angelenos gridlocked on Sunset Boulevard may have a slightly more pleasant experience as they watch Mexican artist Gonzalo Lebrija's short films unfold on giant videotrons. The movies are part of "Via," the first of four public art projects organized by the new non-profit art group Los Angeles Nomadic Division. LAND counts associate curator Christine...
Hugh Hefner's Playboy
If the recent buzz around Playboy's rebranding has you hankering for more, Taschen's massive six-volume collection, titled "Hugh Hefner's Playboy" explores the magazine's phenomenal impact on nudity and sex. As Playboy faces declining sales and moves to bolster new readership, the collection suggests Playboy ongoing relevance today. The collection includes a page-for-page reproduction of the very first issue with cover star Marilyn Monroe, as...
If the recent buzz around Playboy's rebranding has you hankering for more, Taschen's massive six-volume collection, titled "Hugh Hefner's Playboy" explores the magazine's phenomenal impact on nudity and sex. As Playboy faces declining sales and moves to bolster new readership, the collection suggests Playboy ongoing relevance today. The collection includes a page-for-page reproduction of the very first issue with cover star Marilyn Monroe, as...
McSweeney's Issue 33: The San Francisco Panorama
One of our favorite new-school purveyors of good old-fashioned journalism McSweeney's launched their special edition, 320-page "San Francisco Panorama" this week, making it the latest of the literary journal's quarterly releases. Already buzzed about, the McSweeney's team created the 15" x 22" broadsheet paper over five months with contributions from Stephen King, William T. Vollmann, Daniel Clowes and Roddy Doyle—over 150 writers, artists and...
One of our favorite new-school purveyors of good old-fashioned journalism McSweeney's launched their special edition, 320-page "San Francisco Panorama" this week, making it the latest of the literary journal's quarterly releases. Already buzzed about, the McSweeney's team created the 15" x 22" broadsheet paper over five months with contributions from Stephen King, William T. Vollmann, Daniel Clowes and Roddy Doyle—over 150 writers, artists and...
Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
How did some album art become so iconic that it's inseparable from the music? Mention Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, for example, and it usually conjures images of the iconic triangle prism on the cover. (Click below images for detail.) Without Alex Steinweiss, Columbia Records' first art director in 1940, the pop culture phenomenon known as the album cover may not have...
How did some album art become so iconic that it's inseparable from the music? Mention Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, for example, and it usually conjures images of the iconic triangle prism on the cover. (Click below images for detail.) Without Alex Steinweiss, Columbia Records' first art director in 1940, the pop culture phenomenon known as the album cover may not have...
Os Gemeos: Vertigo
São Paulo street art heroes, Os Gemeos—known for mesmerizing the international art scene with their colorful characters and experimental style—marked a homecoming with their long overdue solo show at the city's highly revered fine arts school, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, that opened last month. Dubbed "Vertigo," the exhibit adds terrific new works to its earlier run in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year. A...
São Paulo street art heroes, Os Gemeos—known for mesmerizing the international art scene with their colorful characters and experimental style—marked a homecoming with their long overdue solo show at the city's highly revered fine arts school, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, that opened last month. Dubbed "Vertigo," the exhibit adds terrific new works to its earlier run in Rio de Janeiro earlier this year. A...
Antarctica Sub Zero Pop-Up Bar and Restaurant
As São Paulo's humid summer approaches, just in time to help cool things down an unusual pop-up restaurant/bar called Estação Antarctica Sub Zero opens this weekend in the bar-heavy neighborhood of Vila Madalena. Conceived to promote the Brazilian beer company Antarctica's new beer, the temporary venue celebrates their double-filtration process at 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit and the refreshing new drink. The space, an inflatable giant...
As São Paulo's humid summer approaches, just in time to help cool things down an unusual pop-up restaurant/bar called Estação Antarctica Sub Zero opens this weekend in the bar-heavy neighborhood of Vila Madalena. Conceived to promote the Brazilian beer company Antarctica's new beer, the temporary venue celebrates their double-filtration process at 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit and the refreshing new drink. The space, an inflatable giant...
WK Interact: How to Blow Yourself Up
No stranger to controversy, WK Interact keeps upping his ante. For his newest show "How to Blow Yourself Up" at L.A.'s Subliminal Projects, the artist moves away from spray paint into multimedia work. Playing on ideas of the apocalypse (2012 being the most recent buzzed-about theory), he takes them for a turn by presenting impending death as controllable by the believer. The title could...
No stranger to controversy, WK Interact keeps upping his ante. For his newest show "How to Blow Yourself Up" at L.A.'s Subliminal Projects, the artist moves away from spray paint into multimedia work. Playing on ideas of the apocalypse (2012 being the most recent buzzed-about theory), he takes them for a turn by presenting impending death as controllable by the believer. The title could...
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