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Nike+ Supersonic
(10 October 2007) - We've always respected the way Nike maintains sport culture as one of their core values and their upcoming Supersonic race puts those values at the forefront of their marketing efforts by throwing a party requiring at least some athleticism to enter. If you think you're fast and quick—fast would be a 1k race, quick would be a 100m sprint—you'll need to be both in...
(10 October 2007) - We've always respected the way Nike maintains sport culture as one of their core values and their upcoming Supersonic race puts those values at the forefront of their marketing efforts by throwing a party requiring at least some athleticism to enter. If you think you're fast and quick—fast would be a 1k race, quick would be a 100m sprint—you'll need to be both in...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Maison & Objet Fall 2007: Atypyk and Laurence Brabant
(09 October 2007) - At the recent Maison & Objet in Paris we visited an old favorite, the irreverently clever design duo Atypyk, and met Laurence Brabant, a new favorite who designs exclusively in borosilicate (Pyrex) glass. While the two work in entirely different mediums, they each explain their humorous approach and how they make everyday objects into conceptual forms that still retain their function. Also on Cool...
(09 October 2007) - At the recent Maison & Objet in Paris we visited an old favorite, the irreverently clever design duo Atypyk, and met Laurence Brabant, a new favorite who designs exclusively in borosilicate (Pyrex) glass. While the two work in entirely different mediums, they each explain their humorous approach and how they make everyday objects into conceptual forms that still retain their function. Also on Cool...
Les Savy Fav: Let's Stay Friends Album and Tour
(28 September 2007) - The first new record in six years deserves a party. And who rocks the party that rocks the body better than Brooklyn's Les Savy Fav? To celebrate last week's way-too-late release of Let's Stay Friends on French Kiss Records, LSF knocked off two sold-out nights in NYC, one in Williamsburg, the other at Bowery Ballroom. CH was lucky enough to survey the damage at...
(28 September 2007) - The first new record in six years deserves a party. And who rocks the party that rocks the body better than Brooklyn's Les Savy Fav? To celebrate last week's way-too-late release of Let's Stay Friends on French Kiss Records, LSF knocked off two sold-out nights in NYC, one in Williamsburg, the other at Bowery Ballroom. CH was lucky enough to survey the damage at...
Color Now! Symposium
(19 September 2007) - Color plays a major role in pretty much all areas of visual culture—studies have even proved that color has a powerful effect on behavior. If you've ever wondered why a blackboard is green, all the more reason to attend the Color Now! Symposium put on by the Color Association of the United States in New York City this 20-21 September 2007. A multi-faceted event,...
(19 September 2007) - Color plays a major role in pretty much all areas of visual culture—studies have even proved that color has a powerful effect on behavior. If you've ever wondered why a blackboard is green, all the more reason to attend the Color Now! Symposium put on by the Color Association of the United States in New York City this 20-21 September 2007. A multi-faceted event,...
Wired NextFest 2007
(17 September 2007) - From ideas that ran from the creepy (like regenerated body parts including bladders) to conceptually fascinating (like a harp with strings made from lasers and a Lifestraw that kills sinister infectious organisms in water upon contact), over 160 exhibitors at the 4th annual Wired NextFest in Los Angeles this past weekend enthusiastically revealed their visions of the future to receptive nerds of all ages....
(17 September 2007) - From ideas that ran from the creepy (like regenerated body parts including bladders) to conceptually fascinating (like a harp with strings made from lasers and a Lifestraw that kills sinister infectious organisms in water upon contact), over 160 exhibitors at the 4th annual Wired NextFest in Los Angeles this past weekend enthusiastically revealed their visions of the future to receptive nerds of all ages....
Top 10 Interactive Events at the London Design Festival 2007
(14 September 2007) - This year's festival proves that design—more than ever—is an interactive experience. Throughout the next 10 days there are plenty of workshops, talks and one-day events across the city where everyone gets a chance to be a designer. Below are our top 10 recommendations (again, in alphabetical order) for getting involved. 1.) Blueprints Design Talks The series of seminars hosted by the magazine provides a...
(14 September 2007) - This year's festival proves that design—more than ever—is an interactive experience. Throughout the next 10 days there are plenty of workshops, talks and one-day events across the city where everyone gets a chance to be a designer. Below are our top 10 recommendations (again, in alphabetical order) for getting involved. 1.) Blueprints Design Talks The series of seminars hosted by the magazine provides a...
Top 10 Things to See at the London Design Festival 2007
(14 September 2007) - It’s the official launch of the London Design Festival tomorrow, which will precipitate thousands of people to leave their own little corner of the city or the world and start zig-zagging across town in order to take in the latest and greatest innovations in design. As the Festival gets larger and longer every year, the variety of talent on show grows as well and...
(14 September 2007) - It’s the official launch of the London Design Festival tomorrow, which will precipitate thousands of people to leave their own little corner of the city or the world and start zig-zagging across town in order to take in the latest and greatest innovations in design. As the Festival gets larger and longer every year, the variety of talent on show grows as well and...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: R-16
(11 September 2007) - With hundreds of the best b-boys and b-girls representing 16 crews from 14 different countries, R-16, Seoul's second annual international breakdancing championship, is an unparalleled event. Episode 88 packs the two days of competitions into a kinetic experience of skill, energy and a love for the artform. From the slo-mo pop rocking of Japan's Hamutsun Serve to Korea's own Drifterz and Rivers, it's a...
(11 September 2007) - With hundreds of the best b-boys and b-girls representing 16 crews from 14 different countries, R-16, Seoul's second annual international breakdancing championship, is an unparalleled event. Episode 88 packs the two days of competitions into a kinetic experience of skill, energy and a love for the artform. From the slo-mo pop rocking of Japan's Hamutsun Serve to Korea's own Drifterz and Rivers, it's a...
Flavorpill's Planetarium Party Ticket Giveaway
(10 September 2007) - Flavorpill's One Step Beyond Party is taking over the American Museum of Natural History once again this upcoming Friday, 14 September 2007, this time with Bonde Do Role, Plastic Little and King Britt. After a short summer hiatus, the party comes back bigger than ever with some Brazilian baile funk and quick-witted raps. We're not sure the Hall of the Universe will be able...
(10 September 2007) - Flavorpill's One Step Beyond Party is taking over the American Museum of Natural History once again this upcoming Friday, 14 September 2007, this time with Bonde Do Role, Plastic Little and King Britt. After a short summer hiatus, the party comes back bigger than ever with some Brazilian baile funk and quick-witted raps. We're not sure the Hall of the Universe will be able...
Superior Interior Tournament @ NeoCon Xpress
(20 August 2007) - For the first time ever, interior designers will match wit-for-wit in a live action duel that pits four teams head-to-head in front of an audience of their peers at the Superior Interior Tournament. Only one team will survive the pressure and rise to the top as the others fall to the wayside in a broken heap of shame and humiliation, Mad Max-style. Okay, so...
(20 August 2007) - For the first time ever, interior designers will match wit-for-wit in a live action duel that pits four teams head-to-head in front of an audience of their peers at the Superior Interior Tournament. Only one team will survive the pressure and rise to the top as the others fall to the wayside in a broken heap of shame and humiliation, Mad Max-style. Okay, so...
Lollapalooza 2007 Highlights
(08 August 2007) - Cool Hunting traveled to Chicago this past weekend for Lollapalooza. Here's a highlight band from each day: Friday, 3 August: Daft Punk An incredible performance by Daft Punk (pictured above) topped off the first day of the festival. While the hippies were "chilling" to Ben Harper on the opposite side of the park, the rest of us were getting crazy with Daft Punk. When...
(08 August 2007) - Cool Hunting traveled to Chicago this past weekend for Lollapalooza. Here's a highlight band from each day: Friday, 3 August: Daft Punk An incredible performance by Daft Punk (pictured above) topped off the first day of the festival. While the hippies were "chilling" to Ben Harper on the opposite side of the park, the rest of us were getting crazy with Daft Punk. When...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: Kemps Milk Carton Boat Races
(07 August 2007) - 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...
(07 August 2007) - 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...
Sneaker Freaker Issue #10 Global Launch Parties
(23 July 2007) - CH ally and Sneaker Freaker founding editor Woody is going large this with launch parties for Issue #10 taking place in eleven of the world's top cities. Starting off in his home town of Melbourne last week, Woody is now up in the skies on his way to party in Berlin (24 July), hitting Johannesburg, London and Naples on 26 July, Singapore and Copenhagen...
(23 July 2007) - CH ally and Sneaker Freaker founding editor Woody is going large this with launch parties for Issue #10 taking place in eleven of the world's top cities. Starting off in his home town of Melbourne last week, Woody is now up in the skies on his way to party in Berlin (24 July), hitting Johannesburg, London and Naples on 26 July, Singapore and Copenhagen...
Flavorpill's No Reservations Event Ticket Giveaway.
(23 July 2007) - Celebrating the fourth and newest season of rockstar chef Anthony Bourdain's show "No Reservations," our Flavorpill friends have offered a few pairs of tickets to the premiere at NYC's Tribeca Cinemas taking place tomorrow, 24 July 2007, from 7-10pm. The event also includes a cocktail reception and afterparty with food and music from the show.To enter, follow the contact link at the bottom of...
(23 July 2007) - Celebrating the fourth and newest season of rockstar chef Anthony Bourdain's show "No Reservations," our Flavorpill friends have offered a few pairs of tickets to the premiere at NYC's Tribeca Cinemas taking place tomorrow, 24 July 2007, from 7-10pm. The event also includes a cocktail reception and afterparty with food and music from the show.To enter, follow the contact link at the bottom of...
Backjumps: The Live Issue #3
(29 June 2007) - If the Splasher was smart, he or she would escape the heat of NYC and go to Berlin for Backjumps: The Live Issue #3 that started earlier this month and runs through 19 August 2007. Backjumps has become an annual celebration of Street Art, this year featuring installations by artists such as Akim One Nyguyn (aka the King of Berlin graffiti, pictured right and...
(29 June 2007) - If the Splasher was smart, he or she would escape the heat of NYC and go to Berlin for Backjumps: The Live Issue #3 that started earlier this month and runs through 19 August 2007. Backjumps has become an annual celebration of Street Art, this year featuring installations by artists such as Akim One Nyguyn (aka the King of Berlin graffiti, pictured right and...
P.S.1 Warm Up 2007 Opening Night with DFA
(22 June 2007) - On 30 June 2007 P.S.1 presents the opening day of their annual summer dance party, Warm Up, hosted by DFA Records. They've got DJ sets by Juan Maclean, Shit Robot (Marcus Lamkin) and Tim & Tim (Tim Goldsworthy and Tim Sweeney), as well as a live performance by Invisible Conga People, on the lineup—sweet! The backdrop of this year’s Warm Up is Liquid Sky...
(22 June 2007) - On 30 June 2007 P.S.1 presents the opening day of their annual summer dance party, Warm Up, hosted by DFA Records. They've got DJ sets by Juan Maclean, Shit Robot (Marcus Lamkin) and Tim & Tim (Tim Goldsworthy and Tim Sweeney), as well as a live performance by Invisible Conga People, on the lineup—sweet! The backdrop of this year’s Warm Up is Liquid Sky...
The Lottery
(21 June 2007) - On the eve of the real NBA draft next Wednesday, 27 June 2007, No Mas, the art, apparel and media company that explores "the deeper meaning of sports" is holding its own draft, The Lottery. Described as a retrospective redrafting of the first 105 lottery picks from 1985-1995, every attendee of the event is considered a manager and has the opportunity to draft an...
(21 June 2007) - On the eve of the real NBA draft next Wednesday, 27 June 2007, No Mas, the art, apparel and media company that explores "the deeper meaning of sports" is holding its own draft, The Lottery. Described as a retrospective redrafting of the first 105 lottery picks from 1985-1995, every attendee of the event is considered a manager and has the opportunity to draft an...
Monkey: Journey to the West
(18 June 2007) - A fitting way to open Manchester's first-ever international festival, "Monkey: Journey to the West" is Damon Albarn's and Jamie Hewlett's (co-creators of Gorillaz) stage adaptation of an ancient Chinese legend . Dubbed a "circus opera" complete with 45 Chinese acrobats and Shaolin monks (some strung from wires), it's very likely to be an entertaining and amusing collaboration between these British producer/artists and their Chinese counterparts....
(18 June 2007) - A fitting way to open Manchester's first-ever international festival, "Monkey: Journey to the West" is Damon Albarn's and Jamie Hewlett's (co-creators of Gorillaz) stage adaptation of an ancient Chinese legend . Dubbed a "circus opera" complete with 45 Chinese acrobats and Shaolin monks (some strung from wires), it's very likely to be an entertaining and amusing collaboration between these British producer/artists and their Chinese counterparts....
Flavorpill's One Step Beyond Party
(15 June 2007) - Tonight the American Museum of Natural History is home to a party hosted by Flavorpill. The second night in their One Step Beyond series, the event takes place in the Rose Center for Earth and Space from 9pm-1am. There will live performances by Hess is More and Brooklyn-based Foreign Islands as well as DJs Devlin and Darko of Spank Rock fame, Aaron Lacrate of...
(15 June 2007) - Tonight the American Museum of Natural History is home to a party hosted by Flavorpill. The second night in their One Step Beyond series, the event takes place in the Rose Center for Earth and Space from 9pm-1am. There will live performances by Hess is More and Brooklyn-based Foreign Islands as well as DJs Devlin and Darko of Spank Rock fame, Aaron Lacrate of...
The Creators Series: Ticket Giveaway
(01 June 2007) - Tomorrow Unlimited presents the first annual Creators Series, a multidisciplinary conference that highlights emerging creative cultures and social change through discussion panels, musical events and a free art exhibition. The series will be held over successive weekends starting in New York and ending in Los Angeles. Bringing together some Cool Hunting favorites, the Social Interfaces Panel of the series will investigate new platforms of...
(01 June 2007) - Tomorrow Unlimited presents the first annual Creators Series, a multidisciplinary conference that highlights emerging creative cultures and social change through discussion panels, musical events and a free art exhibition. The series will be held over successive weekends starting in New York and ending in Los Angeles. Bringing together some Cool Hunting favorites, the Social Interfaces Panel of the series will investigate new platforms of...
Beautiful/Decay Issue S: T-Shirts and Release Party
(25 May 2007) - It may be warm and bright outside but Beautiful/Decay magazine seems to have been languishing in darkness. Their newest, Issue S, presents a mix of ill–omened themes such as death metal, ritual suicide and the Dark Ages. Hanna Liden's eerie photo series of masked figures (cover image, above left) set in dark swamps only adds to the foreboding effect. Wu-Tang Clan's the RZA wanders...
(25 May 2007) - It may be warm and bright outside but Beautiful/Decay magazine seems to have been languishing in darkness. Their newest, Issue S, presents a mix of ill–omened themes such as death metal, ritual suicide and the Dark Ages. Hanna Liden's eerie photo series of masked figures (cover image, above left) set in dark swamps only adds to the foreboding effect. Wu-Tang Clan's the RZA wanders...
The Bicycle Film Festival 2007
(16 May 2007) - Mid-Bike Month NYC, we almost think the city should consider re-naming it Bicycle Film Festival month in honor of the event that was founded in New York seven years ago. The Bicycle Film Festival now tours 15 cities in the U.S. and around the world (props for adding Portland this year!) and it all starts today, 16 May 2007, in NYC. In addition to...
(16 May 2007) - Mid-Bike Month NYC, we almost think the city should consider re-naming it Bicycle Film Festival month in honor of the event that was founded in New York seven years ago. The Bicycle Film Festival now tours 15 cities in the U.S. and around the world (props for adding Portland this year!) and it all starts today, 16 May 2007, in NYC. In addition to...
Design Blogfest 2007
(10 May 2007) - In celebration of NYC's Design Week this year, we've joined up with some of our esteemed colleagues to throw a party! Hosted by The Apartment at their SoHo HQ, Apartment Therapy, TreeHugger, Curbed, Notcot, Cribcandy and MoCo Loco are all in on the event. Sponsored by Swich and 10 Cane Rum, there will be a fun design mini-exhibit as well that we'll announce shortly.Please RSVP:...
(10 May 2007) - In celebration of NYC's Design Week this year, we've joined up with some of our esteemed colleagues to throw a party! Hosted by The Apartment at their SoHo HQ, Apartment Therapy, TreeHugger, Curbed, Notcot, Cribcandy and MoCo Loco are all in on the event. Sponsored by Swich and 10 Cane Rum, there will be a fun design mini-exhibit as well that we'll announce shortly.Please RSVP:...
Maker Faire 2007 Ticket Giveaway
(08 May 2007) - We're proud sponsors of Make magazine's second annual Maker Faire taking place this 19-20 May in San Mateo, CA. With a workshop on electro-mechanical Blinkybugs that respond to outside stimulus with blinking LED eyes (center), a exhibit about kite rigs for digital cameras to take stunning aerial photos and Bruce Shapiro's algorithm-based sculptures (left), the Faire promises to be a nerd paradise. We're excited...
(08 May 2007) - We're proud sponsors of Make magazine's second annual Maker Faire taking place this 19-20 May in San Mateo, CA. With a workshop on electro-mechanical Blinkybugs that respond to outside stimulus with blinking LED eyes (center), a exhibit about kite rigs for digital cameras to take stunning aerial photos and Bruce Shapiro's algorithm-based sculptures (left), the Faire promises to be a nerd paradise. We're excited...
Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Dachshund Spring Fiesta 2007
(27 April 2007) - In this video we visit the 19th annual Dachshund Spring Fiesta in NYC's Washington Square Park. Put on by the Dachshund Friendship Club, the event is one of two get-togethers they hold each year and draws hundreds of Dachsies and their owners. The only official activity is the singing of the Dachshund Song, composed by Murray Weinstock (who also made a CD of "dog...
(27 April 2007) - In this video we visit the 19th annual Dachshund Spring Fiesta in NYC's Washington Square Park. Put on by the Dachshund Friendship Club, the event is one of two get-togethers they hold each year and draws hundreds of Dachsies and their owners. The only official activity is the singing of the Dachshund Song, composed by Murray Weinstock (who also made a CD of "dog...
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