June 2008
33 posts
Philippe Starck's School of Design →
Does Phillipe Starck really need a reality show? Did he run out of things to design?
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I Was Right, Sort Of
So back at the end of 2005, I was hard at work for this crazy woman/famous-futurist Faith Popcorn. One of the things I did there at the time was to develop and write her ‘predictions’ for the coming year, a series of semi-ridiculous provocative thoughts which would subsequently get picked up by morning shows and second-tier newspapers around the country looking for a quick-and-easy...
Shorts
I just got interviewed by the New York Observer about my opinion on women’s shorts. Article runs Wednesday. We’ll see if I’m:
a) in it.
b) in it and sounding like a douchebag.
Country Logos Archive: brand your geopolitical... →
Williamsburg Walks →
Bedford Ave gets this and all I get is the effing San Giglio festival outside my window for two weeks straight.
Pattern Foundry →
“The Pattern Foundry is an archive of decorative patterns, open for anyone to license and use, created by designers and artists from around the world. The uses of these patterns are not prescribed; they can be applied anywhere and to anything.”
Synergy
According to Trendcentral: “To publicize the fall opening of their first Stateside store in Soho, UK retailer Topshop will outfit the staff at the hipster music and movie venue McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with trendy styles all summer long.”
Blech.
It's All Cope, Ascetic (new muxtape) →
Amelia Roberts | Global Warming →
The Army's New Experience Center
I’m pretty excited/horrifyed by this:
In August, the military plans to open its first Army Experience Center, a combination recruiting center/video arcade/retail store to promote serving your country.
Rumored to becoming to Times Square, it’ll be like the Disney Store, except with guns and camouflage.
The 14,500-square-foot center will be a multimedia extrava ganza with high-tech...
Talking Points: Art and Urban Development
In a city, artists tend to be a community in constant motion, pushed about on the cusp of rising residential prices. They are either swept out to the still-rough fringes or into the unrevitalized industrial cores. But in so migrating, artists tend to plant the seeds of new communities. Art demands an audience, not to mention the bootstrap social services that artists develop to survive in...
Stuff and a Sunburn: The Renegade Craft Fair
I had a chance to stop by the Renegade Craft Fair in McCarren Park Pool this weekend (like every other New Yorker with a blog). In its fourth year, the fair brings together a huge and colorful group of Etsy-approved DIYers selling lithographed prints, letterpressed cards, resin-cast jewelry, plush baby furniture and a whole host of other cleverly constructed stuff.
What was fascinating about the...
Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot & Trade Show →
Listen: while your pretentious intellectual ass is in Brooklyn trying to namecheck Ellen Lupton at a self-consciously dive-y bar with your clever friends and your skinny jeans, Oklahoma is getting ready to fucking kill you.
Video here, in case you really want to know what you’re in for. Next one’s coming up this month.
Creativity's Hearts and Minds contest
Courtesy of my friend Kunur, Creativity Magazine just announced its inaugural ‘Hearts and Minds’ artist event in in conjunction with a Penguin Books open contest for book cover art. According to the announcement:
We are inviting all artists, illustrators, designers and photographers to create a cover for British author Sam Taylor’s upcoming novel The Island at the End of the...
Digital Graffiti
PSFK points to a thesis design project by Martin Lihs at Bauhaus-University in Weimar, turning a Wiimote into a virtual graffiti spray-can.
It’s not exactly new (the idea of virtual graffiti and geotagging figured prominently in William Gibson’s last book, plus the GRL has been on this for a minute now), but it’s interesting to realize that graffiti—at its heart, a...
Prisonworld Magazine →
I am considering subscribing. For, you know, trendspotting purposes or something.
Top Tourist Spots Americans Can’t Visit →
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New Swoon. Swoon. →
Trailer Park
According to artist Kim Hollerman’s website, Trailer Park is a “portable, natural, public park housed inside an 18’ x 8’ x 7’ mobile Coachman Travel Trailer. Previously displayed in SoHo, the Trailer was just brought out of retirement for the Atlantic Ave Artwalk last weekend.
Cincinnati
I am going there for a two-day business meeting. Evidently we’re going to a Cincinnati Reds game with the clients. Then I am going to drown myself in a Hyatt bathtub.
US Gas Price Temperature Map →
Wall Street Journal knows what it's like to go... →
Brian Justman on the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the food at the UN Summit on the World Food Crisis:
briansuperpunchout:
When asked for comment, the entire continent of Africa offered the following in a statement:
“That’s cool, we’re only dying of AIDS and starvation. Pasta, beef fillet and ice cream. We’ve only never had those things ever or will ever have them in our lives....
Talking Points: Patterns
Humans are a pattern-seeking species. This has been one of our greatest means to survival and prosperity: we are able to see consistency and repetition in our environment and adjust our behavior accordingly to, say, avoid poisionous plants or harvest with the seasons. But it also means we falsely see intent in complexity. For every white-capped wave, rippled sand dune, or random stock-market swing...
Bigfoot: I Not Dead →
I just bought this. And I’m pretty excited about it.
Graham Roumieu
Global Package Gallery →
In case you ever need a picture of a product, this pretty much covers it. High resolution too.
Operation Beatbox: A Cultural History
I...
G-STAR RAW & Cannondale →
It’s only a matter of time before bike culture becomes the defacto hip-hop/rave/surf/skate/alterna/hair-metal/etc culture; another aesthetic ploy plucked from a utilitarian community to sell products.
I’m working on a new track. It’s about...