Friday, February 27, 2009
Puma By Mihara MY-41
Here comes another sneaker from the Puma by Mihara Spring 2009 Collection. The Japanese designer has always something special in mind and the MY-41 comes with a very interesting design on the heel and especially the sole, with layers seeming to go into each other. We like the colorway and especially the matching laces. Otherwise its really a matter of style, as we are sure it is not for everyone. Via Kenlu.
via: highsnobiety.
Converse Jack Purcell Match-Point
"The former design of badminton great Jack Purcell, Converse gave a new life into the staple classic with its Jack Purcell Match-Point back in 1976. The traditional JP is slimmed down with the most notable change in the usual chunky rubber toebox. The Match-Point toebox is much slimmer and integrated closely with the shoe’s upper. Two colorways are available based on similar palettes including white, black and blue. Available now at FLAUGE."
via: hypebeast.
ALPHA RESORT-TOMAMU
It's the Alpha Resort-Tomamu in Shimukappu, located on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. At the inside you will see ice bar, ice bed and cool air jacuzzi, ice etc.
Via: 2dayblog
Pleats-Pleats
Pleats-Pleats is a sofa designed by Daniel Hedner from Imaginary Office. Clothed polyurethane foam is woven around a white powder coated steel pipe frame.
via: dezeen
Thursday, February 26, 2009
A Bathing Ape Skullsta Sneakers
"Just in time for warmer weather and Spring months, Bape unveils new eye catching colorways for their Bape Skull Sta. The familiar design of the shoes will remind you of Adidas shell toes with obvious twists. The latest pair features a vivid neon green base supporting the lightning bolt yellow trademark Bape star on the side. The other colors include bright Pink with Neon green star and finally hot orange. The shoes come equipped with a white toe and vintage fat laces."
via: hypebeast.
Neighborhood Black Pencil Set
An interesting release from the Neighborhood camp as we see them include a pencil set in their collection. A sense of irony in this product based on the notion that pencil and even pen use is largely dead with the pencils featured in an all black aesthetic. Something cool to mix things up from Neighborhood though, but hard to justify the re-seller price of ¥2,625 JPY (approximately $27 USD) which can be seen over at Cliffedge.
via: hypebeast.
Dior Homme “Blow” Sunglasses
"Every season there is this one stand-out model of crazy sunglasses that make their rounds. Jeremy Scott is usually good for a surprise on that end, but was reasonably subtle this season. Dior Homme presents the “Blow” sunglasses this season. By now you have probably seen them several times already in some fashion shoots and runway shows. They come in overall 5 colorways, with each colorway limited to only 500 pieces worldwide.
Look out for the Dior Homme “Blow” sunglasses at retailers now."
via: highsnobiety.
What can you do with $500?
The Purchase Brothers, 23 and 25-year-old brothers who live in Toronto, created this short film, based on Half-Life, for under $500. More info is posted on Youtube.
HIDDEN PASSAGEWAYS
"For $125,000 (or $1500 for the DIY kits), these guys will craft your own personal hideaway, complete with uber cool ‘push the book’ switches, or rotating lamp switches or tilting candle holder switches or ‘holy batcave, Batman’, just too brilliant for words switches. Check out the animations and videos and then tell me you couldn’t think of a thousand great ways to use this stuff in the den. “A thief cannot burglarize a room he can’t find. Hidden doors and rooms provide safety in case of emergency and peace of mind when storing valuables. Every measure is taken to ensure that our motorized features are secure from unauthorized entry and safe to operate…Creative Home Engineering builds concealed features with security in mind. Biometric security devices like fingerprint scanners, optical imaging devices and voice recognition systems ensure the safety of valuables and loved ones.”
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
OriginalFake x Medicom Toy Dissected Companion Bearbrick
The highly anticipated OriginalFake x Medicom Toy Dissected Companion Bearbrick will be seeing a release this Saturday February 28th, 2009. With a whirlwind of speculation surrounding the validity of previous imagery, INVINCIBLE provides us with an authentic look into the figure which comes in 100%, 400% and 1000% scaled versions. Along with the Bearbrick release, OF provides a special matching t-shirt made available with each purchase. Both the OriginalFake flagship store in Aoyama and INVINCIBLE in Taipei will be stocked with the figure, implementing the usual lottery system to purchase the items.
Original Fake
5-3-25 Minami-Aoyama
Oh Bldg. B1 FL
Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan
81.03.3499.3333
INVINCIBLE
1F., No.3, Alley 35, Lane 181
Sec. 4, Jhongsiao E. Rd.
Da-an District, Taipei City, Taiwan
886.2.8771.9958
via: hypebeast.
Miller One Second Super Bowl Ad
Miller One Second Super Bowl Ad
Extras that didn't make the cut
MillerCoors aired a one-second Super Bowl XLIII ad on February 1, 2009. The ad was for their Miller High Life brand, which has built its entire campaign on having a quality beer for a low price. The commercial featured the High Life Delivery Man, actor Windell Middlebrooks, who has remained a prominent figure in Miller High Life commercials since 2007.
ATHENA COMPUTER INTEGRATED SOFA FOR MODERN HOME
The latest luxurious and comfortable sofa called the “Athena” which features an integrated computer. By using this sofa you can take care of media application from reading email, watching TV and connected with the multi-room system from the comfort of the chair.
Price: $15,500.00 USD
Via: momoy
new ROJO website
The uncertainty is one of the most powerful mechanisms of ROJO. We do not want to refer here to the intrinsic quality of the artistic creation of not being capable of giving a convincing definition on itself, but to the capacity of the work of printed art to recall in its spectator a multitude of questions, many more of those that its own creator supposed.
It is a mechanism that allows ROJO to spread a sensation that at the same time turns out to be vague, blurry and worrying. Any publishing practice has implicit this consideration: few ones are those who do not understand ROJO as a communication act, a flow among two subjects. It is not necessary to clarify that both, magazine and spectator, are equally active and together they compose the publishing work and everything that wraps to this one, on the base of its accumulated experiences and so many other variables more. The uncertainty to which we refer is the one that stamps on the work on this context an only value: the aptitude to initiate a dialogue of questions to present, of waving whom one finds contemplating it, and sometimes ... to blush.
This quality is probably one of that more surprises in this project. Its content, the links between collaborations that compose its particular universe, are specially worrying matters for the extent of impressions that generate among its spectators. Creativity of here, there and from overseas also, but simultaneously out of the space and the time, compiled under criteria of non-temporality giving to every ROJO project an everlasting prominent condition. Cured creativity, with a good load of ambiguous and undefinable values, creativity that presents all its possible faces, staying its reading, its interpretation, to the disposition of our capacities and (though it is hard to be recognized) our desires.
Introducing the new ROJO website
Art Hotels
Ever wonder what it would be like to be stuck in prison, live in a museum or stay in a hotel room in space? Art and concept hotels have begun addressing every fantasy you may have had … and some you probably haven’t. These twenty rooms range from playfully artistic to mind-bogglingly surrealistic with everything in between.
Via WebUrbanist
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
James Jean’s design for “Poor Thing Grenache”
James Jean has produced a series of illustrations for “Poor Thing Grenache” wine bottles, in addition to a couple of other brands, which you can see here.
The Anatomy of a Qee
Toy2r has teamed up with Pop Surrealist and Anatomy Illustrator Jason Freeny to offer a limited edition print of the inner workings of the iconic Bear Qee. The 13"x16" print is a limited edition of 100 pieces and will run $59 through the link above. And there are rumors that an actual Qee of this design might just be in production.
via: plasticandplush.
WhatTheFont iPhone Application
Very cool. Now anyone with an iPhone can snap a photo of a billboard, poster or any document and an in-phone image processor will cross reference the typeface with the MyFonts database.
BUCKY LOUNGE CHAIRS
Marc Newson designed this form for an installation at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain. The individual elements were displayed connected together in the form of a three-quarter sphere. Only 50 examples of this chair were produced; its title Bucky was taken from the newly discovered molecule, the Buckminsterfullerene, named for its resemblance to Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic structures.
By Marc Newson.
Via: daillyicon
PAM Spring/Summer 2009 Footwear
Perks and Mini have created their very own unique place in the market locating themselves between fashion and streetwear with a distinctive aesthetic. Just recently we have seen footwear introduced by the Australian label and this upcoming season seems to take on a bigger concept. Here is a look at a low cut canvas available in three various colorways, two featuring an interesting graphic and the last a far more simple piece.
Available soon at STLESS.
via: slamxhype.
Monday, February 23, 2009
V12 DESIGN DUAL-SCREEN LAPTOP
The Canova dual screen LCD laptop from V12 Design is slowly exiting the concept phase and could actually be headed for the all-important production stage of development.
The boost in street cred is due entirely to the fact that V12 Design has hooked up with an American firm called Estari to help with development. Estari, as you may know, is in the business of developing all sorts of dual screen computer things, including a 2-VU dual screen laptop from way back in 2007.
Today, in 2009, their web page has changed to reflect the news that they've teamed up with V12 Design to make a laptop that looks like what the OLPC XO-2 would look like if it mated with a Lambo.
Via: gizmod
THE PIXEL HIRSCHGASSE
Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has completed an interior called The Pixel Hirschgasse for the Pixelhotel project in Linz, Austria.
Pixelhotel is a Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture project, which converts individual rooms throughout the city into unconventional hotel rooms for the year. The Pixel Hirschgasse is located at the Simone Feichtner Gallery.
Feichtner designed furniture and artwork for the project, including Mayas Bed (above).
Via: dezeen
Plustek V100 BookReader
Plustek's new v100 BookReader is an optical scanner device with built-in character recognition. Plustek comments, the V100 "transforms printed words into audio output, that can be saved in MP3 format for future access. With the press of one button, the Plustek BookReader will convert printed text into high quality speech with a lifelike voice."
Available for purchase for $700 from Plustek, you could have an automated bedtime reader for your kids.
via: coolhunting.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Michael Jackson's upcoming auction ranges from awesome to awesomely creepy
"Sometimes crazy gadgets and knick-knacks come from surprising places — take Michael Jackson's collection, for instance. He's auctioning off a bunch of movie props and expensive toys this April, including the robotic head, pictured above, that brought robo-Michael to life in his singer-turned-superhero movie, Moonwalker. Never saw it? It's worth a rental (watched in fast forward), if only to see him turn into a car as he flees from Joe Pesci's stormtroopers. The head opens up and flashes a bunch of lights at the press of a button and will start at $2,000 to $3,000.
The car from Moonwalker isn't heading for the auction block, but a $5,000 golf cart with a hood decal featuring Jackson as Peter Pan is. There's also a similarly priced and less creepy Sega flight simulator, Edward's scissor-hands, a fortune-telling automaton, and a $160,000 limo with a regal interior designed by Jackson himself."
via: dvice.
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