Last Week's Links

Here's a recap of all the stuff on the site last week, just in case you missed something.

 

Wednesday, 19 April 2006

• Soil & Pimp Sessions - Gilles Peterson's Worldwide show is always spot on for a bit of inspiration. My ears pricked up when this jazz came on that was tight and tuneful, yet played at dizzyingly frenetic pace. Turns out it was by Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, a six-piece group from Japan who have just released their second long-player,...
• Little People: Mickey Mouse Operation - Like others schooled in hip-hop who make electronic music, UK-based Little People (aka Laurent Clerc) is like a soundtrack to an operatic cartoon. In fact, Clerc scored films and theater before coming up with the tracks that range from atmospheric and haunting to more bouncy beats and breaks on his debut instrumental album Mickey...

 

Tuesday, 18 April 2006

• adicolor Podcast: Blue - Our friends over at Psyop are on the adicolor Podcast roster and their turn is now up. Blue is a digital flip book and a refreshing change from the abstract (though very pleasing) White, Green and Pink. Set on the streets of New York's Lower East Side the sequence is all black and white...
• Phil Frost - For the past few months, I have had the rare opportunity to watch an artist at work in his studio while working with Phil Frost. It has really been a treat to see his process unfold. He has the most amazing focus and is always working. His studio is filled with papers, boxes, old...
• Fotolog.book - An offline component to the world's largest photo blogging community, Fotolog.book is 1,000 of the millions of digital images posted to Fotolog in its four year history. Edited by former New Yorker photography critic Andrew Long, the hard bound anthology ranges widely in tone, subject, and style—from artsy black and white compositions to spontaneous...
• iPod Speakers, Part I - As iPod speaker systems become as ubiquitous as the iPod itself, we thought it would be a good time to take a closer look at a few of the systems that have been flooding the market recently. In this first installation of our two-part guide, we included smaller, portable systems that are perfect for...
• Montaigne Market - Montaigne Market in Paris blooms like a garden of fashion between the conservative, single-brand storefronts of Montaigne Avenue. As the first multi-marque in the city of lights, the store engineers a confluence of current and classic styles from Paris, London, California, and New York. The 4,000 square foot space encourages mixing and matching of...
• Jeremyville - Pulled together by Australian design team, Jeremyville, Sketchel is a customised art bag project with 500 original one-off and limited edition sketchels by around 250 international artists including Genevieve Gauckler, Miss Van, Gary Baseman, Marc Atlan, Tim Biskup, MCA Evil Design, Jeremyville, Saiman Chow, Bob Kronbauer, Jon Burgerman, Tado, Nathan Jurevicius, Fawn Gehweiler, Andrew...

 

Monday, 17 April 2006

• Stuffbump - Graham Hill from Treehugger is no stranger to creating product—his We Are Happy to Serve You ceramic cups are a hit reusable version of the classic New York paper coffee cup. His latest creation, Stuffbump, is the first Treehugger branded product and takes their eco chic empire beyond web and video in to the...
• The Vines: Vision Valley - Three years after the debut of Highly Evolved, a 2004 release that barely registered, and frontman Craig Nicholls' diagnosis wth Aspergers, the Vines have a new album that came out this month called Vision Valley. Haters can say what they like, sometimes good old pop-infused rock that does little more than validate the originality...
• Screwhead and Dovetail Tape - Shift designers Richard Shed and Sam Johnson created these tape rolls for last year's London Design Festival. They are both a tongue-in-cheek look at modern versus traditional structural solutions. Conceptual explorations aside, they make for some fun packaging. Limited availability, contact Richard Shed for more information. Thanks, Greg!...

 

Friday, 14 April 2006

• NY International Auto Show - In the latest CH Video we check out the New York International Auto Show and take a close look at the Toyota T-Fine and F3R as well as the new Saab Aero X. We also made it in time to catch the press conference of the new Scion concept car 'Fuse.' Watch now on...
• Lenny - On a recent trip to Maine I came a across a full grown moose in his natural habitat. He was not standing in a grove of pine trees where you might expect; instead, he was wading in a pond of white chocolate tinted with blue food coloring at Len Libby Candies Shop. Weighing in...
• Woofer - Though I'm not sure what the sound quality is like, this Woofer is brilliant sculptural double entendre none-the-less. Created by Buro Vormkrijgers, a Dutch design studio founded by Sander Mulder and Dave Keune, the headless dog speaker system is available as a single woofer or a pair of stereo speakers. The team is also...
• Phaidon Design Classics - I's all over. Next time someone declares something a design classic, unless it's in this, they're just wrong. So exhaustive is this hefty trio of tomes that it's very difficult to argue for anything else pre-2004 to go in. Starting with a pair of scissors from 17th century China and finishing with the Lunar...

 

Thursday, 13 April 2006

• Puma Easter Clydes - Better than an Easter bonnet, 300 of each of these three new colorways—Lavender, Paradise Green, and Aurora Yellow—will be available exclusively at Barney's nationwide starting 15 April 2006. Featuring artwork by tattoo artist Cubanbee, the monochromatic style keeps the contrasting patent leather hit on the heel understated. More detailed shots after the jump....
• New York Auto Show Preview - Four years after the debut of the Scion, Toyota unveiled an all-new sport coupe concept called Fuse yesterday at the New York auto show press preview. Like Toyota's concept minivan, the F3R, and their Fine-T (a concept fuel cell hybrid), the focus was on integrating entertainment into the driving experience—as seen in the video...
• Gym Dandies Children's Circus - Where on earth do six-foot unicycles, flying lacrosse balls, intermediate/middle school age students, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade have anything in common? You'll never guess...on the rocky coast of Scarborough, Maine, the home of the Gym Dandies Children's Circus. Founded in 1981 with a box of tennis balls and a handful of 5th...
• Potato Crisp Roundup - No trip to England—where more than 10 billion bags of crisps are eaten each year, is complete without trying a few of the exotic flavors from the dozens of brands on the shelves. One of the first things you'll notice is that the flavors are not only more adventuresome than our standard bbq and...
• Refinery29: Radical Reconstruction - Thrift store fanatics This Old Thing? are well aware that many people consider the reconstructed vintage thing a tired trend. Relying more on meticulous craftsmanship than the gimmicky design that has marred the good name of reworked vintage, the design team of Roy Caires and Tommy Cole have been able to create handsome bespoke...
• Rob Ryan at Paul Smith - Fitting in seamlessly with the eclectic aesthetic of Paul Smith are the colorful cut-outs of artist Rob Ryan, and an exhibition of them has just started at the designer's women's shop on Sloane Avenue in London. Not unlike Scottish artist David Shrigley, Ryan likes to hide an unsettling message in his seemingly sweet and simplistic...

 

Wednesday, 12 April 2006

• Feasting on the Streets of London - With people in the West getting fatter, certainly in the US and the UK, the prevailing mood has been that fast food is the devil's food. After Eric Schlosser revealed the shady practices of the burger chains in Fast Food Nation and Morgan Spurlock almost tuned his liver into pate in documentary Super Size...