Artists takeover the ICE HOTEL in Sweden
In it’s 23rd year, artists from all over the world come to Jukkasjarvi, Sweden to design specific features of the ICEHOTEL, involving more than 1,000 tons of pure ice and 30,000 cubic metre of snow hewn from a nearby frozen river. The artists shape the ice using various tools – irons, chainsaws, hand chisels and heating implements. Thin metal frames...
Walls Notebook: The Street Art Practice Book
So, you wanna to be a street artist? Walls Notebook, published by the American publisher Quirk Books is an 80-page sketch book that features pictures of bare, urban NYC walls on which you can practice your tags, paintings and paste-ups. This quirky idea may defeat the anarchic raison d’etre of ‘street art’ is but it plays on...
The Impossible Project’s New Red Edition SX 70 Camera
With Valentines Day just around the corner, the Austrian company, IMPOSSIBLE, has just released a special edition of Polaroid’s classic SX-70. Called the Red Edition, the red leather and white, folding, instant film camera is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for her, him – or, even better, yourself! Yeah, it’s Euros 319 ($US349) but it comes...
NSFW Punk Collages by Linder Sterling
Liverpool-born Linder Sterling went from a graphic design course at Manchester Polytechnic to making a name for herself as an artist during the late 70′s punk scene in Manchester. Always a rebel and a feminist, Linder approached collage the same way punk musicians did their guitars, ripping up traditional technique to express a rage against convention....
Hirohiko Araki turns Gucci into Manga
Italian fashion House, Gucci, has teamed up with one of Japan’s best known manga artists, Hirohiko Araki to transform their 2013 cruise collection into an anime campaign. The story entitled, Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci has gone global, featuring in over 70 Gucci store window displays as well as Gucci’s various social media pages and...
Prada toilet, Chanel Guillotine and other sculptures by Tom Sachs
Tom Sachs is an American, contemporary artist whose interest in consumerism and branding lead him to create a series of these sculptures during the mid-90′s. Using old old scraps and materials from record stores and thrift shops, he put together his first major show at New York’s Morris Healy Gallery in 1995. Titled Cultural Prosthetics, it included the now-infamous Hermes...
The Lomography Scanner: Convert 35mm film To Your Smartphone
Long committed to analog – read, crude mechanical cameras and 35mm film – Lomography has belatedly opted for an uneasy accommodation of their customers’ digital needs: a scanner that instantly converts 35mm slides and negatives into digital photos on a smartphone. The project was funded by a Kickstarter campaign, which reached its goal 2 weeks...
Parkour Training Space Opening In New York
An old run down warehouse in East Williamsburg has been turned into Bkyln Beast, a new gymnasium and training space for parkour enthusiasts. It won’t be open until January 26. However, a trial run last week saw thirty to fifty people turn up a night for sessions, according to Masi ‘Yahya’ James, co-owner of Bkyln Beast. If...
Fashion and Art: Made for Each x Other
Each x Other is a cooler-than-you Parisian fashion label that has recruited an eclectic mix of international, creative talent – artists, poets, writers, filmmakers, musicians, craftsmen, even actors – to create limited edition designs each season. Christophe Bosc and IIan Delouis, the fashion designers behind the brand, wanted to “unite a fashion community inspired by contemporary art… inviting creative...
Watch: ‘Tiger Fever’ Kenzo’s S/S 2013 Collection
Japanese founded French label, Kenzo has just released a promo video for their Tiger Fever Spring/Summer 2013 collection. If you’ve been following any of your favourite fashion blogs, you would have picked up on tiger heads are having their fashion moment. Kenzo directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon are turning the hype into killer, brightly...
Rock ‘n’ Roll How-To Manual: Ian Svenonius’s New Book
Ian Svenonius, the underground musician and frontman of Nation of Ulysses, Werid War, The Make-Up, and Chain and The Gang, has just published Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group with cultish small press Akashic Books. The idea of the book is simple: to share the secrets of making a great band, as revealed...
Levi’s Vintage Clothing S/S 2013 Collection
Levi’s Vintage Clothing Lookbook puts a modern spin on American heritage for their Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Capturing the life and authentic look of a 1870′s miner, the oldest, best-known and yes, still the hippest jeans manufacturer features a new range of coats, one-pieces, dresses, shirts and of course their famous denim for both men and...
