I previously mentioned the Campana collaboration with Lacoste, but this design duo from Brazil have also created some buzz with their crazy chairs. Take a look.
Hide your park boozin' intentions and keep the beers chilled with this genius cooler masked as a messenger bag. $110 at Timbuk2. Filed under summer wants.
Brazilian duo Fernando and Humberto Campana designed a limited edition line of polos for Lacoste's fourth Holiday Collector’s Series. Fact. They are hideous.
More Kate Moss by Craig McDean here.
When news of Jackson's death reached Leo Kesting Gallery in New York's meatpacking district, they displayed this painting by Jonny Fenix in their window and "within minutes, the front of our gallery transformed into an impromptu memorial commemorating this iconic pop star's life."
Its been awhile since I've done a Weekend Update segment. Or a Last Night's Party one too come to think of it. Without further adieu, my weekend update below!
I went to the Sneaker Pimps (Wale, Cool Kids, Big Boi, Jadakiss, and Clipse) concert last Friday night with a whole crew of peeps. It was fun, but by the time they finally hit the stage, this old man was exhausted.
As the tour name implies, sneaker culture was in full effect. They had kicks after kicks on display, including this fruit loops one.
I nearly lost it when I saw these sneakers that I had previously blogged about. WANT.
On Saturday I went to the X-Initiative, a unique multi-floor art gallery in Chelsea.
This informs the previous snapshot. This is an interesting project.
Is it a reflection? What's going on? I liked this for some reason I can barely explain. Maybe it's because I like wearing old broken in and dirty sneakers?
There was a table nearby with blank paper and pens for people to write complaints or whatnot on.
Go fer it. Tag it up ya'll.
This was my favorite part: swimming pool noodles reconfigured as lounge chairs on the roof!!!
I found them really comfortable.
This man thought so as well.
Someone replied to this street poster of Moby's new album.
Then I ended up in Central Park where I also ran into friends randomly! And then the floodgates opened and it started pouring forcing us to all seek immediate shelter.
I found the rain highly amusing.
Ayo says to the rain, "BRING IT ON."
Rain!
Soon after the clouds cleared and the sun shined once again.
The End.
Antony Gormley's "Field for the British Isles" is comprised of 40,000 small terracotta figures ranging from three to ten inches high.
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Ray and Charles Eames created this sculpture in 1943 and it sold at a Christie's auction for $365,500 last year (it was estimated at $80,000 to $120,000)! In case you're wondering, this measures 37 inches high, 27 inches wide, and 13 inches deep.
With Fourth of July weekend and the accompanying barbeques around the corner--Long Island and New Jersey for me--The New York Times interviewed 30 chefs to find out what yields the ideal burger. The "simple burger" of our parents generation has evolved into a decidedly gourmet affair.
It's almost a crime to auto tune a group that had such perfect melody, but I'm kind of feeling this slightly tripped out aut0-tuned cover of "I Want You Back" by Discovery, a collabo duo between Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZEBttGNyP0&fmt=18]
Go blazing into your executive meetings with these bullet cufflinks from YSL.
The syllabic chant "ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa" that Michael Jackson sang in "Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin'" was actually sampled from "African pop pioneer" Manu Dibango's song "Soul Makossa" released in 1972. Read the rest of the interesting background to this footnote in music history at The New Yorker.
This clock's alarm will quite literally shake and rock you awake. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ-l5PlDa-k&fmt=18]
Really loving this photograph by Bas Princen of a Houston building perfectly reflecting the horizon.
Try keeping up with these Joneses living in this Louis Vuitton branded house spotted in Mexicali, Mexico. Incidentally, during college my favorite hot dog at Spike's on Thayer Street in Providence, Rhode Island was the "Mexicali."
New York artist Dana Schutz created this prescient painting titled "The Autopsy of Michael Jackson" in 2005. One blogger guesstimates the value of this painting at now around at least $2 million since the events of the past days.
In an interview the artist remarked:
In some ways he’s the most self-made man there is, to the point of it becoming really scary. I was thinking of the painting as a photograph that hasn’t been taken yet. I posited all these question around Michael Jackson’s death: How does he die? How old is he? What shape is he in? What does he look like naked? He ended up looking like just a dead man. Which for me was very strange. I ended up having sympathy for him. There is an immortality about him in life. In the painting there is an autopsy incision alluding to his insides, which is intrusive and contradicts the constant reforming of his external features. In the painting he is very mortal.
It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn't is "shuffle", where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a function that, on the face of it, the Walkman lacks. But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down "rewind" and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.
I did always like Sony's yellow Sports walkman series. Those were baller.
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Visualization of the various relationships and romantic entanglements within the X Men universe, including alternative realities. It appears that Wolverine's the busiest mutant of them all.
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