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Category Archives: TRAVEL
Blackberry Bold 9900 ‘White’
RIM will be releasing a white version of the Blackberry Bold 9900. While the phone comes in a white casing, it will similarly run on the Blackberry 7 operating system.
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Kid B. + DOPE Vol. 1
kid b. x dope vol. 1 by Kid B.
Track list –
01 cherokee // take care of you
02 cassian // nobody
03 miike snow // burial (dj mehdi remix)
04 peter dragontail & maggie horn // crazy bout you (skinny friedman remix)
05 outkast // skew it on the barbee (mcfly edit)
06 gene chandler // does she have a friend for me (zimmer edit)
07 darius // falling in love
08 stevie wonder // superstition (neighbour remix)
09 touch sensitive // body stop
10 doctor dru & adana twins // juicy fruit
11 bad rabbits // she’s bad (gadi mizrahi & soul clap remix)
12 garcynoise // dirty black dust
13 hot toddy // down to love (fred everything lazy days mix)
14 kendrick lamar // hol’ up
15 fly union // nothing new
16 alex clare // caroline
17 little dragon // ritual union (tensnake remix)
18 panacea // pops said
19 foster the people // call it what you want (treasure fingers remix)
20 niki & the dove // mother protect (goldroom remix)
21 cherokee // mambo jet
22 beni // someone just like you (villa remix)
23 temper trap // love lost (keljet remix)
24 flight facilities ft. jess // foreign language (beni remix)
25 george levin // somebody new
26 miguel campbell // kiss & tell
27 sbtrkt // pharoahs
28 diesler // a little something
29 laid back // bakerman (soul clap remix)
30 art department // we call love (dj harvey remix)
31 frank ocean ft. twista // thinking bout you
32 phaeleh ft. soundmouse // afterglow
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5BORO JOIN or DIE Teaser
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The Hundreds + Garbage Pail Kids Collection
Who would of ever thought after 26 years since being created, the Garbage Pail Kids would be showing their little faces again. The Hundreds as teamed up with the GPK for a very cool collaboration. The collection is available on Thursday, December 15, at The Hundreds Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Santa Monica flagship locations, as well as online and authorized retailers.
David Attenborough: Wonderful World BBC
Amazing.
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LUNCH WITH JOHN C JAY (STUDIO J)
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A few days ago, John Jay invited us (w+k12) over for lunch at his private creative consultancy space, Studio J. Over that last two months, we’d occasionally get a glimpse of him through the halls at Wieden+Kennedy, but would rarely get a chance to speak with him since he’d usually be on his way in-or-out of the building. So this was our formal introduction. John Jay is currently the executive creative director of W+K and also spends time overseeing their global offices in New York, London, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Delhi and São Paulo.
Studio J is currently tackling a project with the city that would facilitate the construction of a multi-purpose hostel complex. The building would house artists, designers and creative-types looking for affordable spaces to hone their craft. This would be a definite catalyst to help re-energize Portland’s Chinatown district. Word is that Alex Calderwood, founder of the famed Ace Hotel chain, will be a collaborator of the project.
I’ve been a big fan of John Jay’s work for quite some time and followed his blogs within the NYTimes and Japan’s Honeyee. In 2008, I had the pleasure of hearing him speak at Imprint Lab alongside Jeff Staple and Hiroshi Fujiwara. This was definitely a great time to pick his brain in between bites.
During our stay, John made an interesting point about being an artist (or any creative type for that matter). He mentioned that you should always be wary of getting too comfortable and that you should always be challenging yourself. His decision to move from New York to Portland baffled his former employers at Bloomingdale’s—a brand he helped shape during the 80′s and early 90′s—but it was the challenge of a smaller city and the departure from the fashion industry that allured him to Wieden+Kennedy.
Above, are bricks of soap that will eventually be cut into smaller sizes. John and his wife Janet also utilize the space as a workshop for their boutique soap collection, Pearl+. Each block is hand crafted and made out crushed pearls. The thing that’s great about running a soap operation within your studio is that your space will always smell pretty damn good. The collection is only available at small handful of places including Colette and Ace Hotel PDX.
Below is John’s art collection. Some of my favorites were done by Chris Johanson, Tom Sachs, Jun Takahashi (UNDERCOVER) and Kaws.
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Surveillance
TechCrunch Article –
Your phone might be spying on you. The many cameras you pass every day can recognize your face. Facebook, despite its grudging concessions, still wants you to broadcast your personal life. “Eye in the sky” drones are already watching over borders; next, they’ll patrol the Olympics. It won’t be long before police dronesare omnipresent in the skies over every major city, and then every town. Welcome to the 21st century. Smile! You’re probably on TV.
Especially if you live in the kind of repressive state that imprisons its citizens without trial. (You know, like America, if the US Senate has its way.) According to both Wikileaks and that well-known bastion of the left wing The Wall Street Journal, such regimes have been buying up Western-made high-tech surveillance systems like business travellers on unlimited expense accounts. To quote the former, “companies are making billions selling sophisticated tracking tools to government buyers, flouting export rules, and turning a blind eye to dictatorial regimes that abuse human rights.”
Which kind of puts Facebook privacy violations in perspective, so I’m not going to bash Mark Zuckerberg, for once. The guy probably genuinely believes in the merits of a transparency society where everybody’s life is essentially on display all the time. Or even if he doesn’t, he figures that our ever-doubling tech level means we’re inevitably heading there anyways, so he may as well make a few dozen billion dollars from that sea change while he’s at it. Fair enough.
But a transparent society can’t work if it’s built out of one-way glass. The powers that be are thrilled by the prospect of using all this new surveillance tech to keep an eye on the unruly masses, but they seem much less excited about its effect on their own privacy. The Occupy movement (which, you may recall, I have mixed emotions about) can cite a whole bunch of examples of protestors arrested or shot with rubber bullets for the sin of photographing police, and of the police expelling and restricting media from the evictions in NYC and LA.
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Beats By Dr. Dre Studio Color Campaign
For Holiday 2011 we have reinvented our first and most popular headphone, The Studio, in a spectrum of candy colors good enough to eat. Whether you choose blue, pink, orange, or green, we have the color that “is you.”
Nero’s first live performance at our recently opened Pop-Up store in NYC. Dre, who was in attendance at the performance, chose Nero “Me & You” for the spot’s powerful track.
Album: Welcome Reality (Digital out now, CD in stores 12/13)
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Can’t wait for snowboard season to kick in!
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Burton: Snow Porn Series
Danny Davis proves that you can’t have easy livin without putting in a lot of hard work, and it shines through in his snowboarding. Doesn’t hurt that he is always smiling and having a good time either.
From the pages of Transworlds December issue – check out Danny Davis, Stephan Maurer, Nicolas Muller, Mads Jonsson and more in Mike Basich’s backyard, the famed Area 241.
A little park mash up from last summer featuring the Burton team.
FK is short for Frederik Kalbermatten, and Superspines is short for some really really gnarly lines in British Columbia. Not bad for a days work.
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Chimney House by Marcio Kogan – Studio MK27
In the bustling city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, this cool and calm retreat provides quite a contrast from the activity around it. The Chimney House by Marcio Kogan and Studio MK27 has a level of architectural harmony that is akin to a Japanese rock garden, where everything feels to be perfectly in its place.
A common trait of Kogan designs is continued in the Chimney House, as the slatted decking, lined concrete ceilings and patched hardwood floors start at one wall and stretch perfectly to another. This provides a visual “vanishing point” within the home’s landscape, and an even sense of balance and symmetry amongst its character.
The main level of the Chimney House is wide and open, used for entertainment, relaxing and dining. A central living and dining area is flanked on both sides by garden patios, but the separation between them is subtle enough that the entire space feels like one large, uniform atrium. On the second floor, much of the area is blocked off into personal spaces with plenty of privacy. One section of the upper floor opens into a long veranda overlooking the city around it and the gardens below. Toward the veranda’s end is the home’s namesake, a metallic chimney that is established as a design accent, not something to be hidden away or designed around.
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BBC Nature: ‘Brinicle’ ice finger of death
With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking. The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it. Where the so-called “brinicle” met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfis.
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Be@rbrick World Wide Tour 2
Showcasing a total of 70 customized Be@rbricks, the Be@rbrick World Wide Tour 2 is an exhibition that will run from 3-12 December in Tokyo. Here are some of the designs, including Tokidoki, Stussyand BAPE.
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Mountain Hill Cabin by Fantastic Norway
Norwegian architects Fantastic Norway have designed a mountain lodge with a sloping roof that you can ski over. The triangular timber cabin will be located in the mountainous district of Ål, where it will provide a private retreat that can only be reached on skis during the winter. The house will contain two bedrooms beside the ground floor living rooms and a third bedroom on a floor above. The project is due to complete in summer 2012.
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GARDEN SHED BY VILLE HARA AND LINDA BERGROTH
This project is a collaboration between Helsinki architect Ville Hara of Avanto Architects (I previously blogged about them here), and designer Linda Bergroth of Hel Yes!. The pair launched their greenhouse and garden shed kit for the gardening market in 2010. Linda customised one of the prototypes to create her own summer house studio located on a distant island in eastern Finland, the photos of which you are seeing here. She added timber floors, solar panels for lighting, and entry steps and a footpath made out of reclaimed bricks.
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NASA’s Curiosity en route to Mars
An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday morning, shuttling NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover on a one-way trip to the red planet. The nuclear-powered vehicle weighs one-ton and is the largest rover sent to Mars – it is packed with instruments that will sample the Martian soil to search for signs of life, past and present.
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Chanel Spring Summer 2012 Fashion Show
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Tunnel of love…
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