August 2008
Timex2154
Timex2154: The future of time that could highlight the state-of-the-art timekeeping pioneered by the company. One of the runners up at the competition, the TX54 concept presents a disposable timepiece that can be worn on the user’s thumbnail making it an invaluable fashion accessory as well. Thanks to a translucent body, the design blends seamlessly with the nail while a selection of text color options and a glow feature activating on command make it supremely functional as well.
NY Time Article on KAWS
By Rob Walker (Published: August 3, 2008, NY Times)
At 33, Brian Donnelly is enjoying a successful art career. Working out of a studio in Brooklyn, he has sold paintings to Pharrell Williams, the rapper and producer; Nigo, the designer-entrepreneur; and Takashi Murakami, the international art star, among others. He has also created a variety of products including toys, apparel and even pillows — and indeed he has his own store, Original Fake, in Tokyo. He has also been widely known in the “street art” world for years; one of his early altered-phone-booth-ad posters recently traded hands on eBay for $22,000. One thing Donnelly had not done until lately, however, is forge a relationship with a dealer or art gallery. This wasn’t because he shunned or had a problem with the traditional gallery system. He says it’s just that “nobody asked.”
But that has changed. Donnelly, who works under the name KAWS, has been taken on by the Gering & López Gallery in New York, where he’ll have a show this November. He will also exhibit a batch of paintings at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami in September and will have another solo exhibition early next year at Honor Fraser in Los Angeles. Sandra Gering, of Gering & López Gallery, had not heard of Donnelly before another artist she works with included him in a group show last summer, but she is clearly smitten with Donnelly’s bright, clean, slightly off-kilter canvases that often riff on pop-culture figures like the Smurfs or the Simpsons. And she figures there’s another market for his work. “I think it needs to get out there in the art world,” she says.
ALiFE 2008 Fall/Winter
The ALIFE 2008 fall/winter collection definitely covers a wide range of styles for almost every leisure occasion this upcoming season. ALIFE has become a staple brand in the sneaker game for quite sometime and chances are fans will not be disappointed with the upcoming release. Look out for the ALIFE fall/winter lineup to hit dealers soon.
Source : Freshness Mag
Hard Graft Dapper
Our favorite felt/leather technology carriers, Working Class Heroes, has evolved and is now known as Hard Graft. And honestly, nothing has changed, other than their moniker, and the quality and designs are, if anything, better than ever! So i've got an exclusive sneak peak for you of the latest line (and quite possibly my favorite yet)... here's
The Dapper Collection!
I've always loved their leather pockets on felt, which my original laptop sleeve from them had, and now they've brought the motif back as the signature feature in
The Dapper Collection. Also, they've mastered the Kindle case (see pics of a prototype i've been playing with on the next page), and it has a pocket which perfectly fits the iPhone. Honestly, its the perfect little bundle to grab when you're off to read in the park or at the beach. They've also got an adorable iPhone case, which has a pocket for some cash/cards... and a revival of the laptop wallet with top buttons and a new larger pocket also perfect for iPhones! So check out more pics on the next page, and see the full collection for purchase at Hard Graft!
Source NotCot.com
The Lego Tower
Toronto, Canada: The highest tower created from lego bricks. The Lego tower construction began at the beginning of July and was completed last week. official Lego builders from Denmark were flown in to supervise the effort.
A crane was needed to complete the tower standing at 29.3m made from 465 000 Lego bricks.
Everybody Nose Remix
Following up on yesterday’s update, the “Everybody Nose Remix” video has finally arrived. With direction from the legendary Hype Williams, we get a glimpse into a Nintendo-esque 8-bit world created by a star studded lineup. Check it out!
The hundreds Fall LOOK BOOK
Making it evident why their mascot is a bomb, The Hundreds come out exploding for their Fall 2008 Collection. With enough variety for a late night show, the latest lineup is full of different looks, ranging from outerwear: pull-overs, puff vests, wind breakers, and a baseball jacket to an extensive range of button down shirts, tees and even some new look denim. With their most complete collection to date, The Hundo’s have hit a definite grand slam, half of the collection is now available at both SF and LA locations with the rest coming in the next few weeks. Full pictures after the jump.
Source: Hype Beast
Takashi Iwasaki
Embroidery floss and canvas (hand embroidered)
40.5 x 40.5cm
2008
Copyright © 2008 Takashi Iwasaki
Play as your favorite Celebs on Nintendo Wii
As ACM has reported in the past we love the Nintendo Wii and its innovation of motion and graphic art/entertainment, but EA Sports has gone to another level by placing some best known celebs in control....Check out the article below written by MTV News....
ARTICLE SOURCE: MTV NEWS
The wait to discover who can paddle a canoe faster — Fergie or Nelly Furtado — is almost over.
The eternal debate about whether Boston Celtic Paul Pierce can spike a volleyball better than country music sensation LeAnn Rimes or LeAnn Rimes will soon be settled.
Video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed to MTV News that a new holiday-season Nintendo Wii game, "Celebrity Sports Showdown," will settle these arguments — or at least present a virtual forum with which to do so.
Modeled after the hit "Wii Sports" and developed by the creators of another mini-game compilation, "EA Playground," the new EA title will allow up to four players to control a set of celebrities in activities that range from the bizarre (inner-tubing) to the more bizarre (fighter-jet racing). The game's dozen activities will also include slalom skiing, dodgeball, "smash badminton" and curling, each featuring the aforementioned celebrities, plus soccer star Mia Hamm, country singer Keith Urban or Keith Urban, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, ice-skater Kristi Yamaguchi and more.
The game is meant to be played by a group of people using a single Wii. It's a party game, starring the A-to-C-list.
How Fergie-like is video game Fergie? Each celebrity appears in big-headed cartoonish form. They look like themselves — Fergie's got the right outfit, down to the tiara — but athletics-wise they're all the same. Fergie is as strong as football player Reggie Bush. Rimes is just as fast as Furtado.
At a recent demonstration of the game for MTV News, an EA representative explained that none of the celebrities would have special abilities. The reason Yamaguchi obliterated Fergie, Pierce and one other celebrity in a race of speedboat-drawn inner tubes? One player knew how to make Yamaguchi avoid mines and hit the proper items for extra points and boosts of speed. It's all in the deft handling of a Wii remote.
Like "Wii Sports" and many other popular games of the type, each game in "Celebrity Sports Showdown" is controlled a little differently. Controlling the inner tubes involves holding the Wii remote at its short end and tilting it to steer. Hoisting then slamming down the remote allows a player to bounce one celebrity's inner tube out of the water and onto another's. The fighter-pilot game, based on the well-received paper-airplane flying game of "Wii Playground," according to one of the games' developers, involves holding the Wii remote vertically like a joystick.
Previous Wii party games, like "Wii Sports" and "Carnival Games," let users control avatars that looked like themselves or anyone else whose likeness they could replicate. Being able to control an officially licensed celebrity instead is new, at least at this scale. One-off celebrity cameos have been common in games at least since the '90s when Bill Clinton was a hidden unlockable baller in "NBA Jam." On Wednesday, EA announced Kim Kardashian as a playable fighter in the company's upcoming "Facebreaker" boxing game.
EA's "Celebrity Sports Showdown" is a Wii exclusive. It's set to ship this holiday season.
