A BATHING APE and DAIWA create the 144 hour pop-up retail store.
A BATHING APE are creating a special pop-up store alongside fishing brand DAIWA. The collaboration will come to life on July 24th, as both companies officially open the retail spot dubbed 144H, for the amount of hours it will remain open to the public. Featured product include fishing supplies, outdoor goods, and fishing apparel. Further [...]
Look Mum no Hands | Eco-friendly cyclists reclaim London
A new sub culture has silently wheeled onto the London bike scene. Eco-friendly cyclists have reclaimed the car-heavy city for their own and now, they have even got their own coffee shops. Look Mum No Hands! is one such bike-loving institution, a hybrid mix of coffee shop, bike workshop, café, bar and cinema. Cyclists are [...]
“Swell, Art 1950 – 2010? Graces New York City
SWELL NEW YORK JUNE 30 – AUGUST 6, 2010 537 WEST 22ND STREET NEW YORK, NY 10011 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Metro Pictures, and Nyehaus are pleased to announce the opening of “Swell, Art 1950 – 2010″. Vija Celmins | Edward Ruscha | Charles Arnoldi | Sandow Birk | Thomas Campbell | Ed Kienholz | Bill Komoski | Cameron Martin | Alex Weinstein | Ken [...]
Mini continues its support in the battle against HIV/AIDS with Life Ball Series
Mini continues its support in the global battle against with HIV/AIDS with the 2010 Life Ball. Included in this series are contributions from fashion icons Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa, Diane von Furstenberg, and Kenneth Cole. Each of the vehicles will be auctioned off at an event in Vienna on July 17th, kicking off the [...]
WINNER OF PONOKO DESIGN COMPETITION | @RFAMBURIS
The $100 winner of the Ponoko & uncluttered white spaces click to make design competition is @RFamburis for his concept: “I would make musical instruments such as uniquely styled and shaped xylophones, marimbas, glockenspiels” The runner up @Arsenicalcapra wins $50 for his concept: “I am going to make various kinds of bamboo spindles (Mayan (paddly), [...]
The Cave | The ‘noise’ of dining & conversation
Claudia Kukrov from PSFK points us to the Sydney-based Koichi Takada Architecture firm creation and design for The Cave Restaurant. The restaurants seeks to create the ideal acoustic dining experience, the firm explains. We have experimented with noise levels in relation to the comfort of dining and the ambiance a cave like environment can create. [...]
STREAT | Thai papaya salad helping homeless and disadvantaged youth.
Melbourne based STREAT have launched there first food cart in Federation Square! After much pushing, pulling and last-minute repairing, we are serving yummy street hawker food at an affordable price. STREAT actually manage to cook Thai papaya salad, Jamaican jerk chicken wrap with pineapple salsa, lamb seekh kebab, Kashmiri chickpea curry, and chicken satay all [...]
How to “Green” your workplace
GOOD Magazine gives us some great insights into greening our workspace. Roberto Rhett, the director of Green Spaces NY, an eco-friendly co-working office share, shares with Good, how to lower the impact of your workplace without driving all your co-workers nuts. Here are 6 easy tips: 1) Switch your energy provider to 100% alternative power [...]
The Circus Bar & Restaurant | London
Tom Dixon recently completed the interior for an innovative bar, restaurant and entertainment experience called Circus located in central London. Circus is a unique venue that presents entertaining acts within a bar and restaurant setting, where diners can ultimately join in to become part of the entertainment. More images and info after the jump! Taking [...]
Evans Williams Announces Twitter to Launch @anywhere
Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced at SXSW that his company is taking another step to integrate with the rest of the web with a new platform called @anywhere. Operators of third-party websites will be able to plug in @anywhere to integrate some basic Twitter functionality without requiring their users to navigate away from a [...]
Innovative thinking helping homeless in New York City
A problem like homelessness hides in plain sight: It’s easy not to give, because, as any city dweller knows, you simply don’t notice the homeless after a time. And even if you intend to be charitable, you’re probably loathe to give change–and neglectful in following up with the right charities. Those dilemmas are solved in [...]
Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes.
In February, I wrote an article in relation to bottled water. You can read it here to get up to speed. The article recieved all sorts of feedback from constructive and educational (Thanks Ando_F), to boring with no purose through to inspiring and supportive. Following, I decided to cease using plastic bottles and paper cups [...]
IF Melbourne in review:: “Nostalgia, denial & arrogance” – Ben Crowe @ IF 2010
uncluttered white spaces hosted our second Innovation forum (IF Melbourne) on Tuesday night at Denmark House Melbourne. The night turned out one of the most influential panels and guests list I have been involved in with some amazing contributions across the floor. IF exisits to bring together like minded innovators and thought leaders to share [...]
Rick Klotz on the world’s got problems.
As a continuation on our series tracking the devlopments at Freshjive (or formerly known as) in relation to the recent name changes, we found this short documentary intruiging, controversial with plenty of room for interpretation. If we can take 1 insight from Rick’s approach, it is certainly that he is prepared to put it out [...]
Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish:: Teach every child about food
Have you ever been so moved by a speech that it change the very foundations of your life? I have. The majority of the speeches that moved me to create changes in my life were delivered by TED. Last week, they did it again. After awarding Jamie Oliver with the TED Prize for 2009, in [...]
I’m Here: a Spike Jonze love story
Spike Jonze’s releases his first love story which premieres as part of the first-ever Opening Night’s Shorts Program at the Sundance Film Festival. I’m Here is a 30-minute love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A. Andrew Garfield and Sienna Guillory are in the lead roles, and the soundtrack includes original music [...]
Sounds:: A Community Service Announcement
][ Jonathan Boulet is the newest player in the Modular clubhouse, a precociously inspired 21 year old skate rat from Sydney's Northwest. A Community Service Announcement is the righteously smashing single from the Jonathan Boulet album, already a repeat performer at alternative and community radio. An inspired call to arms for 21st century dreamers, A [...]
What are the most important risks for 2010?
The World Economic Forum held its annual meeting at Davos, and the theme this time was “Improve the State of the World.” Which naturally meant coming to terms with the risks out there. Their economists came up with a comprehensive list and assigned probabilities to each–and also mapped the linkages between each one. Then they summarized [...]
Major Label: Uses store staff as talent scouts
General Pants is a credible high-street clothing retailer in Australia. With over 700 staff nationwide, they probably get through as many workers as they do skinny jeans. However they’re about to do something which will make their stores a very cool place to work. They’ve set up a singles only record label which gives the [...]
Information is beautiful: Haiti, who gets what?
The global response to the Haiti earthquake has been extraordinary and generous. But in the midst of all the reporting, it’s difficult to keep track of the numbers. In particular, who has given what, who has dug deepest, and how the Haiti relief fund currently compares to those of other tragedies. This is an image created [...]
LINCHPIN :: Are you indispensable?
Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin comes out today and as with all books released by Seth, you will be inspired. Here is an extract from Seth’s blog in relation to why he wrote the book: The reason I wrote Linchpin: If you want to change people, you must create enough leverage to encourage the change to happen. Books [...]
YouTube Streaming Movies.
Gizmodo reports: 2010 looks like the year YouTube will leap back into headlines for non-Susan Boyle-related reasons. Thank god for that. After yesterday’s live cricket streaming deal was mentioned, their move into online movie rentals should make indie movie lovers happy. Taking on Netflix, Apple TV, Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, YouTube’s new rental [...]
Cool List 8 :: Where Self-Propulsion & Sustainable Entrepreneurship Go Hand in Hand
For fun, for learning, for building a better ride and a better world: see how the Bamboo Bike Studio offers the unique and intimate chance to create your own ride, and also produces positive effects that extend to the lives of cyclists, workers and entrepreneurs abroad. Shoppers at Urban Outfitters can already design their own bikes [...]
Cool List 7 :: Streat Coffee
Streat have ventured into new territory launching Streat Coffee. The new STREAT Coffee blend is an example of a new type of consumer product: one that is ‘triple certified’. This means it has been designed and created to: meet the exacting sustainable and ethical standards of Fair Tradewith beans sourced from farmers around the globe who are paid [...]
