The Virtual Shoe Museum

The Virtual Shoe Museum was initiated by Liza Snook in 2004… and it will keep any shoe lover occupied for hours!

Daryl van Wouw – Converse Extensions

Daryl van Wouw is a crazy designer. crazy designers are awesome. Check out his work on these con’s… yeah I’m behind, he did this in 2004! He has just opened his first boutique in the land of the big green smoke… Amsterdam.

Jinhua Architecture Park

Jinhua Architecture Park, China. Check it out

Faux Pas

Faux Pas, a new tee label will be launching this June at Sapphire Bar in Perth, Western Australia.  With stores in Melbourne and Perth already wanting it, it won’t be long until its stocked in your home town! Check it out.

The Black Angels

The black angels are psych! Check em out.

Minibar. Amsterdam

MiNiBAR is a new kind of bar. A bar where you never have to wait for service again because YOU serve YOURSELF.

Ears & Max Berry – Project Ugly Timelapse

Music by Hermitude
Song “Cartridge Kings”
Album “Threads”

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James Roper

James Roper. Born Knutsford, England, 1982… this guy is amazing.

Thee Oh Sees & Movie Star Junkies…

are both good bands.

Thee Oh Sees

Movie Star Junkies

Public Ad Campaign

I have always disagreed with the way advertising rapes public space… public art gets called vandalism and aggressively campaigned against,  yet outdoor advertising doesn’t even get mentioned. Are people crazy? A dozen billboards alongside a busy road intersection cannot seriously be called visually pleasing? Let alone the safety issue of them distracting motorists.  Then there’s the infinite shades of grey concrete and red brick that some people love so much they spend hundreds of thousands of public dollars trying to defend! A PLAIN WALL IS UGLY! Do you people walk down the street with your eyes open?

…Anyway, enough of my rant. The people at Public Ad Campaign know that advertises are stealing our public space and they’re doing something about it.

“Public Ad Campaign acts on the assumption that public space and the public’s interaction with that space is a vital component of our city’s health. By visually altering and physically interacting with the public environment, residents become psychologically invested in their community.
Outdoor advertising is the primary obstacle to open public communications. By commodifying public space, outdoor advertising has monopolized the surfaces that shape our shared space. Private property laws protect the communications made by outdoor advertising while systematically preventing public usage of that space
In an effort to illuminate these issues, Public Ad Campaign chronicles the activities of artists intent on challenging these relationships, as well as other contemporary issues in outdoor advertising and public space.
Through bold acts of civil disobedience we hope to air our grievances in the court of public opinion and witness our communities regain control of the space they occupy.”

Bamboo Bike Studio

The Bamboo Bike Studio was founded to harness the possibility and promise of self-propulsion, reaching out from New York City to developing nations around the world, beginning with Ghana and Kenya in Africa.

Based in Red Hook, Brooklyn NY, the Bamboo Bike Studio teaches students to build their own bikes out of one of the worlds fastest growing resources – bamboo. By teaching students to build their own bicycles, from scratch, Bamboo Bike Studio helps establish an active, self-invested relationship between person and product… something I believe has been completely lost in our worlds consumer mentallity. Each bike-building course extends beyond the walls of the Studio, generating the engineering, teaching, and funding capital needed to establish scalable bamboo bike factories in developing countries worldwide.