New Eco
New Eco / Butterfly Homes
July 2, 2009 | New Eco | by Katriane Hill |
TYIN Tegnestue, a humanitarian design organization from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, are the planners of Soe Ker Tie, the aptly named Butterfly Homes that sit in the village of Noh Bo, on the Thai-Burmese border. The bamboo built homes, completely assembled on site with sustainability in mind, was the brainchild of architecture students who were made aware of the lack of space for Karen refugee children living in Noh Bo. Read more
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New Eco / Air Forest Pavilion is mobile
July 1, 2009 | New Eco | by Katriane Hill |
Mass Studies, a Korean architecture design firm, constructed the Air Forest for Denver’s annual Dialog:City, a meeting of minds to create interactive products for urban areas. The Air Forest is made to work with, and not against, its environment, allowing for wind, weather, and the sun to shift it. The easy set-up (all that is required to do is set the anchors) and interactive light display inside the 35 hexagonal pillars allows for shade, visual texture, and a mimicry of the surrounding environment. And because it’s not a permanent adjustment, we may well see the Air Forest at concerts and festivals in the years to come.
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New Eco / Dakine Oceana PVC-free backpack
June 27, 2009 | New Eco | by Katriane Hill |
Dakine, in partnership with Project Blue, has created the Dakine Oceana backpack, a revolutionary piece of equipment that is every hiker’s dream. Made completely from PET recycled bottles and PVC-Free, Dakine’s backpack boasts a waterproof pocket, a fleece pocket (for glasses), an insulated pocket, and enough storage to take with you on any adventure. For every Oceana backpack bought, Dakine will donate US$2 to the Surfrider Foundation.
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New Eco / World’s first eco-friendly premium vodka
June 24, 2009 | New Eco | by Zolton |
Drink enough of this stuff and chances are you’ll feel a little green around the gills. Well, 360 Vodka have beaten you to the punch. They use stylish eco-friendly packaging and then employ an eco-audit to detail the environmental benefits of the packaging. So while it isn’t strictly organic, it is a ‘green’ vodka and as such, a giant, wobbly step in the right direction.
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New Eco / Freitag bags
June 20, 2009 | New Eco | by Hunter Peroff |
It’s always nice when you find an eco-minded product that needs no explanation to get your approval. FREITAG bags are made from reused truck tarpaulin, but they look so good and work so well that you won’t even need to tell people you’re fighting the good fight. Read more
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New Eco / World’s fastest motorcycle
June 18, 2009 | New Eco | by Sonya Rosendorff |
Mission Motors, a San Francisco-based company, has made the Mission One, the world’s fastest electric motorbike. It can zoom up to 150mph and is powered by lithium-ion batteries, which are found in laptops and mobile phones. So its good news for green motorists who have a bit of cash. The first fifty limited-edition Mission Ones will retail for just under seventy thousand dollars. Read more
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New Eco / New York’s High Line gardens
June 18, 2009 | New Eco | by Deanne Cheuk |
The first section of the High Line in New York’s Meat Packing district opened last week. Go check out the beautiful gardens atop of amazing architecture by Frank Gehry [The IAC Building], Polshek Partnership [The NY Standard Hotel], Shigeru Ban [Metal Shutter Houses] and other notable architects. Designed by James Corner Field Operations, with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, highlights of the elevated garden walkway include moveable deckchairs on the old railroad tracks, a water feature to cool your hot feet, and a glass viewing window that is like a futuristic TV screen looking down on the traffic below. Read more
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New Eco / Rechargeable eGO bikes
June 13, 2009 | New Eco | by Casper Johansson |
A rechargeable bike? Still looks cool? Has some oomph about it? You betcha. The eco-friendly eGO bike runs on any input voltage from 100V to 240V and gives up to six hours of continuous action with each fresh charge.
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New Eco / BubbleDeck
June 5, 2009 | New Eco | by Casper Johansson |
Now, this is very cool! The Australian designed and made BubbleDeck uses plastic bubbles the size of soccer balls, encased in steel, to create a honeycomb effect, eliminating the need for non-structural concrete in building construction. The Australian designEX Best New Product Award winner combines ‘economic considerations with environmental sustainability to prove that green construction is neither costly or complicated’.
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New Eco / Bamboo Bikes Studio
May 21, 2009 | New Eco | by Gerry Mak |
Build your next bike at Bamboo Bikes Studio, who help cyclists build their own custom, bamboo-framed bicycles. The organization, in partnership with the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Millennium Cities Initiative, uses revenue to subsidize sustainable bamboo bike factories in Africa and South America.
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New Eco / Soo Kwon’s Plus Minus system
May 12, 2009 | New Eco | by Raymond Koh |
The Plus Minus system by Soo Kwon, a California-based industrial designer, was created to help today’s society better manage food portions. The plus side of the utensils are that it always allows for regular portions, the minus side is that those portions are small.
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New Eco / Eco rider at Australian Fashion Week
May 1, 2009 | New Eco | by Tim Neve 
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Fashionistas were taken on a journey to a futuristic view of sustainable style at the first show of Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. Friedrich Gray teamed up with MOMO Design to send models down the catwalk in sleek black scooter helmets. The collaboration reinforced the popularity of the fashionable and eco-conscious ‘two wheel movement’. Part Darth Vader, part Roman Holiday, 100 percent fashion forward.
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New Eco / Bushfire relief with re-growth pods
April 27, 2009 | New Eco | by Xavier Toby |
These innovative little pods were developed as a quick but permanent solution to the Victorian bushfire disaster. The Re-Growth Pod is a completely self-contained little home, with kitchen and bathroom facilities. It’s also entirely pre-fabricated, allowing for quick delivery, construction and installation. The big advantage is that the pod can be easily incorporated into a new home, so instead of being just a stop-gap solution, it’s the first liveable step in the re-building phase. They also look kinda cute, too.
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April 20, 2009 | New Eco | by Xavier Toby |
The Ceres Environmental Park in Brunswick, Melbourne is a little inner-city oasis, and is as close to a hippy commune as anything you’ll find in the city. Not-for-profit and sustainability are the keywords here, and there are regular events from live gigs to programs for everything environment related. The café provides ridiculously healthy food, sustainable innovations are in action on every structure and building, with accompanying explanations, and it’s also wonderful just to browse around the large, relaxing site. Especially popular is the bike shed, where for a small membership fee, the tools and experts are then available to help you repair your bike, or even fix up one of the carcasses for yourself.
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New Eco / Nuno Erin’s Touch Panels
April 15, 2009 | New Eco | by Katriane Hill |
Nuno Erin, a relatively new company founded in 2006, is known for an interest in relationships between people and their environment. The touch panels, which are made from wood, foam, and thermo-sensitive fabric (available in 18 inch and 24 inch models) are a means to replacing drab walls with an intriguing heat-sensing, light-changing perspective. The panels react not only to body heat, but to changes in atmosphere (such as temperature and light). Think of a mood ring, only bigger, and for adults.
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We caught up with New York-based artist Sam Weber recently to get the inside word on where most of his creativity is unleashed: his studio space. In regards to your workspace, what are the props for your daily inspiration? ‘I wouldn’t say there is anything specific, although I am fairly particular about where I like to work, and what sort of stuff I like to have around me. There are things that I look at often, a book of Max Ernst collages, one on Yoshitaka Amano, and a big stack of clippings from magazines and the Internet that I will periodically leaf through to get inspired’. Read more
Driven by a wide spectrum of influences, the music of Brass Bed moves easily through an eclectic mix of genres: from alt-country ballads and progressive rock hooks, to sticky-sweet, heart-felt lyrics, and dissonant experimental freak-outs. As some wise folk have noted, it’s kinda like a cross between The Beach Boys and The Flaming Lips. Now, how could that be a bad thing? We have two of their songs — Olivia [listen below] and Polar Bird — available for free download in the Music Download section in the third column of Lost At E Minor.
A lot of people have asked us where the name Lost At E Minor comes from and what the phrase implies. Well, several years ago I came across a compilation of obscure electro music called Famous When Dead, which is off the commendably experimental German label, Playhouse. One of the tracks on the album was by the production duo, Light Fantastic, and was titled Lost At C Minor. Read more
Shorpy is a great blog dedicated to digitally restored photos, mostly from the first half of the 20th century, but some from as early as the 1840s. Read more
You heard it here first. Singer-songwriter Julian Perretta might just become the most exciting new artist of 2008. Read more
As a child, I took piano exams in over-sized white rooms, on baby grand pianos that felt unfamiliar and echoed strangely as someone across the room observed me in silence. It felt clinical, intimidating and completely devoid of warmth. Last week, I started noticing upright pianos, some painted haphazardly, others respectfully untouched plonked in the most unlikely places throughout Sydney. There was one on the edge of the baby pool at the local swimming pool, with a young girl in a rainbow striped dress tapping out a happy but disjointed melody; another shaded under a tree at the park on the way home. Read more
I am one of those typical New Yorkers who only wears black in winter. But this winter is different. With the economic crisis, and all the rest of the bad news, I have to fight the darkness in the world by wearing colors, and lots of them. Spanish designer Sybilla is known for her original designs and unique color schemes, but she is virtually unknown outside of her mother country and Japan, where she is super popular. Her younger brand Jocomomola is perfect for this gloomy winter. Read more
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Muraida, Radioactive Green Edition
This wicked new villain, Muraida, from the OSK line is a 10 inch vinyl with six points of articulation. It comes in a combination of solid and clear vinyl, and is packed with more punch than a thousand GI Joe’s.
James Blagden’s neon fantasies
New York illustrator James Blagden’s work is so wonderfully trippy, I feel like I need to wear shades and a top hat when looking at them just to do them justice. Read more
We asked Arizona-based artist Joe Sorren what we would have been if he hadn’t been handed the most ridiculously generous serving of artistic talent: ‘Art historian and conservationalist. Or a botanist. Or I’d work with horses. It would be interesting to be behind the scenes in politics, at least for a while. Or maybe a studio musician, or invent games, or a … I would rather paint’. Ah, we agree.
Frank Kozik’s Emperor of the Golden Throne
Limited to a set of just sixty-six pieces, each Frank Kozik Hand Painted Emperor Of The Golden Throne El Panda vinyl toy is signed by Kozik and comes bagged with a hand-numbered header card.
Japanese designers Keiichi Muramatsu and Noriko Seki founded the Tokyo-based fashion label, Everlasting Sprout, in 2005, based on their mutual interest in knit design. Each intricate creation in their Spring/Summer 2009 range took up to a week for them to construct. Read more
Legendary pop culture artist and Agit Pop founder Ron English will be a guest compiler of an upcoming issue of our email newsletter, writing about his favorite cultural discoveries. To read Ron’s edition of Lost At E Minor, simply sign up to our weekly newsletter. It’s free, you win!
Cassettes Won’t Listen is the brainchild of New York-based, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Drake and is the latest of an abundance of musical monikers he has realised over the years. Small-Time Machine is Cassettes Wont Listen’s first-ever physical release and is available for US$23.70.
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