New Trends
New Trends / Retro gadgets: Motocompo madness
November 6, 2009 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
I was thinking the other day that it would be so practical to have a folding motorcycle that fits in the trunk of my Honda City. Just then, I stumbled upon the Motocompo, a folding motorcycle that fits in the trunk of a Honda City. It’s fate. This little single-speed machine came out in 1981 and Honda sold 53,369 of them in Japan. It features an AB12E 49 cc air-cooled two-stroke engine with 2.5 hp at 5,000 rpm. I was a bit disappointed to see that it only has 0.38 kg-m of torque at 4,500rpm, but you know, you can’t have everything! It’s also worth noting that it weighs 42 kg dry and 45 kg wet. It’s a bench. It’s a fruit holder. It’s man’s best friend. Read more
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New Trends / Everything Is Terrible website
November 6, 2009 | New Trends | 
by Dave Mata 
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I met one of the Chicago contributors of this New York, LA, Chicago collaboration site in front of a local bike shop this past summer. He was happily showing off his latest thrift store VHS scores to a mutual friend of ours. I slept on the “blog” he said he was collecting the tapes for for some time. Sometimes I make mistakes. Everything is Terrible is a brilliant library of all things unsettling. These are not posts of mindless YouTube anomalies. These are serious and hilarious documentations of what could be lost on most people were it not for these ironic excavators.
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New Trends / Robert Crumb’s illuminated version of Genesis
November 4, 2009 | New Trends | by Chris Rubino |
A favorite from my more perverted days — I’m saying they are behind me — Robert Crumb has once again shocked his audience. This time by not getting dirty but rather completing a 207 page word for word illuminated version of Genesis. The Hammer Museum in LA is currently exhibiting this Magnum opus. Crumb definitely did not rest on the 7th day, this epic undertaking is enough for one man’s life work, yet disturbingly enough is just one of his many. A quick side note, I saw Raymond Pettibon at the exhibit and even he was looking a little overwhelmed by the endless black frames of drawings, he still looked pretty damn cool though, too.
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New Trends / Chris Jordan’s carcass photography
November 3, 2009 | New Trends | by Nicklaus Andersen |
Seattle-based photographer Chris Jordan’s new work features astounding images of the carcasses and stomach contents of albatross chicks from a remote strip of land in the Northern Pacific ocean, 2000 miles from the nearest continent. The chicks are fed human waste by their parents, who mistake the garbage for food. Jordan notes his subject matter is reproduced as discovered, in the interest of accurate representation. Read more
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New Trends / Bogleech
October 31, 2009 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Maryland-based cartoonist Jonathan Wojcik’s obsession with insects, monsters, and anything related to Halloween comes through hilariously clearly in his web comic, Bogleech. Check out the rest of his site for various projects and his Etsy shop.
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New Trends / Octodogs
October 29, 2009 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
Now ‘octopus’ can be added to myth that hot dogs are made from who knows what. This invention turns a hot dog into an octopus so that the kids of the world will no longer get bored with their meals.
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New Trends / The Mood Chair
October 28, 2009 | New Trends | by Casper Johansson |
Now this is fun. The Mood Chair is piece of interactive furniture which changes color in response to the colors that its sensors perceive from the environment and the users.
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New Trends / Food Face Dinner Plates
October 27, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Did you play with your food as a kid? Perhaps you still do it now. Indulge yourself with the Food Face Dinner Plate, ‘made from hotel-quality, food-safe, high-fire ceramics. So now you can play with your food and give Dan a whole new look’.
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New Trends / The writing of John N. Gray
October 23, 2009 | New Trends | by Matthew Specktor |
Sometimes pessimism is more encouraging than optimism, because more is true. I’m a huge fan of Straw Dogs, but the English counter-Humanist philosopher’s Heresies is just as bracing: ‘Belief in progress is the Prozac of the thinking classes’. Living in Los Angeles, where a brittle, self-obsessed ‘hopefulness’ is everywhere, I might need this writer (who certainly shouldn’t be confused with the Men Are From Mars guy) even more than you do. But you do, you do.
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New Trends / Canned Hamburgers
October 21, 2009 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
The hamburger, that icon of fast food, has evolved in Germany to the point where it is now sold in cans. Canned Hamburgers were created by the company Trekking Mahlzeiten and are aimed at those who enjoy the outdoor life. According to the instructions on the can, you must boil the can for a few minutes, take the lid off, and then enjoy an authentic cheeseburger with ketchup and gherkins that contains just 257 calories per 100 grams.
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New Trends / Interactive touch screen watch
October 18, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Now, who couldn’t do with a watch like this? Featuring an interactive touch screen and animated LED display that plays short animation upon demand, the time display on this awesome watch switches between colors on touch. We have them for sale in the Lost At E Minor online store.
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New Trends / Twitter now makes wine
October 16, 2009 | New Trends | by Caitlin Zaino |
Tweet this: Twitter is launching its own wine label. And that took only 41 characters. Now for the story behind it all. In an effort to help make a positive impact, Twitter says, they’ve teamed up with San Francisco-based non-profit Room to Read, which helps brings libraries and literacy to the world’s poorest countries. Read more
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New Trends / The Sea Monkey revival
October 15, 2009 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
‘Just add water and let the fun come up’. Sea Monkeys are here and we don’t know what to do with them. They are graceful and funny, they have monkey tails, they are real aquatic acrobats and they are totally playful and easy to breed. The real name of the Sea Monkeys, of course, is ‘brine shrimp’. Read more
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New Trends / Ojimbo’s twisted arty creations
October 15, 2009 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Artist Jim Sheely, otherwise known as Ojimbo, is a master of the grotesque, rendering intricately detailed images of writhing, squirming, twisted, spewing creatures as well as maniacal, pop-informed wood sculptures Read more
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New Trends / The dust art of Scott Wade
October 12, 2009 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
Through watching cowboy movies, among other things, we’ve learned that Texas is full of dust. Fortunately, there are people such as Scott Wade who knows how to embellish something that is disgusting. Wade started to produce simple hearts or phrases such as ‘Wash me, you dirty fellow’ on the windshields and windows of cars. Later on, he improved his skills and now he can make a Mona Lisa or a Rembrandt by using the ‘dust extraction’ technique. He does not own a gallery because it should be really expensive but he has a huge permanent exhibition touring the city. The art of Wade reached the advertising world and brands such as Mitsubishi have used it in their graphic campaigns. Read more
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One of our favourite illustrators, the New York-based Christopher Neal, just happens to share a studio space with Sam Weber. Oh man! To be a extra large fly on that wall. It would be so tempting to attach a canvas to your back and just buzz on out of there! Read more
Falling in between Enya, Bright Eyes, and Air, The Republic Tigers have been tagged ‘indie rock meets new age fog’. If that’s all too wishy-washy for you, then check out their new album Keep Color and watch the video to the album opener, Buildings and Mountains.
Listen to The Republic Tigers track, Golden Sand
New York-based Japanese artist, Chichi creates elaborate illustrations that are both colourful and exotic. Read more
French design dynamo Jean-Marie Massaud has created a Manned Cloud. A cruise airship with a hotel for 40 passengers and 15 staff, Massaud worked with the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherche Aérospatiale in this proposal. Read more
Back in the day, New Zealand pop absurdists, Split Enz were the finest damn Australasian band around. This track, I Walk Away, off their final album — Spellbound — is their ultimate moment: a hefty dose of pure melodic majestry, wrapped around the aching lyrics and quirky arrangements of genius frontman, Neil Finn.
Australian t shirt label Das Monk create the coolest tees this side of Sydney. Or Melbourne. Or New York, for that matter. Made from super soft, one hundred per cent cotton, they’re comfy and unique, and quite possibly Australia’s best fashion secret. Wait! No, they are. Grab one now from the Lost At E Minor store for just US$45.
In the grand tradition of Funny Exam Answers, comes Passive Aggressive Notes. Read more
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With the recession still biting, it may be time to whip out the glue and the cardboard and make your next pair of cool kicks. Don’t know how they’d manage in the rain though? Read more
Trip out with Sparrow Vs Sparrow’s retro illustrations, I love their aesthetic, color use and sense of humor. Read more
Charlie Immer’s pastel-pallete sometimes obfuscates the gory violence in his surreal images. At other times, it heightens the gut-wrenching and visceral effect of his work. Read more
Karen Caldicott’s clay head models
British born, New York-based model maker Karen Caldicott has been making clay heads for all major US publications over the last decade. Read more
T-post: the world’s first wearable magazine
So here’s the scoop. Every six weeks, T-post subscribers get a new t shirt issue in the mail, with a news story on the inside and an artist interpretation of that story on the front. Yes, we agree. It’s clever, clever. Read more
Wolfmother. Rock n roll. Mystical lyrics. Heavy riffs. They have a new album out, Cosmic Egg, and we have five copies to giveaway, along with their debut album. To enter, tell us your favorite Wolfmother song and the city you live in. Yo! Two fingered salute. Read more
The Plus One t shirt by New York designer Ryan Sullivan is printed by hand, one at a time, using a dye-based print and printed on cotton/poly blend tees. Size is true to fit.
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