New Trends
New Trends / The Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza website
March 16, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak 
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You know, pictures featuring Bea Arthur, mountains, and pizza are the best, but there are still a lot of duds out there. Good thing Bea Arthur Mountains Pizza has collected the best of the best Bea Arthur, mountains, and pizza pictures all in one place.
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New Trends / Harlan Ellison says Pay the Writer
March 13, 2010 | New Trends | 
by Gerry Mak |
This vitriolic rant by author and screenwriter Harlan Ellison (from the upcoming documentary about him called Dreams With Sharp Teeth) really hit a nerve with me. As someone who works in creative fields, I’ve encountered countless people/employers who think because I enjoy art and writing, I will be happy to do it for free. Read more
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New Trends / Rocket back to the 80s
March 12, 2010 | New Trends | by Andy |
We’re not shy about our love of all things 80s, and Goldfrapp’s Rocket clip has taken us right back to a cloudy pastel world of big hair, synth optimism and glittering disco. We might just stay here for a while. Who’s in?
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New Trends / Creative Home Brewing
March 9, 2010 | New Trends | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
To some, home brewing is the mere transformation of hopped Wort into a tanned and carbonated alcoholic beverage. But for Connie Anthes and Jon and Julian Berengut — with respective backgrounds in Brand Identity, Product Design, and Theoretical Physics — they see beer brewing as more than just a refreshing reward. They see it as a creative Brand Identity project. Read more
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New Trends / Nooka watches
March 6, 2010 | New Trends | by Lin Tan |
Who says telling the time should be an easy task? Pleasing to the eye, not so much on the brain, Nooka watches are arguably more concerned about aesthetics than it is about function. Created by artist and designer, Matthew Waldman, its bar graph-like function lets wearers see, rather intuitively and visually, that time has passed by. We love it, but good luck trying to work out exactly how much time has gone by.
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New Trends / Trial sized wine bottles
March 4, 2010 | New Trends | by The Urban Grocer |
Ever wanted to test out that uber expensive bottle of wine before dishing out the cash for it? Well, it seems the folks at WineSide had you in mind when they dreamed up trial size tubes of wine. Yes, you read correctly. Now, from Chateauneuf du Pape to sweet Sauternes, wines from classic French vineyards and regions are available in slender, screw top, glass trial sized bottles. Read more
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New Trends / Obama Sushi
March 2, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
We’ve had sushi shaped like cartoon characters, sushi shaped like inordinate objects. We’ve even had sushi shaped like, wait for it, sushi. But this one tops them all: it’s sushi shaped like Obama. Yes, we agree, it is a little fishy.
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New Trends / String Gardens
March 1, 2010 | New Trends | by Clare Hillier |
One part folly, two parts whimsy, Fedor’s String Gardens are a little reminiscent of a cosmic galaxy. Inspired by a Japanese botanical style called Kokedama, the objective of these installations is to simply bring plants to eye level. But they do so much more than that, don’t you think? Read more
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New Trends / Vote for the twelfth best whistler in the world
February 27, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Many summers past, when my hair was longer and my waistline slimmer, I became the unofficial trainer for an aspiring whistler, who just happened to be one of my housemates in the spacious Williamsburg loft I was living in. He since went on to place twelfth in the annual World Whistling Convention last year, and will heading across to China to compete again this year. In the interim, Tim Eggert is under consideration to whistle the National Anthem before an Orlando Magic home game and also in the running to whistle the anthem for Collective Soul’s upcoming outdoor concert. The fans vote, so we’ve gotta get the word out and get this guy whistling, as John Lennon would say, all the way to the toppermost of the poppermost. Vote for Tim Eggert now!
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New Trends / White Lines iPhone game
February 25, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Got a spare ten minutes to kill? Well, don’t bother with this clever iPhone game then because it’ll probably suck up way more of your time than that. On White Lines, you have to recreate the Helvetica Neue pattern created on the screen immediately after seeing it appear. It’s kind of addictive. Play it and you’ll get it. Very quickly!
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New Trends / Trailer Trash Dolls
February 25, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Trailer Trash Dolls are everything you’d expect them to be. And everything you mightn’t. They even come packed with a barrage of real trailer park trash talk to unleash on your unsuspecting neighbours. So what makes you a real Trailer Trash Doll? Simple. ‘Do you think that microchips are snacks enjoyed with cheese dip while watching the local monster truck rally? Do you describe high definition as that happy feeling you get after drinking two cases of beer? Can you spit across the room without opening your mouth?’. Yes, yes, and yes. Read more
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New Trends / Custom Bobbleheads
February 24, 2010 | New Trends | by Casper Johansson |
For the person who has everything comes this: Custom Bobbleheads. ‘With over 190 body types to choose from, you can’t go wrong with a comic bobble head based on your friend, family member or significant other. These comic figures have exaggerated bodies and heads lovingly hand-carved in poly-clay by a master artist’. Fun!
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New Trends / If Men Wrote The Copylines for Women’s Magazine
February 22, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Our friends over at Cool Material have worked out exactly what the average male would do if he took the reigns at some of the magazine world’s biggest titles: ‘Women get all kinds of advice from magazines from how to dress to how to please a man in the bedroom. And while it’s not all bad, these mags are lacking much needed male insights. For example, we’re actually not that interested in your hair and we definitely don’t care about your shoes. But if women’s magazines were actually written by men, there wouldn’t be so much confusion about what we want. Here are some article titles, written by men that get straight to the point’. Brilliant! Read more
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New Trends / Please Rob Me
February 20, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Please Rob Me seeks to prove the point that all our various Web 2.0 activities can leave us vulnerable to those with nefarious intent. Linking posts, updates, and tweets, the site generates a list of empty houses that can be used by potential burglars.
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New Trends / Pumpkin Pinhole Camera
February 17, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Ever wondered how to make a pinhole camera out of a pumpkin? Really? Well, wonder no more: ‘inspired by Eric Renner’s bell pepper pinhole camera experiments, and also the first day of Autumn, [Barks] made a pinhole camera out of a baking pumpkin’. Watch and be amazed.
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The New York Times has just run an interesting article about artist Jorge Colombo, who created this week’s cover for The New Yorker magazine exclusively using the iPhone application Brushes: ‘Absolutely nobody can tell I am drawing’. Colombo told the Times. ‘In fact, once I was doing the drawing at some place, and my wife was around, and they asked her why did I have to work so hard? I seemed to be always on my iPhone sending messages’. Read more
This nifty little Royal Elastics package includes a pair of Sosei shoes, two Homogeny tees, a Homogeny scarf, and two Homogeny figures that come together to make one. Sweet! Read more
On a recent trip to San Francisco, I was lucky enough to meet with John Trippe, the main man behind the popular arts based site, Fecal Face. Read more
I checked out the Armory Show in Manhattan a couple of weeks back and amongst the aisles of impressive contemporary art I was particularly taken by the work of Japanese artist, Mahomi Kunikata, whose vibrant and colorful paintings are full of mischievous characters and ‘joy joy’ sentimentality.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a reminder of why the medium of film is so special. It features first rate visuals, performances, direction and acting, all of which fits together into one of the most insightful, powerful and touching pieces of cinema ever. Read more
Do the Norwegians know something we don’t? On a remote island near the North Pole they’re going to build a seed vault that is able to survive future cataclysmic events such as asteroid strikes, nuclear war or climate change. Read more
I love this track by London based rock group, Scanners, which is off their latest album, Submarine. Having toured with acts such as The Horrors, The Wedding Present, The Charlatans, Electric Six, and Juliette & The Licks, Scanners could well blow up in 2010. Figuratively speaking, not literally. No, that wouldn’t be fun.
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