When no one outside of your country buys your liquor, what’s the best solution? If you’re Chinese premium liquor company Moutai, you create a sub-brand called Red Diamond and you charge $20,000 a bottle — and that’s to increase interest. While there are all sorts of stupid rich people in this world, this seems like […]

Jay-Z and Nike have teamed up to create these 5 pairs of all black sneakers to celebrate the inaugural World Basketball Festival in New York City. Dubbed the “All Black Everything” HOVs, each unique pair corresponds to one of the nations taking part in the festival (Brazil, Puerto Rico, France, China and USA), and are […]

Urban Interventions is a book that documents the recent surge in public art displays around the globe. Born out of street art, these street projects have become fascinating facets of society, sparking public interest and occasional controversy. What’s most interesting about these varying projects is that they are such personal creations in such an obviously […]

Designing under population projections that by 2030 more than 60% of the world’s 8 billion people will live in urban areas, General Motors and its strategic partner SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp), yesterday unveiled their EN-V concepts in Shanghai. The EN-V (Electric Networked-Vehicle) is a fully electric two-seater vehicle designed to alleviate urban blights like […]

Last Thursday night, in celebration of LA’s Art Month, Calvin Klein, Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) and the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) hosted an extravagant gala in West Hollywood — thus proving that you don’t always need Bruce Weber’s scantily denim clad tweens to get people excited, a previously debatable observation. Read the breakdown, […]

I’m always amused when China refers to itself as the “People’s Republic of China”, considering most people have the rights of the common stray dog — in other words, stay outta the way or you’ll end up in somebody’s soup. I got no personal beef with the country, it’s just when you’re human rights record […]

In preparation for my evening arrival in Miami for the 2009 installment of Art Basel I prepared with all of the essentials including camera, pen, paper, computer, sunscreen and Advil. Basel is the tour de force of the Art world and I did not want to be trampled. The minute I stepped out of the […]

Its the ancient Chinese art of ping pong versus the ancient Russian art of roulette in Metal On Metal’s “Bastard” video (created by NYC and Sydney’s The Glue Society). The acid electro soundtrack fits the rising tension of the video like a bloody glove, you’re just waiting to see who gets lucky… Metal on Metal […]