Ever pushing the boundaries of music — both in production and presentation — Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin, aka Amon Tobin, is taking his next project ISAM to the highest level of live digital execution. The Brazilian producer and electronic music soundsmith has decided to present his latest album with a live experience only […]
James Jarvis’ classic soft vinyl toy now gets transformed… into pillow form. King Ken, the noble creation of Amos, likes rambling and wrestling, which is good for you cos this King Ken head is a 40cm x 35cm cushion. Only 400 will be made under license of Säck und Nolde. Go apesh*t for under $50.
In this 176 page book, Tokyo-based authors Ivan Vartanian and Kyoko Wada take a holistic view of Japanese art throughout its 5 millenniums of history and analyze common threads found throughout. See/Saw finds ways to unite such chronologically disparate themes as Giant Robots and ancient Samurai illustrations, or uniting Murakimi’s Superflat school of art with […]
In this giant supermarket we live in, your life is full of many options. For instance, you can sleep inside the cartooned guts of a Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, inside the gaping maw of a 7 Foot Giant Shark, or even a wrapped up in a very realistic Grizzly Bear. But is that all, you may […]
The great literary magazine McSweeney’s returns with one of their most imaginatively plackaged issues, Number 36. Utilizing a very innovative presentation, which borrows more than a bit from Visionaire‘s philosophy of outside-the-box packaging (no pun intended), the “issue” is actually a 275-cubic-inch crate filled with goodies. The giant head box is filled with a litany […]
The Rotterdam-based artist Florentijn Hofman has created this giant flip-flop sculpture of a fat and colorful monkey, lazily fallen flat on its backside. Constructed with the help of local students in São Paulo, where the “Fat Monkey” project was created, Hofman selected Brazil’s very own infamous flip-flop icon as the material of choice to construct […]
Iceland is a country of mythical and romantic proportions. So anything Icelandic grabs me, even if it it is a giant blanket-dress-bag. But seriously, they look pretty comfortable, and I can’t imagine anything more comforting than snuggling up in something so big and woolly and baggy while listening to Nordic folklore around the fire. But […]
A lot of people wanna hate on Jeremy Scott’s contributions to the adidas Originals by Originals collection, but I think it’s rad. Would I wear a Teddy Bear on my feet? No. But I do tip my hat to someone who at least comes out with something original for a collaboration titled Originals by Originals. […]