We were at Groundwork organic coffee in Venice when we found this wonderful flyer for the Reggae Central, a weekend radio show on the station 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles. BTW, the dude on the poster is the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I, who is also one of the deities of the rastafari movement that originated in Jamaica.
As reported in Gizmodo, the new Shadow “Ebike” pictured below is an electric bike that contains a drive controller and motor in its front wheel, as well as a lithium-ion battery, LED display and USB port for charging electronic gadgets, like your iPhone or iPod, using electricity generated by the bicycle itself. It’s the first of a kind. Pretty freaking awesome. (Thanks to A. for the tip!)
In our new ongoing “Scenes From a …” series, we’re posting images snapped at museums and similar places and events. In this post, we start with some recent pix we took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. MoMA is among our favorite physical spaces in NYC. Art aside, it’s has many places within it’s wondrous complex for sitting in contemplation, meditation and people watching. In this image, a visitor is reading the wall card for the displayed poster, part of a German architectural design exhibition currently showing at MoMA.
Massive fresh Haculla (a.k.a., Harif Guzman) wheat-paste street art at one of his preferred spots, on a wide door a few meters away from Swiss brunch joint Cafe Select on Lafayette Street in SoHo, across from Petrosino Square, in downtown New York City. Love this.
This large stenciled silhouette of a boy and girl is perhaps a cheeky and fitting image the day after Valentine’s Day. Each is hiding very different object behind the back, each suggesting very different hidden motives. We stumbled upon this street art on Jan Luijkenstraat in the Vondelpark neighborhood of Amsterdam, near the Rijksmuseum and the city’s famed museum district.
Van’s wonderful “Risky Business”-themed graphical tee shirt by New York City-based clothing label Built By Wendy.
Our colleague “A.” cruised into our office in L.A. proudly displaying his recently acquired and super-awesome NYC graphical tee shirt with that beautiful retro-disco-era font (which we’ve utterly failed to identify – if any one knows what that font is called, drop us a line.) Thanks for sharing your t-shirt, A!
It’s here. The one, the only: the Feltron Annual Report. It’s a volume of personal-behavioral stats presented as corporate-style report complete with the kind of elegant info-graphics that make the likes of Edward Tufte smile. In a departure from the usual modus operandi, Nicholas Felton (the last name is Felton, but the report is Fel-tRon, with an “R”) created his 2010 report as “an encapsulation of his father’s life.” Epic. Beautiful.
This image is from the awesome “Provincial Japan” photographic series by the Italian photographer Guido Castagnoli, a former art director at a Milan advertising agency. The series was shown at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in New York City in 2008. Fortunately, Castagnoli is one of those photogs who like to blog (his online journal is called Diary of Solitude).
The sound-board aesthetic: We love standing near the sound boards at concerts and find the look of all the lighted boards, mixers, screens and electronic equipment oddly alluring. Pictured below, the sound engineers’ set-up at the Echoplex in Echo Park, in Los Angeles, for the band Deerhoof.
Telling image of recently confiscated counterfeit “keep it real fake” goods in Los Angeles. The people behind this operation and line of fake iPhones, iPods and other electronic had reportedly already hauled in $7 million before being caught. As Engadget points out, pictured is part of $10 million worth of merch. Lovely visual. (Via Engadget)
