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Saturday, 29th |
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Printed
Garments. Four
The Hard Way & Whitelabel
In the northern hemisphere winter is just knocking on our doors while way
down south summer has just commenced. Good thing our planet works like that
- because it makes selling T-shirts all year round so much easier and lucrative?
Here are two sites that could help us find out whether our assumption is
true or not: Four The Hard Way has new tees by 12ozProphet & Joker while
Whitelabel have just released a new 12'' by Konstantin Gricic.
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Publication. Dirty
Soup #2
This small-format magazine has been out for a while but we just couldn't
end this month without mentioning it. Despite the low number of pages this
magazine scores high on the content. High quality interviews, high quality
images, and all that printed on extra heavy paper in a quality that you'll
have to search out there on the market of free publications. This issue even
comes with a mix CD and stickers!
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Thursday, 27th |
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Opening.
adidas München
On December 4th you should leave Cologne and head down south to Munich. The
occasion? adidas is opening it's brand new retail space there that day. What
we heard from our unofficial sources is, that there might be some special
merchandise on sale...
Like Munich's own sneaker? The adidas München? It's about time, since
it has been on sale all around the globe for months now. Like in Madrid
- weird though - the adidas Madrid wasn't available there. Messed up this
world is... We picked up our pair in NYC - and brought it back home (one
of our homes), to the city where it belongs.
We'll give you more info when (and should) we get it and if you're in
the city on that date, drop us a note.
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Tuesday, 25th |
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Exhibition.
Vinyl Vibes
If you think that German
vocabulary is hard to pronounce, you're quite right - trying saying
this name here: 'Hallmackenreuther'. That's a real tough one, but
if you're travelling to Cologne until the 14th of December you should
keep it in mind and then tell your cab driver to take you there.
Either to have a glass of Koelsch or to look at a selection of toys
that are on show there.
Please, if you are from the US (NYC or SF in particular), HK, or Japan even,
you might consider the figures no real 'heat' but since Germany's toy history
doesn't go back that far - in the sense of modern vinyl figures and boutique
toys - this show truely is a valuable asset. Big Ups to Hallmackenreuther, Vibes,
and Plastic Particles.
Hallmackenreuther
Bruesseler Platz 9, Cologne
Tel.: 0221/517970
Pics: Desley
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Monday, 24th |
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Hiroshi
Fujiwara. The Shadow of the official
Artworks
Here are two follow-up posts to books that we have told you about not too long
ago. The first one is truely our 'book of 2003': Hiroshi Fujiwara's compendium
of his work from the past decade(s). Printed with a manifold of different inks
and on a variety of papers and other materials, this book presents the reader
with an intense dose of graphic- and product design. But not only that - it's
the sheer mass of visuals that will force you to sit down. What we encountered
when studying this book is the following notions: 'Why did I sleep on that?", "I
have that...!", "I want that!", "That, too...?". Unfortunately,
only very few copies made it to Europe. If you're lucky, you might still be able
to get one at The Hideout or Fly in London.
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MAT.
Proud 2bea Flyer
Did you know that Goodenough (see above) also used to be a club night in London
during the early 1990s? If no, than you need to do some homework - and your first
assignment is to study this book, a collection of flyers that stands out in the
masses of books on the subject. You won't find any candy-colored, manga-eyed,
arrow-laden technoid graphics here. Only the best of illustration, photography
and typography by artists such as Andrew Rae, Gareth Bayliss, Heavyweight, and
Mode 2 or agencies such as AAGD/Munich, Azlan Design/Bristol, Raffinerie/Zurich
and Sartoria/Modena. Now get to work - there might a quiz on this subject.
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Friday, 21st |
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Retail.
Beneath
We start today with a very special store up north, in Scandinavia - Stockholm,
Sweden to be precise (we're looking at it from a central European view - for
others it might be in the far West or East, or even far down south...). To get
back to the point - Beneath has just opened up it's doors that lead you into
a retail space where you will find a carefully selected range of clothing and
accessories.
All the labels that Beneath carries are exclusive to the store for the Scandic
region. Among them: Aurora Borealis, Clarendon, Complete Finesse, PriceLe$$ (watch
this space for more info and pics...), Sarcastic, Tonite, House of Jazz, Kim
Jones, Perks and Mini, etc. So now we're waiting for Beneath's own line 'Midnight
Division' to drop shortly.
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Exhibition.
Hello My Name Is
And another post from up north - geographically speaking... Nic Fensom sent us
pics from his show 'Hello My Name Is' which took place at the University of British
Columbia/Canada in October. The name is self-explanatory but we'll give you a
hint: The people in the photographs all signed Hello-My-Name-Is stickers which
were then used to attach the pictures to the wall. Very personal, even more so
when you keep in mind that many of them are Nic's friends, too.
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Wednesday, 19th |
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Printed
Matter. Sneaker Freaker #3
Woody from Sneaker Freaker gave us a sneak peek into the newest issue
#3. His crew had hit the Big Apple before us - and while staying there
gathered some great input for their latest publication. In it you'll
find a feature on the history of the Air Trainer series, a retrospecitve
of the Reebok Pump, and a huge piece on the city itself.
While there, they also met with a few people who they forced into
talking about that lame subject of sneakers. The following suffered
hard: Sandy Bodecker - Vice President of Nike Skate, Alex Corporan
- Supreme Clothing, Tony - alife, and Fraser Cooke - Foot Patrol/London.
Could it be that all of these people showed up at the Nike Laser event?
Did Woody catch them there...?
You need more info? Ok, here it is: Art from Regular Product, stories
on Nike Laser technology, New Balance, SPX, Troop, Kangaroos, Vans,
Saucony, and the winners of the inaugural Sneaker Freaker colouring-in
comp!
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Thursday, 13th |
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Printed
Matter. Escape NYC
People in NYC and L.A. listen up – if you need new wall decoration
for your penthouse, you should check Nike retailers on Tuesday for
this: To celebrate the first re-release of Nike's first trail runner
- the Escape from 1985 - retailers will give out 400 posters featuring
the artwork of OJAS (or Devon Trunbull as his parents would call him).
If in in the Big Apple, you'll also get a map of the city which shows
you places to escape the hectic metro life - trails, places to climb,
for kayaking, or just for relaxing.
If you neither live in NYC nor in L.A. we have a special & exclusive
treat for you - you can download both poster and map right here to
print out yourselves. These are .zip files. In it you'll find either
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Wednesday, 12th |
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T-shirts.
Scrawl
Ever thought about this: you spend quite some bills on a T-shirt to
get a tiny little print, or sometimes only a small embroidery on the
chest. A microscopic woven label (with that head on it) on the sleeve
might make up for the lack of ink on the shirt, you think. But sometimes
that's just not enough. You want that print to be big, you want to
get the paint on that shirt. That's why you went for the new Peter
Sellers and Charlie Chaplin tees by Supreme, and that's why we think
that you will especially like the new Scrawl tees.
Three more reasons that speak for them: Steff Plaetz, Kid Acne, and
Phlash. These guys treat their shirts as canvasses - using the space
really well. That's a lot of ink on one shirt and that's good. You
do get you money worth of color in this case. Plus a tag on the sleeve.
How good does it get?
Decent sizes are still available but you might want to be fast because:
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Tuesday,
11th |
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Garments.
Vinti Andrews
We don't know how it is with you guys, but for us throwing away old
clothing is not the 'way to go'. A) because we hunt, gather and must-keep
everything for a long time - more so, if the pieces took us a long
time to get in the first place, B) the items were just too pricey
to be tossed out like that, and C) we believe that our children would
be the coolest when they can wear daddie's vintage sneakers or mommie's
takashi murakami bag...
If everyone would think this way, there wouldn't be anything for Vinti
Andrews to work with. They take the clothing that people had stopped
loving (mostly sportswear) and rework it in a such a way that people
will start loving it again. Their pieces include shoes, bags, all
different pieces of clothing, and the fellas above. Just those bears
will make you want to throw out your old jumpsuits right away. Hopefully
Vinti Andrews will pick them up. |
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Monday, 10th |
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Magazine.
Relax #82
When we received this month's Relax magazine we were not too sure
about what to think of it. First thought - beautiful cover by Katsuya
Terada. Second thought, please not another Nike Dunk feature. For
those of you who have read the last Boon, Street Jack, etc. you would
probably have thought the same. Both these Japanese magazines had
Dunk features in their last issues.
Ok, we open it and what do we see - Julius "Dr. J" Erving
hanging from the basket. So this isn't about the shoes after all...
No skipping the pages now. Ok, nice bit on camouflage clothing and
merchandise... Then there it is, four pages of dunk (as in basketball)
photography... but then a full blown Nike Dunk color overview (recent
colors as well as older ones). Is this good or bad... Is Relax letting
us down?
No - far from that. What follows next is a visual feast: images from
the White Dunk event (including the travel cases for the artwork),
a piece on Katsuya Terada, the laser project, and - to top it off
- a sticker page with Dunk-inspired graphics by J. Jarvis, Young Kim,
Ojas, Perks & Mini, jest / alife, etc.. So, yes, it is a Dunk
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Thursday,
6th |
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Book.
I NY
At the moment, the term 'street art' might sound as exciting to you
as 'ltd. edition'. The subject has been so widely covered by now,
that one could easily say - no thanks. Looking at “I NY”,
however, we tell you to think twice. This book presents a personal
collection of photographs snapped in New York City over the past two
years (yes, one person, two years). It is not organized by artist
or by method. It simply presents work directly from the street from
all over the city. And NYC is a big city to cover.
Kelly Burns, the author, was/is active in the streets himself, too.
During his miles and miles of walks around the city, he began snapping
pictures of recurring themes and also original, never-again-seen pieces.
It is this reverence for the art itself that makes the book so interesting.
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Wednesday,
5th |
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Shop.
Dave's Quality Meat
Dave has a history with meat! How ist that? - well his history with
Zoo York had put him in close proximity with it. The Zoo HQ used to
be right in the middle of the meat packing district in NYC. From there
he took the idea for his new shop on 7 East 3rd street. It manifests
itself in the form of a meat counter - with the tees being professionally
wrapped up in styrofoam plates. He even put in a conveyor - not moving
- to hold tees and bags, for the ladies and the gents. Even though
we visited the shop on its opening day, Dave and his crew had already
stocked that place to the fullest: his own t-shirts and decks, bags
and jewellery by Princess Tina, Rosasen's woven masterpieces, shades
... and of course these: Nike Dunks, Jordans, Vandals, Air Force Is,
Blazers, Wildwoods, and A Bathing Ape Super Ape Skates by adidas.
As Dave told us, that's only the beginning. More stuff is still to
arrive...
We wish Dave and his crew all the best for their venture. You hurry
now to see for yourselves! |
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