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A few months ago, I was in the desert with a friend who’s a primitive skills expert and as we were walking along he showed me how to find water where there didn’t seem to be any, to make rope from vegetation, and to use grass to lasso a lizard for protein (surprisingly easy, once [...]
In honor of International Surfing Day, here’s a freaking amazing little surfing video put together by Karim Rejeb, a French-Dutch skate park builder living in the south of France. Called Lino, short for linoleum, it documents a tribe of wave-hungry Lego people. Yep, Lego people. Click now. Cause if it hasn’t blown up yet, it [...]
If your idea of outside art is oil paintings of western landscapes or ginormous glossy prints of grizzlies catching salmon in the air, it’s time to recalibrate. There’s so much contemporary art set in, around, and about the outdoors, it’s ridiculous. And one place to find good, affordable art is The Working Proof.
TWP is a [...]
Polartec’s annual Apex awards, which recognize achievement in design using the fabric maker’s products, always produce three emotions. One, desire to own some of the kickass North American winners (achievable). Two, desire to own some of the kickass European winners (unlikely, due to cost and lack of retail access). Three, fashion scorn at some of [...]
You might have heard about that little oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico? Despite weasling before Congress, the company formerly known as British Petroleum was behind it. The company hasn’t just tried to squirm its way out of responsibility for the spill–a few years ago, much like a drug lord receiving a face [...]
In light of the environmental disaster unfolding to the north, Jason de Caires Taylor’s art is particularly poignant: The sculptor is creating an underwater museum in the crystalline expanse of Caribbean blue near Cancun and Isla Mujeres, Mexico, with life-size castings of local residents. Artificial reefs are common, but none have taken the form of [...]
Google’s campus of googlers is busy as a hive of bees making its translation algorithms more accurate, so one day you will stumble upon, say, a webpage of Slovenian wicca spells and convert them instantly and perfectly to English. And that day will be a sad one, because one of the joys of mismangled translations [...]
Ten years after Blu first came to fame for his radically creative and often illegal street art, he returned to Italy and put up this tables-turned piece along an overpass in Milan. Bikes don’t figure in much of Blu’s work; rather, his paintings are populated with dreamy, big-headed humanoids who interact with the landscape in [...]
Molson ad extremely reminiscent of Ryan McGinley’s frenetic Levi’s work. More art from marketers. Maybe we should create a new word for it: martketing.
Nau’s profile is decidely lower these days, and maybe that’s for the better. In the heady times of 2007-2008, the über-conscious eco-brand was seemingly everywhere–everywhere but in the black, that is. Nau’s struggles to make cutting edge technical and sustainable clothing were laudable, but unsustainable, and the brand shut down, only to be brought back [...]
Way up near the top of list of best uses for the internet is finding art. With clients like Target and Burton and Gnu and the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival, Amy Ruppel appears to have no shortage of people finding her or her art, but every little bit helps, right? And in the case of this [...]
“Hello Neighbor” begins with a sly wink that slides by so fast you might miss it: A drawn map of the United States flashes on the screen, but the states are backwards. Virginia’s on the west coast, California on the east. By the time this subtle bit of wryness registers, you’ve moved into colorful, delightful [...]
“My current work is an exploration of the inherent transience and connectedness of all things,” writes artist Danna Ray. In her ethereal paintings, the connectedness is loose and the transience soft. Fields of colors, indefinite edges, implied landscapes…Ray’s outdoor world is one that tugs at the fuzzy edge of imagination, yet is immediately familiar. “Campfire” [...]
If you’ve seen any of Nike 6.0’s branding, you’ve seen Adam Haynes’s artwork. The skate brand built much of its early identity around Haynes’s detailed, extravagantly imagined scenes. Well, Fuel TV saw the brilliance in his illustrations and commissioned him to put his line-drawn world into motion as a short promo for the channel.>>>
Everybody knows what parkour is, right? The street sport that combines urban gymnastics with the forward motion of a drug dealer being chased by the cops? Well, here’s parkour like you’ve never seen it. Serene Teh is a graphic design student in Singapore who put this clever animation together for a class assignment. It took her four weeks to complete–two weeks of planning, two weeks of execution. If she doesn’t get an A, we’re gonna have to track down the professor…>>>
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Evoking the warmth of a summer breeze fluttering white curtains through an open window, the sheer voile fabric of Carve Designs’ Sarlo Cover-Up is soft and flattering. It’s a simple piece with a few delicate touches–v-neck and embroidery at the next and hem. Sleeves are three-quarter length.
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