When you take a seat at your local sidewalk-side business, do you think about where you’re sitting in proximity to the windows? Perhaps if you do, when the windows seem too small, this becomes a non issue. Or maybe if you do, you sit close because you like to show off what you’re wearing, or maybe it’s spring and you want to stay close to the warming of the world? This photo project/collection “Through The Glass” by Stefano Mattia asks these questions, if you ask me, especially the one “what are you looking at, buster?” To the photographer. Or to whoever’s looking.
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Have you had a nice day today? Well, maybe it’s because you’re totally suffocating The Environment! Yes, every day, 1 million animals die from eating plastic bags. Isn’t that crazy? Well designer / artist Aron Kullander-Östling is about to get all up into the print shop and do something wild about it. Yes, that’s right, he’s gonna screenprint his way outta this one. And he does! In a limited edition of 50, he’s changed the world, one bag at a time. Taking the graphics from this 100% classic plastic bag you could find anywhere in the world basically, he transfered and inked his way onto 50 hand-sewn canvass bags.

Sewed em himself even!
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Welcome to the state of shoes. It is a police state. Get a load of these stilettos. Pump them on up to the highest point of insane fashion extravaganza street festival. That’s totally a level of awesome. For these shoes. Made by industrial designer Tim Cooper using entirely 3D technology to render these bad boys out. Ohhh mama. Lock me up and throw away the police shoes. I just can’t stand them! Amazing!
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I’ll tell you why. About a billion little cute toys and a bunch of free posters. Holy crap free stuff and cute stuff. Robot Love is the future store for Minneapolis. The only one for about one billion miles in any direction, if memory serves me right, and stopping in today was just about the best thing I’ve done all day. I walk in and the head dude, Kris, is sitting behind the counter. “Hi Chris,” he says, because that’s my name also. “Oh hi,” I say. And he’s all “do you want some posters for free?” and I’m all “WTF yes I do.” And bam!
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Oh so you’ve got old photos at recognizable places, yes? So you’d like to reawaken the ghost in the machine? That’s scary. Let’s do it! First, get an old photo you can place. Next, get a camera. Then let’s go to the location you know connects to the photo. OK! Now, stand in just the right place and angle, hold that photo up somehow, and take a photo. Foosh! Look what you’ve done! This is friggin magical!
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Photographers Pauline Fabry and Daniel Torz have taken it upon themselves to keep the world on top of itself. Here in this post is their collection of freshness. Fabry and Torz photograph a set of people who’ve got style and finesse, plus one man underwater, with a bit of plastic rap. Look through this group of serious looking folks and note how nice and shiny fabulous it keeps them in it’s everyoung plastic state. It’s a holdup!
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Go Nigo Go Nigo Go! Go, go, go, go! Nigo, Nigo, rappala, Nigo, Nigo, hook fashion addict. Go! Go! Go! Go! — A Bathing Ape brand has the fishy smarts behind it. Those people know exactly what they’re doing when they bait this hook. What you see above (and below) is their new collaboration with Daiwa (fishing gear brand) – fishing lures with Bape camouflage graphics. Not just to further your total Bape lifestyle, but for the irony of the lure culture!
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The folks at YOUNG design studio have created a lovely vision of what could (very well?) be the future of fashion education. The Vivienne Westwood Academy in a single logomark and typestyle (and type arrangement.) Join up and be rebellious with a nice blue and white combination and extremely thin bits of solid. You win this round, negative space.
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Design by Sirena con Jersey! Here’s a couple of lovely sweaters created by fun minds at Sirena con Jersey means mermaid with sweater in Spanish. The sweaters we’ve got showing here have clouds, have watermelon heads, and have a nice mountain scene. You will look positively swanky in one of these bad boys. I assure you.
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A hundred and eighty, that’s 180, animal logos are being ENSLAVED! What’s going on right here is designer Karl Grandin is SETTING THEM FREE! Hooray! Into a sweater. Freed right into a sweater. The fabric in the sweater’s made using computerized knitting technology at the Nederlands Textielmuseum in Tilburg, then cut and sewn by seamstress Dima Stefanova. As of now, they’re a limited edition and not set for production. Sad!
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Last time I was speaking about Rihanna she was doing some pyramid schemes up on the Glow in the Dark tour with some o’ her pals. Lots happened since then. Nothing so hardcore as this. This right here is a post containing some gigantic photos of Rihanna’s newest music…film? It might be more rough than a simple video would have you believe. These are photos from the upcoming song single “Hard” with Rihanna and Young Jeezy.

She’s got guns. And spikes.
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