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February 28, 2011
Baby Gaga ice cream from real breast milk!
2:15 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Food Files
The famous ice cream store the Icecreamist in Covent Garden in London is serving a new range of ice cream, made from real human breast milk. The dessert, called Baby Gaga, is churned with donations from London mother Victoria Hiley, and served with a rusk and an optional shot of Calpol or Bonjela. Also fifteen mothers from Leeds are donating their breast milk.
According to one of the workers the reason behind the concept is about pure, organic and totally natural icecream. They couldn't think of milk that was more biologic then breast milk. Don't really think that's true, is milk from a biological cow not as biological as human breast milk?? Considering the name, Baby Gaga and the Gaga-look-a-like-waitress I believe it's more about creating a exclusive luxury dish then expanding the biological factor.
The dish costs £14, a lot for ice cream! Now I admit I'm not really up for this dish, but if you feel the need to taste this exclusive Baby Gaga dish check their site here to note locations etc.
Interactive Eco-geek graffiti: Moss invaders!
2:08 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Street Art Files
This concept is quit unique! It's geeky, green, interactive, playful and absolutely cool!
This is how it works: the visitor chooses reflect upon the moss mural and then on closer inspection touches the moss. The moss responds by playing a sound. This prompts the visitor to touch different parts of the moss. Different visitors standing around listen or start playing different parts of the mural in concert.
Moss invaders comprises a living graffiti mural and a capacitive sound installation into one piece. The moss mural is made using laser cut stencils to mold a moss milkshake concoction of our own devising. The moss paste is “painted” onto the stencils to grow directly onto the brick wall surface. The sound installation aspect takes the moss invaders into the intergalactic realm. Each moss pad is a capacitive sensor which plays 8-bit musical sounds when touched.
This is how it works: the visitor chooses reflect upon the moss mural and then on closer inspection touches the moss. The moss responds by playing a sound. This prompts the visitor to touch different parts of the moss. Different visitors standing around listen or start playing different parts of the mural in concert.
Moss invaders comprises a living graffiti mural and a capacitive sound installation into one piece. The moss mural is made using laser cut stencils to mold a moss milkshake concoction of our own devising. The moss paste is “painted” onto the stencils to grow directly onto the brick wall surface. The sound installation aspect takes the moss invaders into the intergalactic realm. Each moss pad is a capacitive sensor which plays 8-bit musical sounds when touched.
Inez & Vinoodh for Vogue Paris
2:05 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Editorial Files
Love this very Dutch editorial by the always original Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin starring model Anna de Rijk. Especially love the make-up and the eye-mask with glittered eyes on it. Watch it in Vogue Paris March 2011.
The art of cookies!
2:02 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Food Files
Love this amazing cute cookies by the 'cooky boy'. Sadly for us his site is in some Asian language, I guess Chinese (biggest chance) .
But when you can't buy something, it doesn't mean you can't get it! Macaroons and cookies are the new cupcakes and I know from experience cookies are soooo much easier to bake! So the smart cooks amongst us can use his work as an inspiration and serve some amazing originality to their visitors..or just eat all themselves.
STORMTROOPERS BABY CARRIER
1:57 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Gadget Files
The classic geek is known for his difficulties with social adjustments and his intelligence. The geek as we know him now isn't that impopular anymore and for the future of human kind it's better if they reproduce a lot! So how to improve this?, must the designer of this baby carrier have thought.
Lately their appearing more and more geeky parenting stuff and especially for dads. This baby carrier is mega geeky and I guess mega uncomfortable. I wouldn’t like to put any baby in that but it looks very cool!
February 22, 2011
recycled teddy bear rugs
2:34 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Toy Files
How cool are these recycled teddy bear rugs, created by artist Agustina Woodgate, who says about her work:
I aim to create art that fosters exchanges between people rather than encounters between a viewer and object. Through these exchanges, meaning is elaborated collectively, rather than in the space of individual consumption.
I really like the concept, maybe a good idea for people who are afraid to throw away there old stuffed animals because of emotional issues!
Via UO.
February 20, 2011
Upcycled Action Figures in Afghanistan
5:07 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Toy Files
I was just reading a amazing story about a American soldier who builds action figures from trash.
Private First Class Rupert Valero is stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Wilson in Khandahar, Afghanistan. A former oil rig engineer, Valero has been a collector and customizer of 6" super-articulated action figures for many years. Since being stationed in Afghanistan he has begun making his own figures entirely from found materials...
Read a inspiring interview with this creative soldier here!
Design Glut jewelery: The future is shiny
4:50 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Accessoiry Files
The ladies from Design Glut design 'necklaces that get people talking!' This fun duo designs really positive and fun jewelery. The future is bright and shiny according to there site, with these around your neck I believe it's true! Luckily their jewelery ain't that expensive, most designs are around $60! So make your future more shiny and buy them here!
Proenza Schouler inspired by Domingo Ayala?
4:27 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Accessoiry Files
Proenza Schouler is offering a collection of “Bright,” unisex rope bracelets ($150,-!). Opening Ceremony put these up two weeks ago, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Now I couldn't help but thinking, haven't I seen these before? After some scrolling back on this blog I found out what it was. A little while a blogged about a DIY idea inspired by jewelery designer Domingo Ayala. I believe it's a little ridicilous Proenza Schouler asks $150 for the little pieces of rope and keyhangers which are available by any shoe repairmen. I suggest if you like these bracelets, let yourself be inspired by Domingo Ayala and create your own version! Or even more fair, buy a original handmade one of Domingo's instead!
Cory Arcangel creates Art from hacked video games
3:52 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Art Files
Cory Arcangel hacks video games to make art. For his Super Mario Clouds piece in 2002, he took the original NES cartridge and deleted all the code apart from that required to paint clouds. His most recent work, Beat the Champ displays an array of live loops generated from bowling video games on a variety of game consoles, from the archaic 1978 Odyssey² up to the Gamecube and every generation in between. And every one has been programmed to throw only gutter balls.
I don't really know what to think about the works on the pictures above, but I do like the concept of hacking videogames and changing them. Gaming has become a very popular way of spending free time and generations grew up playing the same games over and over again. The original games look very familiar and become a good ingredient for contemporary (pop)art.
Read here a interview with Cory Arcangel about his exhibition 'Beat the Champ' at the Barbican Art Gallery, London until May 22.
Print your consummate 'Melonia shoes'
3:24 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # DIY files
Students of Stockholm's two most prestigious design schools have collaborated together with Materialise to produce these awe-inspiring, full-wearable shoes, 3D printed in polyamid.
Naim Josefi and Souzan Youssouf, of Beckmans & Konstfack respectively, designed and modelled the shoes for Selective Laser Sintering (the one with all the powder and the lasers) and produced five pairs for Naim's "Melonia" collection, shown during Stockholm Fashion Show earlier this month.
The concept for the shoes call for further exploration in ever-developing rapid prototyping processes. The pair envisage a world in which we could produce and recycle such objects in a closed loop.
Watch more pictures here.
The worlds largest touch screen in Groningen
1:21 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Technology Files
In the university of Groningen, the Netherlands students developed the worlds largest curved touch screen!
They used six Optitrack v120 slim camera's which have a good sensitivity for infrared light. They used 16 cheap infrared emitters (the kind used for security systems) with a total of 1000 LED's.
The touch detection software runs on three old computers each with two camera's connected. One extra computer combines the output from the detection computers and send event data to our main visualization system.
This way they have (even using the old computers) enough processing power to be able to run the detection software at 60Hz and with a latency between 30 ms and 50 ms. It can detect without any problem 100 different touches at any time..according to the students.
All these technical information sounds a little blur to me, but watching the movie makes me feel very excited and proud to be Dutch!
February 8, 2011
Evo: Saving ordinairy people from themselves
6:21 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Brand Files
During a work conversation last week at Toni & Guy Rotterdam, the director showed me with huge enthusiasm the product line of the haircare brand Evo. After some more research on the internet I got more and more excited about this brand comming from Australia. Evo takes a different approach towards haircare then we are used from haircare brands. It's rebellious and takes in a anti-position towards luxury cosmetic brands who market there products with all kind of weird ingredients we don't really understand or need.
Evo does that in a very humorous and twisted way with lots of irony. The whole brand identity is very cult, with adds and designs that look very styled, shiny and conceptual like Diesel Campaigns. The product design is simple, fresh, clean and very no nonsense, but the titles and slogans of the products are hilarious! To start with their all-over slogan. 'Evo: Saving ordinairy people from themselves'. The curl rolers are advertised by the slogan 'twisted for life' and promoted by the 1981 curl champion, who now is old grey and still wears the outfit and girls curls from the 80's. Evo also thinks about the environment and also promotes that in a very ironic way, with the 'poorganic disclaimer'. Like by the 'Love is in the hair' product line, the 'poorganic disclaimer' claims: " Only fruit that has naturally fallen from untarnished trees is used to flavour our products." I really love that approach towards honest products. It doesn't always have to be so serious when brands mention the environment. A salon that decides to sell and use the product-line gets a free set of knifes, for some old skool barbering I suppose. Not very realistic but very fun as a concept!
Now, I can go on and on quoting claims I liked but I sugest you find out for yourself on the Evo website. I especially recommend the movies and the lookbooks! The Evo websites store locater only gives selling locations in Australia. But I have already seen it in Rotterdam, as soon as it's going to be for sale I will let you know!
Special thanks to Toni & Guy Rotterdam
The first interactive bench in the world
6:04 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Technology Files
The first interactive bench in the world invites you to play, move and experience the urban space in a new way. A bench which changes color and pattern as you pass by, has sprung up in the middle of Copenhagen’s ‘Islands Brygge’.
The bench is situated at the newly restored urban space above the underground parking facility in Leifsgade, Island Brygge in Copenhagen. The idea for the interactive element arose when the Municipality of Copenhagen had to restore the urban space after completing a two year building process of an underground parking facility.
Copenhagen based architectural office MAPT is behind the concept and development of the bench. At nightfall it lights up like a playful and poetic element between the new playground and football pitch. The vision of an urban space which communicates has become reality in collaboration with interaction designer Sune Petersen.
"We've been fascinated by urban spaces that communicate with people, for a long time. As a starting point, we chose something that was already out there, the benches, and then made one of them come to life. When people walk past the interactive bench, it lights up and lures with play." says MAPT
The bench is situated at the newly restored urban space above the underground parking facility in Leifsgade, Island Brygge in Copenhagen. The idea for the interactive element arose when the Municipality of Copenhagen had to restore the urban space after completing a two year building process of an underground parking facility.
Copenhagen based architectural office MAPT is behind the concept and development of the bench. At nightfall it lights up like a playful and poetic element between the new playground and football pitch. The vision of an urban space which communicates has become reality in collaboration with interaction designer Sune Petersen.
"We've been fascinated by urban spaces that communicate with people, for a long time. As a starting point, we chose something that was already out there, the benches, and then made one of them come to life. When people walk past the interactive bench, it lights up and lures with play." says MAPT
On MAPT's website you can read much more about this interactive bench. To understand how cool it is, you should just watch the video, it's pretty amazing. Really hope the bench in front of my house will look like that in a decade or something. It can also be very cool in front of museums, at festival, so much! It will give the parks a more cleaner and safer look in the dark and it is also incredible fun for kids!
Armani: Frames of Your Life
5:53 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Brand Files
Georgio Armani brings his new eyewear collection to the streets in a clever campaign incorporating fashion, photography and social media.
Frames of Your Life takes 4 bloggers – photographers and trendsetters in their own right – and sets them loose on the streets of Milan, Paris, London and Berlin to snap everyday people, captured in a single moment wearing Armani specs.
In the tradition of street style blogs like The Sartorialist and Jak and Jil, the resulting photographs reveal distinct personalities and styles– ones that wouldn’t otherwise be found in a conventional ad campaign.
The cities themselves are also brought to life, each revealing its own flavour and aesthetic. Of Berlin, blogger Natalie Weiss observes “It is difficult to frame something that is on the move, and Berlin definitely is.”“Paris is really about ‘less is more’ for fashion, design, and way of life,” says Eleonore Bridge of the city she documented for the campaign.
The cities themselves are also brought to life, each revealing its own flavour and aesthetic. Of Berlin, blogger Natalie Weiss observes “It is difficult to frame something that is on the move, and Berlin definitely is.”“Paris is really about ‘less is more’ for fashion, design, and way of life,” says Eleonore Bridge of the city she documented for the campaign.
The one common thread between the 4 series of portraits is the strong structural shape of the designer frames.
Frames of Your Life is now set to leave Europe and travel across the world, with New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai next on the list to be snapped.
The best shots from around the world will then be curated and showcased at a special event celebrating the project.
What I really love, is that Armani didn't pick extremely famous bloggers, makes the project more pure, hope the project will also come to Amsterdam.
McMiracles
5:41 PM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # DIY Files
Saw this awesome hobby on Booooooom Blog. The artist of this mazing french fry sculpture is Christopher Chiappa, the sculpture is part of his series 'McMiracles', absolutely love the title! So when you are bored in McDonalds, you can always try to create a McMiracle yourself! Good luck!
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street-art: Signs of Affection
11:21 AM | Geplaatst door
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Cool Collector # Street Art Files
I am a big fan of the latest street-art project "Signs of Affection" from graphic designer Paul Price. Little sentences in the public space which suppose to make people feel good. Really love the idea of making street-art that makes people smile and feel good about themselves, should happen more! So dear readers who hit the streets with spray-cans... here's your inspiration to make the world a happier place! Yes you can!
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