Cool Hunting Video – SXSW 1: Interactive

Cool Hunting and Missing Pieces SXSW 1: Interactive Our first SXSW vidcast directly from Austin, Texas. In this episode we interview Hugh Forrest, Event Director of the innovative Interactive program at SXSW. Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:58:00 EST http://homepage.mac.com/josh.rubin/.Public/video/mp023.m4v 3:37

Refinery29: Seal of Approval

Vancouver, the cultural capital of British Columbia, has bred and nurtured a fertile community of independent thinkers. Pyrrha Design, a downtown Vancouver-based jewelry design company, are a great example of the iconoclastic attitude of the city as whole. Their latest line, Seals, is based entirely around incorporating antique wax seals (mostly found at estate sales and junk shops) into rings, necklaces, and pendants. The pieces …

Leo Villareal’s LED Light Tubes

Remember the LED tubes we saw at CES and showed you in this CH Video? Leo Villareal, our favorite light sculptor, has taken them and applied his sometimes soothing, other times frenetic animation style. The video below is of Columns 4 (4) (2005, light emitting diodes, microcontroller, plexiglas tubes, circuit board, 42 x 72 inches, edition: 3) a new piece featured by Connor Contrmporary Art …