Cool Hunting c/o Quarterly Co.

Our "store" with the new subscription service puts physical gifts in your mail box

You might have already read about how impressed we were with Quarterly Co., a new subscription service offering gifts hand-selected by a unique roster of influential contributors. Well, now it’s our turn—opening today at 12 p.m. PST, the Cool Hunting c/o Quarterly Co. “store” will be live for 48 hours, during which time users may buy subscriptions to receive CH-curated packages—called “issues”—every three months. Subscriptions …

Travis Louie

Peek inside the artist's mind to learn what motivated his latest film noir inspired paintings

As a young boy growing up in Queens, Travis Louie would roam the hallways of his friends’ houses gazing longingly at their vintage family photographs, realizing the lack of pictures of previous generations of his own Chinese-American family. Years later when Louie’s drawing career transitioned into painting characters inspired by film noir and German Expressionism, he realized that in some way he was creating his …

Ed Wood Sleaze Paperbacks

The most extensive collection of lewd literature by the infamous author

Slandered as a deviant and provocateur in some circles and worshipped as a cult figure in others, the work of director Ed Wood left a legacy of infamy. Although best-known for his abysmally applauded oeuvre, Plan 9 From Outer Space, which earned Wood the Golden Turkey Award for Worst Film Director, it was Wood’s idiosyncratic behavior of directing in drag, shoestring hustle and entourage of …