Industrial Revolutions

A new clip showing Danny MacAskill's unbelievable bike skills

As part of the U.K.’s Channel 4 series on urban action sports, Concrete Circus, Scotsman Danny MacAskill weaves, winds, hops, flips and otherwise impressively maneuvers his way through an abandoned ironworks factory in his native land. The entire collection of documentaries showcases specialized athletes in and out of their natural urban element, but few demand such widespread attention as MacAskill—as this clip proves. Thanks to …

CH Book Giveaway

Tweet to win a book and iPhone case in our giveaway

Spanning indie zines to extensive cookbooks, the plethora of books sourced for our holiday pop-up with the Gap last year are all penned by NYC-based authors. Our city’s literary bounty can now be yours—we’re giving away the backstock to a handful of lucky CH readers along with our special-edition Cool Hunting iPhone cases. To win, tweet @coolhunting with the link to your favorite Cool Hunting …

Peter Doig

Ethereal landscapes and moody figurative scenes in Peter Doig's comprehensive new monograph

Best known for melancholy and dreamlike renditions of bucolic landscapes, Scottish artist Peter Doig has become one of the most internationally-celebrated painters of his generation. The distinction is all the more striking for a modern artist given such ordinary-seeming subjects and his chosen medium—painterly figurative work initially put him on the global stage in the ’90s. In a new slipcased monograph of the Turner Prize-winner’s …