Cool Hunting Video Presents: YACHT

Portland-based indie-dance progenitor Yacht explains how he melds the grunge aesthetic with electronic music technology

Episode 86 follows grunge-pop superstar YACHT (aka Jona Bechtolt) to a show on an actual yacht, around his Portland, OR apartment and on tour. He shows off his spastic cheerleader-meets-Ian Curtis dance moves, talks tech and introduces his cat and best friend Whiskers. This video is only a glimpse into the life of one of the most promising young, rising laptop rockers out there, but …

Streets.to: A Virtual Guide

Planning a visit to Canada’s largest city? Look no further than Streets.to , Toronto’s visual search engine, to set you up with a personal tour. Taking you on a simulated 3-D city excursion, Streets.to is touted as "the world's first and only patent-pending virtual cityscape." It's purpose: to turn virtual into reality, giving you a comprehensive visual depiction of what one can expect in and …

Aaron Hobson: Cinemascapes

Tweaking the mundane to create the bizarre, each of Aaron Hobson's images suggests a plot line for the imagination to fill in the blanks. He constructs his "cinemascapes" using multiple images, stitching them together to create a scene filled with small details that hint at a complex narrative. Raised in industrial Pittsburgh but now based in a small Adirondack Mountain town near the Canadian border, …