Cool Hunting Video Presents: Kemps Milk Carton Boat Races

Coming up on four decades of competition, the Kemps Milk Carton Boat Races offers fierce competition and creative designs

In this video we travel to Minneapolis to witness the 37th annual Kemps Milk Carton Boat Races. Started as a publicity stunt by a local dairy, every year teams build and race boats made almost entirely out of empty milk cartons as part of Minneapolis’ annual summer Aquatennial. With pirate galleons, floating tea parties and cow-themed entries all barely afloat on Lake Calhoun, the event …

Adad Hannah: Living Stills

Born in New York in 1971, artist Adad Hannah spent his formative years in London and Vancouver before settling in Montreal, where he currently lives and works. He has exhibited in Seoul, Madrid, Poland, Amsterdam, Cardiff and Basel to mention but a few. The past six years of his career have been focused on "tableaux vivants" or "living stills," a process involves posing models and …

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese-born Yayoi Kusama has been creating her distinctive brand of avant-garde creations ever since she arrived in the U.S. some 50 years ago. But she's taken it to a new level. Moving into the medium of open-air sculptures in 1994, Kusama debuted a solo exhibition in Tokyo entitled "KUSAMATRIX" a decade later drawing more than a half-million people. Today, her pieces reside permanently not only …