Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Rick Owens goes full frontal, Microsoft's HoloLens, meditating in a Vegas nightclub and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Krrb Classifieds Nascar meets wheelchair in this polished tire rocker up for grabs on community-based classifieds site Krrb. The chair, named “El Rocker de Las Llantas Muertas” (The Rocker of Dead Tires), has been meticulously hand crafted by Brooklyn-based designer Rodney Allen Trice using various found objects and features two perfectly balanced rubber wheels and a custom steel frame. As explained by Swiss Miss …

Rick Owens’ Peepshow Pieces

Nudity at a fashion show is usually nothing to cause a commotion over, but at a recent Paris Fashion Week menswear show, designer Rick Owens set onlookers abuzz by sending four of his male models down the runway with peepholes for their penises. Owens is known for his dark and unconventional aesthetic, but his latest flesh-flashing pieces surprised even the most seasoned attendees and earned …

Antoni Gaudi’s Newest Structure

Nearly 90 years after his death, famed architect Antoni Gaudi will help give rise to another inspired structure. A new chapel based off of his designs from 1922 is set to be built in Rancangua, Chile and will be the first of Gaudi’s buildings located outside of his home country of Spain. The chapel will be part of a larger spiritual and cultural center which …