Refinery29 Countdown Videos

Refinery29, our favorite co-conspirators in fashion, today launched Countdown, their series of online videos visiting top designers in their studios in the days leading up to New York's upcoming fashion week. The inaugural episode takes a look at duo Vena Cava who were recently nominated for the CFDA/Vogue fashion award, sneaking a peak at their upcoming collection and design process. With Alexander Wang, Rag & …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Gelitin

The Austrian art collective, Gelitin, turns away from homemade roller coasters and nudity to dig a whole in the Coney Island beach

In this episode we go to Coney Island to dig a hole with the four Austrian-based artists known as Gelitin. Part of a series organized by Creative Time, the week-long project involved digging a hole in the sand and filling it back in each day. The piece was a relatively tame one for the group whose other performances have included hand-built working roller coasters, a …

The Reel New York Film Festival

I recently started watching "The Reel New York Film Festival," a show highlighting experimental works, shorts, documentaries, animated shorts and narratives made by New Yorkers and/or about New Yorkers on local cable. Now in its twelfth season, tonight's program features several shorts including Jane Nisselson’s “Electromagnetic Spectrum,†which—in the tradition of the Eames science films—communicates a basic science phenomena via an apparently non-scientific situation. Nisselson …