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I just got an awesome email from Ben over at Argonaut Cycles. A bit back I posted some sexy stainless steel lugwork and dropout detailing from Drew Lavicka’s custom track bike. Well, Ben just sent me updated pics of the final build and it is drop dead gorgeous. Literally. I am blown away at how nice this beast looks!
How’s that for US-made frame work Kyle?
Joel’s a busy guy. When he’s not designing cabinetry for his shop in Long Island, he’s either designing stickers, t-shirts, large skulls, painting huge naked girls and even making his own limited toy.
Check out this collaborative effort between Super 7 and his moniker Lamour Supreme. I never really dove into the Kaiju / Japanese limited toy collection game, partially because it’s such an expensive hobby and frankly, my girlfriend would kill me if I spent anywhere near the amount of money on some of their price tags.
This however I think will be my first. Joel, lookin good man. Keep it up! and let me know when I can get one of these!
If you’re nice to me and send me a self-addressed stamped envelope I’ll mail you one of these stickers. Joel the pen-rippa inked this Swamp Thing throwback artwork for Mishka recently. Joel’s been doing a ton of work for the Brooklyn-based label and this is by far my favorite. Below is a pic of the sticker. Somewhat obscured by the snow!
check the comments for my address…
Jean-Yves Lemoigne is a French photographer who did an editorial piece on pornography and pixels. It looks like he built a 3d model of the girls out of 1″ cubes and matched the lighting of the real scene with the digital scene through most likely a process known as camera-mapping.
Really nice.
The Basque Health Department Headquarters by Coll-Barreu Arquitects in Ensanche, New Town, Spain is really getting me hot and bothered. Not so much for the crystalline facade, but for the way they treated the stair shafts. Look at it! BRIGHT GREEN. Please please American Architects and Designers, loosen the color-phobia and if you have to keep everything monotone, at least liven up the stair halls! Color is your friend!
Seen at Yatzer.
Bright Bike from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.
One of the reasons why I like posting about an open-ended topic is the slew of emails I get from people in response to said topic. Check out Bright Bike!
Bright Bike is a Retroreflective Vinyl coated bike. It is like coating your bike with a big sticker that turns ultra-brite in headlights.
Right now we are in the prototyping stages, and hope to offer a DIY Kit soon. We just held a bike-wrapping workshop at Eyebeam’s Holiday Hackshop (you can see the video at left) and it was a lot of fun. We also released an instructable, making it clear how anyone can wrap there bike. Check it out: Bright Bike Instructable.
If you can’t wait that long, contact Beacon Graphics in NJ for Scotchlight 680. They have a website: BeaconGraphics.com and you can also reach them by phone: 1 800 762 9205.
To celebrate its two-year anniversary, Seattle-based Flying Coffin teamed up with Manik and GOODS to produce this 5-deck collage set. If you can’t fork out all the money for the skate decks, you can always grab a shirt. Head over now to grab one before they’re all gone!
Hailing from Oslo, Norway, Rintala Eggertsson Architects created this 19 square meter house. It is essentially living stripped to the minimal requirements. Smart living. Programmed living. The reason this project strikes me as beautiful is mostly because of the material choices. The exterior looks like Leviathan out of the Hellraiser movies and yet the inside is clad with a nice warm wood. The structure is also framed from wood.
Typically in the US and other countries when Architects create minimal dwellings such as this, the cold and harsh materials will continue to the interior, resulting in a house that feels more like a prison than a warm and welcoming home.
First seen at Dezeen and then redirected to Rintala Eggersson’s homepage.
More to come!
Check this photo out. It was sniped from HKFixed by Tracko and now I’m re-posting for relevance.
NYC has a HUGE Frejus following. A lot of the old heads here used to and still do ride these bikes. My buddy Matthew has a beautiful chrome Frejus with Campy Inch Pitch and Cinelli components, which I’ve posted before.
This guy is lookin dapper as hell.
Fabrik Project just posted this project by the Portuguese architect Pedro Gaganho. I’ve seen Pedro’s work before and his use of heavy geometric shapes is often at the building-scale. Some would think such a design approach would be clunky and out of place in a smaller space scaled for the everyday, but I think this is perfection. The proportions are scaled down in such a way that the geometries pull the occupant into the various programmed spaces.
Not just anyone could pull this off!
More pics here.
This Jud Turner sculpture is pretty metal. What else could you ask for? A chrome skeleton and a bike. Look! Bonespins!
Ed Glazar has re-upped his website. Check out his web portfolio for some great NYC cycling photos. You can also see a few pics from Ed in the new Cog Photo Issue.
If that’s not enough, check out his Flickr here as well!
Below the Clouds has linked a recent Surface Architects project that is blowing me away at the moment. The detailing and execution is pristine. There’s no easy way to fabricate those intersecting facets.
Read up on the Birkbeck Project here! They just won a RIBA award for it as well.
Thanks to Gabe for the heads up.
I just got my COG photo issue in the mail, along with a COG shirt. The print is really great, colors are vivid and the cover is printed on a satin paper with the COG logo in a glossy oil. Geeky stuff like that really makes my day. Great job guys!
Mr. Kevin from COG magazine just sent me this sexy-ass image from their forthcoming Photo Annual. Forthcoming as in, get your ass to their site and buy one now before they’re gone forever.
Over 100 pages of photographs from throughout the first four issues along with new, unseen images. Bi-lingual captions*, silkscreened hardcover signed limited edition of 2500 copies.
All this in a 12″×9″ high-quality offset printed book.
Here’s Devotion’s classic Frejus with a Cinelli adjustable stem. Titan also made a similar quill and the idea was that rather than making multiple stem lengths, you just make one that’s adjustable for different rider’s specifications.
Sexy as hell and a bit pricey for NOS and used they fetch upwards of $200 USD. Even though it’s vastly inferior to today’s threadless stems in terms of stiffness, the old school track nuts go bonkers over them.
Eventually they just made varying lengths, as evident in my old Titan bar / stem combo that was on my Higgins.
Jose, the man Martinez is finally back in NYC after traveling around documenting drift-car sporting events. He was out recently in Union Square shooting pics of the usual night riders, Alex and Mano.
Great shots dude! Alex and Mano, where you been mates?
