Latest articles on Events by The Cool Hunter - for more checkout www.thecoolhunter.net http://www.thecoolhunter.net Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:38:43 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.thecoolhunter.net Latest articles on Events by The Cool Hunter - for more checkout www.thecoolhunter.net http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1345&Itemid=53 Progressive design – cutting-edge art – political undertones – socially significant statements on the state of humanity – not exactly what comes to mind in a city like Beijing, but about 45 minutes from the center of town (ie Tiananmen Square), the Bauhaus-inspired Soviet-funded former electronics factory complex is transforming into the 798 / Dashanzi Art District. And it is no wonder Nike recently chose the 798 District to open its own gallery: Nike 100 – a retrospective of sorts showcasing 100 Nike innovations from the past fifty years. A billboard-sized shuffling wall rotates athletic silhouette images across the façade of the building. Upon entry, 100 Apple iTouches welcomes visitors, while iconic swooshes and familiar colors pierce through from the gallery space. The dynamic façade feature shuffles across the ceiling of the gallery, and iconic orange shoebox forms are highly stacked along the length before opening up to a massive demonstration space. Pulling out from the orange boxes as well as in small alcoves along the sides, Nike has chosen ‘100 artifacts from the Battle Against Drag’ – items inspired by Nike’s co-founder and legendary track and field coach Bill Bowerman’s desire to accomplish more with less. Case-in-point – Number 006: sample pieces of 1967 track surfaces with the consistency of gravel evolving to Number 008: the surface of Bowerman’s waffle iron that inspire changing the surface of the sole of running shoes to provide traction on new urethane track surfaces; resulting in Number 009: Tiger track shoe with Waffle Outsole, which helped produce 44 All Americans, 19 Olympians and 12 US record holders under Bowerman’s watch as a coach. And where would Nike be without its world-class athletes? Various artifacts pay homage to basketball player, Michael Jordan and his Air Jordan shoes. Each component of sprinter Michael Johnson’s ‘Gold Shoe 1’ has been dissected and analyzed, and footage of Johnson in motion blaze across display walls. Anyone planning on being in Beijing this August, or ever, don’t leave without spending at least a half a day wandering around 798 – and once there, learn a little more about Nike and how it’s earned its place in our world at the Nike 100 Gallery. Just do it. - Andrew J Wiener Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:19:44 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1344&Itemid=53 What’s an hourglass? Oh yes, it’s an ancient time piece, flowing fine sand quietly marking time in a perfectly balanced glass. Or, as everyone should know by now, it is the main prop at Never Stand Still. (http://www.never-stand-still.com) It was the kick-off party to start the countdown for BMW’s European launch of the latest model of BMW 7 series, slated to take place this fall. The car, displayed in the world’s largest hourglass in the Red Square, has not received much coverage but as soon as the construction for the hourglass marvel began four months ago, online buzz about it has been consistent. The 12-meter-high glass contraption was the centerpiece of the party thrown to 400 invited guests and celebrities. At the start of the build-up, more than 180,000 silvery balls concealed the car that was gradually revealed as the balls fell to the lower level. Moscow is a strong and growing market for BMW, and what better place to strut its latest but the historic location against the backdrop of the Kremlin, St. Basil’s Cathedral and G.U.M. – all veterans of many a communist-era motorized military parade. By Tuija Seipell Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:08:23 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1341&Itemid=53 The team behind the Danish pavilion at the World Expo 2008 i (http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/Home/seccion=3 idioma=en_GB.do) n Zaragoza, Spain consists of three Copenhagen-based firms — architects Spektrum Arkitekter (http://www.spektrumarkitekter.dk/), graphic agency Loop Associates (http://www.loopassociates.com/) and communications agency 2+1.The Danish pavilion houses Círculos de Agua (Circles in the Water), an exhibition about sustainable living and lasting solutions that echoes the World Expo 2008 theme of water and sustainability. Círculos de Agua highlights Danish technologies that have started out small yet have the potential to affect global change. The underlying message is that everything we do spreads like ripples through water. The pavilion will be used again at the COP15 Copenhagen (http://www.cop15.dk/en) — United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009.The pavilion consists of five cylinders with five themes. The Wind Cylinder explains how the tiny country of Denmark with only five million inhabitants has become a leading supplier of wind power technologies. The Water Cylinder explores the planning of cities to cope with rising water levels and the extreme climate of the future. The Daylight Cylinder showcase natural light as a vehicle for both style and sustainability. The Biomass Cylinder extols the virtues of bio fuels produced from harvest waste. The Restaurant Shop Cylinder, dedicated to creativity, showcases the latest in Danish design and crafts. The World Expo runs till September 14, so it's not too late to see it. - Tuija Seipell Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:30:08 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1340&Itemid=53 Karl Largerfeld never puts a pedicured foot wrong and his presentation for Chanel at this week’s Couture shows proves that he is still one of the most innovative and creative minds on the planet. Largerfeld unveiled his collection amid an extraordinary 50-foot set made up of steel-grey tubes inspired by organ pipes. Lagerfeld worked the tubes theme into the collection, showing tubular shapes in several different manifestations. Lagerfeld is one of the masters of catwalk theatrics, dreaming up incredible larger-than life sets that seem to get more elaborate each season. For some of the best of recent shows check out Runaway Runway Success (events/Villa-Eugenie---Runaway-Runway-Success/). By Lisa Evans via Fashionation (http://www.fashion-ation.net/) Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:58:22 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1323&Itemid=53 In 1877, Antonio Fluxá went all the way from the island of Majorca to England to learn about shoemaking. Whatever he learned there, he put into action immediately and founded a shoe company that his grandson Lorenzo turned into Camper Shoes (http://www.camper.com) in 1975. Today, the family's fourth generation is at the helm, the company is still based in Majorca and its shoes are sold worldwide. If you were lucky, you received an invite to this fun-and-games Campy party held in Germany recently, to celebrate the launch of the Spring/Summer 08 collection. AstroTurf, retro gear, great music and sand in your sandals. We're in. By Tuija Seipell Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:46:23 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1296&Itemid=53 It is tough to make an impression in New York, but Google is not afraid to try. To celebrate the official launch (finally!) of its new artist themes for iGoogle (www.google.com/help/ig/art/gallery.html), it held a candle-lit media bash at One Little West 12 (a club located at 1 Little W 12th St. in the Meatpacking District) and then let San Francisco’s Obscura Digital loose outside with a three-night illumination gallery.At the hub of the district, the intersection of Little West 12th, Ninth Avenue and Gansevoort, Obscura projected moving images of the iGoogle artwork onto the facades of buildings for three nights from 10 pm to 2 am. The facades of St. Hotel Gansevoort, Pastis, Theory and Inn LW12 were the canvases for work by Jeff Koons, Michael Graves, Yves Behar and others. At a white tent sporting a Google logo at Gansevoort Square, passers-by could play with the images a battery of computer stations.At the media bash, a panel of the iGoogle contributors consisting of architect Michael Graves, photographer Anne Geddes, artist Jeff Koons, Marc Ecko, and New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff discussed their views of how the Internet is changing their industry. Other luminaries whose designs are available at iGoogle include Dolce Cabbana, Diane von Furstenberg, Philippe Starck,Oscar de la Renta, Tory Burch and Ivana Helsinki. By Tuija Seipell Thu, 08 May 2008 20:00:15 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1295&Itemid=53 Camping out a music festival need no longer be a boggy, muddy affair thanks to this smart-as-a-whip innovation dubbed Myhab (http://www.myhab.com/). Essentially it's a temporary, waterproof, completely recyclable tent made from durable recycled plastic and and waterproof cardboard. The tent is fixed on a raised platform to stop it from slipping into a muddy bog in the case of rain. Myhab was created by a student and there are plans to for "myhab" villages at all of the UK's major music festivals. by Lisa Evanns (via Springwise (http://www.springwise.com/tourism_travel/festival_tents_with_an_eco_twi/)) Thu, 08 May 2008 19:50:08 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1293&Itemid=53 Berlin’s Magma Architecture (http://www.magmaarchitecture.com) won several awards for its entry in the JETZT | NOW series of temporary installations at the Berlinische Galerie, Museum for Contemporary Art, Photography and Architecture. Magma’s installation, 11th in the series, was called fittingly “head-in | im kopf” and its concept is based on exploring the properties of materials, form, color and light. The main feature of the installation is an alarmingly orange flexible fabric (polyamide-elastan mix) stretched between the walls, ceiling and floor. The fabric is the most visible part of the exhibit, yet it is also the tool with which the viewers can focus on smaller details. Visitors bend down under the fabric into which openings were cut. Through these holes, visitors pop their heads up into the orange space to view drawings, models and photographs suspended from wires. These items are from Magma’s work and include representations of the revitalization of the former GDR Radio Centre (Berlin, Nalepastrasse, 2007), a bridge over the Landwehrkanal river in Berlin (competition entry in 2006), the new Nexus Productions headquarters in London, and the exhibition Trial Error in London (2003). Luckily, we have images to show how it all worked as the full effect of the experience is quite impossible to describe in mere words. The project team for head-in | im kopf included Anke Noske, Hendrik Bohle, Dominik Jörg, Lena Kleinheine, Ksenia Kagler, Yohko Mizushima, Lena Kleinheinz, Martin Ostermann and Ben Reynolds. Magma was established in 2003 by Martin Ostermann and Lena Kleinheinz. The Ohio native Ostermann is a former senior architect at Studio Daniel Libeskind. The Denmark-born Kleinheinz is an exhibition designer. Magma is known for its inventive, experimental and experiential approaches to architectural work. By Tuija Seipell Tue, 06 May 2008 16:57:31 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1241&Itemid=53 Creativity has always been at the heart of CHANEL since its very beginnings; it is the thread that unites Mademoiselle Chanel to Karl Lagerfeld, a visionary spirit known for his skill in anticipating the future of his times. A modern brand, constantly moving forward, cultivating the extraordinary and its innate sense of the moment, CHANEL is resolutely open to the world and turning towards the future. It is this propulsion that incites CHANEL to perpetually create surprise, from one continent to the next, and to so deeply impact on our collective imaginary consciousness. A traveling project, with entry free to all, Mobile Art (http://www.chanel-mobileart.com) will circulate for two years throughout Asia, the United States and Europe. In a futuristic pavilion created by the architect Zaha Hadid at the request of Karl Lagerfeld, some twenty international artists will exhibit work that was inspired by the elements that give the CHANEL bag its identity. Through this collaboration, resulting from their singular points of view - poetic, audacious and as yet unseen - the multiple facets of this mythical bag and its universe are revealed. Mobile Art is a revolutionary event, uniting one of the greatest architects of our time, some of our most innovative artists, and an icon of the fashion world: the quilted bag. Mobile Art is founded in the continuity of Gabrielle Chanel's strong relationship with the arts, and reaffirms once more our devotion to creativity and to the avant-garde. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:50:20 +0100 http://www.thecoolhunter.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1237&Itemid=53 If it is creative and cool and has an edge that others don’t, we want to know about it. This time, we are particularly interested in hearing from the event industry. Although we now can experience all sorts of “reality” just sitting down in our own environments, nothing beats a real live experience of an awesome party. One of our all-time favorites is the breathtakingly cool Prada VIP (events) do at the Central Market in Valencia, Spain, to celebrate the America’s Cup. 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