Cool Edition December ‘07




01. Like a Local

Like a Local

Created by Mark Elliott, likealocal.cn is an online guide to eating like a local. He uses menu translations, reviews, photos and videos to help foreigners order street food in Shanghai.…

02. Topless Apostles and Dieux du Stade

Topless Apostles and Dieux du Stade

Topless Apostles
A calendar featuring twelve topless, buffed Mormon missionaries showing us the beauty of God’s Creation.
The NYFD may have banned their famous topless fireman calendar this…

03. Solar Bottle

Solar Bottle

Solar Bottle is a low-cost container capable of disinfecting water for people consuming microbiologically contaminated raw water; based in the SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) system. The PET container has a…

04. Next Generation Fanclubs

Next Generation Fanclubs

Some entrepreneurs are taking an innovative approach to the new challenges of the music business. Leading producers (http://tackhead.com) (who have produced for diverse acts including Madonna, The Rolling Stones,…

05. No Logo and Anti-Choice

No Logo and Anti-Choice

No Logo
São Paulo is free of outdoors. This city of 11 million people has prohibited any visual advertising on the streets. No billboards, no flashing neon signs, no…

06. Hubbuzz

Hubbuzz

Hubbuzz is a new way of finding a cool place to live in. Instead of the traditional rental apartment listings which gives you only the hard factors – square footage,…

07. Jin Li Street

Jin Li Street

This is a place in Chengdu, China, that truly floored me with its beauty, its excitement, its buzz—and that it was only a few years old, not the hundreds I…

08. Rehab Chic

Rehab Chic

Although soul music icon Amy Winehouse chants no, no, no… recent fashion publications have been setting their shootings in rehab centers. Amy and her songs and her misbehaviour are big…

09. Famous Fictional T-Shirts

Famous Fictional T-Shirts

Last Exit to Nowhere, an online T-shirt store recently introduced a line of T-shirts with brands that are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations…

10. Bikes in Paris and Green Roofs in New York

Bikes in Paris and Green Roofs in New York

Bikes in Paris
Originally there were ‘only’ 10,000 but the quantity had to be doubled soon because everyone seemed to be thrilled by the new public transport in Paris.…

11. AddArt

AddArt

AddArt is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database, as you can see on the picture above: left is before…

12. The Fine Art of Conversation

The Fine Art of Conversation

Conversation is of all times, including the coffeehouses’ heydays in the 17th and 18th century in London and Paris. However, do not underestimate Melbourne today! On any given Friday night…

13. Entertainment with Conscience

Entertainment with Conscience

Elevate Film Festival (http://elevatefilmfestival.com) is out to encourage filmmakers to make socially relevant films. It’s free to the public, but participating filmmakers will be given selected screenplays and…

14. Graffiti Research Lab

Graffiti Research Lab

What happens when Graffiti meets technology? That is the main question of the website Graffiti research lab. They have been around for several years and copied everywhere, but they are…

15. The Artist who Swallowed the World

The Artist who Swallowed the World

Erwin Wurm, born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, has been involved in a game with Q and A to investigate the definition of sculpture.
“One minute…


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