Cool Edition September ‘08




01. Excelling by being yourself

Excelling by being yourself

Massimo Voltolina started practising sport only when he was 30 and he trains without following rigid schedules: he simply “listens the his body”. At the age of 43 Massimo Voltolina…

02. Stitsh

Stitsh

Www.stitsh.com The site looks like a fashion blog, filled with loads of snapshots of cool kids from the streets. The impressive new thing is that you can buy…

03. The 17: Year zero for music

The 17: Year zero for music

The 17 is a conceptual experiment by Bill Drummond, gathering
different groups of 17 people to create and record music, play it back once, and…

04. Gucci-killer Shanghai Tang

Gucci-killer Shanghai Tang

Shanghai Tang does everything right. And the time is perfectly right for the brand too. Shanghai Tang is evolving in China’s first top luxury brand. Soon China will not only…

05. Look twice and broaden your cultural perspective

Look twice and broaden your cultural perspective

A Dubai bill board showing two men in traditional clothing. Close to one another, within each other’s personal space. The expression on their faces is soft, almost sensual. Their noses…

06. Cinespia

Cinespia

Picture 2000 people, mostly in their 30s, seated outdoors listening to a DJ play an eclectic mix. Most are drinking beer or wine they carried in, and some have full-scale…

07. First and third worlds go more together

First and third worlds go more together

As middle-class staples like cars, computers and phones become more accessible to society’s have-nots, distinctions between the first and third worlds will grow increasingly murky. The following innovations will help…

08. Munny

Munny

A munny is a vinyl toy that comes completely blank so it can be customized by its owner/artist. In a sense, they are blank canvases for artists to…

09. Staycation

Staycation

With more households in which both partners work, it’s tough for families to coordinate vacation schedules, and weakening job security is making employees reluctant to leave for long. As gas…

10. Naked jeans

Naked jeans

No underwear anymore: we can do without.  It is simply more exciting so. This is an upcoming trend in the North of Europe. And it might go more broad, because…

11. Old train’s telling power

Old train’s telling power

A weathered, green train, which traversed China’s railways throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, shipped from Shenyang, China and being shown in Basel, Switzerland recently. Its 24 windows…

12. M1nt®

M1nt®

M1nt® is the first club in China Mainland, that is owned by 500 chosen shareholders who are at the same time elite members. Aside from this there will be room…

13. Surprise on demand

Surprise on demand

The Urbanspoon iPhone application let you shake your iPhone and gets a random restaurant recommendation for you in proximity of your location. Urbanspoon is iPhone’s free application that…

14. 艺术V影: Chinese next step into fashionable wedding movies

艺术V影: Chinese next step into fashionable wedding movies

Chinese people traditionally make lots of wedding photos, the best of them making it, enlarged of course, to the central wall in the new home. Now videos are replacing the…

15. Porn for the Blind

Porn for the Blind

At www.PornfortheBlind.org - more than 150 thousand unique visitors in six months time - the blind, and everybody else for that matter, can listen to audio descriptions of…


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