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As the world looks to “green” technology for the future, one city in Germany, Hamburg has for the last 7 years (2006-2013) been part of an zero-carbon building experiment, the International Building Exhibition (IBA). In the suburb of Wilhelmsburg, you will find many eco-housing developments.
What would the city of Venice and it’s waterways look like in a harsh winter? With some photo retouching and super imposing this is what Venice would look like.
Titan Books collects various art pieces done by artist Ian Miller in this book, The Art of Ian Miller. You might be asking who is Ian Miller? Well, if you ever find yourself in the fantasy section at the bookstore, most of those Ray Bradbury and HP Lovecraft book covers of wizards, monsters, castles and alien worlds were illustrated by Ian Miller.
The documentary is “Europe In 8 Bits” takes a look at “chip” music and how it’s growing in Europe. Many musicians are looking back to old school videogame hardware like NES, Amiga, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, etc and using them to create new sounds. What catches the eye is the animated 8-bit opening to the documentary. Here’s a look:
With tasteful bareness, cult articles and a bit of kitsch comes BelleSf, today’s epoch magazine that uniquely celebrates art, culture and nudity in a vintage style that is edgy and very San Francisco!
The magazine will have a foundation of thought-provoking and insightful articles to stories relating to the world and San Francisco life, and of course nude photography that is akin to Playboy magazine’s soft-lit and sensual style of the 70s.
London commuters get creative Pepsi ads at a London bus stop. You will find this Pepsi bus shelter on Oxford Street. This is not your typical bus shelter, as BBC News takes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Pepsi bus shelter.
Not to be mistaken for Staples, the brick and mortar shop that sells office supples, this is STAPLE. Since 1997, they’ve been repping NYC streetwear culture and lifestyle. For Lookbook, they’ve teamed up with online retailer Karmaloop for their look for 2014 Spring.
Not just a skate brand, Stussy has been strutting urban street fashion since 1980 and here’s a look at what they are dropping into stores this spring for both men and women. The Women’s collection digs back to retro ’80s/’90s styling, while the Men’s collection gives out a laid back beach vibe.
Down in Brazil, Adidas Originals teams up with Brazilian brand Adoro FARM for some colorful beach lifestyle outwear. This mini-capsule collection features lots fun vibrant colors and FARM’s classic print designs.
If you are looking for the classy cool hoodies and jackets for this Spring/Summer 2014, then look no further, check out Supreme. Born and bred in NYC in 1994, Supreme is still rocking in the skate/urban fashion scene.
Streetwear label A Bathing Ape known for its “camo-prints” on their apparel line is back with more this Spring/Summer 2014. Check out the various camo-print designed hoodies, pants and tees from their Men and Women’s 2014 S/S Lookbook.
Fan of music and LEGO, Adly Syairi Ramly neat project is using LEGO bricks and re-creating iconic pop bands. From the Beatles, to Cypress Hill and even boyband N’Sync makes the list. If you want to check out more cool images from this LEGO music project, go to his Instagram page: adlysyairi#.
Follow him on Twitter @ adlysyairi.
Streetwear brand The Hundreds dropping their Spring 2014 Collection Deliver Two into stores and online. Check their site @ The Hundreds.
I’ve been a fan of streetwear brand Crooks & Castles for many years now with lots of wallet busting action from buying their hoodies and graphic tees. C&C just released their Men’s 2014 Lookbook and many of these items you can find online or just dropping into their retail shops.
The Orange County (OC) streetwear brand Lifted Research Group (LRG) is still around after all these years and still leading the charge in urban fashion.
It’s like Fashion Week here at Retrenders! Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr fronts H&M Spring 2014 and of course Stephen mentions to me, oh “she’s that Victoria’s Secret model.” Men, sometimes have this way of remembering non-essential details in life. But back to the topic at hand is H&M’s Ladies Spring Fashion 2014.
A slice of life video by Brandon Li. Brandon spent a few days in Dubai’s shipyards and started filming away. The video was shot on a Sony RX100MK II Cyber-Shot.
Hong Kong known for it’s massive amount and rows of tall buildings, photographer Nick Frank was in Hong Kong last year and shot a series of photographs – Concrete Living.
From traveling around the globe, the idea of “Food Maps” became a neat art project by Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves. Foods that were presented a country or continent were shaped into a map. Pretty cool!
Photographer Ric Tse takes snapshots of Hong Kong news by re-imagining the scenes with LEGO bricks.
Over the years the science fiction genre Steampunk has exploded into books, comics and Steampunk conventions taking place around the country and now Titan Books with Steampunk Oriental Laboratory has put out an incredible magazine-style book on Steampunk fashion and gizmos. Steampunk Style: The Complete Illustrated Guide for Contraptors, Gizmologists and Primocogglers Everywhere! has everything a Steampunk wannabe wants.
Being a sneaker addict is like getting hooked on drugs. I’ve been there, like cutting class just to wait in line for Jordan’s or showing off my Scottie Pipen’s on the playground (I did have a hyped pick-up game scoring lay-ups and 3’s – it must be the shoes). Taking the MUNI all over the city chasing down the coolest kicks. And this is before the Internet! Now you can grab book about sneakers from U-Dox International – Sneakers: The Complete Limited Editions Guide.
I haven’t bought a North Face jacket in many years now, but this Spring 2014 Lookbook collection – The North Face Purple Label looks rather unique and blue. No glitz and glamour for this collection, just blue for the guys and gals.
Apparel company HUF looks to kick-off their Delivery One this Thursday February 14, 2014 with a Spring 2014 Lookbook. If you’re guy looking to rock Spring, this lineup will feature mostly solid colors for their line of hoodies, shirts and headwear.
For those of us that don’t know, there are Star Trek fans of the original 1966 series that have chosen to boldly re-create and go where a fan must go in order to fulfill the five year mission that the original series never completed for the final frontier. The original series was cut short of two years and Star Trek fan, James Cawley, founder of Retro Film Studios, has produced episodes as if the show hadn’t been cancelled!
Star Trek Phase II (formerly known as Star Trek: New Voyages) Click here Star Trek New Voyages to go to the website
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