If you want to look super pimp riding your bike at night while still being safe, than check out these tires. The Cyglo Bike Tires($TBA) have LED's embedded in the rubber, and will glow in a circle of light around your tire as the wheels turn, making you safe and also making your bike look cool! The founder of the Cyglo Bike Tires, James Tristram has made it so that the lights are powered by motion so no batteries are need to get your new Tron look. Currently their is no info or idea of the cost for these tires but I'm sure they might cost you a pretty penny.
Freelance Whales have been playing nonstop since I downloaded their CD Weathervanes last week. I highly anticipate in seeing then at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco this month. The sounds of FW is intergrated with mass amounts of different collective instruments from guitars, banjos, tambourines, harmonium, and glockenspiels to yes the occasional keyboard and laptop assist. Amidst a strange amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs. This five member band worked at crafting songs with interlocking rhythmic patterns, lush textural layering, and an engaged group-vocal energy. The band is also gaining a lot of attention and besides that their label Frenchkiss, already has a great track record of locating bands with quality plus commercial appeal (Passion Pit, the Antlers, Dodos, Local Natives), FW sound is on the surface of a lot 00's Indie Hall of Famers Arcade Fire, Ben Gibbard, and Sufjan Stevens. So check out their sound and let me know what you think. I also want to give the band props for making their whole album available to the public via stream.
This video below was a video that Olympus made to celebrate their 50th anniversary of the PEN camera. Olympus created a stop motion video which I'm sure you have seen a lot of them but I think that they did a great job in creating theirs.
The video is accompanied by some impressive numbers. For the PEN Story Olympus shot 60,000 pictures, developed 9.600 of them and then reshot 1,800 pics. In the video, there are 20 different locations. Another nice detail: there was no post production done on this video! So check out and let me know what you think.
Here is another stop motion video that I also think deserves a watch. It was very well done and the song I think goes with the video. The song Her Morning Elegance was done by Oren Lavie.
This house is by far an amazing house in structure and design. This was built in the outskirts of Madrid by A-Cero, Joaquin Torres Architect. This single family home is 5,924ft. and is equipped with a beautiful interiors with a modern and minimalist feeling. The back front of the house is totally opened towards the garden where the lounge, dining room, library, study and bedrooms are. In this facade the wide windows, the volumes set and the projections (made of concrete too enhance). These elements cover the several house´s porches. The large window of the main lounge hides itself automatically in order to make this stay completely opened to the exterior areas.
The outside of the building seems to be hidden between concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. This house is very eco-friendly as well. The roof has the main ecological roles because they are covered with low consume vegetation. Furthermore on the house´s roof has been implemented a renewable energy system made of wide surfaces with solar tubular collectors who allow that the energy autonomy of the house. I highly recommend checking out the other pictures of this house. It is stunning and I would love to live in this house or at least take a tour.
The plot includes also an elegant garden, a small lake and a paddle track.
Amazon has release a new third generation of the Kindle. The Kindle 3 has a new marketing strategy to get known and be used by the masses. The new Amazon Kindle 3 ($140/Wi-Fi $190/3G+Wi-Fi) lowers the price of entry while adding new features and removing others. What I like about the 3G one is that their 3G service is offered at no charge. The new Kindle features a faster six-inch e-ink display with higher contrast, a new graphite color, a new leather cover with integrated LED light, a new "experimental" WebKit-based browser, and double the storage with half the cachet. They have also made it about 15% lighter so it only weighs about 8.7 ounces which is less than a paperback. This new Kindle seems to be doing very well in its new marketing campaign due to they are currently temporarily sold out at this time. So if you want one your going to have to reserve one and it looks like they will not be shipped out till after September 4th. So it might take a minute to get your read on.
You know I would have to say that I love making the Playlist's every month because I find new bands that fit the style that I'm currently enjoying. This month I have been getting down to the sounds of The Whitest Boy Alive. This band started as an electronic dance music project in 2003. It has slowly over time developed into a band without any programmed elements. The Whitest Boy Alive is frontman-ed by Erlend Øye, the lead singer who gives this band it's unique sound. You might recognize his vocals fromThe Kings of Convenience(his other band) which by the way is another great band. The groups sound is a mix of plucking guitars, synths, with a steady drum beat and soft vocals to make for some great easy listening. Once you have listen to a few TWBA tracks you’ll be hooked and you'll be looking for more.
I was looking at Justin Carrasquillo's photography series called "Night Photography". I was going to do a post about this series but after doing more digging. I found his other series and I couldn't just do it on one of his collections. Justin definitely has talent when it comes to finding and understanding light sources. So in the light of things (pun intended). I picked a couple from each collection that I thought where eye catching for you to get lost in thought. If you get time check out more of his work on his site and his blog.
So there seems to be a big buzz about a new FREE iPad app called Flipboard. This app gives you a reason to feel good about your decision to drop $500 bucks or more on your iPad. Flipboard is a new "social magazine" application that grabs info from your Facebook and Twitter feeds, as well as from other sources around the web, and presents them in a magazine-like layout, complete with large images, clean typefaces, and a general panache that goes well beyond the average client. This app from watching the video posted below makes me want to open my wallet just to have this app. Flipboard is more than likely the cream of the crop on being able to integrate your content to make it easier and more organized so that your always up to date on social media. If you don't think so watch the video.
P.S. The music in the video is a cover of the Aphex Twin song Flim by the jaz trio The Bad Plus.
It's that time again for another Playlist and this one has a 50's-esque surfing summer sound. Playlist-16 is definitely a summer jam to listen to while hanging on the beach or just chilling on a summer night. When I listen to this playlist it reminds me of surfing and just being a kid messing around on the beach having fun. So have a listen to the NEW Playlist-16 and join in on the end of summer playlist.
If you want to check out any of the other Playlist then click on Archived Playlist in this post or on the right hand side of this blog.
Cover Art by: Damion Schweizer
Tracklist
1. Sleep by Rollerskaters
2. Orange X by The Seabellies
3. All Summer by Kid Cudi, Best Coast and Rostam of Vampire Weekend
4. Sleepwalkers by The Hundred In The Hands
5. Roman History by Pet Lion
6. When They Fight They Fight by Generationals
7. Hannah by Freelance Whales
8. Intentions by The Whitest Boy Alive
9. Sink Let It Sway by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
10. Summer Heart by Blackbird Blackbird
11. Boyfriend by Best Coast
12. Summer Holiday by Wild Nothing
13. 11th Dimension by Julian Casablancas
14. Summer Sun by Batte
15. Waves by Princeton
16. Too Beautiful for Smiles by Chromatic Flights
