Mimoco’s latest series of Mimobot designer USB flash drives is a partnership with Simone Legno’s tokidoki brand, and features the monkey-adorned Meletta, Italian devil chef Pastaio, and treasure-hunting Pirate Nero.
Meaning “sometimes” in Japanese, tokidoki was named because of Simone’s love for Japanese culture and because he believes “everyone waits for moments that change one’s destiny.”
As always, they come preloaded with desktop icons, wallpapers, avatars, soundBytes, and an issue of the MimoZine digital magazine.
Each culture has a different definition of the word delicacy, but some are more cruel and controversial than others.
Trifter has gathered up The 8 Most Cruel & Controversial World Delicacies into one list, but unless you’ve got a strong stomach, you might want to skip this one, as most of these are definitely not PG13.
What Will Ferrell did for Funny Or Die, Tony Hawk is hoping to do for Shred Or Die.
As an action sports video site, SOD hopes to mix action sports and celebrity culture, including interviews with Lance Armstrong, Shaun White, Christian Slater, and Ryan Sheckler.
Users watch the user generate clips, and then vote that they should either “Shred” or “Die”, similar to Digg and Burry.
Though human beings are “information omnivores”, constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data, the shift from physical to digital is “mixing, burning, and ripping lives apart”. David Weinberger’s book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, examines this shift in the way we look at the world, and shows why categories are a thing of the past.
In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children’s teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by “going miscellaneous,” anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.
From A to Z, Everything Is Miscellaneous will completely reshape the way you think–and what you know–about the world.
This one is definitely on my “To Read” list, and has gotten quite a bit of buzz around the blogosphere (and even the realworldosphere) as a new way of looking at the world. Are you ready?
Question: What section are you supposed to find this book on the shelves?
Chris Jordan’s latest work, Running The Numbers, An American Self-Portrait, “looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics”. By visualizing the numbers that are used daily in articles and books, Chris wants to help you connect with, and make meaning of, the “vast and bizarre measures of our society”. Pieces include Plastic Bottles, a depiction of two million plastic beverage bottles (the number used in the US every five minutes), and Cell Phones, a depiction of 426,000 cell phones (the number of cell phones retired in the US every day). Powerful stuff.
If you’re looking to get into the kick culture, Product Dose has put together a guide called Sneakers For Starters. Featuring the classics, the underdogs, and the new additions, it will make sure you know the difference between “the bad-ugly (say, Sketchers) from the good-ugly (Greedy Genius), and the unhyped conventional (New Balance) from the overhyped conventional (Nike)” in no time. It’s good to know where to start.
“Kidrobot is planet Earth’s premier creator & retailer of limited edition toys, clothing, mini-figures, artwork & books”. That’s quite a statement. It’s no surprise then that he’s the man behind a new book about the explosive growth of the designer toy industry. Originating from Hong Kong, these made by artists, collected by everyone toys have formed their own haute culture in less than a decade. I Am Plastic, by Kidrobot founder and creative director Paul Budnitz, is a comprehensive visual history of the phenomenon. Including 360 color pages with 100s of toys from some of the biggest names in the industry, including Frank Kozik, Mori Chack, Gary Baseman, Pete Fowler, Junko Mizuno and many more, this book is the perfect resource for both the curious newcomer and the avid collector.
