BoomCase produces very cool and custom made suitcase stereo systems. Remember back in the days when it was very cool to run around with a ghetto blaster on your shoulder?! Well, the BoomCase doesn’t only look great but it also last up to nine hours. The man behind these great objects, Mr Simo, calls himself „an audio-nut“, preferring wood or leather rather than plastics. Via a headphone plug you can connect the self powered and portable BoomCase to your iPod/iPhone or other device. You can pimp your BoomCase with Ipod/USB Charger, Extra Batteries, TV Screens, Custom Paint, Solar chargers and more. Prices start at $375.
Early practice makes perfect – The three sons of Lucas Maassen, a Dutch interior designer, are probably the youngest spirit in the field. The job of Thijme (9), Julian (7) and Maris (7) is to paint the hand-made furniture. And as signed in a contract, they get paid 1 Euro for each piece and are only allowed to work 3 hours a week due to Dutch child labour laws.
Chicago-based visual artist Christopher Baker’s video installation ‘Hello world! or: How i learned to stop listening and love the noise’ is now on display at London’s Saatchi Gallery. The 5,000 video diaries projected on a wall are taken from video archive resources such as youtube.
The “True Love in Pictures“ gallery is set to launched Wednesday, 18th January. You can find it on the company‘s website whatmakestruelove.com which is dedicated to the art of romance and love, but also via iTunes and iPhone apps. Curator is nonother than Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist) and his wife, who is also a fashion photo blogger (Garance Doré). Then after the 23rd January users will be able to contribute their own photos. Tiffany & Co will give users the possibility to retouch the images with three filters then, black and white, peach and Tiffany Blue, which you can find on the website and on the iPhone app. Instagram users can stick to this app and directly upload their images with “#truelovepictures”. But this isn‘t it, Tiffany & Co also provides photo booths in three shops such as Tiffany’s Fifth Avenue store in New York, its Old Bond Street shop in London and its Ginza boutique in Tokyo. The portraits can be uploaded there, too, as well as printed.
In addition to their ‘classical’ funeral with a motocycle and sidecar-hearse, Motorcycle Funerals can also organize “personalised funeral with a hundred motorcycles, family cars, scooters, tractors or musicians“.
This cute little mini printer produces small notes in a seize of a receipt. Have fun printing a sudoku quiz, a thank you note, a shopping list or your to-do list. Once connected with the web you will find different ‘publications’ such as The Guardian or Foursquare on your smartphone. The producer, Design studio Berg, has announced to launch it later in 2012 as ‘beta’-product.
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