HOMAGE TO TSUKIJI

Posted on 2009-01-27

After the ‘tuna hugging incident’, where a tourist captured a Kodak moment with one of these expensive fishes, Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market closed its doors to tourists. From December 15 through to January 17, as an “experiment”, Tsukiji fish market was entirely closed to foreigners, meaning that visitors to Tokyo this Christmas had to skip the predawn auction at the world’s biggest fish market. Intentionally or not, it certainly generated a lot of pr for this hugely popular tourist spot, and we predict an even bigger influx of curious snappers in 2009.

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STEPHEN SPROUSE “ROCK ON MARS” BY DEITCH PROJECTS

Posted on 2009-01-26

2009 is very quickly turning into the year of Stephen Sprouse, not only is the artists work featured in a new Louis Vuitton collection and on the new Le Book, now Deitch Projects has opened a retrospective of the artists work in New York at the former adidas Originals space in Soho. Rock on Mars has transformed the space into a futuristic realization of Sprouse’s rock and roll vision. Showing now, until February 28th

Deitch Projects
18 Wooster Street
New York

www.deitch.com

  

BURTON & FUTURA VAPOR SNOWBOARD

Posted on 2009-01-26

The Burton & Futura Vapor Snowboard has now been released in Burton flagship stores across the globe. Featuring a simple black upper, it comes with a full on Futura graphic on the bottom with custom Futura Burton signature. Just in time to hit the slopes this season and featuring all that we love about Futura and Burton from design to the color palette to the Carbon Vaporskin Lite, Grip and Rip and Multizone EGD for all you snowbaord techies.

  

POSTER GIRL

Posted on 2009-01-26

Electric Blue Gallery plays host to a collection of new works by the hugely influential graphic artist Jasper Goodall. Goodall rose to public attention with his style defining work for The Face magazine in 2000-2003 influencing a generation of illustrators and helping pave the way for illustration’s resurgence and reinvention in recent years. Here Goodall presents for the first time, his first solo show of personal work in a gallery environment. Entitled ‘Poster Girl’ the work explores the notion of fantasy versus reality, a subject which has fascinated Goodall for some time. “Sexual attraction, I believe is almost entirely down to our fantasies, after all when you first meet someone you don’t know them, but you make up and idea about them in your mind and it’s this fantasy that you are attracted to. Once you get to know them, all too often the fantasy doesn’t match with the reality.

Ready for the drop 6th February

Electric Blue gallery
64 Middlesex street
London
E1 7EZ

www.electricbluegallery.com

  

ADIDAS SKATEBOARDING TIMES BY TWO

Posted on 2009-01-26

Mr Mark Gonzales has again created a sneaker for adidas Skateboarding. For Spring the skater/artist has worked on the adidas Campus. The sneaker features Mark’s unique designs on the white leather upper and Mark’s characters appear across the sneaker.

BJ Betts, the renowned tattooist and typographer, has joined forces with adidas Skateboarding to work on an exclusive capsule collection. The collection consists of two sneakers, the Bucktown ST and the Ciero Mid, as well as three dope t-shirts.

The Mark Gonzales and BJ Betts collection are on sale now

www.adidas.com
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CHANEL SNOWBOARD

Posted on 2009-01-26

The unstoppable Chanel drops into the world of snow, releasing a snowboard as part of this years winter sport collection. The Chanel Snowboard has a high gloss piano black lacquer resin finish with a discrete Chanel monogram by the front binding. The snowboard is made of fiberglass and wood which gives it a degree of flexibility whilst maintaining rigidity at the same time. Exit’s Art Director recently rocked this look out in Whistler over Christmas and performed his first double flip 1080 degree back hop bunny jump up with a degree of fashion assurance that only Chanel could have given him.

www.chanel.com