Justin Heit

Out takes of the movie Beautiful Losers ...  

Chances are if I am going to buy an expensive sports car it would be a Porsche. Ferraris and Lambos are just too flashy for me. Not to say that a Porsche isn’t flashy, but there is a difference — at least in my mind. I will say that if the money was there I would defy everything I just said and buy a Bugatti Veyron, mainly because of this video. Porsche has just remained so consistent over the...

Published by the ever-innovative art blog It’s Nice That, brand new zine If Drawings Were Photographs finds designer Rob Matthews (the madman responsible for printing a 5000-page book comprised entirely of Wikipedia entries) deftly recreating a series of pseudo-abstract sketches by illustrator Tom Edwards. The act of translating art from one medium to another can never be completely clean cut. Indeed...

In the past we have featured the design work of Ryuichi Sakamoto – the Kuronan Cruiser and the Bearbricks were favorites of ours. His Touch Wood Phone for NTT Docomo may have trumped them both. “The phones are being created as a joint venture with the ‘more trees’ reforestation project founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and others. They are made with specially treated wood from the thinned...

London saw a new store opening with the introduction of Tokyo Fixed Gear in the Soho district. The retail shop offers another hub for everything fixed gear to a city rich in biking culture, especially now with the explosion of the fixed gear bike scene throughout various spectrums of the industry. Images of the opening festivities can be seen below. See more at Tokyo Fixed Gear Store Opening © L....

Artists on Their Bicycles will enjoy an upcoming unveiling at Art Basel Miami. The initiative as the name suggests features a series of photographs involving New York personalities being photographed on their bicycles. The list of participating personalities include “January : Philip-Lorca diCorcia, February : Collier Schorr, March : Ugo Rondinone, April : Richard Phillips, May : Amy Granat, June...

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Eyewear purveyors SUPER create a pair of memorable frames with their Crystal Glasses. The almost entirely transparent frames are mostly see-through except for the wired frame within the arms. The frames are made in Italy with signature engravings inside the temple. Available now at SSENSE with a retail price of $114 USD. © extremeugene for Hypebeast, 2009. | Permalink | 4 comments | Add to del.icio...

Simon Evans was born in London in 1972. He now lives and works in Berlin. I encountered his work via brief mention on It’s Nice That earlier this week. Evans work combines drawing, collage, and sometimes more to articulate feelings of loneliness and isolation. His is work born from memory of home, and work fueled as well with some spot on humor. Intricate and engrossing, Evans is quite frankly a...

01. Philadelphia Announces the Tallest LEED Certified Building in US “Located in downtown Philadelphia right above the Suburban rail station, the Comcast Center has been awarded the title of “tallest LEED certified building in the US” after earning a Gold Certification for LEED-CS (Core & Shell). The obelisk-like 58 story tower is covered in high-performance glass and sunscreens, and features...

Florida surfer blasted off board north of Santa Cruz

The Lovewright Co. Holiday ’09 collection was built with steadfast creativity from a group of close friends to create four special collaborative tees. Eddie Hahm of Commune, The Hundreds, Eevol Goose and Chase Tofoya were given carte blanche to redesign a past and present Lovewright Co. graphics customized with their own individual creativity and originality. Check out a sneak preview of The Lovewright...