Link About It: This Week’s Picks: An inflatable space station, child writers and anti-drone apparel in our look at the web this week

Link About It: This Week's Picks

1. Warby Parker Annual Report While 2012 was a big year for many small startups, few grew with as much influence as one-for-one eyewear brand Warby Parker. To put the growth in transparent terms that everyone can understand they released their 2012 annual report as an interactive infographic this…

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Best of CH 2012: People + Photo Ops: Words and images with the designers, photographers and innovators that inspired us

Best of CH 2012: People + Photo Ops

You won’t ever find a “Person of the Year” on Cool Hunting. We’re influenced by too many people and meet more every day that keep us motivated to do and create. When we have the opportunity to interview—and, if we’re lucky, to photograph—one of these outstanding individuals, those become…

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Anew: Explore the beauty in everyday objects at United Photo Industries’ group exhibition

Anew

In the same vein as Sam Hecht and Kim Colin’s thought-provoking book “Usefulness in Small Things,” the group photo exhibition Anew explores the beauty in everyday objects. Opening today at United Photo Industries in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood, the exhibit features nine photographers with an unconventional eye for revealing an…

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The Fortieth Parallel: North America’s bisecting line of latitude captured by photographer Bruce Myren’s large-format Deardorff camera

The Fortieth Parallel

Massachusetts-based photographer Bruce Myren is a man with a camera, on a mission to capture the many faces of North America’s 40th parallel. Stretching East to West from New Jersey to California and crossing 11 states in between, the 40th degree of latitude bisects the United States and is…

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The Humping Pact: Greco-Roman orgies meet 21st century urban exploration to expose overlooked creative spaces

The Humping Pact

Artistic works addressing the relationship between the human body and its environment are not a new concept. The Berlin-based duo behind “The Humping Pact” fit into this tradition while establishing new methods to distinguish itself from past attempts. Combining contemporary trends with Greco-Roman aesthetics, “The Humping Pact” stands somewhere…

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Worm Carnevale: The subversive Bushwick photographer on reversing received meanings through DIY and technology

Worm Carnevale

Take teenage sexuality and factor in violence and irony and you get Worm Carnevale. Originally from Florida and now based in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Carnevale moved to New York in 2008. Whether for film, photography or installation, his provocative imagery combines the obvious with the abstract, comedy with drama…

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Cindy Sherman for NYFF: The photographer covers the 50th anniversary poster

Cindy Sherman for NYFF

New York Film Festival is considered one of the most important platforms to celebrate film, and each season’s promotional posters offer aspiring and established painters and photographers a chance to showcase their talent at the same time. In the past celebrated artists such as Saul Bass, Roy Lichtenstein and…

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Stolen Moments

Our interview with photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya on following LCD Soundsystem for seven years

Stolen Moments

Best known for capturing snippets of NYC nightlife and portraits of art-world celebrities, New York photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya also served as the official photographer for music label DFA. While shooting for them Wijesooriya worked closely with its co-founder, James Murphy—perhaps better known as the founding member of LCD Soundsystem….

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Punch the Camera

Eight young photographers share analog images of adventure and exploration

Punch the Camera

After debuting an experimental one-off issue in 2009, founder Justin Parkhurst has resurrected his publication, “Punch The Camera,” as a bi-annual photography zine. Expanding on the themes of travel and expedition that inspired the original, the revamped “Punch The Camera” is about “uniting known and unknown photographers with stories…

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TheGoodLife! Dominoes

Professional-weight, hand-painted bones made in collaboration with GoodWoodNYC

TheGoodLife! Dominoes

Representing a community of photographers, writers and other creatives, NYC-based boutique creative agency TheGoodLife! curates content, events and campaigns for both established and fledgling companies. As part of their constant quest to bring this “Family” together, principals Craig Wetherby and Tim Brodhagen looked to one of their favorite pastimes,…

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