Hand-Eye Supply Presents Hot One Inch Action: 1" Button Show

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This Thursday, June 23 at 6:00 pm, Hand-Eye Supply is proud to host Hot One-Inch Action!

The exhibition features the original work of fifty different artists presented on one inch buttons. These one inch buttons are displayed on the wall and the audience is offered the opportunity to buy randomly selected buttons in mixed bags of five for $5. If the bag purchased does not have the desired button, trade with the people around you. How badly do you want that button?! That’s when the “hot action” starts. The evening becomes an interactive party as people barter and trade for the buttons they really want!!

Thursday, June 23rd
6PM PST
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR, 97209
RSVP on Facebook

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Portland’s Hot One Inch Action features art on 1″ buttons from: APAK, Amy Jenkins, Amy Ruppel, Anna Magruder, Audrey McNamara, Brian Bump, Bryan Sculthorpe, Charlie Alan Kraft, Chris Haberman, Chrissy Ortez, Dan Osterman, Danielle Weiss, David Herrick, Erik Heumiller, Erin Nations, Erinn Hatter, Gabriel Amadeus, Griffon Jillson, Hadley Hutton, Ian Anderson, Jackie Dives, Jackson Smith, James Baker, jennifer mercede, Jenn Woodward, Jesse Narens, Jesse Reno, Kaitlin Sambrooke, Karl Edwards, Kasey Tararuj, Kelly Williams, Klutch, Lida Avery, Martin A. Eggiman Jr, Matt O. Cosby, Melissa Levin, Nathan Parr, Neil M. Perry, Nicole Linde, Randall Foster, Richard Schemmerer, Robert Oreo, Rory Phillips, Santiago Uceda, Sasha, Friedman, SD Elliott, Sean Lanusse, Skye Blue, Tara Stansberry, and Zhoh Autrite Mauw.

Hot One Inch Action is the original, one-night only show of button art and social interaction from Vancouver, BC. Conceived and curated by Jim Hoehnle and Chris Bentzen. Since 2004.

Photos from Hot One Inch Action 2009 by Stephen Chong

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Michael Levin

Le réalisateur Brad Kremer est parti au Japon avec le photographe Michael Levin pour suivre son travail. Autour de cette collaboration se dévoile une vidéo montrant le voyage des 2 hommes au pays du soleil levant. Une création réussie à découvrir dans la suite.

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With +Pool, Design Trio Aims to Make Manhattan’s East River Swimmable

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Manhattan is an island flanked by two rivers, but as hot as the summers get, you’d never dream of swimming in either of them. The conventional wisdom is that they’re both polluted and, if the movies are to be believed, lined at the bottom with cement-shoe-wearing mob informers.

That hasn’t stopped designers Dong-Ping Wong of Family and Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeffrey Franklin of PlayLab from starting “+Pool,” an intriguing idea to install a public swimming pool (in Manhattan’s East River on the Brooklyn side, top photo, and the Hudson on the Jersey side, below). The walls of the pool would be constructed of filtration materials that would eliminate the nasties in three stages, blocking out everything from garbage to bacteria.

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The most important aspect of + Pool’s design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls – like a giant strainer dropped into the river. The concentric layers of filtration materials that make up the sides of the pool are designed to remove bacteria, contaminants and odors, leaving only safe and swimmable water that meets city, state and federal standards of quality. This pool will be the first of it’s kind, which is of course very exciting, but really we just want to be able to swim in the river.

We also wanted the + Pool to be enjoyed by everyone, at all times, which is why it is designed as four pools in one: Children’s Pool, Sports Pool, Lap Pool and Lounge Pool. Each pool can be used independently to cater to all types of swimmers, combined to form an Olympic-length lap pool, or opened completely into a 9,000 square foot pool for play.

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Drift Eyewear

Hardwood frames tap architecturally-inspired design for a better fit

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Anyone who struggles to read the third row of an eye chart knows that glasses are more than just a fetching style choice. Those plagued with poor eyesight tend to live in their specs and want a pair that adds something special without sacrificing the wearability of the otherwise utilitarian accessory. Drift Eyewear does both with their collection of handmade frames, constructed from sustainable wood and the brand’s patent-pending laminated steel core.

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Founder Chris Mantz (tinkering in his apartment laundry room) modeled the steel structure after architecture’s curtain wall technique, which transfers the weight of the walls back to the building’s core. In Drift designs this translates into better load distribution on the three contact points of the face that allow for use of distressed fragile woods without worry about them snapping. This also helps keep the frames from sliding down noses (and cuts down on the proper nerd move of constantly pushing them back up).

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The latest example of this clever design, the Timber collection is a trio of frames in a limited edition of 100 pairs each. The styles—Truss, Nail Hole and Whitewash—are all crafted from salvaged hardwood sourced from different locales. The dark brown wood for Truss comes from designer Daniel Grady Faires, who painstakingly removed the timber from a renovated building in NYC’s Meatpacking District. Nail Hole’s raw aesthetic is inspired by a collaboration with designer Jessica Park of Seattle’s shop-slash-gallery space Coming Soon, while Whitewash’s frames are devised from a vintage picket fence rescued by Chicago-based artist Raun Myn.

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In addition to using responsibly-sourced wood for the frames, Mantz tells us “they are about as eco-friendly as you get,” with fronts made from a plastic derived from the wood pulping process and other components using FSC-certified hardwoods along with reclaimed timber.

Drift Eyewear can be found at retailers around the U.S.; specs in the Timber collection sell for $600 a pair.


Billabong x Alexandra Cassaniti Limited Edition Collab

imageIt’s the perfect pairing. Billabong and Alexandra Cassaniti have come together and created a limited edition t-shirt collection.


With Billabong’s signature SoCal surfer style and Cassaniti’s motto of, ‘It’s always summer somewhere’, these nonchalantly edgy t-shirts are soft, flattering and too-cool-for school … which is perfect since school’s out!


In stores now, this three tees and two tanks collection comes in a variety of colors and are sure to be flying off the shelves!

Ode to a Grecian Deathsofabed

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Via Facebook: Greek designer Aris Stathis recently shared this mysterious YouTube clip with us, at once a critique of our sedentary—and therefore moribund—society and a reminder of one’s own mortality.

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We’ve seen coffininspired furniture before, but enough macabre foreshadowing: video after the jump…

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Procreation

Procreation represents the generative process. The proposed installation plays on the idea of giving life and light to other living beings. The mother..

Incase Announces Soundesign Line of Headphones

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Incase is one of our favorite bag & case companies, and now they’re getting into the audio game. This September, the Incase Soundesign line of headphones will hit store shelves, offering four levels of product from earbuds for gym-goers to DJ-worthy over-ear headphones. (Product shots and specs after the jump.)

Chris Robinette, Incase’s Vice-President of Product, gave us the scoop:

Core77: What made Incase decide to get into the headphones game?

Chris: We saw that more and more people are using headphones with their personal technology, and thought that there were clear needs in the headphone market that weren’t being addressed well by others. Incase is in the business of creating better experiences with similar technologies, so we applied our same fundamental principles of simplicity, innovation and enhanced mobility to headphone design.

Basically, we envision how people live, zero in to extract the essence of the problem, and work to provide product experiences that simplify and enhance their lives. In this case, bulky headphone designs that fit poorly, often coupled with limited audio response. Our solution was to produce a truly unique line of headphones that stand apart from the rest of the market, focusing on clean aesthetics, natural sound and excellent fit.

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This Week on the mediabistro.com Job Board: Yahoo!, Time, Inc., MLB

If you’re a pro at cropping and color correction, Yahoo! has the perfect job for you. The media company is on the hunt for a new photo editor to join its Santa Monica, Calif. office. Here, you’ll build galleries and photo narratives, while developing relationships with photo agencies and publicists to access images. If you’re passionate about photography, apply here. If not, check out more art and design jobs below, as well as on mediabistro.com.

For more openings and employment news, follow The Job Post on Twitter @MBJobPost.

Attend mediabistro.com’s Career Circus on August 4 in New York City to find out where the jobs are, develop a career plan and engage with media peers and leaders.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Artist Ai Weiwei Released from Detainment, Says Media Ban a Condition of His Release

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Clearly the biggest news of the week, after just over three months spent detained by Chinese authorities for alleged financial crimes, artist Ai Weiwei was finally released late last night in Beijing. Weiwei’s detainment had quickly become a hot button issue worldwide, with a countless supply of other countries, protestors and supports, and museums across the world calling for his release, and most recently fellow high-profile artists boycotting planned exhibitions in China as a show of solidarity. However, while the press was waiting for him upon learning of his release, it doesn’t appear that Weiwei will be speaking about the experience anytime soon, given that an apparent media ban was a condition of his release. Here’s a bit from the Wall Street Journal:

Mr. Ai said his health was fine and thanked reporters for their support as he returned to his studio late Wednesday with his mother and his wife, according to witnesses, but added that he wasn’t able to say more under the conditions of his bail.

“I can’t say much. I can say I’m out. I’m on bail. But I can’t say anything more under the conditions of my release,” he told The Wall Street Journal by telephone.

Asked how long the media ban was in place, he said: “One year, at least.”

However, given how frequently Weiwei seems to like to irk the Chinese authorities, hence this latest effort to silence him, who knows if he will actually keep quiet for the next year.

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