Pitch Night 2013: Join Cool Hunting at Story on 22 October to share your next big idea

Pitch Night 2013


After the success of last year’s Pitch + Drink + Make, Cool Hunting is putting on its second edition of Pitch Night in collaboration with NYC’s innovative boutique…

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Cool Hunting Video: Pizza Moto: Brooklyn’s best mobile pizza-makers construct their latest oven from scratch

Cool Hunting Video: Pizza Moto


If you have meandered through Smorgasburg in Brooklyn, or any other major food-focused event in New York City in the last few years, you may have noticed some funky looking ovens pushing out delicious pizzas….

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Gertrude Salons: Intimate art experiences hit the web with the aid of an online platform

Gertrude Salons


Kenneth Schlenker—a French-born tech entrepreneur and ex-Google employee—isn’t the most predictable person to disrupt New York’s stolid art scene. Several startups have tried to bring the art world online, mostly by creating marketplaces for buyers and…

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Juniper Ridge + Fellow Barber Pop-Up: A look at the Californian fragrance makers’ temporary Williamsburg shop with architect Claudio Martonffy

Juniper Ridge + Fellow Barber Pop-Up


Leaving behind the hippie farmers market vibe in favor of greener pastures with a more modern aesthetic, Oakland, California’s Juniper Ridge is becoming increasingly popular for their distinct scents and…

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Torbjørn Rødland at Algus Greenspon Gallery: The photographer blends humor, eroticism and surrealism for his current solo show in NYC

Torbjørn Rødland at Algus Greenspon Gallery


Norwegian-born, LA-based photographer Torbjørn Rødland twists the commonplace into the uncanny in his first solo show in New York at Algus Greenspon Gallery. Babies in cages, mysterious naked biker…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Modular phones, petrified bird photography, the Empire State Building’s green roof and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. The Ultimate Swiss Army Knife Cumbersome? Yes. Ornate? Certainly. Over the top? Absolutely. The Wenger 16999 Swiss Army Knife from around 1880 has roughly 100 functions—some necessary and some superfluous. From a built-in saw to…

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Parke Active Denim: The young startup sets out to make stretch denim jeans in NYC from fabric made in Cone Mills, North Carolina

Parke Active Denim


After funding their first selvedge denim jeans with a successful Kickstarter campaign in early 2013, NYC-based Parke is at it again with a more innovative idea in mind: A pair of raw denim jeans woven with…

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Image of the Studio: A Portrait of New York City Graphic Design: An exhibition and online project producing cognitive maps of the industry’s urban influences

Image of the Studio: A Portrait of New York City Graphic Design


From the number of house plants to the amount of music played and what type, the new exhibition “Image of the Studio: A Portrait of New York City Graphic Design” showcases a fastidious breakdown of the…

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Interview: JIHAE : The artist on working with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and co-writing music for a Leonard Cohen poem about an orgasm

Interview: JIHAE


Many singers these days produce albums that have been laboriously groomed and primped—from almost-too-perfect Autotuned vocals to the overly airbrushed album cover—so it’s refreshing to meet a singer and songwriter with a sultry voice and raw energy who’s not afraid to express her…

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3D Monopoly: New York Edition: Pop artist and NYC-native Charles Fazzino’s premium version of the beloved board game

3D Monopoly: New York Edition


Though the majority of our game-playing time these days is spent staring solitarily at our smartphones moving pixelated candy, nothing quite beats a good old-fashioned board game. While a game like Monopoly is a classic, the newly unveiled );…

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