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//MINI SOUND

Yesterday my friend and I were paging through some magazines and stumbled across the coolest thing since Pez dispensers...wait for it.."the MINI COOPER VISIONAIRE LP PLAYER".This is the result of a collaboration between creative company Visionaire and Mini Cooper. The product consists of a Mini toy car, which is also a record player. The car is placed on the surface of an lp, and drives in circles, being guided by the records grooves. The toy cars has a needle at the bottom and the sound comes out of the roof, which has a little speaker built into it.This awesome design was only limited to units, and comes with a collection of records, ranging from David Byrne, Christian Marclay, Kim Gordon, Cat Power, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono, Animal Collective and even SunnO))) and more...
The price of this?$250 for the Mini+12 records....

/A NEW APPROACH TO STREET ART

I've been stumbling across some more interesting street/public art images lately. I found this one to be something new in comparison to the same old tagsone usually associates with street art..ENJOI!

//GREGOR SCHNEIDER: Art worth dying for?


German artist Gregor Schneider has recently announced his new idea to climax the rest of his exhibitions, dealing with death as the central theme. This time Schneider will not only sculpt a corpse, such as his "Hannelore Reuen", but has actually announced that he is in search of a volunteer who will dedicate his/her last hours of life to be "exhibited" a part of Schneider's exhibition.The volunteer will become an artwork demonstrating process of death, with the artists aim of confronting society's fear of dying.

The artist plans to this process within a room in the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, which he states was initially designed as a private living room by Mies van der Rohe, and in his opinion in contrast to intensive care units and hospitals qualifies as a perfect room for someone to die a dignified and humane death.Yet, when considering the outrage Costa-Rican artist Guillermo Vargas (also Habacuc) caused with his inhumane act of starving a dog of art, Schneider's idea seems to fit right in with this controversial concept, as many curators and politicians are already in a state of protest. Although Schneider will not cause the actual death of his subject as Habacuc did, it's moral implications are still extreme, as one could equate this act to watching someone being executed.

Yet, despite the fact that Schneider is attempting to re-mystify the theme of dying in art, and is thereby drawing a thin line between mystery and sensationalism, the act of presenting the real thing rather than making art interpreting the the real thing seems to easy. The artist claims that this process will hopefully make society see dying as a positive act, and will hopefully erase all negative notions many people connote with death.Yet, this idea does not make Schneider more of an artist, but rather a patron with a low price to pay for the high volume of publicity.

//FASHION TIPS,BABY!

//PINS, PINS AND MORE PINS

Since I've not posted anything in about a month I have decided to make this a slightly more ambitious post.. So this is it...Since I've been occupying myself with making pins(badges) for friends and myself, and since I've been quite an avid collector for the last 7years. I thought I'd document all of my pins, as well as the one's I've made myself. The interesting thing about badges is that they can always be assigned to something, may it be a cause, a band, or just a pop symbol...Therefore these are part of my teen years history (as cheesy as it may sound)...Here's one to start off with...The rest is coming soon!