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Josh Spear: I'm a frequent-flyer-mile-collector trying to visit every country in the world, sushi addict that loves omakase and active investor. Since 2004 this site has been a place for me to share highlights from art, culture, technology and global trends that I care about.


New Rojo Books

Posted on August 11, 2006 Under Books

Barcelona based Rojo just released a couple of their newest design and art Books. These ones are explained as: Lolo-Blanco, Sakristan-Heads or Tails, Juju's Delivery- The Dead, the damned and the children of the revolution and Eltono & Nuria- Bar…

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Good Search

Posted on August 11, 2006 Under Life

What if every time you searched the Internet it earned money for a good causes? That's exactly what GoodSearch does, powered by Yahoo! It's just like any other search engine except each time you search, a donation is made to…

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Banksy Update

Posted on August 10, 2006 Under Art

Who would have thought that a graffiti artist would actually be responsible for the raising the house prices of an area? This is exactly what's happening in London's trendy Shoreditch area where secretive graffiti artist Banksy is single-handedly pricing local…

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House and Garden

Posted on August 9, 2006 Under Press

Josh Spear: If you have a teenager in your house or a hip youngster in your life, this is THE site for you. Along with sites like Coolhunting, Josh Spear tracks trends for a living (which is really impressive considering…

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SoftService On Sale

Posted on August 8, 2006 Under Fashion

One of my most favorite t-shirt lines SoftService is having a little bit of a summer sale right now. The super limited-edition, hand embroidered, hand painted, hand massaged shirts normally priced at $60 are available for $40. While still a…

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Eco Fashion: TRAID

Posted on August 8, 2006 Under Fashion

Forget any ideas you have about old woolly jumpers in stuffy second hand shops. TRAID (Textile Recycling for Aid and International Development) innovatively bridge the gap between recycling and fashion. TRAID has customers that re-design and reconstruct donated materials into…

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Fresh Beautiful Decay Shirts

Posted on August 6, 2006 Under Fashion

A nice little update over at Beautiful Decay last week brought two new stellar additions to their quickly growing line of limited-edition designer t-shirts. Here we have Aya Kato's design on the left entitled Mermaid and Jonathan Nicol's Conan Shirt…

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Crushed Can Art

Posted on August 6, 2006 Under Art

Using acrylic paints on flattened beer and soda cans Charles Kaufman creates truly one of a kind works of art on crushed cans. The often quirky painting is on one side of the crushed can, while the other side reveals…

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The Dose: This Week at Product Dose

Posted on August 4, 2006 Under Life

I've received quite a few comments lately regarding the fact that many, if not a majority of my posts are un-purchaseable goods. The rare, the obscure, the conceptual, etc. In the spirit of collaboration I've decided to start up a…

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Coroflot Version 4.0

Posted on August 3, 2006 Under Art

The good folks over at Core77 recently relaunched Coroflot-- a career and community site for creative professionals. If you're an artist or designer it's an awesome place to build and promote your creative portfolio and check databases of job and…

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