About the author

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.


look at book

Posted on January 20, 2005 Under Books

What a brilliant and beautiful idea. For thirty-six weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists: two in Brooklyn, two in Belfast. Each week they would send the book to the next artists giving each artist 5…

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Jared Hess + Postal Service

Posted on January 19, 2005 Under Music

Jared Hess, director of the successful film Napolean Dynamite has teamed up with one of my faverite bands the Postal Service on their new video: We Will Become Silhouettes. He brings the same kitschy fun and inventive feel to this…

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Bamboo Snowboard

Posted on January 18, 2005 Under Design

The Dutch based company Indigo Snow has introduced the worlds first bamboo snowboard. The board is super light weight and made mostly of wood except for its carbon fiber reinforced core for added strength. Hefty price tag at $1,220--but what…

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Kyouei Japan

Posted on January 18, 2005 Under Design

Kyouei Japan has some really neat designs like this Balloonlamp; a modern interpretation of the paper lantern. It's a balloon with a small LED that is inserted inside and can work to illuminate continuously for over 100 hours. They also…

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Veer

Posted on January 17, 2005 Under Design

The Veer online store is a designer and creative persons online paradise. It has loads of stuff to wear, read, and look at that only "˜creatives would understand'. They have some great fun designer type shirts, posters, books and bags.…

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Google Touch Graph

Posted on January 14, 2005 Under Life

Holy cow this is cool! This is a graph created by Touch Graph that visually maps out all referrals, connections, and mentions using the google search engine. I really gotta give it up to the programmers behind this, this is…

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Preshrunk

Posted on January 13, 2005 Under Fashion

It seems like the topic-specific blogs are really taking off this season. We've seen blogs from shoewawa for women's shoes to kitchen contraptions for anything and everything cooking. Now let me introduce a new one I've been keeping an eye…

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Create It Skate It!

Posted on January 12, 2005 Under Design

It seems like the DIY market covers everything these days so why would skateboard graphics be any different? Making custom decks could not be any easier or affordable for that matter with createitskateit.com. You create the graphics and upload them.…

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Vilderness

Posted on January 11, 2005 Under Fashion

Vilderness prints on only sweatshop-free garments using water based inks with interesting illustrations of zebras, ducks, headphones, cactii and more. They also do print and web graphics--these t-shirts reflect their obvious design talent. They're also working on some special one…

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Don’t Blame Me

Posted on January 10, 2005 Under Life

For all of us that wont be celebrating come Jan 20th"¦. it was only a matter of time until someone manufactured these "I did not vote 4 Bush bracelets. This is from the same people that manufactured the Livestrong bracelets.…

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