The Future Laboratory in London publishes this quarterly magazine simply called THE. Very cool and worth a read. The latest issue features a Portland City Box curated by the Ace Hotel.

Check out this amazing low tech interactive marketing idea I found in London. It’s by a ginger beer company.

You use your thumb to create the butt

and this is what you get

Art Observed is a new website which focuses on global contemporary and fine art from a New York City perspective. The site reports not only on the art but also on the trends and forces that drive the art market.

At his fall 2008 menswear show in Paris on January 17, fashion designer Takahiro Miyashita of Number (N)ine unveiled an inspired collaboration with the Ace Hotel Portland.

A Northwest grunge aesthetic runs through Miyashita’s fall pieces. The show, titled “My Own Private Portland,” opened with an Ace Hotel voicemail message. Portland-made Pendleton wool blankets folded on each seat invited guests to snuggle up.

Ace and Number (N)ine are currently collaborating to create additional products which will be released this fall. You can buy the blankets at Number (N)ine’s Manhattan flagship store, and soon they’ll be at the Ace’s forthcoming NYC outpost.

Lakai shoes (associated with Girl/Chocolate/Fourstar) just put out their first full length skate video called ‘Fully Flared’

It is being talked about as the best video to come out in a while, and it has all of the classic favorites with some new talent mixed in…. Spike Jonze is a player in the ownership and production of the video and company, so it has his production values behind it, with crazy pyrotechnics in the intro, etc….

It just dropped a month ago.

Polanoid is a site where everyone in the world can post their polaroids for free…. their goal is to be the largest resource of polaroid photos in the world. there is some super cool stuff on there….

Big Think just launched last week….Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins created it, they are 2 ex staffers from Charlie Rose

Check out the Diner Journal by published Williamsburg restaurant Marlow and Sons. It’s a one of a kind cookbook and memoir. Illustrated and designed with old menus and arty food photos by Derick Holt, who has some amazing work on his website.

New A.P.C. Surplus store in Brooklyn at 33 Grand…super cool old bldg…open Wed-Sun 1-7pm

On a recent flight from Palm Springs, I sat across the aisle from a Seattle and Paris based photographer named Chase Jarvis The images are great! He shoots all over the world for many blue chip clients and is the youngest photographer to named a Hasselblad and Nikon master. The site is well done, even the merch looks good! (On a side note, Sarah his blog he says his favorite store is Colette!)