To celebrate the upcoming release of new season Catalina Necklaces, we are giving away some for orders over $50. Since sending the newsletter out this morning and posting this on the blog two have gone already…!
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Archive for July, 2008
Free Catalina for orders over $50…
Micky Skull Cut Out Jaw Man Face….
Some fun to be had at crafthead, a site for crafting your own head as part of the build up to semi-permanent, one of nz’s biggest design events. Make a face then vote for ours. We think the name of ours is a bit long. Its inspired by skulls (hurst style), micky mouse (frizzel style) and blogging before 8am.
Oh, and last day to get 50% off selected t-shirts. Offer ends tonight. Many have sold out. And check out the new Kinoo range that went live yesterday.
Have a good Wednesday, or humpday as they call it in NYC.
Search Heaven
The internet never stops to impress us. If you havn’t downloaded the new Firefox 3.0 browser then do it now. After that, install the piclens add-on. You can do all this in about five minutes with easy to follow prompts.
Piclens is a great new add-on that allows you to search the web visually. There are a couple of basic search functions and the results are a never ending display of images and video. You can zoom in and out, watch the video’s (pulled from youtube) and scroll along (second image).
Its easy to use and amazingly fast (managed to get streaming youtube video’s after 5pm, if your an overseas reader in NZ when the masses go home and get online the speed of our internet basically halves).
Choice.
We are using this all the tie when using the int
Rob Tucker Art Exhibition
Our favourite New Zealand artist Rob Tucker has a new exhibition opening on Thursday the 24th of July at Smyth Galleries. I’ve had a sneak preview and it’s amazing to say the least. Go Robo. So head down to Smyth Galleries on Thursday or sometime between July 24th and August 13th. But on the other hand if you want to buy his work go to the opening. Rob’s last show almost sold out on the opening night…
mychillbin
New Zealand now has its own user-generated photo library. Mychillibin is a website where you can upload your photographs for others to buy. So your photography could be the next cover of Metro…
Beware it is royalty free for buyers, so they can do anything with your photography once they have bought an image. You can decide for yourself if this is good or bad for the industry, but the site is easy to use and its designed well. If you need an image pronto for something your doing (web or print) or want to get your photo library paying for itself it could be worth a try.
Some interesting content to say the least.
Weekly Special – 50% off selected T-shirts
Nice one if you scored some plush or art toys during the last weekly special.
This week its 50% off selected T-shirts. A lot of the styles have only one or two left, hence the sale and deals for our members.
If you haven’t already, join the facebook fanclub to know about these specials before others.
Have a good Thursday and don’t fight over your T-shirt like the two hard nippled fellows in the picture…idiots
Kiwi Series by Eric Orr
Bronx / New Zealand artist Eric Orr is one of our heroes. Famous for his robot head and street art history with Keith Haring in NYC subways, he has traveled to NZ enough for it to be his home away from home. We were lucky enough to meet him and share a beer on a sunny Auckland beach last summer. Ever since we have been meaning to show you one of our favourite pieces he did while in NZ.
This is Kiwi series # 3 – Acrylic, china pencil on New York City Subway Map, 2007.
This and two other Kiwi Maps by Eric are here in NZ. There were only four in total so they are collectable to say the least. To find out more contact Eric’s representative Jillian de Beer.
We look forward to when he is back in AK…
iphones and comics…
Discovered a new blog this morning while making coffee, processing orders, reading the paper and listening to Mikey Havoc…(who said males can’t multi-task). Oneplusinfinity is a blog by a designer in Brooklyn, they posted some Kowtow T-shirts hence finding myself here. Check it out. On this blog I found this post called “Suffering From Customer Satisfaction“, had this funny comic from Diesel Sweeties, another entertaining blog.
Im glad I’m not so obsessed with apple products (yet) that I have to wait outside the Vodafone store on Queens Street like the two fellows on the front page on the Herald today. I dream of being able to use my mobile to surf the web, but our mobile services in NZ are far too slow to use these features enjoyably.
In the mean time download wikipedia to your existing phone, I used it on a friends and its handy being able to find the answer to pretty much everything on your phone. All the words are linked like wikipedia, editable versions are out soon.
Thats enough geek talk for 8.30am in the morning. We will try and find some more iphone comics and the like during the week….. yes I want one.
