Sebastian Onufszak - Hyper World

Enough with this commerce-driven Monday. Eye candy time.

Seabass has done graphic design work for the likes of Ray-Ban, MTV, and Sony. The prints below are remarkable for their organized chaos. A couple of them are overly cluttered in my opinion (which is saying alot since I generally enjoy sensory bombardment) but he has an undeniable sense of color and space which I really respect.

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iPhone 3G $50-$100 Off @ Best Buy for Reward Zone Members

So I got an iPhone for Christmas and it is pretty much the greatest thing I have ever laid hands on. While I don't like to talk about it on the blog, as I don't want to come off as a Mac fanboy, it is a glorious piece of engineering. That said, Gizmodo is reporting that if you've been a Best Buy Reward Zone member since Feb. 21 of this year, you can get $50-$100 off an iPhone 3G with a 2-year agreement with AT&T.

I am not usually one to gush, and this is no exception, but were I prone to gushy episodes the iPhone would certainly precipitate them on a regular basis.

Twisten.FM

Twisten.FM is a Twitter-related site that crawls the entirety of the 'I-share-too-much-with-people-I-don't-know' universe for music people have twitted, tweeted, twatted(!), about and condenses it into medium quality streaming links. Alot like Hype Machine, which crawls well-known music blogs for streaming audio content.

Printliberation "I Survived the Bush Administration" T-shirt

Awesome. $16 here.

Kindle, Kindle 2 Really Expensive, Author Fails to See the Point

So this is not timely per se, given the fact that the whole world was abuzz with the Kindle 2's release a few weeks ago, but I am waiting for some pics so I can post about the POOLTRADESHOW I was at last week and this seems an appropriate way to fill the time.

For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, the Kindle and Kindle 2 are digital readers. What that means is, much like an app from the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can pay around $10 per book and download it directly to your reader via wifi or 3G. The Kindle library currently stands at around 240,000 books. I guess the obvious advantages are that $10 is less than the $20-40 you'd pay for a new hardcover--and also slightly less than paperback bestseller prices; you don't have to store your books on a bookshelf; and the portable nature of your library means you don't have to pick and choose which books you'll take with you if you travel or commute.

As someone who sits at a desk and reads crap on a monitor pretty much all day everyday, I guess my question is, why would I want to stare at yet another backlit LCD surface? With a price point ($240 for a Kindle, $360 for a Kindle 2) that rivals some low-end netbooks and laptops, why would I not go the extra mile and just get a fully functional PC with an operating system and disk drives?

I admit that speaking logically, the Kindle is a more efficient way to read in nearly every respect, but is that really what reading for pleasure is about? I'm not sure I can accept that... I grew up on good old fashioned paper, and I'll continue growing up on it. There is a feeling, a tactile sensation, that you get from opening and closing books, feeling the paper, turning the page, that I find to be an integral part of the reading experience. On top of that, I am a notorious underliner and margin scribbler, and I doubt very much that I would get the same joy out of annotating in a separate notebook or even leaving a little digital post-it on the page.

I do not fear technology. I embrace it. I like the fact that I can sit on my couch and control every single piece of electronics in my apartment with my cell phone. I like the internet. I like you. BUT, I also like gasoline guzzling sportscars, the outdoors, and reading books made out of trees and glue. I am not saying that the Kindle is garbage or anything, I just think it defeats the purpose of reading books. Why in the world would you want to live life without a fully-stocked bookshelf?

Half-assed hybrid horsepower and digital readers be damned. Unapologetically I say to you that I am living in the past and proud of it.

Mihara Yasuhiro x PUMA sneakers

Perhaps no designer skates between couture and pop-streetwear more often than Mihara Yasuhiro. While I find some of his fashion styles too...something, these PUMAs, set for release this summer, are gnar. I especially like the melting illusion you get between the upper and outsole in the back. Available at PUMA retailers this spring for what I suspect will be a king's ransom, but I might actually be able to get a pair since they will be released at a broader number of retail outlets.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

This is the first time I've seen something like this, and I like the concept. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies contains the original text of the Jane Austen masterpiece, "spiced up with new portions featuring viloent, flesh-hungry zombie hordes." I haven't read the original or the updated version, but I can imagine that the injection of zombies will certainly make it a more palatable read for someone with my particular...aesthetic sensibilities.

Seth Grahame-Smith makes the literary zombie additions while the original illustrations by C. E. Brock are also updated by...someone who remains unnamed. Available for preorder here for the perfectly rounded sum of $10.36.

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DC Shoes Gatsby LTD

I've been trying to get my grubby mitts on these sexy sneaks for about a year now with no success, and now they have appeared on the interwebs in this fancy new colorway. I'm toying with the idea of offering a bounty to anyone in California or New York who can acquire a pair of these for me, since I apparently live in Gatsby Bumblefuck, so let me know if you have any leads and we can negotiate a suitable reward.

The branding, sexy grey/black/blue colorway, and general unavailableness of the model make me salivate. Or maybe its the Bar Rafaeli pics I have open in this other tab...either way, I'm drooling like...something that drools alot. Witty analogies 1, Ryan 0. You win again, you magnificent bastards.

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KAWS: "The Long Way Home" at Honor Fraser in LA

Even if you think you don't know who KAWS is, chances are you have seen at least one or two of his images, collaborations, or sculptures. The Brooklyn-based pop artist has been everywhere of late, and his latest venture is a show titled "The Long Way Home" at LA's Honor Fraser Gallery. If you are in the area, check it out. Opening night is this Saturday, February 20 at 6 pm.

These images are sneak peeks via SuperTouch. Check out the KAWS Flickr group for a (quite obviously) more complete look at his work.

Christ "sneak peek" is right. I see a Smurf, a hand, and a train whistle with teeth. That's like a trailer for Star Wars showing a Jawa, Chewbacca's left foot, and a storm trooper codpiece.

July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final."

—The Great Shark Hunt, 1979