Nate Cooper

The Commodity of © Murakami

by natecooper | Apr 19, 2008 | aesthetics, art, Brooklyn, culture, style

The first thing that strikes me about © Murakami is how blatantly familiar everything seems. Anyone accustomed to Japanese or anime culture may find © Murakami unremarkable. Life-size sculptures of transforming robots — aside from their explicit...

Tame Status Cube – Baekdal.com

by natecooper | Apr 19, 2008 | cool, digital media, internet, technology

[link] interesting concept for a device to update your status. kind of like twittering a magic eight-ball response.

Tim Robbins’ Speech to NAB

by natecooper | Apr 18, 2008 | aesthetics, culture, media

—— update: someone contacted me via email and pointed me to the full length speech (sound only) hosted on fair [link] longer… but worth a listen. (via flingLog )

World Without Cars: The Public Transit Projects that Should Have Been

by natecooper | Apr 17, 2008 | architecture, art, cities, culture, san francisco

[link] What would Los Angeles look like with trolley cars? What about a canal instead of Market street in San Francisco?

Recyclable Retail – ‘NoStore’ Offers Artisans Retail Space for Just One Week

by natecooper | Apr 16, 2008 | art, cool, culture, world

“The NoStore store is a ârecyclableâ? retail space located in Shanghaiâs Metro that offers artists retail space for just one week.Â As a result, the contents and theme of the store change every week.”Â [link] (via...

LVHRD.ORG » Millenium Falcon ripped from Otto Wagner

by natecooper | Apr 16, 2008 | architecture, art

“While flipping through an Otto Wagner book, one of Otto’s designs caught his attention. A failed bank that Wagner was cooking up is . . . and you can see it clear as day . . . a blueprint for the Millenium Falcon:”...