Cool Hunting Video Presents:Aziz Ansari
It’s not everyday you get to sit down with a comedy powerhouse like Aziz Ansari.
It’s not everyday you get to sit down with a comedy powerhouse like Aziz Ansari.
For our latest video, we drove through the desolate corridor of I-5 to the outskirts of Los Angeles to visit ICON, California’s premiere builder of custom trucks. Newest in the line-up, the ICON Bronco takes the body of a classic 1970s Ford Bronco and rebuilds it from the ground up
Hidden on a back street in Oakland, California in an unassuming warehouse lies what may be the pinnacle of denim craftsmanship in the USA. Roy Denim is actually just one man, Roy Slaper, whose obsession with making jeans has driven his small business into the conciseness of denim heads everywhere
We took a trip to the Mission District in San Francisco, California to talk to Michael Shindler, co-founder of Photobooth. Photobooth serves as both a retail space for classic camera gear, a gallery and most interesting a tintype portrait studio.
We always strive to discover and document the most phenomenal people, places and things around the globe but there is something extra satisfying when we find a real gem in our own back yard of New York City. In our latest video we visited John Derian who has been making découpage housewares sinces 1989. Derian, whose production facility sits quietly tucked away on 2nd street in New York’s East Village, collects 18th century imagery, which he lovingly transforms into beautiful découpage pieces.
From idea to reality in a mere seven months, Bentley’s polarizing EXP 9 F SUV concept premiered at the Geneva auto show in March 2012. Darren Day, the Senior Interior Designer at Bentley Motors and one of the lead designers on the concept, walked us through the car’s impressive details in our exclusive video at its private New York debut. Cast: Cool Hunting Tags: Bentley , Cars , SUV , Concept , Custom , Exclusive , Cool Hunting and Design
A bright blue interactive installation has taken over the walls of Issey Miyake’s Tribeca storefront. Composed of grids of hexagonal pads or “voxels”, Symbiosis0: Voxel responds to body heat or “artifacts” left by users who touch its textile surface. In this rough cut we give a preview of the piece in action.
In our latest video we trekked out into the beautiful farmland outside Sebastopol, California to visit California Carnivores, North America’s largest carnivorous plant nursery. We spoke with founder Peter D’Amato about his personal history with these hungry plants, their cultural significance and what it takes to raise up fantastical plants from seed. Taking in the active plant life, we watched Venus Flytraps chowing down and a got a peak inside the stomach of an American Pitcher Plant
Leading up to the NY Auto Show Land Rover celebrated 25 years of presence in the US by staging an “Urban Jungle” in a parking lot beneath the High Line in NYC. Decorated with buried taxis and vintage Rovers, the course features hills, holes, mud and ruts that show off how well the current vehicle line up can tackle extreme terrain. We visited the site this morning with a Nikon D4 in hand and decided to test out the camera’s new time-lapse feature
Marina Abramović has returned to Milan with a new performance, specially conceived for the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (PAC), her first major museum exhibition since her retrospective in 2010 at the MoMA. The Abramović Method continues Abramović’s three major performances from the last decade: The House With the Ocean View (2002), Seven Easy Pieces (2005) and The Artist is Present (2010).