Gommi Arcade x Nooka x AC Gears

Come to the party! We’re hosting the Gommi Arcade x Nooka launch event at our Greenwich store where they’ll be debuting the Gommi collaboration Zub Zot model Nooka watch. This will also serve as opening night for the pop-up Gommi Arcade shop and art installation that will be in AC Gears Greenwich through the end of April. This event is strictly RSVP only, so RSVP now either to rsvp@nooka.com, or via AC Gears’ Facebook Page for a spot. Under-21’s, you’re unfortunately out of luck on this one, but we hope to see you in the shop in April to check out the Gommi setup!

Gommi Arcade x Nooka launch party
AC Gears Greenwich
106 Greenwich Ave. (nr. Jane St.)
8-10 PM

Drinks provided by Hennessey Black and smartwater
Music by DJ Lady Chellez of NY Power 105.1 FM

You may also pre-order the Nooka x Gommi Arcade Collaboration Watch now for $149.99 via AC Gears.

Spike Jonze and Opening Ceremony

Humberto Leon and Carol Lim of Opening Ceremony are true tastemakers. With stores in LA and Tokyo, the real heart of OC seems to be in New York (where, inside the Ace Hotel, they’ve recently unveiled their second NYC store). Leon and Lim have done much for young designers and emerging brands, introducing Japanese and Chinese clothing lines to new eyes stateside, while collaborating with downtown staples like Chloe Sevigny alongside established brands like Red Wing, Pendleton and Levis.

Somehow, they defined cool by being afraid to prescribe it, as you’ll hear them explain in this series of videos shot for VBS.tv by Spike Jonze which captures their humility and the sense of fun they inject into all that they do. I mean, come on – you only have to look as far as these Wild Things.

Genki Rockets – Hologram Singer

Ever since their debut in 2006, their hit song Heavenly Star has stucked in my head from time to time whenever I played Lumines on my PSP. When will Lumi, the famed fictional hologramed Japanese singer, with her beautiful, but sampled and digitized voice, release her next album? Avatar has made 3D movies a growing fad, expanding the boundary of virtual reality in entertainment. And VR is certainly becoming a word pertaining not just to Internent, and computer games. So I thought about Lumi from Genki Rockets again. Unlike Simone, Hollywood’s rendition of a virtual being coming to life, Lumi is arguably already alive. Her album has been a big hit in Japan and amongst anime fans, and her hologram appearances a signature performance. Hundreds of Japanese paid big money to see her “live on stage” in Tokyo in 2008 (see below). No one really knows who Lumi is, because she isn’t actually real. The origin of her voice remains unknown. She exists in the real world only as a recognized, but non-existent being. So the question is, when will Lumi finally visit Earth again with her new album?

Void Lights by Tom Dixon

These spun metal lights are from the office of Tom Dixon, who will be showing them in Milan this spring. The fact that they look vaguely donut-shaped (sort of like this Naoto Fukasawa design) works for me, and then some.

The lights will be available in solid copper, stainless steel and brass.

Goldfrapp – Rocket

Goldfrapp is back! I’m loving the video for new single “Rocket” in which Alison Goldfrapp takes an ex-lover for a leisurely drive through some seriously psychedelic terrain; except, no, not so leisurely because he’s all covered in tape sort of weirdo bondage style and, guess what, the truck she’s driving is lugging around a huge rocket which she then tapes him to the side of (I know…who knows how much tape she bought beforehand, but the answer is probably a lot) before shooting him into space. You read that right.