AIAIAI TMA-1

We’re loving this new arrival from Danish headphone company AIAIAI, the TMA-1 DJ headphone. In developing this piece, AIAIAI worked with Kilo Design, Kibisi, and a team of international working DJs to develop a headphone that will be long-lasting, both in terms of classic aesthetics and solid, sensible quality of design.

Coolhunting shot this great video that follows the design process, with interviews featuring Kibisi designers and the co-founder of AIAIAI.

Visvim’s Hiroki Nakamura Directorial Debut

Visvim’s Hiroki Nakamura is an undeniable creative force, making some truly beautiful clothes and footwear that have combined American, Japanese and Native American influences into something unique and beautiful. On September 25^th, he’ll unveil his recent foray into a different creative medium at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where there will be a screening of his directorial debut as part of the A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival.

Wilderness Downtown

Arcade Fire and Google Maps collaborate on a new interactive video created by Chris Milk. Type in the address of your home and, if Google Street View and Google Maps have enough data on the area, you’ll find it incorporated into the video.

I didn’t know what to expect going into this video based on that description. I took the suggestion to enter the address of the home where I grew up (definitely a classic suburban town, in keeping with Arcade Fire’s theme) but Google didn’t have enough data on my hometown, a smallish one in Iowa. So instead, I went with the house I lived in during college, also in Iowa but in a slightly more metropolitan area. The result was something totally unexpected. If you’re interested in seeing what music videos have the capability to do in a post-TRL era, you need to give this a try. Go to The Wilderness Downtown, and make sure you’re using Google Chrome.

Back to the Future II is here

Nike has patented self-lacing sneaker technology, ala Back to the Future II. Yes. That happened. Via Nice Kicks.

Mashanda Scott

Mashanda Scott’s sculptures take everyday objects – functional, useful objects – and makes them floppy and useless. On her site, she explains that a thick, faux-suede material suits most of her needs when lovingly re-crafting familiar objects like a bicycle or the workshop-type stool above. By taking away the function, she forces us to consider the forms, some of which are quite lovely. Seen on scrapbook.

Colour Mania

Colour Mania is a deep exploration of colors by those who have devoted their lives to them. How do you match color with words and letters? With sound and feeling? Designers of all stripes contributed to this 300-page book with their own celebrations and visual musings on color, across the entire spectrum. The end result is unique. Get it from Gingko Press.

Teen Daze

Teen Daze is a bedroom producer who’s been keeping a pretty low profile, gradually getting his name out there by posting tracks to his Tumblr and reworking tracks by artists like Washed Out and Twin Sister. With work of this quality, you can’t help but pay it serious attention.

Take this, for example, a remix of the Japandroids song Wet Hair. It bubbles over with 8-bit enthusiasm, making it the perfect match for these clips from the new Scott Pilgrim video game, which looks like an absolute blast.

Max’s Story

Kitsune Noir points out a cute little clip put together by some fans of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are. The video illustrates, in clever charm, the story that Max tells his mother near the beginning of the movie about vampires and buildings.

I remember thinking at the time that it was such a smart way Spike and Dave (Eggers, who co-wrote the screenplay) to simultaneously introduce us to Max’s imagination and help us begin to tap into our own memories of childhood adventures and stories. This clip, directed by Sebastian Baptista & Nico Casavecchia, pays wonderful respect to Max’s tale and is filled with the same imaginative spirit.

Covers and Cases

Here are a couple of cases for your consideration, both of which caught my attention on Selectism today. The first is a laptop case from Henrik Vibskov comprised of gumball-sized wood beads meant to double as a back or seat massage (one would suspect you sit on it without the laptop inside, but you can take your own chances).

The second is an iPad cover from Kenton Sorenson, built from a beautiful natural leather and assembled by hand in Wisconsin. These kinds of covers have been cropping up all over the place, but this is one of my favorites so far, and it would age marvelously.

How To Dress Well

How to Dress Well is one guy taking the R&B that he grew up with in the 90s and filtering it through his own lo-fi, noisy and introspective musical point of view. It’s a little rough, a little sexy and definitely worth a listen.

The video above for Lover’s Start was just debuted on GvB.