Following the blue LRG, Casio releases the new (and still very) limited edition highlighter LRG. Surprisingly enough, this yellow LRG isn’t widely available. We looked around and it looks like AC Gears is still the one of the only retail stores that you can come in and try it out in person. At $179.99 a pop in store, it’s advised that you grab one quick before it’s sold out forever.

Nooka watches have always been one of the most-sought-after items in the shop for their one-of-a-kind look, dreamed up and put into production by New Yorker Matthew Waldman.  I stumbled across a short feature on Waldman today and thought I’d share. Here, Waldman gives a few Rules to Live By on Definitive Touch.

“There are young artists who love irony and rude conceptualism, who like art history jokes, who make art for academics and not for people. I’m not really down with them, and they are definitely a big boring bummer compared to the active community I am a part of.”

For a short list of downtown NYC artists that aren’t “a big, boring bummer,” you could certainly start with those featured in “A New York Minute,” now showing in Rome. The quote above comes from Kathy Grayson, curator of the exhibition and director of New York’s Deitch Projects, who has put together a really fun looking, energetic mix of stuff that showcases well-knowns right alongside the up-and-coming.

The show includes everything from photographs taken by the recently-deceased Dash Snow to a piece by Cory Arcangel and art collective Paper Rad that Grayson explains “was made almost entirely through the Internet in a year-long series of emails and data exchanges.”

A.R.E. Weapons played at the opening of “A New York Minute.” In a small, pretty inconsequential AC Gears-related side note, A.R.E. Weapons had made their video for ‘F What You Like’ with our help, in a manner of speaking.

By that I mean, one of the guys on the video crew popped in on the day of the shoot to pick out some small speakers for them to use while shooting in Chinatown. Okay, so maybe we don’t exactly earn a production credit on that one, but we don’t need it. We’re just here to help, y’know?

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As they prepare their new album, take a look at this Minus the Bear video from a couple records back. Done for the single ‘Pachuca Sunrise,’ it’s a hazy, dreamy clip featuring expanding sponges, a game of marbles and band members underwater.

The clip is brought to you by Issara Willenskomer and Britta Johnson from the production company SUPERFAD, who have done some cool work for GAP, Coca-Cola, The New Museum and others. Johnson also has her own gig going, and you may know her animation/puppet work done for Fleet Foxes beautiful track ‘White Winter Hymnal.’

Here’s a look back at a film that might have flown under your radar. From the director of ‘The Cell,’ this self-financed project almost sunk before it left the harbor. Thanks to David Fincher and Spike Jonze, who just seem to have the eye for this sort of thing, ‘The Fall’ saw limited distribution last year, pretty much on the strength of their names alone.

When a director can turn a Jennifer Lopez movie with a terrible premise into a cult favorite for it’s beautiful, hallucinogenic visuals, you’ll want to pay attention when he makes his own movie.  ‘The Fall’ is a labor of love, and it shows. Check the trailer below.

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So…okay. Takashi Murakami. Kirsten Dunst. McG. Put them together, and what do you get?

“Akihabara Majokko Princess,” of course! Murakami collaborated with Charlie’s Angels/Terminator: Salvation director McG to direct what sure looks and sounds like a weird little film of Dunst prancing through Tokyo streets in anime garb while singing “I’m Turning Japanese.” This quirky one-off project is featured in the final room of the recent “Pop Life” exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.

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Check the Wall Street Journal article for more details on how this whole thing came to fruition (McG and Murakami share a manager, for one), and let’s hope some footage pops up online in the near future. Until then, click play above and let your imagination run with it.

I first noticed the work of FCTN, a creative studio based in Orlando, FL, when I came upon this dreamy clip they produced for Georgia-by-way-of-North-Carolina’s Washed Out. It’s such a perfect treatment of a seriously chilled out song, I had to check out their site.

It’s worth taking the time to poke around both the Work and Play sections and getting to know some of their previous projects, some of which are pretty cool, like this series of intense short web clips produced for a BMX company to showcase all of their team riders in the context of a mini-movie.