Ignore the date stamp.

Recents - end of summer.

Obsessed with this store's location.

Harm x Proenza.

bollydisco.

more awesomeness here.

rams via translation.

It doesnt get any better than this. via

shitmywebpagetranslatorsays:

"Actually you need not write about this miracle too. For example, a control unit (I like the term “receiver” do not) be easy. Good reception, good sound, even if it must be something louder, while a simple, clear operation. And to be decorated, it also need not, it’s just naturally beautiful. So there is no unnecessary strip or unnecessary gloss. Even the scales come without glass cover. Yes what you need they? Yet one can ever question then be confronted with the. In most cases then follows the answer that it is so, one to understand is why device is not even a glass scale has an expensive Sun "

in the pocket.

Strath posted some awesome advertising images for the Philco Hip Pocket records today.

Hip Pocket Records were a small 3.5" flexidisc intended for teenagers to carry a few in their back pocket in the late 1960's. Small, inexpensive, and somewhat less fragile than a normal 7" 45RPM single, you can see why they thought it was a good idea at the time. I have a few floating around in my collection, the envelope is very similar to the ones seeds come in.

Here is more on WIKI...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PocketDisc

"The disks were sold in vending machines for 50 cents or counter displays at stores for 49 cents and could hold a capacity of about 3.5 minutes of music...They played at 33RPM."


Also more from this informative article by Steve Seymour,

"The product itself, sometimes referred to as a flexi-disc, was packaged in a 5 x 6.25 inch envelope featuring a color photograph of the artist, similar in concept to the picture sleeves designed to display 45 rpm records. However, the customer had to tear open the paper packaging to retrieve the disc. This wasn't seen as a problem since the product's main selling point was that it was disposable."

Steve quotes them as being sold for 69 cents.

There was a similar competitor version made by Americom called "Pocket Discs" that were sold in vending machines as seen here. Awesome.





Too bad no one really makes flexidiscs any more, I have looked around for a factory (passively mind you) for a few years now.

Oh well.

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this is incredible.

Design story: The Decanter from Landor Associates on Vimeo.

via make via core77.

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pingu.

I have been completely obsessed with this since I saw it, I always have loved any Pingu episodes I have seen, and this triggered hours of watching them on youtube this week. It is so good, and the bonus? It has him dancing like crazy to the Videokid's Woodpecker from Space, a bona-fide Italo Disco classic.



You can buy it here on Amazon. Awesomeness.

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how to arrive.

These have to be the sickest vehicles you can buy new right now. Based on the most classic of off-road AWD's and hand built in California, they are perfectly nondescript in all black, while the only other color option they offer, sand, maybe works better for their "old school" model. While I like the attention to detail given to the models they call "old school" and of course I have always admired those older Toyota Land Cruisers and Jeeps they are referencing, I think the new school all black FJ43 is the way I would choose --that'd be the one in the middle, the longer wheel base jeep. That is of course if I had a spare 100+ thousand dollars around. Even then, I am not sure my first purchase would be a vehicle. This is one for the aspiration book though for sure. Nice to see they rebuild older authentic models as well check them out in the inventory section

Check out their nicely designed site for all the gritty details and lots more lusty photos...

icon4x4.com

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montauk.

Christine and I had a really great, little, one day get away to the tip of Long Island in Montauk for her birthday. It really feels remote out there, even the vegetation feels different, and more like a tropical island. We definitely plan to go back!

Along the way we stopped at Candy Kitchen in Bridgehampton for a sundae, it appears to have changed very little since it's 1925 opening. The ice cream was good there, though the service was a bit iffy. However, once we got back to Brooklyn, Christine took me to the new-ish Brooklyn Pharmacy and Soda Fountain. Built in an actual old refurbished pharmacy on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens, it's original decor was changed very little which made it feel very authentic. It was the perfect setting for us to enjoy our Lime Rickeys, our unofficial drink of this summer -- I think we have had nearly 200 of them since summer started this year, and zero last summer, haha.

We also started a new tradition that hopefully we will keep as well, it is watching the sunrise on each of our birthdays, though mine is in the dead of winter!

We will see!

wanderlust.

Christine and I are taking a beach mini-vacation this week, so excited to get away for a little sunshine and sand. I have been looking at screens way too much lately and worring about icons that are 57 x 57, and the like, though I am gonna take a little article to read and understand obj-c a bit better, for my new interest in apps. Anyways, here is a lovely picture I took in Mexico last time we were there, in Tulum, one of our favorite places on Earth!

I also recently got a ton of new 80's Marcos Valle stuff, it is pretty sick, and super fun for the beach, I mean look at this picture, how much do you want to be drinking those weird colored drinks, and wearing scrubs on a beach?!!





Beach time!

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dusting off.

It has been a while since I was really on here, thought I would start adding a bit more again.

Since I left Kr I have been working on a ton of exciting new projects, including a camera app that I am really excited about. More on that later.

Expect some fun things to come!

For now enjoy a few pics I took recently (not from my app!) and a mix that my good friend Dave from friendsofsound.com made, great summer soul mix!

mix -- http://www.divshare.com/download/12060694-84d

Life in the Fish Bowl, Gaetano Pesce at Moss.

Here is the piece I wrote for the Pesce exhibit in LA.

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Life in the Fish Bowl
BY CHAD PHILLIPS


I started working at the design store moss in New York City in the fall of 1998. Coming from Tennessee, I had a very traditional view of modern design, thinking about it mostly as mid-century design. My knowledge of Gaetano Pesce was also very limited. I only knew of the UP 5 and Up 6 chair, maybe his most famous commercial piece. This all quickly changed though.

Pesce was a big part of moss around then. Pesce was always coming into the store (usually with his then-companion Ruth Shuman), mostly speaking to Murray Moss. Murray was and is a huge fan of Pesce. (The silicone "moss" lamp from 1999 is proof of the closeness of their commercial and personal relationship).

There were lots of Fish Design pieces in the store at the time - moss was by far the biggest retailer of Pesce's work then. Many of the pieces would just magically appear, being brought over by hand from Pesce's nearby 543 Broadway studio, by any number of his employees, in bags, in random-sized boxes, some probably freshly made that morning.

In 1999 the Open Sky exhibit happened at the store. This was when moss was still small, just in the 146 Greene St. space (we used to call it the fish bowl, not because of Pesce, but because we were constantly circling the glass-encircled space). That small store was pure magic (not that larger moss isn't still amazing -- it is! -- but there was something really special about that small store). Maybe it was the timing, the vision that Murray was bringing "design to America" to sum it up quickly. It was also that Murray was able to install these huge, amazing exhibits in such a small space. Open Sky was one of the first of the exhibits that I experienced first-hand.

The Open Sky line was amazing. Every one of us working at moss wanted and or bought something from that show (I had a chair on hold forever, then just let it go, my bad). Each piece was amazing, the interaction of the colors, the shapes, the inventive use of lighting, all were simply breathtaking.

The interesting thing was, being the person on the floor responsible for selling the items and explaining the exhibit, was that many people had no idea who Pesce was. The gut reaction of most people was either that they loved it and knew of him, or had no idea who he was, nor any interest in learning about the work. (Of course, there was the occasional French tourist who knew everything about Pesce and wanted to buy it all. Some I think came over just to buy pieces from the show). This was different than the reaction to most of the other items in the store. With these, people could easily see and appreciate the beauty, and understand the stories that Murray was telling, but with Pesce, it could be a very hard pill for most people to swallow. This made it even more special to all of us when we made a sale to someone.

During this period, before the store opened on Saturday morning, Murray would walk us through the store and explain the new pieces, and offer us stories and the ideas behind each piece, or stories about the designer, or the movement they were a part of - a priceless experience and education.

From time to time, we would have guest speakers come in to address the staff; Pesce never did. However, we did take a field trip to his studio as a group one of those Saturday mornings. I had already become a fan of his by that point, but now I really got it. I understood the magic captured in his process, the meeting of two colors (or more), the unpredictability of resin and his capturing of a moment (like a photograph), but in a 3-D design object. The building process of many of the pieces was similar to painting oddly enough, very low tech, and the studio even felt more like a painting studio than one of furniture and object design. This trip to his studio is one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

During my four year tenure at moss, I got to know Pesce's work very well, from the stuff produced in his own studio, to the commercial products of Zerodesigno, Zani and Zani, and Cassina. I even got to know Pesce the person a bit in 2002, the year the Nobody's Perfect collection was first exhibited. Again there was a clear divide of those who knew and understood, and those who did not. This time, thanks to the years of Murray's pushing, and of each of us explaining and repeatedly telling the stories, the pieces were more widely appreciated, and I think, even those who weren't interested in purchasing them could appreciate the process and design.

I left moss just after the second Nobody's Perfect exhibit. Oddly enough, I went on to work at Kidrobot with plastic being a major component of our designs, and immediately began dealing with manufacturing limitations. I really, truly gained a new sense of appreciation of Pesce then. Not only had he been capturing these little moments of magic in each piece, he had been capturing freedom. Freedom expressed through his ability to do almost anything with resin, something we found was hard to capture in our own toy factory processes in China.

gaetanopesce-exhibition.com/

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pesce, pesce and more pesce...

:D

on chetch via here... http://www.nysocialdiary.com/node/4235

I wrote a little something for an upcoming Pesce exhibit happening in LA, check this link

www.gaetanopesce-exhibition.com

finally...

I finally updated my main namesake site, since I left KR I had been working on it, but busy enough with other projects I hadnt really had time.

Go check it out, its really short and quick. I am a HUGE fan of single page websites.

http://chadphillipsnyc.com/Chad_Phillips_NYC..html

And as always, you can find me on the chetch.tumblr.com a lot more...

Check 'the friends' for more links to my stuff, and to some incredible things my friends do!



whew.

All Been Ready.

randum

wilfred limonious pt 2.

I keep noticing that I get a lot of hits because of a very small post
I did a while back on Wilfred Limonious. I have always been a big fan
of his work since a Tiger record I bought in Atlanta in the early 90s.
Anyways, there is a much better archive and a growing one at that of
his cover art at the link below, you should def go check it out if you
are looking for more on his work. It is pretty amazing stuff.

I heard from a friend he was just some guy at the gas station down the
road from some of the studios and happened to draw.

http://www.interruptor.ch/limonious/

Wonderwall, Jane Birkin.

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

Backbeat the word was on the street
That the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
But you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody feels
The way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how

Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me ?
And after all
You're my wonderwall.....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderwall_(film)

fortune cookie.

Instead of worrying and agonizing, move ahead constructively.

(thanks, I needed this one)

records at my moms house.

this isn't all of them.

fortune cookie mondays.

Understand yourself so you may understand others.

fortune cookie mondays.

Success will come with patience.

reggae soul and funk mp3 mixes.

Wow four great mixes/podcasts of great soul and funk reggae covers! Soul Makossa, Groove me, Rock Steady, Look ka py-py, and more!

Get them here now, with label scans of the 45s! Go Paris DJs!

Soul Stereo This Is Reggae Soul #1

Soul Stereo This Is Reggae Soul #2

Soul Stereo This Is Reggae Soul #3

Soul Stereo This Is Reggae Soul #4

If you dig around that site, they are some great reggae mash-ups mp3s as well; Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Cee-Lo and others.

Fortune cookie.

recent pics.

All from the digital harinezumi by superheadz, from our holidays 2009 roadtrip through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Most of those pics are from our antique store visits.