Confettisystem Makes Piñatas For Urban Outfitters
- story Chioma Nnadi
Unless you got an invite to Karen O’s birthday this year, then you probably haven’t had the pleasure of demolishing one of Confettisystem’s gorgeous piñatas just yet. Nicholas Anderson and Julie Ho are the Brooklyn-based artists behind the label, a system which according to them, sits in that happy place between the permanent and the ephemeral—in other words fancy party playthings for adults that you can also shatter around the house the morning after. Confetti have designed a special collection of festive items for Urban Outfitters due to drop sometime over the holiday season, with everything from shiny party hats to birthday crowns to okimono ornaments. Luckily the piñatas come in three smashable sizes.
Urban Outfitters Now Sells Fixed Gear Bikes
- story Peter Macia
Living in New York changes the way you think about bicycles and the people who ride them forever. In every other city, bikes are merely things that sit in the garage most of the time only to be taken out for leisure or groceries. Here, people ride bikes as their main form of transportation—from messengers, to moms, to office dudes to that girl who has the fully color-coordinated and souped track bike and rides through lights like it’s a business—and so they inevitably have a much stronger bond with their machinery and can get testy when it appears that the unspoken cycling community is being encroached upon, even if they are themselves relatively new to that community. So it will be without a doubt quite a blow to New York cycling’s mindstate the next time they ride past an Urban Outfitters (and they will because they are everywhere) and see a fixed gear in the window because Urban Outfitters is now selling customizable fixed gears. But to be honest, as long as these bikes aren’t dangerously crappy, there is really nothing to be mad about because it mostly means more people will be riding bikes and not almost running over bikes in cars, AND when this flood of Technicolor cycles hits bike parking areas around the city, it will actually serve as a deterrent to all the thieves out there looking to swipe your expensively upgraded ride, as looking at the locked pile-up on every corner will probably drive them insane, or at least into another field of thievery (hopefully one that does not involve stealing stuff).
Freeload: A Bunch of Songs From Urban Outfitters
- story THE FADER
Fans of good music and haters of vowels, come together and partake in Urban Outfitters latest URBN LSTN thing, in which they give away a crapload of free songs from a bunch of artists, some of whom have been given full endorsement by us in the pages of FADER Magazine and right here on this webternet site. Artists such as Grizzly Bear, Crystal Antlers, Apostle of Hustle, Passion Pit, The Big Pink, Amazing Baby, Jeremy Jay, Major Lazer, Popo, Lemonade, Nite Jewel, Phoenix and many more whose songs we’ve already posted here! It’s almost like they’re stealing from us! It’s almost like we should get compensated in some way! It’s almost like they should send over lifetime gift cards so we can stop wearing dirty t-shirts and duct tape shoes!
Download: URBN LSTN #5
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posted on Jun 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Amazing Baby, Apostle of Hustle, Crystal Antlers, freeload, Grizzly Bear, Jeremy Jay, Lemonade, Major Lazer, Nite Jewel, Passion Pit, Phoenix, Popo, The Big Pink, Urban Outfitters
Lark And Wolff By Steven Alan For Urban Outfitters
- story THE FADER
Collaborations get confusing sometimes: everything is either for, by, bred from, sponsored, hosted by…the combinations are endless. If you’re not constantly paying attention, you could get lost in all these layers and look at something like Lark and Wolff by Steven Alan for Urban Outfitters (that’s a mouthful) and pass it right by. Except the melting pot of collaborators somehow bred (yes, bred) quite a tasteful collection for a reasonable price, and we can get down with that.
