nooka+hellz bellz=galactic joy for all

this is the next collab we will release, with woman's fashion brand hellz bellz! hypebeast broke the nooz first though, so check out their post here.

playboy france + nooka

playboy france october 2008. c'est tres cool et chic. si vous etes en france achetez une copie toute de suite!

debbie's hairy aka scissor sister

my friend lapo was kind enough to invite me to the friends and family only debbie's hairy concert [scissor sisters play incognito in nyc to avoid the maddening crowds]. the night before they went on as queef latina which is even funnier.

the show was great: a roxy music cover, a song where baby daddy [scott] blew us all away with lead vocals and a new song "I remember the straight lines"? seems to be the big euro single for the next release. they played their classics as well as the new stuff. it was a very intimate affair full of love and pop energy.

i spoke a little with jake and derek at the after party to ask when the next album will be released, it it won't be sooner than spring, but as they are perfectionists – it will be amazing.

thanks for the party! fotos are © rich weaver's flkr stream.

recent blog post

a great blog post on designnotes on the glow in the dark here.

and ever vigilant hypebeast here.

thanks michael and eugene!

and of course, buy at your local nooka retailer or here.

T.I.

brooklyn based stylist, samson j. cameron put a gold nooka on T.I. for a photoshoot and was kind enough to send our press office some jpegs. T.I. is very sexy – congrats on having the number one record in the usa!

another great todd owyoung post

another great todd owyoung post

new band to watch

as you may know from a previous posting, i met school of seven bells at a glam ghostly records party over the summer. well...their full length album release is now slated for october 28th and they will be touring between now and well after that date.

their sound is reminiscent of M83, miranda sex garden [though i may be the only person who bought their CDs], and enya [i know it's fun to hate on enya, but "orinoco flow" is an enigmatic pop classic]. SVIIB's singers are twins so i can't help but get images of the peanuts in my head [their classic koi no fugue is a karaoke standard in japan and taiwain to this day though americans know them from the 1960s mothra vs. godzilla movies]. i find SVIIB's alpinisms to be especially transportative [is that a word? if not, i just made it. feel free to use] when riding my bicycle – it brings me totally into my head and i don't notice my leg muscles at all – making for an effortless ride.

i hope this makes it interesting enough for you all to run out [or go to itunes] to buy the album when it comes out. update: available now on itunes!

they came to my studio last week to chat about the album, life, crazy people, fall allergies, as well as getting some snazzy nooka watches.

their myspace page is here.