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I spent quite a bit of my Saturday morning exploring the Fox Volzwagen flash site. Definitely worth the load time.

WOWOW ONLINE presents “12 Cams, Create Your Rainbow“. Radiohead’s “15 Step” as performed recently in Japan, with 12 camera angles from you to choose from and switch between while you watch. Neat. (Via GP.)

Last week Mark posted about FAILE’s upcoming show “lost in glimmering shadows” at Lazarides Gallery in London. Manuel Bello from FECAL FACE DOT COM was reportedly lucky enough to be blindfolded and led to FAILE’s undisclosed studio locations.

The dewds from FAILE have been up to their old tricks again and added a big-ass bag of new ones. I have been pretty fixated on these guys work for some years now and every time I feel like they can’t impress me any more, they do. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to swing by their undisclosed studio locations and pretty much get the run of the place while they dialed in the last minute details of their London schooling.

More pics following the jump.

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If you are a Pantone lover, sneaker freak, you’ll get a kick out of this, literally.

SeaVees, Purveyors of California Casual, has announced an exclusive collaboration with Pantone, the world-renowned authority on color.

True to their inspiration, each SeaVees style is named to honor an influential date in 1960’s California-cool history. With the creation of the 09/63, SeaVees celebrates the founding of Pantone, and the release of the first PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM in September 1963. For the first time in their 45 year history, Pantone has allowed an external design team into their hallowed archives. SeaVees has selected seven vintage colors from the original Pantone color guide. The palette, chosen from the only authentic guide known to exist, epitomizes the cool, casual style of California in 1963. The series production has been restricted to 1,963 pairs.

Arkitip #0049 is going to have Peter Saville as the cover artist and curator.

Peter Saville is of course the former Factory Records designer.

More about Saville here

Arkitip blog article here

If you’ve ever had the impression you were unique, I’ve got a project to share with you.

Exactitudes kicked off 14 years ago when Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek noticed that their city’s youth were expressing their mass nonconformity by wearing nearly identical outfits. (The name is a mash-up of exact and attitude.) The project grew exponentially from there — you’ll meet tattoo babes, grannies, punks, and preppies — and its excellent website now includes subjects from London and Paris. (They, too, look eerily alike.) The overall effect is cool but disconcerting: Isn’t this how Invasion of the Body Snatchers began? (Via VSL)

Check out the mind-numbing collection at exactitudes.com

Faile are returning to their early aesthetic influences growing up in the Southwest by channeling appropriated Pop cultural renderings of American Indian culture into their trademark heavily layered work in a pointed commentary on “the expanse of contemporary commercialism at the expense of society’s connection with nature and spirit.”

Faile
Lost In Glimmering Shadows via Supertouch