Monday, November 5, 2012

Music Mix Monday | ‘Paul’s Boutique’ remade by Cheeba, Moneyshot & Food

Mondays. Ugh. Fight the Monday blues with this unbelievable mix!



"3 years in the making, 3 DJs working with over 150 tracks to recreate one of the seminal sampling albums of all time, at last CheebaMoneyshot and I can reveal Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix. Our tribute to the classic Beastie Boys album ‘Paul’s Boutique’ remixed and re-imagined from all the original samples plus a cappellas, period interviews and the Beasties’ own audio commentary from the reissued release."

Monday, September 3, 2012

How to Tie a Scarf: 4 Scarves, 16 Ways

Totally impressed with Nordstrom's new scarf tying video...


My new fave is The Celebrity Knot (@ 0:30) and at a close second, the The Infinity (@0:59).


Friday, June 15, 2012

GRC X LOOMLAB Collaboration

We were so excited to work together with our friends at Grassroots California to collaborate on a scarf. State trees from 16 states are woven into this wool / cotton scarf. Can you guess which ones? We've only made a limited number, so make sure to pick up yours while they last!  Shop it here.





Sunday, June 10, 2012

Cryptographer & Encoded Textiles

Wish we thought of this!  What a fabulous experiment in textiles... create a scarf with a personalized text message. "A personal message is more and more often sent digitally. Intangible, floating in the air, only readable on a screen. The Cryptographer generates pattern by translating words to a code. Bleached into fabric the message becomes tangible. Invisible words, with a physical impact. Controlled by text messaging each character is transformed into a specified icon, resulting in ever changing patterns, depending on the users input." via rawcolor.nl



Saturday, April 14, 2012

Unique LA | May 12 + 13


Mark your calendars!  LOOMLAB will be showing at next month's Unique LA.  And we will be unveiling some new designs!  Ohh yeah!

Saturday, April 7, 2012

F.A.T. Labs | QR HOBO CODES

F.A.T. Labs have take hobo codes into the 21st century.   They have generated QR_HOBO_CODES, a series of one hundred QR stencil designs which, covertly marked in urban spaces, may be used to warn people about danger or clue them into good situations.  


And I quote: These stencils can be understood as a covert markup scheme for urban spaces — providing directions, information, and warnings to digital nomads and other indigenterati. We present these as modern equivalents of the chalk-based "hobo signs" developed by 19th century vagabonds and migratory workers to cope with the difficulty of nomadic life. Indeed, our set of QR stencils port a number of classic hobo annotations to the QR format ("turn right here", "dangerous dog", "food for work") as well as some new ones, with a nod to warchalking, that are specific to contemporary conditions ("insecure wifi", "hidden cameras", "vegans beware").


View all 100 codes, including GPS is incorrect, good veg-burger, great dumpster, bad coffee, unexpectedly good coffee.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Natural Fractals from Cohabitaire

We love our fractals. Last season we made a scarf with a fractal print (mandelbrot-inspired to be exact).  Fractals are commonly found in nature.  Check below for some beautiful nature-made fractals.  All photos courtesy of Cohabitaire.

fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales (meaning no matter how much you zoom in or out the proportions will be the same.)  The object need not exhbit exactly the same structure at all scales, but the same 'type' of structuure must appear on all scales.









Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Dancing Mania (in Cinema)

Following the dancing mania that our recent LOOMLAB mixtape provoked - I came across this wonderful poster collection, Dancing Plague of 1518, by the artist Niege Borges.

Artist Statement: In 1518, a bunch of people from a french town called Stransbourg were affected by something called dancing mania. It began with one lady named Frau Troffea dancing in the street and end up with, more or less, 400 people dancing on for days without rest, resulting in some deaths of heart attack, stroke and exhaustion. This project is, in some sort of way, a memorial for Frau Toffea. From the silliest little dance to the most elaborate dance sequence of the history of cinema, there were a lot of dancing in the last decades (not enough to kill anyone, I hope). Here are some of these dances. 











Friday, February 3, 2012

LOOMLAB Mixtape 1.0

 
Get your DANCE on with LOOMLAB's first MIXTAPE >   DOWNLOAD  

TRACKLIST:
Jimi Hendrix - Bold As Love
Groove Armada - Purple Haze
Phantogram - When I'm Small
Jurassic 5 - Twelve
Usher ft. Jay-Z & Ester Dean - Hot Toddy
Bloody Beetroots ft. The Cool Kids - Awesome (Men In Skratch Remix)
Pretty Lights - Hot Like Sauce
J. Cole - Who Dat
2Pac & Dr. Dre - California Love
Raphael Saadiq - Goodman (DJ Theory Edit)
The Roots - Seed 2.0
Tom Tom Club - Sand
Billy Preston - Outta Space
The Who - Pinball Wizard
Groove Armada - But I Feel Good
Pretty Lights - Electro Cali
Savoy - King of Pop
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Savoy - Republic
Major Lazer (ft. Nina Sky & Ricky Blaze) - Keep It Going Louder
Ellie Goulding - Lights (Bassnectar Remix)
Chromeo - Night by Night (Skream Remix)

Mixed by: foniks