The Sneakerpedia is hoping to create an open source collections from sneaker enthusiast around the world into one hub that notes each shoe’s respective histories and variations. Who better to promote this, then Bobbito Garcia, author of “Where Did You Get Those?; New York City’s Sneaker Culture 1960-1987” and host of ESPN’s “It’s the Shoes?”

If you’ve never bought a men’s magazine in your life, you’ll be relieved to know that on this day, of all fine days, with a copy of Manzine tucked away in you man-bag, you can finally claim your rightful place alongside the other men of this world.

LONDON – A new generation of urban explorers doesn’t seem to have any ulterior motive other than the buzz of walking through abandoned buildings and the unexpected discoveries that these might yield. The places range from swimming pools to munitions factories to power stations and even the house where they filmed reality TV show, Big Brother.

Every week, for 52 weeks, T-Shirt Party create a new design that gets printed on plain white, Fruit of the Loom, soft cotton tee, and is delivered to your door, smelling fresh as a newborn kitten.

NEW YORK – Vimeo are holding the 2010 Vimeo Awards to shine a light on creative online content on October 8-9 in New York. There’ll be screenings of the 45 finalists for the awards, whittled down from some 6,500 entries.

2010’s edition promises to be bigger, brighter and, erm, bookier?

As Hollywood teeters on the inexorable slide towards putting out EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN’ MOVIE in 3-D, style hangs in the balance. Watching 3-D movies is the ultimate exercise in conformity, man: everyone looks the same, because everyone is forced to wear the same 3-D glasses.

Is there a fashion sensibility more primally timeless than agnès b.’s? The utterly Parisian clothing line, which took off in the ‘80s and defined a generation, has always been based on what is essentially essential in style: the color black, a slim cut, playful stripes…. Not for nothing did Quentin Tarantino put his Pulp Fiction [...]

The K-Swiss/Kinfolk collaboration extends from a curated series of images that capture the classic Cali sports lifestyle to an edited, limited-edition collection of gear. Ten handcrafted bags and fifty hand-dyed indigo scarves: proof that when it comes to sports and innovative design, California and Japan make for good kinfolk, indeed…

I am currently crying robot tears…

The Monotron by Korg looked like a genius move when we first encountered it: a genuine analog synth, priced for recession-era hipsters at a cool sixty bucks! But them we got our hands on an actual Monotron, and…. WOW.

Duke University’s exhibition, The Record, is a massive examination and expansion of the circular, dusty, untenable, near-perfect vinyl-pressed recording. The show has every medium under the sun: photography, painting, performance, sculpture, installations, video, and, but of course, sound.

Nerds, unite: we’ve found some vintage videogame buried treasure.

Those geniuses at The Guardian over in the U.K. have compiled the ultimate list of Internet sports dominating our laptops and generally causing us to hope no one notices what exactly we’re doing at our computer when we should be working.

Two great tastes that go great together: the coolest, most forward and backward gold-standard hip-hop/music in general head and the coolest, most forward illustrator/designer around.

We’ve heard a lot about how the iPad can be used—for, like, reading books and s***. But we’re most excited about turning the iPad into an old-school video game arcade cabinet!

The coming week bodes well for lovers of culture on both coasts. From Los Angeles to New York, art, music, and happenings combine in a series of events that both bend genres and break rules. The May 1st weekend proves particularly action-packed in Los Angeles, as far as categories blurring.

You wouldn’t think Giorgio Moroder could get any cooler. Well… Think again! The maestro recently released a book, Extraordinary Records: Any Color Except Black—The High Baroque Of Vinyl Recordings, that does for album visuals what Moroder’s synthesizers did for sound.

The British Pavilion’s exterior is constructed from 60,000 thick fiber optic juts, the tip of each twenty-five foot rod implanted with a smattering of seeds. The result is some sort of alien brain, a shifting and caressed experiment in affective space. The structure was designed by Thomas Heatherwick and his Heatherwick Studio.

For all of SXSW’s web-savvy “interactivity,” it’s the gloriously old-school paper and ink of Flatstock that provided some of the week’s greatest artistic thrills, as you’ll see here…