BTNC has teamed up with Caribou Lodge Yoyoworks to create a super limited Wooly Marmot yo-yo. In a era of collaborations we wanted to something simple that we would love forever. As avid yoyo players it was an honor for us to work with CLYW. They are makers of some of the most sought after yoyos on the market. Our finished product is a black anodized yo with gloss black splashes and finished off with the BTNC logo laser etched on one half. The yo is limited to 10 pieces and will be released 12-18-09 at noon pst.
In a timely if sobering reminder of the ever changing retail landscape around us, The Morning News recently posted "The Ghosts of Shopping Past," an online gallery of photographs by Chicago-based lensman Brian Ulrich, whose Copia project we covered in 2008. A collection of exterior and interior retail wastelands, the images starkly implicate our collective failure to not only repurpose the abandoned spaces but to participate in (and sometimes challenge) their construction in the first place. Read the entire article here. Via: Cool Hunting