If I had pets in NYC, they’d be eating and drinking out of bowls that looked this good from Doca Pet.

Initially shown back in April, Nike announces a wider launch for November from its Paris Bastille by 180g campaign, focused on three simple sneaker styles, including the Tennis Classic, Air Flytop, and Flash. All three receive unique 180g treatments, a process which allows some of the brand’s classic product to be custom dyed, achieving a tailor-made type of aesthetic amongst various premium textiles and custom detailing. A release event is slated for November 5th, 2009 at 180g in Paris.

I’m loving the Tennis Classic shown above. More pictures over at HypeBeast

Legendary New York street artist Craig “KR” Costello customized a Mini Cooper S with his signature KRINK aesthetic. The car was shown today at Erste Liebe Bar in Hamburg, Germany. A vernissage takes place at Vicious Gallery on October 31st.

Want.

Vicious Gallery

Kleine Freiheit 46
22767 Hamburg

Via High Snobiety

Great merino wool bobble hats by Alessia Giovanni in Italy. And a damn cute kid!

The NNew Can, designed by Jiwoon Park & Kwenyoung Choi. Interesting, but are we creating a solution in search of a problem? Via Yanko Design

Two crazy (and crazy interesting) books from Gestalten showed up on my desk this week. Both are worth checking out!

The first is called Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper (top) and is all about the crazy and ingenious projects people have managed to do with paper and some serious time and dedication. The second book is admittedly bizarre but still awesome. It’s called Hair’em Scare’em and shows a collection of photographs exploring the inventive possibilities of hair as a medium for artistic expression. Yes, there are some crazy hair styles inside. Inspiration for the next time I hit the salon? Perhaps.

Like live shows? Sick of the old-school ways to find them and buy tickets? Me too. Check out GigLocator. I’m impressed by the work of James Proud and his partner Miles in London. Keep up the good work guys!

Some great t-shirts by Robatabrand. And as a bonus to Josh Spear readers, enter “JOSHSPEAR” at check out to get 10% off! Thanks Mark!

This year’s 99% Conference was a huge success. So, why not register for next year way ahead of time? For a limited time they’re offering $300 off the regular ticket price of $699. A steal. Go, do it, now!

‘NATURAL SELECTION‘ will be a non selling exhibition including works by Adam Neate, Jose Parla, Phil Frost, Boris Tellegen (DELTA), Anthony Lister, James Marshall (DALEK), Futura, Mark Dean Veca, Ron English, Stash, WK Interact, Snug and Andrew McAttee.

The exhibition opens on Saturday 31st October, but there will be a private reception between 7 – 9pm on Monday 2nd November. The exhibition continues until 12th December 2009 and is at the Atkinson Gallery: Millfield, Street, Somerset BA16 0YD

Andy Kaufman was before my time but if what I read about this feud with Jerry Lawler and that “Man on the Moon” movie were any indication, this guy was a walking laugh factory. He blurred the line between the stage and his personal life and often times it was difficult to figure out if he was serious or if you were a victim of yet another one of his pranks. Perhaps one of his most controversial stunts involved challenging women in a comedy club to come on stage and wrestle him. He offered a $1,000 reward to any lady that could successfully pin him. He taunted the women with some pretty sexist, but admittedly hilarious, remarks. It’s clear if you understand Kaufman’s sense of humor that he was simply trying to entice them to join him.

Legions of women from across the country responded to the call, resulting in a barrage of hate mail (and love letters) from would-be contenders. Kaufman kept all of them and two of his colleagues Lynne Margulies and Bob Zmuda have compiled them into a book. “Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!” is available Dec 1. From the preview I’ve seen, it does not matter if you were around when Kaufman was ruling the comedy circuit. You just need a brief intro into his wrestling stunt and then the pictures and letters do the rest to paint the picture of a legend.

The super-duper popular IKEA bookcase we all know and love by the name of Billy is turning 30 this year. IKEA is celebrating the occasion by releasing a couple of limited edition models. Fun!

Via Below The Clouds & Notcot.org

Absolutely beautiful images based on something called Delaunay triangulations, which maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the triangulation; they tend to avoid skinny triangles.

This was created using a scripting plug-in for Illustrator by Jonathan Puckey–  he calls his work Delaunay Rasters.  Check them out, the faces are so great.

Via Jason Kottke

Why can’t all batteries look this good?  Unique and colorful packaging for Volta Batteries by ACME Industries in Romania.  Good enough not to throw out and remember to recycle? Hope so.

Loving this new track by two of my favorite musical artists Lykke Li and Thom Yorke of Radiohead fame.  Via Kanye West (or whoever is blogging on his behalf).

Related: My exclusive interview with Thom Yorke!