Cool Thing We Want #304: Sweet Bill Murray Tribute Poster Of Movie Icons (1975-2010)
November 8, 2011
Coveting this limited edition (200) poster of Bill Murray’s films in icon form by California’s DKNG Studios
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Cool Thing We Want #303: Lovely Stack Of Paper Houses Mobile Made By “CreatorB”
November 7, 2011
Listed on Etsy for $100 | CreatorB | via Design Crush
Cool Thing We Want #303: One Sheet Linen 2012 Calendar From Toronto’s “Bookhou”
November 3, 2011
Mighty desirous of this limited edition 2012 calendar on linen by Bookhou| $20 | Via Poppytalk
Cool Thing We Want #302: Bodega Ridge Weekend Via Obakki’s “Rainmaker Auction”
October 31, 2011
Jesse Keefer of Galiano Island’s Bodega Ridge has donated 2 nights stay (their cottages sleeps up to 3 couples) as an auction item in the upcoming Obakki Foundation Rainmaker Auction. Obakki hopes to raise $200,000 to help fund the drilling of 200 water wells in South Sudan this December (not next year or eventually, but next month). The auction will feature one-of-a-kind experiences as well as hundreds of signed auction items from well known musicians, athletes, celebrities and artists. Sure, you could bid on any one of the signed celebrity items (there are goodies signed by Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Beyonce, Katy Perry and more), but the item that really caught our eye was this weekend away. We’ve done it before, and it’s pretty darn cozy.
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Cool Thing We Want #301: Green Linus Bike From The New “Whoa Nellie” On Main Street
October 27, 2011
I’m not a bike guy but test riding this cozy mint Linus around the block yesterday had me totally wishing I was.
Linus Roadster 3 Speed | $665 | Whoa Nellie | 2539 Main Street
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Cool Thing We Want #300: “Great Scott!” DeLorean Plans Electric DMC-12 For 2013
October 22, 2011
I’m no car nut, and I already have the frustratingly happy misfortune of owning the it-always-breaks-down-but-is-totally-beautiful car that I’d always wanted as a kid, but DeLorean, the (now) American car company that still makes the iconic gull-wing DMC-12 made especially famous by Back To the Future’s Marty McFly (and a time travel-enabling “Flux Capacitor”), is making me squirm a little covetously this afternoon, not to mention a-harkening back to Doc Emmett’s legendary enthusiasms (“If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour…you’re gonna see some serious shit!”). Why? Because in 2013, the company is indeed going back to the future with an all-electric version that looks exactly like the original, save for some updates to the interior and a conspicuously powerful, equivalent 260hp engine that doesn’t make a sound.
It’s a bummer that we’ll have to wait another two years before their production line starts churning them out (at a rumoured $100,000 a pop). I imagine the wait-list will be long, but I want one, and nevermind the limitations of its 70-100 mile range. Car blogger Jalopnik just gave the prototype a test drive and was properly besotted…
I was told, to really appreciate it, I had to drive it. So I did. “Turn the key until you hear the click, then turn the center dial over to ‘D’” DMC president Stephen Wynne tells me. Honestly, I’m still buzzing from the sensation of closing the stainless steel gullwing door just moments earlier. I twist the key and rotate the surprisingly weighty metal dial. Silence. I press the gas pedal, which, true to form with any 1980s exotic, has so much resistance it’s more like a piece of gym equipment. Press harder, and we silently glide forward.When someone gives you permission to go all Daytona USA in an electron-powered DeLorean, you just turn your brain off and do what the man says [...] I grip the thick, DMC-customized Momo steering wheel tighter and open up the throttle throttle as we exit the banking. It surges forward. It feels like a car carrying bit of weight, but now with more than enough torque to overcome its heft. We whisk down the too-short straight and arrive almost instantly at the next corner without making sound. This is making sense. If the DMCEV can do 0-to-60 mph in 4.9 seconds as DMC claims, it will finally pack the performance that the Giugiaro body has been promising all these years [...] “I’m afraid someone’s going to steal it,” Wynne says with a laugh. “They’ll just drive it right out of the shop and won’t hear it leave!”
Bonus irony: the battery is from a California company called Flux Power.
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Cool Thing We Want #299: A Replica Set Of Eames’ Eiffel Chairs For $100 Or Less Each
October 20, 2011
We’d love to outfit the Scout office with some original Eames Eiffel chairs, but at an easy $800 per pop, it’s just not gonna happen. These copycat chairs (above) are by LA’s Modernica, and they’re SLIGHTLY more affordable at $375 each. But still, not gonna happen. Even these cute little suckers at Modern Poverty are too rich for us at $225 apiece (that’s $1,350 for six). Remember, this is a post about cool things we want, not cool things we have any hope of getting! Regardless, if anyone has a line on originals or replicas in the below $100 range, please give us a heads-up. Either that or send us a photo of your score with a note that reads “gnah! gnah!”
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Cool Thing We Want #298: Bespoke Novelty Antelope Hoof Beer Service Bottle Opener
October 17, 2011
When a beer was brought to my table the other night, the server broke out a deer hoof bottle opener, which I can’t help but now covet. I won’t say exactly where this was, because going five rounds on “whole animal usage” with our more histrionic vegan readers isn’t how I’d like to spend my Monday afternoon (adore them though I do); nor is their fearsome antipathy something I’d like to burden the restaurant with. In any case, it’s not for sale. Sigh.
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Cool Thing We Want #297: “Houdini Chain Link Necklace” From Henderson Dry Goods
October 12, 2011
It’s about this time of year that a girl starts to notice things here and there with an eye to adding them to her Christmas wish list. Like little beacons of frivolous light at the end of autumn’s tunnel, such trinkets are things to look forward to, like this wooden chain necklace made by Vancouver industrial designer Alex Henderson. The 15″ necklace is available in three different woods (walnut, maple or ebonized walnut), and each one has one special link that has been gold leafed. So beautiful. Top. Of. The. List.
Houdini Chain Link Necklace | $180 | Henderson Dry Goods
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Cool Thing We Want #296: This Awesome “Cuore” Heart-Shaped Double Wine Decanter
October 6, 2011
“Cuore” by Paola C | Made with blown pyrex | Via
