IKEA’S KNÄPPA CARDBOARD DIGITAL CAMERA

IKEA is on an innovative roll these days and have just announce the KNÄPPA flat-pack cardboard digital camera. The KNÄPPA the flat-pack cardboard digital camera (made out one a single folded piece of cardboard) runs on two AA batteries and can hold up to 40 pictures of 2.3 megapixels.

It also has a swing-out USB plug, viewfinder cutout, shutter key and paperclip-friendly erase button. The camera will be handed out for free to all customers who purchase anything from their PS Furniture Collection.

Check out the video (above) for more info! Pretty cool, no?

100 HEADLESS WOMEN BY MAX SNOW

Photographer, Max Snow, has an exhibition coming up in NYC and it looks like it’s gonna be a good one! The show will feature an array of images Snow photographed of topless women wearing only blindfolds - a unique take on portraiture that explores how the body can tell a deeper story. To learn more about the event and check out an interview with Snow himself, hop over to Cool Hunting. (warning - nsfw)

“SMOKING KIDS” BY FRIEKE JANSSENS

After seeing that infamous video of a chain-smoking Indonesian toddler, Frieke Janssens created a photography series entitled ‘Smoking Kids,’ which displays tobacco-puffing kids of various backgrounds. 

Since smoking is a societal norm among adults, she decided to use children as her subjects to create a powerful imagery that has the viewer focus on the act of smoking itself rather than make assumptions about who’s doing it. Check out the rest of the series here.

p.s. Don’t fret! The cigarettes and smoke are from props! 

FUTURE FOSSILS BY BUGHOUSE

Can you imagine?! What cool historic gadgets future humans will be finding a thousand years from now? Well artists Jeff Klarin and Rebecca Johnson from Los Angeles design studio Bughouse thought about just that and created these fun sculptures individually handcasted in cement and then stained for effect of fossilized camera’s, turntables, and more. Want one? They are now on sale and retail between $65 to $495 over at www.bughouse.com

A MONTH WITH BRYANT ESLAVA - WEEK 2

Name: Bryant Eslava / Age: 19 / City: NYC / Occupation: Photographer

For WeTheUrban’s first “A Month With” series, we will be joining fashion photographer Bryant Eslava throughout the month of December as he so kindly gives us a glimpse into his fast-paced city life where he’ll check back in each week. So join in as we chronicle the much desired and inspirational life of a kid in a big city with a dream. This week -

I shot CFDA finalist and menswear designer Carlos Campos. Looking through his pieces, I found myself falling in love with them all. I’m more of a jacket, sweater type of person, so it was refreshing seeing some of the newest pieces Carlos is currently working on.

Now that finals are over for the majority of college students, I had a fun guys night out with two of my good friends, David Urbanke and Jesse Jacobs who are also both fashion photographers. We went to see a movie that had a rating of less than 3 stars and it was hilarious for having such bad effects and scene transitions. I also attended the Oliver Palermo styling event at Topshop.

 Next week I’ll be flying to California to visit my family and friends. Stay tuned for next weeks post!