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How goes it everybody?. We’re back after a little holiday hangover.

Hope everybody had a fun and safe holiday. Just a few things to look out for in the upcoming months. We’ll be re-launching our blog in the new year, opening our online store, and releasing our next issue (contramag.com). So keep your eyes open for that!

The Contra Magazine family would like to wish you all a safe holiday and a happy new year!

Thank you for all your continuing support. Bigger and better things to come for 2009!

Australian Label TV preview their 2009 Fall/Winter collection. Check out their website at t-v.net.au.

Men’s online fashion magazine, Contributing Editor’s Black Sabath spread. Check out the rest of the magazine at thecontributingeditor.com

Fresh2o is a dramatic initiative, designed to raise awareness of the millions of people who lack access to fresh water.

Innovative photographer Candice, a pioneer of the underwater portrait, has devised an incredibly impactful series of images using celebrity icons with a global presence. These extraordinary portraits are designed to connect, engage and motivate consumers worldwide, alerting the globe to the fresh water crisis.

Actress Keira Knihgtly appears in a few of the campaigns portaits.

Check out fresh2o.org for more info and additional images from the series.

TreeLife by The Cool Hunter. A public interactive outdoor exhibition of cutting-edge tree houses designed by the world’s top architects, designers and artists.

After four years of spreading the latest word on cool online, The Cool Hunter is proud to announce the launch of its first “real world” public event, TreeLife by The Cool Hunter which is set to land in iconic park locations in New York, London, Sydney and other exciting cities in Europe, New Zealand, Canada and Asia during 2009 and 2010.
TreeLife by The Cool Hunter will showcase cutting-edge eco design by the world’s best architects, designers and artists.

Tree houses have become creative eco-statements in the design world; structures that don’t impose themselves on the environment, but blend into it with harmony, respect and grace. They allow people to literally live in “nature,” a place of peace and tranquility high above the street level of life where stress dominates.

The Cool Hunter will invite the world’s most exciting established and emerging architects, designers and artists to design a tree-house for the event. TreeLife is a thoroughly green event, and tree houses will be crafted from sustainable or recycled materials. The participating designers will be briefed to design the tree houses as ‘stand alone’ structures that only appear to be suspended in the trees, so the exhibition does not impact on the trees or the environment.

A board of curators will work to select the participating architects, designers and artists, both established “stars” and rising talent from across the globe as well as the event’s home city.

TreeLife by The Cool Hunter will be held over four weeks, and will feature a program of cool sustainable entertainment events happening around the exhibition.

Source: thecoolhunter.net

Oppenheim Architecture + Design unveiled plans to build an art storage facility in Miami. 11-stories and 140,000 square feet. Referred to as The Vault, the development will include a conservation laboratory, showrooms and exhibition spaces and with exhibit work from upcoming and established artists.

Construction is due for completion in 2010.

www.oppenoffice.com

The first major snowfall in Toronto (Corner of King & Bathurst – outside the CONTRA studio)… Eh Life!