Sneak Peek Of The Week |

This weeks Sneak Peeks takes us around the world, from street art with “Wooster Collective” to strange web cam chat rooms with “Chatroulette.” Discover the latest fashions from around the globe, rummage through George Orwell’s lost diaries, go to an Israeli McDonald’s and get a daily dose of inspiration…

1. ORWELL DIARIES http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com
As an avid George Orwell fan, I found this web site to be an interesting and penetrating look into the private thoughts of the authors life. George Orwell’s diary entries, starting in 1938 until 1942, are duplicated here one by one, day by day, word for word and provide an insightful peek into his world.

As Times Online journalist Bryan Appleyard puts it, “A more rounded version of the writer emerges, a man who was concerned not just with politics and the world order, but with how many eggs his chickens had laid.”

2. THE SARTORIALIST http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com
One of the coolest fashion trend-spotting blogs you will find on the web, touted as a fashion phenomenon, Scott Schumans “The Sartorialist” has pioneered fashion photography in blog form. Scott snaps images of people on the streets the way designers look at people, using his unique aesthetic style and eye for a great image.

Visited by the likes of Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld, the editor of Vogue Paris who now wants to work with him, this is one blog to keep an eye out for!

3. WOOSTER COLLECTIVE http://www.woostercollective.com
A street art web site dedicated to ephemeral art that is painted, sprayed, illustrated and etched in cities around the world. From Banski, Astoria Scum, Sail, Chifumi and Dimitris Taxis to Mark Jenkins–Wooster Collective has it all. Oh, if your wondering what wooster means? woo·ster (noun) Is a street in the Soho section of New York City.

4. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE http://everything-everywhere.com
This is an interesting travel blog about Gary Arndt, an ex internet consultant slash National Geographic magazine collector, who in March 2007 set out to travel around the world. His blog is an interesting anecdote about his adventures, experiences, laughs and cries–and with 300,000 visitors to his site per month he’s taken the right path somewhere along the line.

5. FUBIZ http://www.fubiz.net
Created in 2005 by the French consulting agency Fubiz Interactive, the site is a collaborative space where a small group of artists, designers and inspiring people share their ideas about whats happening in the fast moving world of design.

It is jammed full with cool information, galleries and mosaics about: the graphic world, urban culture, trends, art, design, photography, advertising, music and inspiration. This site is sure to please the trend hunter looking for the next big thing. PS. Be sure to click the ENG icon in the top right corner.

6. CHATROULETTE http://www.chatroulette.com
The brain child of 17-year-old Russian Andrey Ternovskiy, who is now at the centre of a bidding war between Google, Skype and Yandex, Chatroulette is a site that allows web cam users to make random connections with strangers — to see and to speak to them — anywhere on the globe. With over ten million visitors a month it has been touted as the web’s next big thing.

WARNING: You might stumble upon on a man wearing a deer costume saying “What Up Doe?” and… Some strangers may be a little more revealing that you might like…

By Cedric Jean