We are super excited to announce the Poketo Colorparty wrist watch! These watches are in collaboration with Canadian design studio, Furni, a boutique studio specializing in modern, contemporary, design driven goods including watches and clocks. Mike Giles over at Furni is a good friend and super rad. We’ve been fans of each other for years, especially loving the clocks he has done with our friends at The Fox is Black. This Colorparty watch collaboration between Poketo and Furni has been in the works for some time and we thrilled to finally see this project come to fruition.

Inspired by 80s and early 90s LCD styles, the Colorparty watch is a modern twist with minimal, yet bold and colorful Poketo colors. We launch this limited edition watch in both red strap and white strap, stainless steel buttons, branded-engraved back, and indigo color illumination. The digital watch has what you’d expect with alarm, stop watch, and 12/24 hour time display. Check out both colors, mix them up… it’s a color party!

This is an amazing opportunity for all of you filmmakers out there. Our friends at Powershovel / Superheadz are holding a contest and film festival at Space15Twenty in Hollywood from May 27th to May 31st, 2010. For all those that follow Poketo, you know that the Digital Harinezumi 2 is a mini digital video camera that makes images look like old super8 film. It not only creates a rad, lo-fi film look, but, also records sound!

Here is what you need to do to be part of the festival:
1. Submit a short film under 10 minutes shot on the Digital Harinezumi to the Vimeo Pool by May 21st, 2010
2. The film will be judged by a panel comprised of Powershovel, Space15Twenty, and The Masses
3. Those selected will have their film screened during one of the four days.
4. The jury will then select the a winner for “Best Film”.

Grand prize for the winner will be an all expense paid trip to Tokyo to meet the Powershovel crew and another opportunity to make a short film in Tokyo!!

The Powershovel team are super rad. Last we were in Tokyo, we had the pleasure of meeting with Hideki, Jun, Yuki, and the Powershovel team at their studio/office in Daikanyama district. It was a place of dreams, a total inspiration–a new three floor building full of creativity. Along with running a very successful business with offices in both Tokyo and New York, one thing you need to know about Powershovel is that they are deeply passionate about music, audio, and photography. The first floor of their Tokyo office is dedicated to their sales team, but, oddly enough, has a killer DJ and VJ set up with a top of the line German crafted speaker for full range sound. The second floor is where their creative and graphics team continuously work on photography publications and product development. Third floor is a killer meeting room.

Okay, what are you still doing reading this? Go and buy the camera and start making! Deadline for the festival is May 21st, read the full rules here.