August 31, 2007 | Music | by Laura Veirs |
A project of my producer and drummer, Tucker Martine, Mount Analog’s soundscapes are gorgeous, melty mixes of organic and processed sounds. Martine brings the best musicians together to create strange and beautiful music.
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August 31, 2007 | Music | by Casper Johansson |
Mo’ Horizons — producers Ralf Droesemeyer and Mark Foh Wetzler — blend a subtle mix of influences into a sound that takes in everything from soul, to funk and triphop. We interviewed Ralf Droesemeyer recently: Last FM says that you guys combine ‘nujazz, soul, afro, Latin, funk, downbeat, dub, triphop and bigbeat with great skill’. That’s a lot of different sounds to get your heads around. Where do you find time to sleep? ‘Right man! Sleeping is very important to re-organize all the impressions we have stored in our minds during our lifetime. What would music be without a dream? So we take the chance to close our eyes whenever the angels are calling us — in the aeroplane, the tour bus, on the beach, and sometime you’ll also find us in a nice big bed’. Read more
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August 31, 2007 | Events | by Andy |
It’s a wrap for this year’s Portable Film Festival, and tonight’s wrap party [August 31] is your chance to mix with the film-makers and community members who make this month-long event a success. Roxanne’s Parlour in Melbourne is the set, with a show including Little Red, Tic Toc Tokyo, DJ Mu Gen and DJ Woody. Check the website for more details.
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August 31, 2007 | Art | by Snell |
Carsten Höller, the same creator of those magnificent slides that we featured a little while back, has designed a beguiling room with mushrooms. Formerly a scientist (in evolutionary ecology and olfactory communication in insects), Höller uses the audience as subjects of perceptual and psychological experimentation. Read more
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August 31, 2007 | Fashion | by Zac |
From Denmark comes SHOESHOE — a collection of vibrant shoes, boots and accessories. The fresh and simple Scandinavian design is making an impact on streets around the world, as recently seen on Princess Mary’s feet. Read more
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August 31, 2007 | Places | by Zolton |
Having lived in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg for some time now, it’s been a much enjoyed revelation checking into The Burg.tv site every week or so to get an even clearer window into the remarkably entertaining community that skirts up and down Bedford Avenue each afternoon. The website asks the question: ‘who says gentrification isn’t funny?’ while making the strangely surreal (check out the webisodes) local environment seem very … ummm … real again.
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August 31, 2007 | Events | by Zolton |
New York-based retro lovers unite, especially the world-weary 80s tragics amongst you. The second installment of my monthly 1980s themed night at Williamsburg’s Monkey Town is on next Tuesday night [September 4]. It’s a movie and music night, celebrating that gloriously kitsch and devastatingly over the top decade when computers were friendly, nerdy was cool, and all any self-respecting teenager ever really wanted was a crush on a cute girl and a bag of mixed sweets. The movie to be screened this time around will be 1987’s The Lost Boys, starring one of the two Coreys who seemed to rear their heads in every flick of that time. It’ll be followed by a set of awesome 80s tunes from DJ The Fists of Sonny Choo — playing a rollicking set of New Romantic finery from Bronski Beat, Falco, The Cure …
Listen to Safety Dance by Men Without Hats.
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August 30, 2007 | Music | by Ari Stein |
Vampire Weekend are a buzz band out of New York who play West African jazz-styled music. As the Earfarm blog noted: ‘Vampire Weekend are a quartet of Columbia graduates who, like Islands, clearly share a certain love of the sounds that informed Paul Simon’s Graceland and half of everything Peter Gabriel has ever done’. Their song, Oxford Coma, in particular is very catchy. I’ve heard whispers that they’ve signed to XL Records for the world, but don’t hold me to that. Nonetheless they sound fun and have a very ‘now’ sound. Whatever that means.
Listen to the Vampire Weekend song, Oxford Coma.
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August 30, 2007 | Architecture | by Snell |
In the architecturally progressive city of Graz in Austria, a building bridge is stretched across the Mur river in apparent contempt of its watery location. Read more
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August 30, 2007 | Video | by Laura Veirs |
Britta Johnson is an incredibly talented filmmaker who’s expanding the world of stop animation through her crazy-weird-amazing short films. [see also Portable Film Festival]
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August 30, 2007 | Websites | by Deanne Cheuk |
Featuring music, sport and graphs, the Emo + Beer blog is a classic. It always makes me laugh! Read more
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August 29, 2007 | Art | by Andrew Johnstone |
You hear the words ‘unique’ and ‘original’ thrown around quite a lot these days. I use them myself regularly. But every now and then you find an artist who truly deserves those terms to be used in relation to their work. Travis Louie is one such artist. Read more
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August 29, 2007 | Music | by Zac |
I’ve enjoyed listening to the pre-release of Ben Harper’s new album, Lifeline. Recorded in Paris on the back of an eight week tour of Europe, Lifeline provides all the hooks, passion and musical integrity that we’ve come to expect from Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals. Read more
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August 29, 2007 | Illustration | by Sam Weber |
I fell in love with Anthony Goicolea’s wonderful drawings and photographs a few years ago when I stumbled upon his show at Postmasters Gallery in New York. His world is both arousing and disturbing, as visions of childhood nostalgia and innocence intermingle with darker more abusive subject matter. Read more
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August 29, 2007 | Art | by Deanne Cheuk |
I’ve been a big fan of Babak Radboy’s designs for a while now. I love how complex and time consuming some of his pieces look and how fresh and original they are.
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Martin Parr took the photographs for my latest album, Lady’s Bridge, which was a real surprise as he’s a name photographer who does exhibitions rather than album pics. Read more
Have you ever felt engulfed by a strange mix of emotions, ones which make you feel all giddy? Well, that’s what this track — Not For All The Love In the World — does to me. French pop-folk extraordinaire Sebastian Tellier remixes Irish pop band The Thrills. Totally luscious and dreamy, especially the glockenspiel sound. Beautiful stuff.
It looks like the New Rave movement is making a big comeback thanks to Carrie Mundane, designer of the UK-based fashion label, Cassette Playa. Read more
Each room in Copenhagen’s Hotel Fox is an individual piece of art. 21 international artists descended on the hotel to turn each of the 61 rooms into a unique space, featuring creative artwork ranging from Japanese manga to fluid graphic design. Read more
Many moons ago, when my hair was longer and my eyes were wider, I played guitar in a Sydney rock band. Over a period of several years, the four members in the group went from relative normality to the very personification of imagined rock glory. Read more
‘Lost’ is the most recent film production in the urban art series produced by Tokyo-based art crew Rinpa Eshidan. Read more
I’m enjoying reading the insight and witticisms of the Indie Breakfast Club blog, which casts a wide net over entrepreneurship and what it means to be one and still have a conscience.
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Taking a cue from Trevor Brown, Mainland Chinese artist Zhang Peng creates highly stylized photographs of women, whom he tweaks, with deft usage of the liquify function in Photoshop, to look like dolls. Read more
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