December 31, 2007 | Events | by Zolton |
It’s nice to see that our friends over at Imeem have featured our playlist on their homepage over the past few days with tracks by Georgie James [above], Yeasayer, and Paper Scissors. [check out our Imeem page]
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December 31, 2007 | Products | by Zolton |
EyeBone — aka Szalontai Ilona and Simon Tibor — create awesome 100% handmade plushies with the slogan ‘Make Toys, Not Wars!’ [see also Beck Wheeler’s plush toys]
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December 30, 2007 | Design | by Deanne Cheuk |
Bernard Maisner is a wonderful typographer. I love his custom envelope addressing. What a treat to receive!
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December 29, 2007 | Places | by Andy |
We dig travel, and we certainly talk about it enough. Unfortunately, it’s a matter of more talking than doing. But next time we’re ready for some airtime, we might see if we can line up the odd rendezvous using Dopplr. It’s pretty nifty — you add your itinerary and share it with your fellow globetrotters, and Dopplr lets you know when you’ll be in the same place as your friends. It’s undoubtedly simpler than tracking those ‘two weeks in Havana, a week in Buenos Aires, then over to Santiago’ email threads. And the tool is very nicely designed.
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December 29, 2007 | Fashion | by Zolton |
Our friends over at Sydney-based t-shirt label Young Lovers have just launched their third collection of prints — called Midnight Twilight — which ‘celebrates the madness of midnight love and all that surrounds it’. Made from the finest cotton and strictly limited to 100 of each, we have two of the shirts to give away to randomly selected readers who leave a comment below this post telling us which tee from the collection you’d most like to have hanging in your wardrobe and why. Entries close January 12th.
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December 29, 2007 | Illustration | by Zolton |
I love the simplicity of Colombian illustrator Maco Acero’s work; the sense of quiet longing his subjects convey. [see also the work of Colombian artist Paola Gaviria]
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December 29, 2007 | Video | by Zolton |
The UNKLE track Rabbit In Your Headlights is both disorientating and captivating, with ambient noise competing with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke’s lonely, tortured vocal. [hear also Radiohead’s Sail To The Moon]
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December 28, 2007 | Fashion | by Zolton |
With her collection of Skinover gloves, Rotterdam-based artist and sculptor Silvia B has taken a somewhat natural approach to the task of keeping hands warm — warts and all. [see also the jewelery of This Charming Man]
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December 27, 2007 | Art | by Snell |
Austrian artist, Erwin Wurm, has captured the times with this piece recently shown at the Mumok Museum in Vienna — obesity and a gas guzzler in one.
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December 27, 2007 | Art | by Julia Hennock |
If I had a third thumb, I’d give Kumi Yamashita three thumbs up. The Japanese artist creates stunning visual effects with lighting and simple forms, like letters of the alphabet, children’s blocks, and shoeprints. Yamashita finds the rare balance between beauty and brains.
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December 27, 2007 | Art | by Julia Hennock |
Jell-O! Liz Hickok’s latest artworks are based on a colourful, wobbly, mini San Francisco. Read more
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December 27, 2007 | Music | by Francis Andrews |
Battles have been making the rounds recently. Atlas is a stomper of a track: dark and industrial — lying on the blurred line between Joy Division, Rammstein, Freeland and a savage nightmare.
Listen to Atlas.
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December 26, 2007 | Music | by Zolton |
Not since the days of Split Enz and The Mockers has New Zealand pop sounded so interesting. The Brunettes are one boy, one girl, and a zillion dazzling melodies. [read a review of the Sydney Split Enz reformation gig]
Listen to Stereo (Mono Mono)
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December 24, 2007 | Art | by Casper Johansson |
Justin Maller is a graphic artist based in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently freelancing fulltime, while also serving as the Creative Director of the depthCORE.com arts collective. [see also Killer Bean Forever]
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December 24, 2007 | Art | by Ellie Grace |
Swiss-born Ben Strebel grew up in London where he’s beginning to make a name for himself as self-taught VJ and creative director. Having already worked for the likes of Madness and Stereo MCs, he’s also lent his name to the work of Armand van Helden and Fatboy Slim with his bass-heavy visuals and energetic approach to creativity. Aside from this, he counts his weekly resident VJ antics at London’s 333 as ‘a hobby’ alongside his work for Guerilla Vision. Quoting his influences as Chris Cunningham and Spike Jones, his visual décor accompanies music videos and commercials, though he modesty describes it thus: ‘I do it because I’m a bedroom geek’.
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George Lois is the god of good ideas, or at least one of them. When I am stuck on ideas, I pray to George the God, or look through his works in hope of doing something one hundredth as good as his work. Read more
We spoke with Patience, lead singer of Australian band The Grates, about the new album the group are in the process of writing. Read more
Dear Miss Helena, one time host of children’s show Romper Room, you have a lot to answer for. Yes, squeaky clean Miss Helena of wholesome blouse and values, I have not forgotten those childhood years spent patiently glued to the television waiting for you to call out my name through the magic ‘looking glass’ — that portal to ‘good’ children everywhere. Read more
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.
This awesome promo video for the Lost At E Minor site was created by our friends over at New York-based design studio, Lifelongfriendshipsociety. Read more
Cheap Monday are arguably one of the biggest revolutions in denim since Levi’s. They’re pretty much the uniform second skin for the music totin’, cons scuffin’ youth of today. Read more
Maverick artist come architect, Michael Jantzen, has created this fantastic experiment as a design study for a modular prefabricated eco-friendly house. Read more
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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
Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner are the Melbourne-based designers behind T-V’s boutique label. Read more
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Draped in a charming rustic veneer, the Meow Cottage at the Old Marshall House in Franklin, Tennessee, is a self-contained cottage situated on the grounds of a sprawling — and quite beautiful — B&B. Read more
Italian illustrator and designer Massimiliano creates vivid, dynamic and richly textured work. We caught up with him recently and asked him what had been keeping him busy of late. Read more
I love the nostalgic overtones in Peter Drake’s artwork. His new series is based on a collection of lead soldiers his father assembled over the years. Read more
For the rest of this week, we have eight copies of the Anton Corbijn directed DVD, Control — the story of UK band, Joy Division — to give away to randomly selected new Australian-based Lost At E Minor subscribers. Read more
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