Victor Kerlow

Scott Teplin

Scott Teplin’s candy-colored paintings and incredibly detailed line drawings of wrecked vehicles as well as his Sims-like images of surreal, fantastical urban structures express both malaise and wonderment at the spaces we have created for ourselves in modern life. Read more

Jess Douglas

Illustrator Jess Douglas does great line drawings and screen-prints of street scenes, many of them sparse and devoid of people but still somehow cheerful and warm.

Jenni Desmond

Timelessness is surely one of the most sought-after characteristics that any artist, writer or musician can aim for in their work. It’s a wonderful feeling to know that what felt good a generation ago still holds true to this day; perhaps even better to know that what made one tick as a child still draws a smile years down the line. I often feel this with certain children’s illustration — they evoke an innolinecence every adult still retains somewhere deep inside. The work of UK illustrator Jenni Desmond does just this to me — there’s a real sense of adventure running through it and vision of the world being far, far larger than it really is.

Milk and Honey necklace by Stephanie Simek

Milk and honey, an indubitable pair. In this necklace by Stephanie Simek, a golden honeycomb beeswax pendant is encased in plastic and hangs from an oxidized sterling silver chain. The links are interwoven with a milk protein-based fiber. We have it for sale in our online store.

Malcolm Middleton’s Secret Playlist

Malcolm Middleton (ex-Arab Strap) has just released his fifth solo album, Waxing Gibbous, composed from years worth of scribbles in notebooks, which were ‘chiseled and connived into being songs’. We checked in with him to get his words n the music that inspired the new recrding. He started with The Auteurs song, Lenny Valentino [listen below]: ‘I must have missed this band the first time around, but since reading Luke Haines’ autobiography, I am hooked. Anyone who can write about their own life and come across so badly gets the thumbs up from me!’ Read the rest of Malcolm Middleton’s Secret Playlist.

A Pig by any other name is Zebra

Don’t be fooled by the cunning disguise. This, my friends, is a pig, a swine, in the truest sense of the word. It’s been painted to look like a zebra, partly because of the bad press pigs have gotten lately, and partly for a Halloween parade in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene Park. Apparently it lives in the area and is walked in the long shadows of the night, as whispered about and mythologized as the Yeti, Bigfoot and Paris Hilton’s brain. [photo via Fort Green PUPS photostream]