Shepard Fairey guest writer for Lost At E Minor
|Next Tuesday we’ll be sending out a special Shepard Fairey Guest Compiled issue of our free weekly email publication, featuring the work of his favorite street artists, photographers and bands. Fairey’s iconic image of Barack Obama was recently the cover of Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year issue, but even before that he was well known as the creator of the ubiquitous Andre The Giant sticker. We’re honored to have him write exclusively for us about his favorite artists and talk about the artwork that excited him most in 2008. You can sign up to receive this Guest Compiled issue simply by subscribing to the free weekly Lost At E Minor email publication.
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Some cool work from Robots Will Kill, an arts site dedicated to exposure for artists and media often disregarded by the mainstream art world. The core collective of artists that makes Robots Will Kill run also work on murals, canvases, clothing design and various other artistic outlets. Read more
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Brooklyn-based artist Sam Weber recently collaborated with the Folio Society and the William Golding estate to create an illustrated edition of Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies. Copies are currently available to Folio Society members only, but they’re still sure to sell quick. Read more
One of my favourite venues in New York is Brooklyn’s Union Hall, right around the corner from Tamari, a super sushi joint. Upstairs they have two massive fireplaces burning and a bocce ball court. Yup, bocce. Downstairs you feel like you’ve walked into the museum of natural history where you can see live bands on a stage reminiscent of grandma’s living room.
is it TooLate? Is it? Never! This Italian-made watch has a beautiful minimal design, comes in lots of colors, is water proof and goes for less than $30. Hot damn! 10,000 of them were sold in the first ten days after their release and half a million in it’s first year of distribution. Apparently the Italians are wearing two or three of them together as part of some bizarre fashion clique. Wonder if the rest of the world will catch on?
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Typography for a good cause? Designers can help make the world a better place by just purchasing one of these strictly limited posters. Animalphabet is a typographic project and a collaboration between an impressive list of 26 artists, including the mighty Geoff Mcfetridge. Read more
Ten Masked Men are a British parody band that does death metal covers of famous pop songs by Ricky Martin, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, and many others. One of my favorites is their cover of Justin Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me a River’. It’s epic.
Japanese artist Toshiya Tsunoda’s field recordings will blow your mind without blowing your eardrums. By placing sensitive microphones inside empty objects, such as bottles and hollow logs, he captures vibrations inaudible to the human ear. Layers of these sounds are artfully cut and composed to produce brute, mesmerising work that challenges our perception of music. Read more
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