Altar Clothing by Ryn Wilson

WE'RE SUPPORTING

Texas-based artist Ian Cion is dedicated to maintaining a dialog with the public – he’s worked with children in the Dell Children’s Medical Center to decorate Austin city buses, and he has also worked with various arts organizations in Austin and beyond. Read more

WE'RE THINKING

Bumblebee’s street art has long been lovingly intervening on Los Angeles’ skyline through phone boxes and newsstands. Most recently, Bumblebee has taken an affectionate turn, and draws LA’s attention to a tragic rise in child homelessness rates since the recent global financial crisis with a series of subtle and moving murals where child homelessness is most prevalent. To think such good art could do so much good. Read more

WE'RE TRAVELLING TO

The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more

WE'RE READING

I am really into Hong Kong action flicks from the 1980s and 90s. When I first moved to New York, there were a handful of curious friends who were also interested in watching movies such as City on Fire by Ringo Lam, which Reservoir Dogs was based on. How did they find videos like thus? At the legendary Kim’s Video in New York City. These days, City on Fire can be find online, and Kim’s is history. But all the videos that entertained the film geeks of this city for more than twenty years have found a new home in, wait for it, Salemi, Sicily. Yes, the southern island of Italy. Kim has recently relocated there, as this sad but heartwarming story about him in yesterday’s New York Times reveals.

WE'RE LISTENING TO

Back in the ’90s, just as the gangsta rap phenomenon was winding down and hip-hop was fragmenting into its own subgenres, Prince Paul and RZA kicked off the short-lived horrorcore fad with their group Gravediggaz. At the time, the melding of dark, gothic themes with hardboiled rap seemed gimmicky and awkward, a strange extension of the early and awful attempts to bridge hip-hop and metal, but on closer listen, the now defunct supergroup was way more innovative than they were given credit for. Read more

WE'RE WEARING

Sao Paulo designer Andreia Chaves created these extraordinary ‘invisible shoes‘, which are made from a ‘faceted mirrored surface allowing the shoe to reflect different angles of the environment around it thus camouflaging itself with its surroundings’. Read more