Now playing: live LAPD police radio set to ambient music
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Mark this, then bookmark this: You Are Listening To Los Angeles combines live LAPD police radio with ambient music. It all started when Eric Eberhardt saw some tweets about a live police scanner webcast from soma.fm and gave it a listen: ‘Interesting stuff to be sure, but I got bored listening to just the voices [...]
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Get a free cab ride at Austin’s SXSW by confessing your greatest tech sin
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Want a free cab ride to the next venue at South by Southwest this year? No problem! All you have to do is tweet the Kendo UI team using the hashtag #SXSWTechCab and Irin Slutsky will let you know if she can swing it. The Kendo UI cab ride is completely free in exchange for the [...]
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Half Japanese’s Jad Fair now designing t-shirts
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Jad Fair is an underappreciated American icon. You may not know him by name, but his old band, Half Japanese, helped shape modern Alternative Rock. Since Half Japanese, Fair has essentially not stopped working. He is as prolific as ever recording new music, as well as drawing and doing elaborate paper-cuttings. His drawings and designs [...]
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Tiny people frolicking on iPhones
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Austin-based website and app developer JD Hancock professes to snap pictures for fun. His sense of adventure is evident and infectious in his photography series iPhoneland — the silly juxtapositions of his extremely tiny toy figurines frolicking against the iPhone screen landscapes make us chuckle.
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To Dust: a self-destructive installation
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I admit, I generally don’t ‘get’ a lot of installation art pieces. But two mechanised, suspended statues gently grinding themselves into one another for many years until they are dust, seems to me to be a perfectly relatable analogy for anyone who has experienced an exhausting relationship. Thank you Jonathan Schipper.
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Our Lives: new music by David Thomas Jones
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David Thomas Jones, leader of the Austin rock troop Watch Out For Rockets, decided to go rogue for a few moments and do a solo record. His role in Watch Out For Rockets already entails most of the writing, recording and playing of instruments on said recordings, which have all been captured on a Tascam [...]
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Designs and illustration by New York based Austin Lotz
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A good friend of mine, Austin Lotz, recently got a job and moved up to New York to pursue design. I have all the faith in him, because this kid leaks talent. His work displays creativity and intelligence that most illustrators and designers lack.
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Jewelry by Amanda Cargill Austin
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Amanda Cargill Austin uses beautifully handcrafted borosilicate glass beads in her amazing line of jewelry and small accessories. Cargill Austin is a self-taught artist whose teenage hobby led her to become an artisan jewelry designer. She creates one-of-a-kind beads and pieces in her home lampwork studio on the Oregon Coast.
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Top five The Paper Scissors memories
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Sadly, our favourite Sydney band, The Paper Scissors, have just announced they are breaking up. We invited frontman and songwriter, Jai Pyne, to tell us about his favourite TPS memories: ‘There are so many memories over the last seven years. Lots of good times, lots of really stressful hard times. I was just the other day lamenting about when I felt like I was having a nervous breakdown in the back seat of a hire car when we launched our first album. But hey, this is about the good times’.
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New music by Chelsea Wolfe
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You know those afternoons spent clicking though the suggestion videos on YouTube? It’s not always a waste of time. It’s how I came across Chelsea Wolfe, an American-singer songwriter from Sacramento. Using pedals and other effects to create her intense, elemental sound, she has already caught the attention of critics at The Guardian, LA Times, Pitchfork, I-D and Nylon Magazine. She also performed at this years SXSW festival in Austin. Now signed to Sargent House Records, Wolfe and her eponymous band are about to release their first album, A Collection of Acoustic Songs, for the label Unknown Rooms.
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Furniture design by Christine Wu
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I met Christine Wu personally last summer in Copenhagen, Denmark. We took a Scandinavian Furniture class together and we’ve been friends ever since. She just graduated from her BFA Design degree in Austin, Texas, and now she’s a furniture maker and designer in New York City. She is still pretty new to the furniture-marking world, but her skill is exquisite. This Mesquite chair has a beautiful live edge which goes along well with the whole design. The chair is very crisp and functional.
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Win Bernie double passes and DVDs: Jack Black’s new film
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I actually saw Bernie at a screening in Austin, Texas, which is where the director of the film, Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused; School of Rock), resides. Bernie is a brilliant bittersweet comedy, based on a true story (remarkable though that may seem) and starring the incomparable Jack Black, alongside a strong cast of exceptional character actors, including Shirley MacLaine. [If you're an Australian-based reader, you can win screening passes and DVDs for Bernie. See here for more details]
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Creative home decor by Austin-based LEBORED
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LEBORED is Alex Shilin and my answer to ‘What should we do now?’ after we left our advertising careers in New York and moved to Austin. We make limited-edition, one-of-a-kind home decor, because we believe life should be filled with art.
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Video interview with the HourSchool founders in Austin
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Filmmaker Henry Dombey traveled to Austin to interview the founders of HourSchool, a website that helps people organize bite sized classes in their community. ‘The HourSchool mission is to help people realize their full potential, and not to be afraid to fulfill it’. We believe everyone can, and should, teach, after all, you are the [...]
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Roll the Bones: new music by Shakey Graves
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Shakey Graves’ sincere folk ballads fall somewhere in between Townes Van Zandt and The Tallest Man on Earth. His album, Roll The Bones, has been a great traveling companion so far this Summer but seeing him live is a real treat, so if you’re an Austinite, go catch him and his handmade suitcase kick-drum at [...]
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