Photographs from high voltages and household cleaning products
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How amazing. Brooklyn-based artist Phillip Stearns, whose past work has used largely digital cameras and technology (the Glitch textiles for one), decided to create art with the help of old photographic methods. After he studied the effect of high 15,000 voltages and household cleaning products (think vinegar, baking soda, salt, bleach and hydrogen peroxide) on [...]
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Burnside: a cool bar hangout in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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The Burnside bar is a block from my apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It’s pretty much our regular hang out before practice. Everyone who works there is really awesome. They have amazing cocktails and a great selection of beers. One of the best things about the place, though, is the food. The Juicy Lucy burger is [...]
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Sugar: the new single by Brooklyn band Natureboy
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To listen to Brooklyn band Natureboy is to enter a submerged world. When I first heard them perform live, I was hypnotized. The second time, I walked up to singer-songwriter Sara Kermanshahi and asked her if she wanted to collaborate. The result is the music video Sugar, from their forthcoming album, The Sweep.
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Review: Groovin’ The Moo Maitland 2013
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Well, well, well. What is there to say about Groovin’ The Moo? As you should know by now it’s Australia’s ONLY regional touring music festival, which means one thing: highly excitable punters. I arrived super early (which I never do to festivals) to catch one of my favourite Sydney bands FISHING. The duo opened up [...]
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DRIFT: a film by Tim Sessler shot on a flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia
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Tim Sessler, a Brooklyn-based cinematographer and documentary filmmaker, has created another masterpiece that will inspire you to travel and see places from above. The video was filmed on the flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia via Salt Lake City. These amazing aerial shots were taken using a Canon 5D Mark III. Music artists Jónsi and [...]
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Mental map: The mental landscape as a map
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Writer-illustrator Anne Emond, who is based in Brooklyn, did this amazing Mental Map comic that really hits it right home. Who hasn’t overstayed their time at the I-Spend-Too-Much-Time-Online Falls, the Mountain Range of Impotent Rage or the Waves of Depression? Good thing there’s the River of Pleasure in the Small Things too.
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Demons: the new music video from The National
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The National has shared the video for their Trouble Will Find Me opening track, Demons. In the clip, Azar Kazimir, Creative Director at the Michelberger Hotel, paints a mural of the cover artwork on a wall, filmed using time-lapse techniques. The Brooklyn band will release their highly anticipated album on May 20 in Europe and May [...]
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New art by Vahge Young
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Vahge (v-AH-zhe) is a Brooklyn-based collage artist who I’ve been lucky to meet recently. She makes figures stitched together from various magazine models that vaguely seem like Frankensteinian dolls living in old Victorian houses. They appear proper and full of etiquette while at the same time having a darker edge, often being made up of [...]
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Django Django at Music Hall of Williamsburg
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One of the things on my bucket list was to see a gig at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Earlier this month I was able to tick this off my list with the help of Scottish indie rock quartet Django Django. It’s only fitting as their album was one of my favourite albums of 2012. [...]
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This hoodie might just age better than you
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Brooklyn-based Jake Bronstein claims to be a man on a mission to redefine ‘Made In America’ through the always welcome medium of well-made goods and services. He’s launched a Kickstarter project for a super premium 10-year-old hoodie that’s made for life. Basically he asked for $50,000 on the platform but has already received close to [...]
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Guy’s head goes up in smoke in Burnout photo series
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Brooklyn-based Romain Laurent is a genius. His Tilt series had us craning our necks for more, and we found this ‘more’ in not one, but two of his other series, Burnout and Where Was I? In Burnout, a guy’s head goes up in smoke as he literally burns out; while in Where Was I?, you’ll [...]
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The Magical World of Dylan Garrett Smith
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Dylan Garrett Smith is an artist/printmaker. Growing up in the punk and hardcore scene of Northeast Pennsylvania, he began exploring forms of printmaking at a young age to create shirts and patches for friend’s bands, as well as his own, using cardboard stencils and spray paint. Through this basic method of image making, he was [...]
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New Illustrations by Brooklyn’s Jonathan Zajdman
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Jonathan Zajdman is an illustrator based in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He’s worked for a handful of ad agencies and small publishers, but it’s his portraits and story book-styled illustrations that are really worth checking out.
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The quiet beauty of America’s most polluted waterway
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Don’t look now, but I think that might be a dead rat floating in the water. The Gowanus Canal waterway in Brooklyn is more than just disgusting. It’s literally America’s most contaminated waterway. No joke. But even something that dirty can be beautiful through the eyes of a true artist. Photographer William Miller’s series Gowanus Canal drives that [...]
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NYC is tilting off balance
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I can’t help but think of Jimmy Stewart in the old movie ‘Vertigo’ when I look at these photos. The weird, shifting angles are so disorienting. Tilt, a series by Brooklyn photographer Romain Laurent, portrays people in urban settings that are seemingly off balance. Everyday mundane activities are suddenly worth a second glance. Who are they smoking at [...]
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