March 11, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Casper Johansson |
It seems anything is a canvas these days, even dirty greenbacks. On the Defaced Presidents Flickr page, artists from all over have submitted an eye-popping assortment of notes redecorated to look a little more artsy. Clever, indeed. Read more
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March 11, 2010 | New Products | by Casper Johansson |
Exovault is a small artist-run company. The aluminum EXOvault case is lightweight and durable, and fits the iPhone 3G or 3GS like a glove. The EXOvault case is machined from solid metal stock in two pieces. Your iPhone will not rattle around or move within the case. And the case will not scratch your iPhone. Handmade in Brooklyn.
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March 11, 2010 | Video | 
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A visually stunning short 3D-animated film directed by Antoine Perez, Celine Desrumaux, Francois Pons and Gary Levesque. Yankee Gal took a year to complete and was produced at the always formidable French computer graphics school, Supinfocom.
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March 11, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Sam Wolfe Connelly has a great illustrative style that has some graphic novel influences, but doesn’t seem overly rooted in any particular genre. He also manages to breath new life into cliched imagery when he hasn’t avoided cliches altogether.
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March 11, 2010 | New Music | by Amy Freeborn |
The Gossip are the three-piece punk rock electro band from Olympia, Washington’s underground scene who broke through in the UK in spectacular style in 2006 with the single and album Standing In The Way Of Control. Lead by the unlikely rock star, lesbian, feminist, fashion icon and ‘cool’ person Beth Ditto, the trio have just released their third album, Music For Men. The title comes from a night when Beth was at a gig watching a friend’s band, which had a female member, and observed the male audience members’ reaction to it. The Gossip’s drummer Hannah Blilie recalls ‘and those words popped up in her mind. Music for men. This is music for men, and it just kinda stuck. It’s tongue in cheek, it’s not serious. It is their first studio effort for a major label since leaving indie legends Kill Rock Stars for Sony in 2008. And it’s every bit as good as their last one.
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March 11, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Jason Hernandez draws from medieval religious art and classical European images to create grotesque yet vibrant images laden with contemporary social criticism. The punk-metalhead in me can’t get enough of this stuff.
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March 11, 2010 | New Fashion | by Lost At E Minor |
These delicate sterling silver earrings have two hand hammered layers of silver with a soft white finish. In the center of each earring is a small peach moonstone. These earrings hang flatteringly close to the face on small sterling silver ear wires. Each earring measures 0.75 inches in diameter.
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March 10, 2010 | New Photography | by Zolton |
Maarten Wetsema is a Dutch photographer living in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Wetsema is represented by Van Kranendonk Gallery in The Hague, The Netherlands. He has had numerous international exhibitions, and his images have appeared at Photo Miami and Paris Photo. Read more
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March 9, 2010 | New Film | by Xavier Toby |
A film about a horrendously obese girl who has two kids, with Mariah Carey in it and produced by Oprah. Sounds awful and at first, I couldn’t be less interested, but it turns out, I couldn’t be more mistaken. Based on the novel Push, it’s a tight and intelligent script realised by dedicated actors and exquisite direction. Read more
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March 9, 2010 | New Trends | by Eat. Sip. Chew. |
To some, home brewing is the mere transformation of hopped Wort into a tanned and carbonated alcoholic beverage. But for Connie Anthes and Jon and Julian Berengut — with respective backgrounds in Brand Identity, Product Design, and Theoretical Physics — they see beer brewing as more than just a refreshing reward. They see it as a creative Brand Identity project. Read more
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March 6, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
The idea behind Blippy is to use the public blackboard that is the burgeoning social media environment to monitor what your friends, and their friends, are spending their hard-earned money on. The Twitter-based platform encourages its members to upload their credit card details so that their online purchases are displayed in real time for all the world — or at least a voyeuristic few — to see.
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March 6, 2010 | New Design | by Lin Tan |
Currently a fellow at MIT, Neri Oxman is an architect, designer, ecologist, computer scientist, and the winner of the first ever Earth Awards. She is innovating the way we design and build things by creating energy efficient materials that mimic biological tissues, and believes strongly that function should precede form. Her innovation will see buildings and structures come alive — literally — by breathing, moving and responding to the environment.
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March 6, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
‘We’re all a little mad here’, say the owners of Hollywood’s Laurel Avenue Bakery (aka Bakelab), an outfit that makes handcrafted goodies inspired by that fantastical childhood classic, Alice in Wonderland. The bake shop’s Tea Party Curio Box is packed with a delectable array of trippy treats: ‘curiously sweet’ blue meringue mushrooms, Cheshire Cat Macarons, ‘Taste Me’ cookies, and even a couple of unbirthday cupcakes — candles included. Read more
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March 4, 2010 | Cool Travel | by Zolton |
What better way to get around town than via the relative luxury of a stretch bicycle. And yes, we believe the designer Wouter Mijland is working on incorporating a spa.
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March 3, 2010 | New Eco | by Lin Tan |
Made out of biodegradable materials, Help Remedies aims to provide uncomplicated medical solutions to simple health issues. ‘Help I cut myself’ has band-aids stored inside, and ‘Help I have an aching body’ contains ibuprofen pills. Its friendly and straightforward design makes countering common ailments more bearable.
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March 2, 2010 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
So what if you don’t really have a snazzy sports car sitting in your suburban garage? Who cares if a giant puppy doesn’t really call it home? Now you can live out your ultimate fantasy and decorate your sliding door at the same time with Style Your Garage, a billboard that ‘comes with a separate, self-adhesive Velcro fastener, can be attached immediately, and is fitted in the same sort of way as a fly screen at the window’. Read more
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Scott G. Brooks’ usage of naturalistic light juxtaposed with his exaggerated and distorted features make his straight portraits as surreal as his more elaborately composed fantastical pieces. Read more
If on a picture perfect summer’s day, you find yourself wishing for a blizzard, something is wrong. Very wrong. But don’t panic, this weather preference has nothing to do with hatin’ on sunshine, and everything to do with an infamous leather bomber jacket from Claude Maus. It’ll have you hooked with its luxurious soft leather, stitched front paneling, Italian wool lining and the very necessary detachable hood. If you’re somewhere cold, then chances are you’re nowhere near this Australian-based label. So if you’re looking for a push in the purchase direction, it’ll be pleasing to know that the Aussie dollar ain’t doing too good. Gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘investment piece’, doesn’t it? Read more
Fashion blogger Tavi is biting, witty, articulate, and stylish for any age. The fact that she’s only twelve makes her kind of over-the-top amazing. Already an accomplished photographer and astute critic of all things wearable, the sarcastic pre-teen is probably sick of being described as precocious, but she’s the very definition of the word.
Brooklyn-based illustrator Lisa Ramsey creates fantastic and elaborately themed comics, many of which are very tongue in cheek but always beautifully drawn.
The Australian film collective behind the sci-fi spoof, The Time That Time Forgot, perfectly capture the look and feel of awkward, low-budget rip-offs from the ’70s — the psychedelic lighting, bad dubbing, and amazing hair. One almost wishes Italian Spiderman was for real. [more about Italian Spiderman]
No, this is not a still from a Dr Who episode. It is, instead, the facade of the Wotruba Church, built between 1974 and 1976 and located in the beautiful Austrian suburb of Mauer, the 23rd district of Vienna. Now, if only all religious buildings were so damn adventurous. It would kinda make Christmas mass more enjoyable. Read more
Ianva are a fantastically seductive group from Genova, sounding like the house band in an underground cabaret during Mussolini’s rule — at once nostalgic and subversive. Read more
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Oslo artist Gry E.Pedersen blends digital artwork and photos, but her generally experimental artwork also includes more traditional forms of paintings. Read more
Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
Yu Xiao was born in Zi Bo, Shandong, China. She received her M.A. in Photography from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009. In this work, Never Grow Up, Yu Xiao digitally created child versions of herself as a commentary on China’s one child rule and the intense focus on childhood that results. Read more
Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
It’s spring cleaning time and we have a massive pile of assorted new release CDs to give away to a randomly selected LAEM subscriber. To enter, just be a subscriber and leave a note under this message telling us the city you live in.
Known for his installations, as well as his two dimensional pieces, the art of Hamburg’s Stefan Marx invites you into a phantasmagorical, mesmerizing world filled with rich and curious characters that congregate in subterranean worlds. Marx has applied this same flare to a Dosh wallet design. Read more
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