Who are we?
Lost At E Minor is an online publication of inspiring art, illustration, photography, music, fashion, film, and more, featuring our latest discoveries in the ever-changing world of contemporary pop culture.
Since 2005, a worldwide team of editors and writers — based in cities as diverse as Bogota, Berlin, Manila, New York, Melbourne and more places in between — have kept their ear to the ground of 21st century civilization in order to inspire our readers with their latest finds.
Everything we feature is there because we like it, not because some ridiculously rich sponsor has thrown a stack of greenbacks our way. Not that we don’t like ‘da duckets’. In fact, we welcome any economic ’subsidies’ we can get. But at the end of the day, our iPhones are tax write-offs, and we do this out of love, not for money.
Lost At E Minor is published by Conversant Media, who also produces sports opinion site, The Roar, and music discovery newsletter, My Secret Playlist.
Our logo was designed by David Marc Marinelli.
THE EDITORS OF LOST AT E MINOR ARE:
Zolton Zavos
New York-based Zolton is a pop culture enthusiast who can recite the first three episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm word for word. Well, nearly! He was previously the creative director and editor of magazines STU and Riot, and was the Australian editor at Pulp and the music editor at Yen. He was a judge for the 2007 Webby Awards and recently did trapeze for the first time. The inside of his legs are now chafed like a monkey’s armpit. Ouch!
Zac Zavos
Based in Newcastle, Zac spent many years working in London before returning to the beaches and sunshine of Australia in mid-2005. His background is in digital consulting where he has worked for IBM and ThoughtWorks amongst other consultancies. He is also a passionate photographer and has thoroughly documented his travels through Europe, America and Asia through the lens of his trusty Canon camera. He was a judge of the 13th Annual Australian Interactive Media Industry Association Awards.
Andy Howard
Currently based in Edinburgh, UK, Andy has a long background in experience design and web production. He’s immersed in contemporary pop culture and travel and feels most inspired when exploring a city for the first time. On any given day he can be found writing, producing websites, chasing powder, discovering artists, surfing waves or following trends.
You can get in touch with us here.
We checked in with sometime Lost At E Minor contributor and all the time brilliant designer and illustrator, Deanne Cheuk, and asked her what had been keeping her busy of late: ‘I’m curating an issue of Theme magazine; designing some prints for Sue Stemp and Something; and working on new drawings for a show in January 2010 at the Monster Children Gallery in Sydney. In terms of the next big project I have coming up, I have sunglasses that I designed with Colab coming out later this year. Yay!’
I’ve been waiting for a group like this. These New Puritans are balls in your face, 100 miles an hour, pure attack! A young British group that has most of the UK press in the palm of their skinny pale hands, they hint at a sonic mash of Bloc Party mixed with what White Rose Movement were supposed to be. What more could you want?
Listen to the These New Puritans track, Elvis.
Brooklyn-based illustrator Lisa Ramsey creates fantastic and elaborately themed comics, many of which are very tongue in cheek but always beautifully drawn.
Hot damn. Canvas Magazine makes the Brisbane design community look seriously sexy. Read more
If animated wall drawings of severed heads and insect men ejecting their brains from their craniums is what people produce when they have too much time on their hands, then we should do their laundry for them and cook them dinner so they’ll have even more time on their hands.
Anything goes in New York, even a white peacock in the middle of Manhattan. Yes, a white peacock! Who says the Upper West side is ‘upstate?’ Come visit one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in New York, which host the famous Cathedral of St. John The Divine (112th St. and Amsterdam Avenue). Read more
Instead of spending another Saturday afternoon looking though an already plumaged St Vinnies or Beacon’s Closet before buying something you’ll never wear for $5, check out Mooka Kinney. Read more
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While I am as impressed as anyone with an artist’s ability to render accurate and lifelike human figures, I’m more often compelled aesthetically by looser and more stylized images such as Camilla Engman’s. The wide-set eyes, bulbous bodies, and skewed proportions of the people and animals in Engman’s paintings lend them a certain expressiveness and melancholy. Read more
We asked Arizona-based artist Joe Sorren what we would have been if he hadn’t been handed the most ridiculously generous serving of artistic talent: ‘Art historian and conservationalist. Or a botanist. Or I’d work with horses. It would be interesting to be behind the scenes in politics, at least for a while. Or maybe a studio musician, or invent games, or a … I would rather paint’. Ah, we agree.
Born in a sub-provincial city of China, and raised in the suburbs of Northern California, Brooklyn-based artist Jing Wei attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she ‘developed a great affinity for printmaking, snow, and pizza’.
This remarkable construction is located in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi and is built entirely from scratch every year. It features 10,000 tonnes of ice from the nearby Torne River, and 30,000 tonnes of snow, covering more than 30,000 square feet in total. Oh, it even has its own ice chapel. But be sure to bring your winter woollens. It could get a little, errr, chilly at night. Read more
The work of Chicago artist Nigel Evan Dennis is emphatically modern and sparse, with textures and clean geometric shapes dominating the frame. I get the feeling I could really relax and breathe deeply with one of these beautiful images hanging on the wall. Read more
We have a Major Lazer prize pack to give away to a randomly selected LAEM subscriber featuring a Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do t-shirt, vinyl and CD. To be in the running, simply be a subscriber and tell us why you want it. Read more
This beautiful archival pigment print by New York-based illustrator, Fernanda Cohen, is called Fashion Ruined My Life. And it speaks for itself. Just look at her face! We have it for sale for just $75 in the Lost At E Minor online store. Read more
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