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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, 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’s weekly email newsletters are sponsored by Campaign Monitor.

Lost At E Minor is published by Conversant Media, who also produces the Australian sports opinion site, The Roar, and the music discovery website and email newsletter, My Secret Playlist.

The Lost At E Minor logo was designed by David Marc Marinelli.

THE EDITORS OF LOST AT E MINOR ARE:
Zolton Zavos

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Working out of Brooklyn, New York, Zolton is a pop culture obsessive who began his career in journalism as the editor of Australian street magazine, STU, before moving on to senior roles at publications such as Pulp, Yen, Hotpress and Riot, of which he was a co-founder and creative director. He spent many misspent years in between as the guitarist, songwriter and occasional vocalist with rock band, Lucid and Jetstream, before his move to New York from Sydney in August 2006 finally put an end to any faintly held aspirations of sharing a bill with the remaining members of Nirvana.

Zac Zavos

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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

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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.

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In my Personal Vision class at the International Center of Photography, one of our first assignments was to photograph a classmate naked. I was paired up with a guy who wasn’t keen on the assignment (he ended up backing out due to moral issues), and the opportunity to photograph a stranger in the nude is yet to come up again. Yet! With that in mind, we interviewed New York-based, Chinese photographer Shen Wei about his series Almost Naked and how he gets through those awkward moments. Read more


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The Loveless Cafe, a little oasis on the outskirts of Nashville, is like a refuge for the disenfranchised, serving up good ol’ southern cooking to a legion of America’s finest. Read more

From this artist selection of t-shirts comes this Michael Gillette illustrated t-shirt, limited edition and distributed in a vinyl sleeve, with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Each tee is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic cotton.


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Very few band reunions get me excited, but I’ve consistently loved Faith No More since I was 13. I loved their pre-Mike Patton era, I loved King for a Day, and I even loved their track with Boo Yah Tribe on the Judgment Night soundtrack. Kerrang recently hinted that a FNM reformation is in the works for ‘09, and though bassist Billy Gould has emphatically denied the rumors, the general consensus is that the reunion is on.

Print Liberation is an exceptional Philadelphia-based creative visual agency whose website showcases a variety of deisgn styles, each immaculately executed. Read more

In Japan, when one makes squeezing gestures with both hands at chest level, one is gesturing that one wants candy — soft, round, bouncy candy. At least, that’s what this commercial would have us believe.

Analog electronics by British outfit Belbury Poly (Jim Jupp and Eric Zann) make me believe machines have souls and the ghosts of obsolete recording devices are haunting the dusty stacks of libraries debating the relevance of 60s avant-garde music and counterculture.

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Paolo Ventura

Italian-born, New York City-based photographer Paolo Ventura creates fairy-tale like pictures out of amazingly constructed, miniature dioramas that almost trick the eye into thinking he’s a tilt-shift photographer. Read more

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Celebrity PunchOut

Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.

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Sparrow Vs Sparrow

Trip out with Sparrow Vs Sparrow’s retro illustrations, I love their aesthetic, color use and sense of humor. Read more

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1970s and 80s Soviet Union buildings

Cambodian born photographer Frederic Chaubin is the editor of French magazine Citizen K. His photo series on bizarre buildings built in the former Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s is absolutely fascinating. Read more

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Karen Caldicott’s clay head models

British born, New York-based model maker Karen Caldicott has been making clay heads for all major US publications over the last decade. Read more


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Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more

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