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, 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
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

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.
Alex Passapera’s dizzying pen and ink drawings are cascades of images melting into one another, often looking like contorting, mutating creatures spewing blood-like ink splatters. Read more
Dating or married musician duos are always interesting beasts. Their intertwining affections and chemical reactions make for a potent alchemy of musical magic. Along the same vein of O-era Damien Rice and Lisa Hennigan, Glen Hansard (frontman of The Frames) and Marketa Irglova are the latest lovey-dovey couple with longings expressed in fingerpicked guitars and mourning cellos. Read more
I’m so excited to have stumbled across the work of Berkeley, California artist Weston Teruya. On first glance, his work feels purely abstract, like black and white grids with dots of colour here and there, undulating across clean backgrounds. On closer inspection, however, perfectly rendered chairs, life savers, netting, plants and various ephemera come to light. I’m always excited when I come across an artist who can so successfully merge the realistic and abstract, and Teruya does it with aplomb. Read more
On those rare occasions when I feel the need to treat myself to an absolutely mind (and wallet) blowing meal, I love to come here. The restaurant is housed in an old diner (the old trailer style diners) which makes for some fun ambiance. Plus, the menu changes every week, so there’s never a written menu. The waiter comes out with a pen and writes the entire menu down on the butcher paper covering your table. Aside from all that, the food is absolutely unbelievable!
Peter Nalitch is Russia’s answer to Manu Chao. His video for the song Guitar is a Borat-like jab at low-budget, post-Soviet awkwardness — absurd English lyrics, Eurotrash earnestness, bad wipes, and cheap subtitles. But its tongue-in-cheekness is quite apparent, and the song is disarmingly catchy and romantic.
It doesn’t transform or actually play music, but this watch with a face that looks like a cassette tape, is still pretty cool. Read more
I’ve been a big fan of Michelle Vandermeer’s work since I came across her Mini Majellen zines at this year’s Sydney Writers Festival. Describing herself as a doer — as in one of those people who are always doing or making something — Michelle’s work, which includes book binding, illustration, jewelery making and her zines, stems from an internal creative springboard and a double degree in architecture and graphic design. Her work is smart and succinct. Read more
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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

Charlie Immer’s pastel-pallete sometimes obfuscates the gory violence in his surreal images. At other times, it heightens the gut-wrenching and visceral effect of his work. Read more

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

Illustrator Timothy Karpinski sews painted paper together to create his images, giving them a classic look. Read more

Trip out with Sparrow Vs Sparrow’s retro illustrations, I love their aesthetic, color use and sense of humor. Read more
Wolfmother. Rock n roll. Mystical lyrics. Heavy riffs. They have a new album out, Cosmic Egg, and we have five copies to giveaway, along with their debut album. To enter, tell us your favorite Wolfmother song and the city you live in. Yo! Two fingered salute. Read more
Featuring a design by New York Times Op-Ed artist Igor Kopelnitsky these 5×7 cards have been crafted from Crane’s Lettra Letterpress re-purposed textured cotton paper made from fibres from the fashion industry. The set includes 8 blank cards with envelopes. Read more
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