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Alone and surrounded with reason: a video by Brian Jerome
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Television provides a lot of the American populous with filler in their day-to-day work lives. However, the entertainment TV is meant to provide has been in a stark decline. People now enjoy watching vicarious living: people failing, mundane jobs they do not work, spoiled disrespecting infants, and lackluster competition. The news in America now provides [...]
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Pretty American: the new EP by Cold Front
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Pretty American is an EP that brings back the simplicity of rock and roll. Guitar solos are plenty, but highly refined and well thought out. This is a record that reminds you of drinking with your buddies, hitting on girls, puking up mistakes, and moving forward. Always moving forward.
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Pinkeye: music by Philadelphia band Bustduster
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Few bands are able to strike so much feeling within such few songs. Philadelphia’s now defunct band, Bustduster, does so with ease. Their 3-track EP, Pinkeye, starts and ends with no mercy of clearly explaining the stress of being an early 20-something dealing with the reality of transitioning to adulthood. Self-described as Pizza-core, the melodic [...]
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Brilliant animations by Emily Youcis
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I’m very proud to say that I’ve gotten to know and be friends with Emily Youcis over the past five years. She has gained recognition on G4 TV for her wild and far from apologetic Internet videos about the masochistic dog, Alfred. These videos, especially, the trilogy Alfred’s Playhouse 1-3, are an inventive and harsh look at reality. Her paintings are equally as twisted, as they are stylistically phenomenal. She has the edge that society has been avoiding and truly needs to stare at. Nietzsche spoke of the abyss that stares back. The abyss is Emily Youcis.
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Designs and illustration by New York based Austin Lotz
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A good friend of mine, Austin Lotz, recently got a job and moved up to New York to pursue design. I have all the faith in him, because this kid leaks talent. His work displays creativity and intelligence that most illustrators and designers lack.
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Ten Days in Hell: illustrations by Brian Jerome
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April 6, 2010, I survived a death defying five story fall through Philadelphia’s Divine Lorraine Hotel. I spent the next ten days in ICU Psychosis in Hahnemann Hospital. During this time I had hallucinations of dead babies, riots, terrorism, hell, and 4Loko. I talked to inanimate objects, perceiving them to simply be French tourists. Six months after my recovery, I made a series illustrating my hellish voyage into my own mind. This experience has continued into my personal and illustrative work dealing with perception, memory, and mental deterioration that can strike any of us at anytime.
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The Tunnels: photo series by Christian Suchecki
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Graffiti and skate culture has become more polished and is trending away from its roots. Philadelphian photographer, Christian Suchecki, brings back a grittier and darker edge to this aesthetic in his series, The Tunnels. Suchecki explores the dimly lit and overly graffiti scripted subway tunnels of North Philadelphia.
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