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Surfer photography by Thomas Prior
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Thomas Prior is not afraid of colour. Without being too heavily saturated or edited, his photos capture such strong hues that they seem almost more real than real life. Sunlight on surfers and even a torn 7UP can on pavement somehow become more interesting through his lens.
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David D’Andrea: 70s inspired rock poster art
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As an illustrator, David V. D’Andrea specializes in poster art for some of the bigger doom and 70’s-inspired rock bands around today, such as Black Mountain and Sleepy Sun. Beyond the beautiful details in his black line work, he achieves an impressive level of depth combining dark ink with bright colors and careful shading.
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Trädgarden: an outdoor venue in Stockholm
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For young or ever youthful visitors to Stockholm, Sweden, in the warm months, outdoor club Trädgarden is not to miss. More like the expected scene of edgy Berlin than clean, pastel Stockholm, Trädgarden is an outdoor space under the bridge of a southbound metro line. The grimy location is craftily covered by colorful lights, three [...]
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New illustrations by Suyumbike Guvenç
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Suyumbike Guvenç combines a sketchy illustration style of daunting colors and round-edged lines with collage, establishing a modern feeling in often almost tribal art. Whether the content is faces or melting plants, she’ll tempt you to count the endless lines used to cover each design.
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New photography by Matthew Reamer
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Since making a name for himself with his Scraper Bike Movement photos, Matthew Reamer has captured his life in photos in a way that makes me want to meet him. KISS facepaint and his long-haired outlaw friends make up his latest works, and capture another side of Bay Area life that would make anyone homesick for NorCal.
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Beautiful choral music by the Scala and Kolacny Choir
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I first heard this Belgian choir on the TV show, Sons of Anarchy: their haunting harmonies backed a tragic scene is Season Three’s Ireland-based tale. A few YouTube searches later, I was hooked. Their covers of favorites like Radiohead’s Creep are bested by their originals. I don’t spend much time listening to choirs, but they’ve [...]
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Tattoos and illustrations by Jean-Luc Navette
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There’s something about Jean-Luc Navette’s work that is timeless. His black-and white 2D illustrations are balanced with intricate, tangible textures, and he has a way of retro-izing everything: his images make even recognizable modern characters into 1800′s versions perhaps imaginable in a Roald Dahl story. Through all his work, both tattoos and paper-based, his style holds a feeling of originality – no matter how many mustached men and skeletons he draws.
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Glasslands Gallery: an art gallery and party venue in Brooklyn
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Brooklyn’s appeal is fairly well represented by Glasslands Gallery. A dingy side street of in-progress factories-turned-lofts holds this venue by night, and a gallery always. With a fluffy pink cloud awning protruding over the stage, and a balcony built from trees and bike parts, its scenery alone sets it apart. Depending on the night, anything [...]
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New illustrations by Alexandra Levasseur
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Levasseur manages to create a similar effect to photographic double-exposure with illustration. Her work often conveys movement with two still positions of a person in one scene, on one body, with the chilling effect that the subject having an out-of-body experience.
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Black and white photos of Japan by Caitlin Sullivan
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While traveling in Japan, I captured as much of the city-life energy as my camera could carry. But even in such impressive settings, I find the people in them hold the most meaning. The set Tokyo in Black and White presents what Tokyo felt like through the mood of its local people, and their effect on their surroundings.
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New music by Cloudkicker
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Music rarely captures my attention like Cloudkicker’s dynamic progressive chill-metal on recent album Fade. Like a soundtrack to sitting on the beach alone on an overcast evening, the music is somewhat dark, but calming, with steadily grooving rhythm and high-pitched guitar melodies repeating like distant bells.
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All I Own: new photo series by Sanna Kvist
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Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist has an eye-catching set of work depicting her 20-something friends with all their belongings stacked together. If nothing else, it serves as proof that most Swedes don’t collect meaningless objects, but also provides a window into a person’s life and personality in a single frame.
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Life-like fashion illustrations by Jorge Roa
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I give a lot of credit to artists whose work I want to touch: to feel, taste, or just test that it is, in fact, two-dimensional, and not real. Jorge Roa’s set of work, Details, has such life-like qualities that one might be tempted to check if they are real people and materials behind a filmy, textured screen.
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Build Up Japan: 5,000 kids build Lego Japan
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The project Build Up Japan asked 5000 children from six regions in the country to build the Japan they wish to see, using Lego blocks to construct the buildings of their imaginations. The structures used 1.8 million Lego pieces, and were arranged over the shape of Japan in a stunning landscape of tall white towers.
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Everyone Street: a film about New York street life
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The Seaport Museum in New York City enlisted director Cheryl Dunn to document photographers for whom New York street life – the subways, the gangs, the average American – was a main work subject. This clip shows an interview with Bruce Davidson, expressing the ability of photography to make visible the invisible people of New [...]
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