February 11, 2012 | New Music | 
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Independent singer songwriter Rae Morris is a rare find. Such depth and tragic tones from such a young talent; this girl deserves attention. Her track, Wait a While, is beyond beautiful in its own right.
February 11, 2012 | Video | by Contributions |
D.O. Roth, the German video director who brought Joy Division back to life in a Playmobil animation, earning more than 600,000 YouTube viewers, has struck again. Last year, the internet came alive with talk of the legendary band’s 1979 TV performance of Transmission being performed by the toy figures. Read more
February 11, 2012 | New Art | by Contributions |
Joanna Mortreux, a Melbourne-based artist, has created the series The Awkwardness of Living and Dying Simultaneously, where monumental figures sit like cryogenically frozen specimens of either some ancient past or some frozen future. Like artefacts in a museum, they exist as landmarks or even portals to another space or imagined time. All inspired by the crazy cold beauty of Iceland. Read more
February 10, 2012 | Video | by Contributions |
Here’s an inspiring story: eighty year-old Malcolm is a human rights activist, double amputee, and now skydives for justice. How wonderfully uplifting.
February 9, 2012 | New Photography | by Contributions |
The Art of Self Portraits: Photo Booth Me was inspired by the works of photographer Kimiko Yoshida. Art by Davey began experimenting with Photo Booth software in 2010. For years he has been inspired by the ancient cultures of Africa and the Middle East, India and beyond. This ongoing project involves the use of makeup, fabric, lights, eyewear, and jewelry. He plans to produce an eBook of his collective work later this year. Read more
February 9, 2012 | New Eco | by Contributions |
If Tim Burton had an eco-fashion line for Target, here is what it would look like. Kristen Dill’s designed creations include found botanical stems, leaves, even dried turnips. Read more
February 9, 2012 | New Music | by Contributions |
Control, a ‘darkwave township house’ cover of the Joy Division classic She’s Lost Control, is the fourth single to be taken from South African producer/DJ Spoek Mathambo’s album, Mshini Wam. The video was shot in Langa, a township in Cape Town and was made using a cast made up mainly of kids from the local dance troupe, Happy Feet. Eerie, and just plain frikken’ cool! Directed and shot by Peter Hugo and Micheal Cleary.
February 8, 2012 | New Art | by Contributions |
Esteban Longoria, an Oakland-based artist, has created something terribly monstrous in his paintings. Some of his oil paintings are inhabited by a reincarnated luchador with his masked dog. In others, we see him taking a victory lap giving us the thumbs up, a close up of a powdery werewolf, and the sighting of bear with troubles. Read more
February 8, 2012 | New Art | by Contributions |
Edith Lebeau grew up in Beloeil, a little town in Quebec, Canada. She paints women in the guise of superheroes, villains, goddesses and nymphs. Her work is emotive, showing the strength of modern woman and their underlying vulnerability.
February 8, 2012 | New Design | by Contributions |
If you’re a driver or passenger, it’s getting that way that probably one in ten cars you pass have a ‘my family tribe’ (or whatever they’re called) sticker plastered on the driver’s rear windscreen. Seeing them daily now, I’m beginning to wonder why is it that these are becoming so popular and a social phenomena. A lot of opinions are out there on whether they’re liked or disliked, but opinion’s are one thing. I prefer to show some action. Hence, I decided to design my own range of Dysfunctional Families stickers. Read more
February 7, 2012 | New Design | by Contributions |
Insekta is a collection designed by italian studio Kreativehouse. The moodboard is inspired by the shapes of insects and their world of color. The drawings, taken from original illustrations by Cristian Grossi, were applied to different supports to create a collection of unique products: a limited edition set of illustrated notebooks in recovered paper, a set of pins and tees. Read more
February 4, 2012 | New Fashion | by Contributions |
A new way to show love. Or a graphic design project, where the numbers are ‘alive’ and start playing with each other. Whatever. Rotate, invert it, intersect to create graphic symbols that ‘tell’ the love. Since the first meeting, the first passion, the love story develops. Project design by Shura Baggio.
February 4, 2012 | New Art | by Contributions |
Celeste Chen is a Boston-born, Asian-American artist who currently lives and studies in Washington, D. C. at Georgetown University. As a studio art and neurobiology double major, Chen explores themes of transition and identity formation through non-traditional combinations of media, including oils, acrylics and spray paint. Read more
February 2, 2012 | Cool Travel | by Contributions |
Hong Kong is narrow skyscrapers, over crowded streets, the Bank of China tower, shopping malls and a Chinese junk with Hong Kong’s main island in the background. But it’s also old-fashioned and easygoing. Read more
January 31, 2012 | New Photography | by Contributions |
Fabiola Morais is a multi-media artist based in central Brazil. These pictures, frames of video, are from the Kayapo Indians, one of the Brazilian ethnic groups threatened by the construction of Belo Monte, one of the largest dams in the world. Read more
In the beautiful work of New York City-based illustrator, designer and typographer, Mario Hugo, finely rendered faces and figures intermingle with various abstract patterns and shapes to create some seriously refined, surreal, and mysterious work that’s all that, and then some.
The psychedelic and surreal mixed-media drawings and collages by Jason Matthew Vivona are growing on my brain like a benign alien tumor. Read more
The philosophy of a beginning is to me, a wonderful concept. I really enjoy flicking through the back catalogues of a musician and discovering their origin, then tracing their musical journey to the present. So for American-born, Paris-based sister duo CocoRosie, who released their third album The Adventure of Ghosthouse and Stillborn to much acclaim, making the trip to their beginnings is more than worth the journey: their debut album, Le Maison de Mon Reve (released back in 2004) was a gentle stroll through their pop and classical influences, which melt together seamlessly into a backdrop for their unique and enchanting voices.
I went to a Isol/Zypce concert in Buenos Aires last week and fell in love with their sound. This experimental singer-songwriter brother and sister duo proves that Argentinean music is not just about Tango. Though, of course, I love Tango, too!
A Chicken Growing Up! is a great blog on which science illustrator Mieke Roth posts one ink drawing a week of a chicken as it matures. Read more
Stylistically The Asteroids Galaxy Tour is hard to pin down, except to say that they throw one hell of a party – which may be why those music-loving folks at Apple chose them to help sell what’s being touted as ‘the funnest iPod ever’. Sun-drenched pop melodies collide with Technicolor dreams, anchored by the band’s shared love of the classic soul stylings of Marvin, Stevie and Sly that can be heard in the horns snaking through Around The Bend, as well as the slinky The Sun Ain’t Shining No More [below], the Thomas Gold remix of which we have available for free download in the Music Download section of Lost At E Minor [psst, it's in the third column], along with a stack of other cool tunes. Get those iPods ‘a thumpin’!
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Australian footwear label THE HORSE was founded upon an ethical vision of highest quality Italian leather for the fashioned gentleman, the discerning lady, and the recalcitrant youngster. Even better, they’re offering you 10 percent off until the end of September with the promo code ‘kareena’.
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Baltimore Mural by Josh Van Horne
My friend Josh Van Horne, a local Baltimore artist, did this amazing mural in our neighborhood that depicts the history of this warehouse-laden area.
It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. Read more
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
Never ever, ever, ever, ever park here
Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
Francoise Nielly’s Yellow series
Parisian visual artist Francoise Nielly brings technicolour to the forefront in her latest series, Yellow. Featuring thick impasto palette knife strokes and trippy neon hues, Nielly captures the vulnerable expressions of her muses to a tee. Read more
We love the re-Issue of the original Raised by Wolves and Furni digital watch collaboration, which comes with a built-in phone book, stopwatch, countdown timer and multiple alarm features with melody setting. Read more
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