November 8, 2011 | Video | 
by Daniel Schwarz |
This is a personal documentation about Apparat’s new album, The Devil’s Walk, and follows his change from electronic to more instrumental sounds.
November 8, 2011 | New Trends | by Daniel Schwarz |
The Guardian series The Artists’ Artist featured street artists last week and let them nominate their favorite living artist in their field. Featured artists include Blek Le Rat, Aiko, Sickboy, The Faile collective and Swoon.
November 7, 2011 | New Trends | by Daniel Schwarz |
An amazing collaboration between the visuals artists Abstract Birds and Quayola. Partitura is a software to visualize sound in realtime. You can see the whole progress of the project here. Featured musicians are JamieXX, Telefon Tel Aviv, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Basavizi and Novi Sad.
November 6, 2011 | New Music | by Daniel Schwarz |
This is an incredibly beautiful improvisation by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm during one of Ólafur’s concerts. Mind-blowing.
November 6, 2011 | New Design | by Daniel Schwarz |
During a travel around Thailand and lots of card playing, Berlin-based designer Monja Gentschow decided to give the usual playing cards a new coat and designed the most beautiful deck ever. Read more
November 6, 2011 | Video | by Daniel Schwarz |
Mapped and non-mapped audio-reactive projections on paper sculptures to the music of Amon Tobin. A journey through a dystopic landscape.
November 6, 2011 | New Trends | by Daniel Schwarz |
For all the ‘Machotaildrop’ lovers: Che-Wei Wang and David Penuela developed the Apesnake photobooth. Built in openFrameworks and using Kyle McDonald’s FaceOSC, the software detects when people match their face to the manwolf’s expression and triggers a Canon 1000D to shoot a photo. Funny faces guaranteed. Beware of Manwolves. Read more
The New York Times has just run an interesting article about artist Jorge Colombo, who created this week’s cover for The New Yorker magazine exclusively using the iPhone application Brushes: ‘Absolutely nobody can tell I am drawing’. Colombo told the Times. ‘In fact, once I was doing the drawing at some place, and my wife was around, and they asked her why did I have to work so hard? I seemed to be always on my iPhone sending messages’. Read more
Our friends over at College Humor, led by by imitable Caldwell Tanner, have created the ultimate Ikea-styled guide to assembling practically everything, including, err, one of us. A little human. Ah ha, so that’s how it works! Thank you diagram. Goodbye stork. Read more
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
From the cutting rooms of Dior through to the backstages of the Babyshambles, and even These New Puritans, it seems former Dior designer Hedi Slimane has seen it all. But his newly published photography concept book — Rock Diary — leaves me asking many questions about the symbiosis of fashion and music, especially the glorification of renowned drug addict Pete Doherty. Read more
Curxes (pronounced ‘curses’) are one of the most exciting new bands you’ll hear all year. Roberta Fidora and Macaulay Hopwood make music that will suck you in, invade your brain, and make you lose sense of time. Their music is somewhere between Depeche Mode and Crystal Castles.
Who wants to rock a boring ‘ol black leggings when you can wear the international funk of Yarimaki’s Stars and Stripes Leggings. Made of 100 percent polyester, this patriotic pink, black and white pant has a smiley face and a star and stripe print throughout. Read more
We have a Contribute Section through which you can post onto LAEM under your name about your favourite pop culture discoveries. So help spread the good word about those talented peeps doing talented things. They win. You win. We win!
Vaughn de Heart has tees down to a T: keep them simple, keep them sharp, and let the graphics send a message, literally, by stating a message. Vaughn de Heart tees feature brief statements like ‘heart’ or ‘the courageous ones’ (in French, which totally ups the sexy quotient). The sporty elegance of these pieces make them wardrobe staples. Check out assorted Vaughn de Heart shirts in the Lost At E Minor online store. Read more
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