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May 13, 2008 | Websites | by Gerry Mak |

Black metal and baking don’t usually go together, unless you’re talking about baked brains. The Black Oven, however, is a blog of cookie, cupcake, and brownie recipes, none of which require blood, animal sacrifices, or pledging allegiance to Satan. Read more

May 12, 2008 | Products | by Gerry Mak |

Man, going green is so hip these days, even Hello Kitty is getting in on the action. Read more

May 12, 2008 | Video | by Gerry Mak |

Animator Mathieu Labaye created this short film in tribute to his late father, who had been in a wheelchair for the last 15 years of his life. Read more

May 11, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

Two centuries before Gunther von Hagens started plasticizing cadavers, Clemente Susini was making wax replicas of body parts and structures. Read more

May 11, 2008 | Music | by Gerry Mak |

The Weight are a Brooklyn-based quintet that makes sincere-sounding Waylon Jennings-David Allen Coe inspired outlaw country and Creedence-Skynyrd-tinged Southern rock. Read more

May 9, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

New Jersey-based artist Dave Devries takes children’s drawings and re-renders them as amazing, surreal paintings of monsters and superheroes. If this doesn’t make you go squee, you have no heart. Read more

May 7, 2008 | Websites | by Gerry Mak |

With the dollar so weak, and global markets in such flux, it’s tough to know how to budget yourself when traveling. Read more

May 5, 2008 | Music | by Gerry Mak |

Despite their jarring name, British noise duo Fuck Buttons are surprisingly palatable. Read more

May 5, 2008 | Products | by Gerry Mak |

You’ve got the black candles in an antique chandelier, the inverted crucifix hanging on the wall, velvet curtains blocking out all light, but something is still missing. Oh, a couch made out of a coffin. Duh.

May 5, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

If stuffed animal mods seem a bit cliched to you, or if you just love seeing things go boom, Marc Chiat’s fun little flash videos on the Rebecca Container Gallery website should make you giddy as a school girl.

May 3, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

In Nina’s Uninvited Collaborations, she has ‘renovated’ mushrooms using bicycle tire repair kits, spelled out words using living caterpillars, and repaired broken spider webs she found around her house using red thread. Read more

May 3, 2008 | Websites | by Gerry Mak |

Somehow, meme-based blogs never lose their charm. Maybe because they’re just so stupid. The FAIL blog is simply a catalog of the funniest FAIL images on the web.

April 30, 2008 | Websites | by Gerry Mak |

Here’s another variation on that sled widget everyone was obsessed with a while back. Read more

April 29, 2008 | Trends | by Gerry Mak |

A Dutch insurance company recently launched a pretty creative ad campaign that was put on the backs of buses in Amsterdam, making them look like they were actually moving backwards.

April 29, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

Joe Coleman’s paintings are a feverish cross between Ivan Albright-inspired grotesqueness and R. Crumb-like pop-social critique. Read more

 

Laura Veirs is one of my favorite songwriters. I can’t think of a single song of her’s that I haven’t loved instantly, and continue to wear out on my inner-ear iPod. I interviewed her recently, a few nights after I saw her awesome set at New York’s Gramercy Theatre. Read more

These very sweet folks from Seattle supported Broken Social Scene on our last American dates of the Spirit IF tour. Although they haven’t quite hit their stride as a live outfit, the tunes from songwriter Grant Olsen have some very lovely moments that fall somewhere between Velvet Underground and The Everly Brothers. I think Arthur and Yu could take over from where Grandaddy left off, though with better songs. No offense to Grandaddy.

Man, I remember shaking my tail to Come on Eileen many moons ago — when rat-tails were a right of passage and Molly Ringwald held both the lock and the key to my tiny pitter pattering heart. Back then it was all ice-skating and fairy floss; skateboards and trading cards. It was bags of chips by the rusty school fence and sunburnt faces on crackling summer days. Read more

Each room in Copenhagen’s Hotel Fox is an individual piece of art. 21 international artists descended on the hotel to turn each of the 61 rooms into a unique space, featuring creative artwork ranging from Japanese manga to fluid graphic design. Read more

I’m enjoying reading the insight and witticisms of the Indie Breakfast Club blog, which casts a wide net over entrepreneurship and what it means to be one and still have a conscience.

‘Lost’ is the most recent film production in the urban art series produced by Tokyo-based art crew Rinpa Eshidan. Read more

Rick Owen’s spring collection uses monochrome patterns to create a classic and chic silhouette. The layering, and oversized look, is perfectly tailored: big around the neck and tighter in the leg. Read more


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The Hyena Men of Abuja

What do you call a group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys, and a few rock pythons? Read more

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Meow Cottage, Franklin, Tennessee

Draped in a charming rustic veneer, the Meow Cottage at the Old Marshall House in Franklin, Tennessee, is a self-contained cottage situated on the grounds of a sprawling — and quite beautiful — B&B. Read more

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Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner are the Melbourne-based designers behind T-V’s boutique label. Read more

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New Buffalo

Things are happening almost too quickly for Sally Seltmann, the bashful Melbourne balladeer who plays under the guise of New Buffalo and who wrote Feist’s 2007 hit single, 1,2,3,4. Read more

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Carla Tennenbaum

Brazilian artist Carla Tennenbaum has come up with some pretty awesome decorative pieces made completely out of discarded EVA foam, the non-biodegradable stuff usually used to pad sports equipment. Read more

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