February 8, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak 
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Chapel Hill-based printmaker Bill Fick makes awesomely grotesque faces and creatures with linocuts, silkscreens, and tempera paint. They have a vintage feel to them, as if the rotted remains ’50s advertising images have risen from the dead. Read more
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February 8, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Sarah Appleboum makes a neon felt and yarn explosion in your face and everywhere, the epicenter of which is in San Francisco. While you’re unconscious from the impact, you will dream of rainbow yetis, shamans, and soft revolvers.
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February 8, 2010 | New Music | 
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Anointed Best New Band of 2009 by Baltimore’s City Paper, Sick Weapons embody basically what’s so great about this town — trash, and good times. They spit out sloppy, warbling, ear-piercing punk that’s more giddy than it is snarling, with frontwoman Ellie Beziat channeling Poly Styrene without being overly conscious of it. With songs like If You Love Me Take Me to the Hospital, The Prettiest Racist in Town, and Orgy on the China Train, it’s apparent these guys have their heads in a lot of unseemly places, but not up their own butts.
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February 6, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
It’s incredible the vintage looks Jeremy Edwards can get using an iPhone and various photo apps. I wonder if they retain their convincing look when they’re blown up.
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February 6, 2010 | New Events | by Gerry Mak |
An anonymous public school teacher known as Mrs. Q, following Morgan Spurlock’s lead, decided to eat every school lunch served to her for the duration of 2010. At the risk of her job, she documents her experience on her blog, which features photographs of the atrocious, shrink-wrapped, processed poison that she and her students are forced to choke down every school day.
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February 6, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Kim Piotrowski’s vaguely representational mixed-media paintings emphasize the process of their creation, with each splatter, smear, drip, and brushstroke as important to the form as the composition and the layering of colors and values. It reminds me of the work of Steven LaRose, who we mentioned a while back. Read more
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February 6, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
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February 6, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
Tampa-based illustrator Justin Bryan Nelson’s obsession with hair, wire, and entangled/woven rope and string yields some pretty eye-catching images.
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February 6, 2010 | New Design | by Gerry Mak |
Snaiad is the the obsessive hobby of a designer going by the name of Nemo Ramjet. Ramjet has, over the course of several years, created an entire alien world with detailed maps, history, and a wonderfully illustrated array of creatures complete with an intricate catalogue and explanation of their morphology and evolution. Read more
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February 6, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Being ashamed of your parents is played out. Just dig up some photos of them from back in the day and see how hot they were in the brand-spankin new clothing that your friends are now wearing third or fourth hand and claiming to be so original. Read more
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February 4, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
I’ve been digging the lonely, dissonant, surf-pop noise wafting out of Jason Boyer’s basement in the form of Nerve City, his solo, home-recording project. It sounds like what should be playing out of a tinny car radio in a David Lynch-inspired nightmare.
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February 2, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Let’s take a road trip, just you and me. We’ll stop at every dive bar and truck stop from here to Minneapolis, and crash on dirty, beer-stained couches in the houses of people we barely know. We’ll wake up every morning, struggling to remember the night before or what city we’re in, and hit the road again. We’ll only have two albums in the car: Slayer’s Reign in Blood and Thriller by UK-based noise-rock trio Part Chimp. Years from now, when we’re settled down in mild-mannered burbs on opposite sides of the country, with our kids and wives and jobs, we’ll look down at the faded tattoos on our arms-dancing hotdogs wearing sunglasses with the words ‘BROS FOREVER’ underneath — and know that we had truly lived.
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February 2, 2010 | New Photography | by Gerry Mak |
Sometimes composed, sometimes candid, Dido Fontana’s flash-heavy photographs seem on the surface to be a pastiche of the quasi-naturalistic style many photographers seem to be working in these days, but the humorous, gritty, and surreal way in which she portrays her subtly deviant subjects has more in common with John Waters’ celebration of trash than Dash Snow’s and Terry Richardson’s smarmy, self-congratulatory hipsterdom. Read more
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February 2, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
The music of Gainesville-based trio Rabbit Punch induces a feeling not unlike riding the moving walkway at O’Hare International Airport, a strange sense of drama emerging from the endlessly repeating neon rainbow overhead. Distant guitar howls and digital bleeps and bloops call out like spirits from a binary forest, while synthesized melodies, the occasional processed vocals, and dirge-like beats add to the sense that something important is imminent.
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February 1, 2010 | New Illustration | by Gerry Mak |
The illustrations and character designs by UK-based artist Alice Duke are completely captivating with their moodiness and wonderfully textured rendering. Her monster designs have more of a storybook quality to them rather than a fanboy fantasy aesthetic, making her work versatile enough to suit both video games and rock posters. Read more
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Brendan Monroe just released a gorgeous monograph though the Parklife Gallery in San Francisco. From what I can tell, this looks to be a pretty thorough, beautiful showcase of Monroe’s work to date. For those of you really looking to splurge there is in fact a special edition of his book as well. This edition comes with an individual intaglio print as well as an accordion fold book published by Monroe all enclosed in a beautiful custom made slip case as a signed and numbered edition of fifty-five.
I love the colour and textures that permeate Brooklyn illustrator Ilana Kohn’s work. A Pratt graduate, Kohn ‘works mainly through combining traditional painting techniques with various manners of collage and occasional digital media’. Read more
In the grand tradition of Funny Exam Answers, comes Passive Aggressive Notes. Read more
The indie, electronic pop duo Plastic Operator paired up whilst studying audio production at London’s Westminster University. In 2004, they released their first three track EP. Their music reminds me of bands like The Fashion, Crystal Castles and Cut Copy.
As a non-coffee drinker, I’m not going to rant about the coffee. I’ve heard, though, that the coffee is damn good. But I am going to talk about something else: food. Oh. My. God. Sydney’s Single Origin cafe have this awesome meatloaf sandwich and a raft of sourdoughs and prosciutto and roast lamb and chevre and chunky steak pies and yogurt with compote and four-cheese toasties and baked beans and … oh! Don’t forget Karlie’s special homemade lemonade! Karlie is always in the house so you know that it doesn’t come from a can and arrives at your table with that sour tang that reminds you of the annual Royal Easter Show. Everything they serve is created ethically and organically. Add the constant grinding aroma of coffee beans wafting through the air and, well, is there any other place to be? [photo by Daniel Boud]
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
Ed Janssen is famed in Melbourne for his jewellery designs, sold through cult Morrissey-friendly label This Charming Man. ‘The Knuckle Sandwich’ charm necklace (two pieces of bread on either side of a tiny set of brass knuckles, as pictured above) exudes an oddly amusing menace. More recently ‘The Bear Trap’ has been dangling from every second neck, wiping out hope for Melbourne’s unsuspecting tiny forest animals. Janssen is about to launch a new range inspired by the iconography of various secret societies. Melburnians can check out their old and new favourites at the first This Charming Man exhibition launching this week at Alice Euphemia’s new store. Flex those tiny knuckles and watch those tiny feet. Read more
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Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
Yum, yum, cupcakes are fun. These creations are so clever, so arty, so damn bizarre that it would almost be a shame to eat them. Almost! Read more
Entre Chien et Loup by Amira Fritz
This fashion photo series — Entre Chien et Loup — is the product of a collaboration between Parisian-based photographer Amira Fritz and Matthew Cunnington and John Sanderson. Read more
Check out Mike Stimpson’s Lego reinterpretations of classic photographs. Stimpson’s version of Malcolm Browne’s iconic 1963 photograph of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc is particularly twisted. Read more
Amazing cake designs by Charm City Cakes
Baltimore company Charm City Cakes produces the most innovative wedding and party cakes on the market. Inspiration for these creative bakers comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, and music, and each cake is individually designed to match your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating. Don’t miss these cakey engineering masterpieces. Read more
From this artist selection of t-shirts comes this Michael Gillette illustrated t-shirt, limited edition and distributed in a vinyl sleeve, with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Each tee is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic cotton. Read more
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