October 22, 2011 | New Events | by Melissa Banigan |
Diana Gilon will be artist-in-residence at MIT from October 21-28 to create Through Our Eyes, a large collaborative painting/mural with students, faculty and members of the greater MIT community. The painting, the first of many that will be executed at schools along the East Coast to promote peace, will highlight themes of coexistence and interfaith collaboration and will represent the common goal of a peaceful future for all communities that struggle with conflict in such places as Israel, Palestine and beyond. Read more
September 21, 2011 | Video | 
by Melissa Banigan |
Trust your local cops? Not according to one law school professor and former criminal defense attorney who gives an entire lecture on why none of us should ever talk to the police. It’s worth a watch.
September 12, 2011 | New Art | by Melissa Banigan |
Stephanie Tichenor’s works in fiber and paint are delightful. In the difficult, often frightening world we live in, it’s a treat to see art concerned with whimsy, light and a genuine love for the everyday. Pay close close attention to Tichenor’s embroideries: they are lovely and blur the line between fine art and craft. Read more
August 2, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Melissa Banigan |
It’s hip to be a nerd, at least in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, home of the awesome Twenty Sided Store. Focusing on board games, Magic: the Gathering, and RPGs, the store hosts gaming nights sure to make your geek toes curl. Read more
August 1, 2011 | New Trends | by Melissa Banigan |
He who giveth can taketh. If that sounds Biblical, that’s because this story is of Biblical proportions. The Vogel family rode their bikes from Alaska to the tip of Argentina to get the world record for youngest people (the ten-year-old Vogel twins) to ride the length of the Americas. Read more
July 23, 2011 | New Fashion | by Melissa Banigan |
I’m loving Cairo Scarves, the new design project from Katie Wright-Buckley and Megan Pflug. Made from 100 percent silk, with an invisible magnetic closure (no more losing your favorite accessory), each scarf is hand-painted with simple, multi-dimensional, one-of-a-kind patterns. Although the company hasn’t officially launched, you purchase your scarf for $150 though Kickstarter.
July 22, 2011 | New Trends | by Melissa Banigan |
If you’re anything like me, then you crave fried foods and beer in the summer. Find a few ways to validate eating unhealthy foods by pairing them not with wine varietals, but with intense sports events. Your bikini (or your mankini?) will thank you! Read more
July 22, 2011 | New Art | by Melissa Banigan |
Embroidery sets me aflutter, especially when the medium mixes craft with fine art. I particularly love Anna Hendrick’s work, where whimsical thread drawings meets references to pop culture and cult classics. Read more
July 21, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Melissa Banigan |
While in China, make sure to stop at the Apple Store in Kunming, China, where you’ll be welcomed by smiling employees in blue shirts with Apple logos. But wait, before you buy, please take note: Kunming doesn’t have an Apple store! Strange, because not even the employees realize they’re part of a scam. I wouldn’t want to be the one to tell them they’re not part of the Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
July 19, 2011 | New Events | by Melissa Banigan |
‘It’s Sarah Silverman meets the Shaggs’, writes the LA Times. Past performers on Comedy Central, The Apple Sisters have won a mess of awards for best musical comedy act. Read more
August 27, 2010 | New Music | 
by Melissa Banigan |
Surf punk, Theremins, NASA costumes, flaming instruments, video displays and … Tesla? Indeed. The members of Man or Astroman? arrived from their own musical solar system. Seeing is believing. Check them out during their next American East Coast tour in early November.
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March 4, 2010 | New Music | by Melissa Banigan |
The best new music I’ve heard recently is coming out of the East Coast. The band Full On is fronted by Shana Falana, who has been part of the music scene for the past decade, with a voice that is both gorgeous and tough. She’ll grab you and pull you in. Rawk on!
February 17, 2010 | New Events | by Melissa Banigan |
I’ve contributed to Lost At E Minor about the events of others, but I’m now shamelessly self-promoting a little contest I call Write for a Rat. The rules? Share your favorite rat story (as in vermin, not jerks) as a comment on Brooklyn Reject for a chance to win one of my embroidered canvases, ‘Rat With Wings’. I mean, c’mon, folks! Who out there doesn’t want that on his/her wall?! Hurry, as the contest ends February 28th.
February 8, 2010 | New Events | by Melissa Banigan |
Anyone who has seen my art knows about how endlessly inspired I am by macabre, Victorian art, and writing. Well, pass the smelling salts as the recently-opened Victorian Photocollage exhibition at the Met in New York makes me swoon. 48 works from 1850-1860 combine animal heads with human bodies (my favorites), or depict fantastical landscapes and other curiosities. Made primarily by aristocratic women to be shared amongst friends, the photocollages shed a unique perspective on how even the stuffiest members of society are able to express their creativity.
February 3, 2010 | New Events | by Melissa Banigan |
Kimberly Dawn Recordings, an artist-run micro-label out of Tennessee, designed the artwork for an EP off Endless Endless Endless’ self-released album, Black Talisman. For just $4, you get to own a numbered CDR (edition of fifty hand-stamped, with an attached laser etched talisman) and listen to the dreamy, ‘post-noise’ music comprised of guitars, vocals, and a Gameboy. Read more
Sung Yeonju graduated from the Hong Ik University in 2010. This work is from the series, Wearable Foods, in which she makes garments out of food and photographs them. The garment above was made from bubble gum, the photos below are outfits made from winter mushroom and tomato. Read more
So we’ve downloaded the New York Times, Yammer, Hootsuite, Skype, and the Lost At E Minor iPhone apps. What’s next? Oh, right, one of these apps would be handy. Memo developers: get cracking! Read more
God save the Queen. Oh, and Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones and Paul Cook too. Read more
Of all the weird places the world has to offer, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia has to be one of the coolest. Literally. At 3,700m above sea level, it’s the biggest and highest salt flat in the world, where after dark, temperatures can drop to minus 40 degrees celsius. The best way to explore the salt flat is to hire a 4WD and driver from the Uyuni township. En route, you can even stay at a Salt Hotel, where everything is, quite literally, made from salt: the chairs, beds, tables and even the walls. There’s no heating and the beds aren’t exactly ‘plush’, but it’s worth every salty second. Read more
As his nation engages in a perpetual military stand-off with South Korea, Kim Jong-Il always takes time out to look at stuff. Just to make sure. Read more
Japanese artist Toshiya Tsunoda’s field recordings will blow your mind without blowing your eardrums. By placing sensitive microphones inside empty objects, such as bottles and hollow logs, he captures vibrations inaudible to the human ear. Layers of these sounds are artfully cut and composed to produce brute, mesmerising work that challenges our perception of music. Read more
Now this is fun. This 3D watch dial actually jumps to life. The dial is a modern version of the 19th century art form of lithophanes: carved porcelain sheets that, when lit, deliver astoundingly detailed images. When the pusher is activated, the dial springs to life in 3D, with an LED light and afterglow effect.
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Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
The return of the Brionvega rr226
Italian brand Brionvega has resurrected the classy Radiofonografio piece first created in 1965. The updated version is just like the original turntable/radio unit, but also has a CD/DVD player.
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
How ’bout this Jose Manuel Hortelano-Pi guy, huh? Quite the illustrator, yessiree Bob. From Spain, too. Spain is great! Read more
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
The Illuminated Sea Cookie Pin by Stephanie Simek mixes underwater wonders and light to add a little sparkle to your wardrobe. The sea cookie, a member of the sand dollar family, is back lit by a white LED. When turned on, the light illuminates all of the creature’s natural patterns and intricacies. Read more
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