February 10, 2012 | New Illustration | by Nini Baseema |
Mark Powell from London uses a standard big biro pen to draw amazing portraits of elderly people on the backs of old envelopes. His works are as evocative as his canvas is unusual. Regardless, the results of his creative efforts are amazing. Read more
January 31, 2012 | New Trends | 
by Nini Baseema |
Breakdance and skateboarding are from yesteryear: Hockern is the new trend sport on the streets these days. The origins of Hockern can be traced back to the German coast city of Kiel, where people with too much time on their hands and not much interest in breaking their bones invented a few tricks that have since spread around the world. Hockern loosely translates into ‘stooling’, although the more appropriate expression for it would be ‘extreme sitting’. The actual activitiy can be described as simply as this: ‘Just grab a stool and rock it like a hockstar!’
January 30, 2012 | New Art | by Nini Baseema 
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Keira Rathbone is a London-based artist with a particular prediliction for typewriters. She enjoys traveling the world, collecting different typerwiters, and ‘typing pictures’ of people and places along the way. The result is as unique as it is marvelous. Read more
January 25, 2012 | New Art | by Nini Baseema |
Nancy Fouts has made it her goal to combine every day items in an evocative way. Somehow her creations seem to blend in and only at second glance you realize what’s strange about them. I am a particular big fan of her purse with teeth and the sewing machine record player. Read more
January 25, 2012 | New Photography | by Nini Baseema |
Whether it be underwater photographs or macroscopic pictures of insects running over a human’s face, Neil Craver, aka Photon Organon, always manages to give his works a haunting feel. The talented photographer from North Carolina originally started out as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor. Read more
January 23, 2012 | New Music | 
by Nini Baseema |
Do you know the feeling you get when you listen to a song for the first time and your heart swells immediately and all you can think is that you have just encountered something timelessly beautiful? Read more
January 3, 2012 | New Art | by Nini Baseema |
Tony Cragg is an artist from the UK. He uses all kinds of materials to create unique, organic sculptures. His dice sculptures are particularly fascinating. Read more
December 6, 2011 | New Art | by Nini Baseema |
Chan Hween Chong, an art director based in Germany, has redrawn some of the world’s most famous portraits. What’s special about it, though, is that he managed to do so with a black marker drawing one giant outward spiral. An amazing accomplishment, especially considering the fact that one single error means that the entire portrait is ruined.
December 6, 2011 | New Art | by Nini Baseema |
Jim Denevan makes temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. It reminds me a bit on the mandalas that buddhist monks draw in the sand and which are also erased. There is something eternally touching about beauty and transience. Read more
December 6, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Nini Baseema |
Dear nerds, this is the website you’ve been waiting for. Nerdboyfriend, and as of a few days ago, Nerdgirlfriend, too, have thoroughly researched images of nerds from all around the world (vintage and new) and connect them with links to existing shops where you can buy the clothes worn in the photos. The result: a most impressive collection of hilarious outfits and their sources. Read more
December 6, 2011 | New Photography | by Nini Baseema |
One of the most pronounced political topics in the past few months has been the economic crisis, and with it, the rising of a new capitalist criticism movement. A photo that highlights the subject perfectly is this shot taken by Gavin Hammond, a lomo photographer from London. Read more
December 6, 2011 | New Art | by Nini Baseema |
This is the kind of art that would drive my dad insane. Scott Wade uses filthy windscreens as a canvas and draws the most amazing paintings on them. Fantastic! I knew there must be a benefit in never getting your car washed. Read more
December 3, 2011 | New Trends | by Nini Baseema |
Grandmas know it all! That’s how it is and how it always has been. I am not sure, though, if my own grandma could give me such supreme social media advice as Chacho Puebla’s does. What a captivating idea for a photography meets typography art series. Read more
November 19, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Nini Baseema |
Men wearing red pants: depending on your personal preference, it could be considered a highly individual statement or a severe fashion crime. Look At My Fucking Red Trousers has made it their life’s ambition to gather evidence for the existence of a color fad that’s currently going round London. I say, it’s not what you wear but how you carry yourself that makes the difference. Funny blog idea, though. Read more
November 17, 2011 | New Illustration | by Nini Baseema |
I have always had a thing for beautiful collage art. I just like how two or more different motifs can form together something completely new that stands for itself. CARO.MA seems to be an expert in fusing interesting different elements – her tumblr at least indicates so as it is full of little treasures. I am very tempted to buy all of her postcards and plaster my kitchen with them. Read more
Sam Wolfe Connelly has a great illustrative style that has some graphic novel influences, but doesn’t seem overly rooted in any particular genre. He also manages to breath new life into cliched imagery when he hasn’t avoided cliches altogether.
What will they stink of next? A chain of supermarkets in Brooklyn and Staten Island have began a radical experiment to pump the aromas of Lindt Chocolate and Smoky Bacon, among other flavours, into the air as a way to encourage mouth buds to start watering. And it seems to be working. Fruit sales are up 8 percent.
The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project involved fourteen countries around the world filling crates with the best of their local nightlife and exchanging their country’s crate with another. We were there all the way, following Australia’s involvement. And the final stage, with Brazil and Australia swapping crates, was a beauty! As this video attests.
Here’s another commercial building, and no doubt a nice one too. But just another commercial building. Yet there is something different here and it’s in the materials used. The cladding is a fibre-reinforced polymer, or a FRP, and has a finish similar to that of a car. Read more
Law-abiding citizens by day, voracious visual junkies by night, the3some is a trio of superheroes who go all out to slug it out with the monotony manifesting their lives. The3some seeks collaborations with like-minded people and together, they strive to bust boredom. As you are reading this, the relentless battle continues.
French duo Trop Tard make straight-faced, Suicide-esque, synth-and-guitar electro tunes that sound like dark rituals performed in the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. Repetitive, bleak, and cold, this is dance music for the shambling undead.
Wow, these rings by Yasushi Jona, intriguingly designed and rusted and corroded to look as if they were found on the sea floor, are really gorgeous. Read more
WE'RE POSTING / SOME OF THE BEST
Here are a couple awesome pieces by Matt Leines that were recently on display in the Doubting Thomases exhibit at Nudashank gallery in Baltimore. Gives me ideas for Halloween. Read more
It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. 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
Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
Christoph Niemann illustrates a nightmare flight
New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin. Read more
Danot has created a stunning line of new illustrated tanks and tees, featuring our latest obsession, the Forlorn tanktop. Is it a bird? Or a face? Or all of the above? Dive into this graphic and decide for yourself. While you’re there, check out the other great new Danot pieces in the Lost At E Minor store
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