March 31, 2011 | Fresh 15 | 
by Stephanie Yazbek |
Stirring up indie, electronic, rock and ambient genres, is the striking enigmatic sounds of Sydney-based band, Sooners. With influences including Low, Toe, and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Sooners will soon be releasing their double single on 7” vinyl. How about that!
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February 18, 2011 | New Fashion | by Stephanie Yazbek |
With designs that will transform any woman into a goddess, Australian fashion designer Camilla Franks creates spectacular garments combining bold colours and wild animal prints with a soft free-flowing aesthetic. Franks’ collections are especially versatile, from casual playsuits to her iconic kaftans. Read more
February 17, 2011 | New Design | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Ever seen a beard you can’t trust? Yes, me too. Well, here’s a witty Beard Chart visualisation that can be used as a guideline to help us all out.
February 5, 2011 | New Events | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Premiering her fourth solo exhibition, I Dream in Celluloid, Australian artist Sarah Beetson’s work presents the strange and beautiful world of lucid dreaming. With images inspired by Beetson’s dreams and memories, the exhibition will feature everything from hand-painted quilt to a stop-motion animation of her completing one of her works. Beetson’s fantastical show will start on the Gold Coast on February 19, with ten percent of all opening night sales being donated to The Queensland Flood Appeal. Read more
February 5, 2011 | New Film | 
by Stephanie Yazbek |
AFI Award-winning film journalist and BFI-winning director Julian Shaw, is a young and highly accomplished talent whose passion for film motivated his first award-winning documentary, Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story, at just sixteen years of age. Shaw delivers profound intelligence and maturity through his work, currently working on his documentary, Cup Of Dreams, Shaw exposes the heart of a nation through exploration of New Zealand’s team, the All Blacks, in the build-up to the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
January 21, 2011 | Video | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Every asked the question ‘Will it Blend?’ No? Well, you will now! Starting as a series of infomercials that have now turned viral on YouTube, the Will it Blend? videos consist of Blendtec founder Tom Dickson attempting to blend items, whether it be golf clubs, an iPad or a Wii remote.
November 19, 2010 | New Fashion | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Created by New York designer Rochelle Goldberg, Ralph and Duchess jewellery pieces look as though they’ve been discovered from the Victorian era. As Goldberg’s collections have a sense of history coupled with a nature theme, each piece uses materials like pearls, gems, silver, bronze and gold vermeil.
November 19, 2010 | Video | by Stephanie Yazbek |
After his claim to fame in the comedy film The Hangover, comedian Zach Galifianakis’ has sparked an underground following with his own series, Between Two Ferns, for the Will Farrell production company, Funny or Die. In these skits, Galifianakis inappropriately interviews celebrity pals, creating awkwardness through his bizarre interview questions where he almost directly insults them, letting us see Zachs’s comedy skills at its best as well as seeing famous celebrities like Sean Penn, Bruce Willis and Steve Carrell poke fun at themselves.
November 19, 2010 | New Design | by Stephanie Yazbek 
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Korean designer Jaebeom Jeong has got the idea. Jeong fulfils every drunken person’s dream (who’s ever ridden a shopping cart home) by turning a cart into a bicycle.
October 28, 2010 | New Illustration | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Thrilled by her gorgeous illustrations, we caught up with Australian illustrator Bindi Booth to gain an insight into the colourful world of such a wonderful young talent. Read more
August 19, 2010 | New Fashion | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Affordable diamonds no longer has to be an oxymoron. Myia Bonner’s innovative jewellery collection takes the diamond as an icon and represents it in new form, carrying the rarity and glitz of the real deal with a disarmingly fresh approach. Read more
July 27, 2010 | New Illustration | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Los Angeles-based illustrator Melissa Kojima has recently completed a new series of artwork perfectly described in its title, Lost In LA LA Land. Kojima’s creations are fantastical, as she blends acrylic paint, India ink and collage to create a dreamy, wild and wonderful world. Read more
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July 22, 2010 | New Art | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Jessica Kease, who goes by the alias 23rdkey, is an Australian stencil artist who understands the definitions of detail and layering. As a stencil art myself, I respect the intricacy that goes into the construction of stencils and 23rdkey blows my mind with her complex designs. She has featured in Deviant Art for her piece Grind On My Face, a stencil of her flattened face on a skate deck. Read more
July 21, 2010 | New Events | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Providing high concept lifestyle products across the mediums of art, music, film, design, urban culture and high fashion, Cipher is drawing focus to Hong Kong’s culture through their project Big City, Bright Lights. The project involves a mix-tape featuring ten Hong Kong artists, producing ten tracks, lasting ten minutes. The intention is to exhibit ‘the contrast, the inspiration and the diversity that exists in this dynamic city’. Read more
July 20, 2010 | New Music | by Stephanie Yazbek |
Releasing their second album, Unwritten, The Artificial Sea is a collaboration between two impressive American artists, Kevin C. Smith and Alina Simone. With this collaboration comes a sense of old unified with new, where the meshing of jazz, electronic and pop is as seductive as it is captivating. The artists have constructed a delicately deep story through ambient soundscapes, haunting vocals and the resonance of beautiful string instruments.
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Of his photo series — Tales From The island — New York photographer Jiri Makovec says: ‘Within the city’s rigid grid, moments of mystery and terror unveil, and are captured as a series of encounters and events. Whether the viewer is facing truth or fiction, this body of work shows the photographers’ relationship to the city’. Read more
Alexander Harding’s photos explore the shapes, moods, and properties of light as it reflects in mirrors, is made visible by dust and mist, or even as the artist himself traces with paint the ephemeral forms it leaves.
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
This is a friend of mines’ blog. Her name is Nirrimi. She takes really amazing photos, and she makes great little films, too. I did the music score for one a while back. Her blog is like a novel that just plays out slowly but happens in real life. Well worth reading if you’re into photography and good, honest writing. Read more
The new Antony and the Johnsons album, The Crying Light, is the band’s follow up to the Mercury prize winning I Am a Bird Now. The album is available for instant digital download — along with a bonus track, My Lord, My Love — if you pre-order it from the band’s website as of today. This gives you a chance to hear the album in full before the official release date on January 19th. We have their track, Another World [listen below], available for free download in the Music Downloads section in the third column of the Lost At E Minor site.
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Swedish designer Paula Hagerskans has a cool masculine-edge to her female fashion lines. But it’s her attention to detail that really blows my mind. Her perfectly tailored jackets, along with her flat dress shoes, make dressing up fun, comfortable and classy. When asked what she keeps in mind while designing, Hagerskans responds, ‘Bohemic music lovers, humor, graphic design and the female body’.
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