July 2, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
The vision of South Korean design consultancy Heerim Architects, the 35 story Hotel Full Moon is being built in Baku, Azerbaijan, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea.
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July 2, 2009 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
I like the retro colours and subtle detail that permeates the work of Australian illustration and design duo, Benjamin Johnson and Vince Agostino.
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July 2, 2009 | New Products | by Zolton 
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Who said chairs had to be boring? Or practical? This range of chairs from designer brothers, Fernando and Humberto Campana, nicely blurs the line between form and functionality, art and science. Read more
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July 2, 2009 | New Food and Packaging | by Zolton |
When I was a kid, my sandwiches came wrapped rather ingloriously in clear clingwrap, an unappetizing mess of soggy multi-grain bread, lettuce and crookedly sliced tomato. Which is probably why, for five years, I threw the damn things out every day after school into the scrappy garden that grew out the back of my Mum’s apartment. Yes, that garden was a festering mess of moldy sandwiches. If only those school yard sandwiches could have been packaged like these gems. I mightn’t have eaten them, but I would’ve at least kept the cardboard casing. Read more
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July 1, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
In early 2009, Blind Man’s Colour suddenly found themselves the subject of tastemakers attention. Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste said, ‘You guys must hear these guys, love it!’, via Twitter. Which was good enough reason for us to check in and get a Secret Playlist from them. They started their Playlist off with the Lotus Plaza song, What Grows? [listen below] ‘From Lockett’s solo album, The Floodlight Collective, this track is so warm and nostalgic. The melodies and the production couldn’t sound more childish. It’s like an early 90s Sunday sunset’. Read the rest of Blind Man’s Colour’s Secret Playlist.
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June 29, 2009 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
Ok, so this lifetime might be a write-off as far as ever owning a house like this is concerned. But in my next one. Oh yah, give me a slice of that pie. Phlease! This luxurious abode, appropriately nicknamed The Mansion, was built on a 16,000 square foot property in London and designed by the husband and wife team, Anil and Marisa Varma. Read more
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June 29, 2009 | New Photography | by Zolton |
Our friends over at the photography website Feature Shoot have introduced a new weekly themed photos series called Theme Friday, running, you guessed it, every Friday. The first installment? Birds. Read more
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June 27, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
The beautiful, minimalist and slightly irreverent design aesthetic that Barcelona’s Chic & Basic Born Hotel sets up with its stunning interior layout is carried through perfectly into its product packaging, which features cheeky, bold messaging in large, unadorned fonts. Read more
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June 26, 2009 | New Music | by Zolton |
Since bursting onto the scene in 2007, The Bloody Beetroots, otherwise known as Italian producer Bob Rifo, has brought a sense of danger to dance floors. Rifo injects his thunderous grooves with the chaos and larger-than-life persona of late 70s British punk and Oi! The Beetroots’ debut album, Romborama, will be out August 25th on Dim Mak Records. We have the single Butter available for free download via the Music Download section of Lost At E Minor.
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June 26, 2009 | New Music | by Zolton |
We have a Major Lazer prize pack to give away to a randomly selected LAEM subscriber featuring a Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do t-shirt, vinyl and CD. To be in the running, simply be a subscriber and tell us why you want it. Read more
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June 26, 2009 | New Events | by Zolton |
Our friends over at Giant Robot are celebrating their fifteenth year of publishing their print magazine and subsequent expansion into retail shops and art galleries with a group show running at San Francisco’s GRSF until July 15. The exhibition features the work of Lydia Fong (Barry McGee), Kozyndan, Luke Chueh, Saelee Oh, Robert Bellm, Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, and many others.
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June 26, 2009 | New Music | 
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Australian indie-rock band, The Paper Scissors, the hippest thing to come out of the dusty streets of Byron Bay since flavoured wheatgrass, have done it again with another awesome single, Howl [listen below], a short, sharp jab of pitch perfect, power pop. We checked in with their David Byrne-ish frontman Jai Pyne and asked him how was the recording process differed for this latest EP from their previous album: ‘It was completely different. We did the tracking live, with all four of us in the room together. It was great. I think it freed us up and let us be more of a band. We’ve come a long way since we recorded Less Talk More Paper Scissors. Now that Ivan [drummer] has been in the band for about a year and a half, it is a lot easier. We are all very comfortable playing with each other. We’ve been doing it live a lot’. Read more
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June 25, 2009 | Video | 
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There’s just something so enticing about this manga version of the Deee-lite classic, Groove Is In The Heart. Yup, I just want to crawl inside this video and become one with my happy, smiling dancing buddies.
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June 25, 2009 | New Fashion | by Zolton |
Our friends over at Aussie label Das Monk recently released a new range of t shirts, including Rear Window, which features a cool screen print on a hundred percent cotton tee. The artwork is by Das Monk founder, Marc Hendrick. We have the Rear Window tee, and a stack of other Das Monk t shirts, available for purchase for just US$45 through the Lost At E Minor online store.
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June 24, 2009 | New Eco | by Zolton |
Drink enough of this stuff and chances are you’ll feel a little green around the gills. Well, 360 Vodka have beaten you to the punch. They use stylish eco-friendly packaging and then employ an eco-audit to detail the environmental benefits of the packaging. So while it isn’t strictly organic, it is a ‘green’ vodka and as such, a giant, wobbly step in the right direction.
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Fashion photographer Melvin Sokolsky’s works from 1960s are still fresh, timeless and so inspiring. Or should I say that they look newer than what’s out there in fashion photography world now? Ah, the world before Photoshop. Read more
Listening to Mum’s fourth album — Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy — for the first time, I was awash with sentimentalism. Amidst carnival trumpets and burlesque beats, there’s a sense of this being a bohemian rhapsody. Perhaps it’s the mix of cello and brass with experimental electronica. Or maybe it’s just the soft vocals that cascade over playful, imaginative sounds. Whatever it is, it’s totally brilliant. [see also Sigur Ros' Heima]
Listen to Mum’s track, The Amateur Show.
Austin-based photographer William Hundley loves juxtaposing completely absurd and unrelated objects. Whether it’s fabric-draped people in mid jump or chihuahuas and Easter Island heads standing on cheeseburgers, Hundley takes an almost Dadaist joy in making random, giddily puzzling images. Read more
There are few more joys an artist has in life than coming across great resources for inspiration. Lately I’ve been studying typography, the meaning of words, and then something as simple as trying to find all the ‘7 letter words’ I can so that it might fit into my latest musings. Read more
Sparks’ album Kimono My House is a demented mix of hard rock, pop, glam, new wave, and baroque pop. Why this record never caught on in the States I’ll never know. The songs will get stuck in your head and prevent you from sleeping. Oh yeah, and the keyboard player has a nice mustache too, as evidenced by this track above — This Town Ain’t Big Enough.
Nestled in the hills of Napa Valley, Bardessono is the newest creation of eco-developer Phil Sherburne and architect Ron Mitchell. Completed just seven weeks ago, the luxurious inn and spa is currently pursuing Leed certification and includes rammed earth walls, water treatment systems, and solar and geothermal energy systems. The buildings were built to pay homage to the land, and include recycled cypress wood for the windows, doors, and floors. Read more
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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When I was living in China, a friend of mine had an idea to publish a guidebook about the country’s bathrooms because many expats spend the first few months living abroad going through unfortunate, awkward, and nightmarish experiences coping with sanitation issues, squat toilets, and curious locals trying to catch a glimpse of Western junk. WorldToilet.info is a hilarious but very useful resource for travelers wondering what to expect and how to behave in various exotic locals when nature calls.
Japanese designers Keiichi Muramatsu and Noriko Seki founded the Tokyo-based fashion label, Everlasting Sprout, in 2005, based on their mutual interest in knit design. Each intricate creation in their Spring/Summer 2009 range took up to a week for them to construct. Read more
The work of Chicago artist Nigel Evan Dennis is emphatically modern and sparse, with textures and clean geometric shapes dominating the frame. I get the feeling I could really relax and breathe deeply with one of these beautiful images hanging on the wall. Read more
Muraida, Radioactive Green Edition
This wicked new villain, Muraida, from the OSK line is a 10 inch vinyl with six points of articulation. It comes in a combination of solid and clear vinyl, and is packed with more punch than a thousand GI Joe’s.
Design collectives can often be a mess, only bound together by a splash page and a few lines of text. Lie-ins and Tigers are without a doubt one of the most unified collectives and one of my favourites. Sam Kerr, Walter Newton and Russell Weekes may all have their own sites and services, but in collaboration, the humour and design intention remains remarkably unified. Read more
Legendary pop culture artist and Agit Pop founder Ron English will be a guest compiler of an upcoming issue of our email newsletter, writing about his favorite cultural discoveries. To read Ron’s edition of Lost At E Minor, simply sign up to our weekly newsletter. It’s free, you win!
The 6-card Dosh is ideal for the person on the move. Dosh wallets patented designs are moulded in the polymer ‘desmopan’, highly durable, water-resistant material with a luxurious, soft- touch feel. Read more
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