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Art / Dave Devries

May 9, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

New Jersey-based artist Dave Devries takes children’s drawings and re-renders them as amazing, surreal paintings of monsters and superheroes. If this doesn’t make you go squee, you have no heart. Read more

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Art / Joy Kampia

May 9, 2008 | Art | by Kate Barnett |

Generally, if I’m eating a burger, some of it will spill down the front of my white t-shirt. It’s the law of physics. White t-shirts and ketchup attract each other. Read more

May 8, 2008 | Art | by Zolton |

The richly coloured portrait work of atist and designer Tabitha Bianca Brown is infused with tinges of ‘retro, pop, funk’. As she says, ‘that’s my art in a nutshell’. And so it is.

May 8, 2008 | Art | by Zolton |

Bernardo Bento is a 24 year-old Brazilian artist and designer whose work is bold and vibrant, colourful echoes of another time and place. Read more

May 6, 2008 | Art | by Kate Barnett |

Antonio de Pascale is somewhat of a modern pop artist. He recreates familiar supermarket packaging with highly detailed illustrative narratives. Read more

May 5, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

If stuffed animal mods seem a bit cliched to you, or if you just love seeing things go boom, Marc Chiat’s fun little flash videos on the Rebecca Container Gallery website should make you giddy as a school girl.

May 3, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

In Nina’s Uninvited Collaborations, she has ‘renovated’ mushrooms using bicycle tire repair kits, spelled out words using living caterpillars, and repaired broken spider webs she found around her house using red thread. Read more

May 2, 2008 | Art | by Yuko Shimizu |

Sounds like a museum for grandma? Sorry, you’re wrong. The quiet neighbor of superstar MOMA, the American Folk Art Museum in New York in fact has lots of really cool, contemporary and edgy shows, sometimes even more so than the MOMA itself. Read more

April 30, 2008 | Art | by Yuko Shimizu |

My friend, the extremely talented artist Aya Kakeda, is launching a solo show of her new works at Metropolis Gallery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on May 2. Read more

joe coleman

Art / Joe Coleman

April 29, 2008 | Art | by Gerry Mak |

Joe Coleman’s paintings are a feverish cross between Ivan Albright-inspired grotesqueness and R. Crumb-like pop-social critique. Read more

April 26, 2008 | Art | by Zolton |

The Subliminal Projects space in Echo Park, Los Angeles is launching an exhibition of works on May 17 by Californian artists Dee Dee Cheriel [above and below] and Louise Bonnet. Read more

April 24, 2008 | Art | by Zolton |

I like the offbeat quirkiness of Janet Karem’s artwork. She is an expressive painter whose main area of interest is in ‘playful abstract cityscapes’. Read more

jenn porreca

Art / Jenn Porreca

April 23, 2008 | Art | by Zolton |

Californian-based artist and Lost At E Minor contributor, Jenn Porreca, has an exhibition of works showing at Distinction Gallery, in Escondido kicking off on May 10th. Read more

Robin Rhode

Art / Robin Rhode

April 23, 2008 | Art | by Tracey Samuelson |

There’s a lot I could say about South African artist Robin Rhode, whose work is currently part of Street Level, a traveling group exhibition now at the ICA, Boston. Read more

April 18, 2008 | Art | by Zolton |

There’s an unsettling but entirely captivating bent to the sculptures and illustration work of David Mitchell, a recipient of the Andy Warhol foundation grant. Read more

 

We featured red hot Brooklyn band Yeasayer on Lost At E Minor a few months back, so we thought it was time we checked in with keyboardist-sampler, Chris Keating. Read more

I tossed and turned through three chapters of an epic Russian novel last night. Or so it felt as a constant stream of characters made their way past the stringent casting couch and into the deepest reaches of my dreams. Read more

This water theatre by the British architect, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw of Grimshaw Architects, takes the form of a vertical seawater greenhouse, with the evaporators and condensers stacked vertically to maximise yield. The structure is not only a visible engine of sustainability but is also a large theatre auditorium. Read more

Against Me! put out an awesome album called New Wave last year. It was produced by Butch Vig, who did Nirvana’s Nevermind, and is just brilliant. I fell in love with it when it came out, and covered the whole album, beginning to end, putting it up for free on my website and Myspace page. It was a tribute. It’s so important for me to stay connected to the part of me that is just a music fan.

The very talented Jess Snow, the first video artist to be featured by Female Persuasion — the original site for provocative and political female artists — has created this ethereal short video for Lost At E Minor. We feel it. We love it. [see also the promo video Lifelongfriendshipsociety created for us]

Cheap Monday are arguably one of the biggest revolutions in denim since Levi’s. They’re pretty much the uniform second skin for the music totin’, cons scuffin’ youth of today. Read more


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George Lois is the god of good ideas, or at least one of them. When I am stuck on ideas, I pray to George the God, or look through his works in hope of doing something one hundredth as good as his work. Read more

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Ben Sollee

Cellist Ben Sollee is like Andrew Bird with a little more soul, or Arthur Russell with a bit more bounce. Read more

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T-V

Monika Tywanek and Ingrid Verner are the Melbourne-based designers behind T-V’s boutique label. Read more

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William Fitzsimmons

His name echoes those of colonels and soldiers who fought in the American civil war. But far from that, William Fitzsimmons is actually an obscure songwriter from Jackson, Illinois. Read more

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Midlake

We’re big fans of Texas-based group, Midlake, whose melodic indie-rock is deliciously produced. We interviewed guitarist Eric Pulido. Read more

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Brigitte Sire

We are constantly surrounded by photography, but do we ever really stop to look? To be honest, I never paid much attention in the past. But I’ve now turned over a new leaf, and my ignorance has turned to obsession. Read more

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For the rest of this week, we have eight copies of the Anton Corbijn directed DVD, Control — the story of UK band, Joy Division — to give away to randomly selected new Australian-based Lost At E Minor subscribers. Read more

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