New Events
New Events / Blippy: tracking real time online spending
March 6, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton 
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The idea behind Blippy is to use the public blackboard that is the burgeoning social media environment to monitor what your friends, and their friends, are spending their hard-earned money on. The Twitter-based platform encourages its members to upload their credit card details so that their online purchases are displayed in real time for all the world — or at least a voyeuristic few — to see.
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New Events / Choice Eats, New York
February 27, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
We’re looking forward to the upcoming Choice Eats event in New York, set amid the backdrop of the historic 69th Armory on Lexington Avenue. Presented by The Village Voice, the event will feature 50 plus restaurants and food from more than 35 nations, including Italian, Vietnamese, Uzbekistani, Brazilian, Russian, and Tunisian, many of which have been hand-selected by the Voice’s resident food critics, Robert Sietsema and Sarah DiGregorio. It all takes place on Monday March 22 between 6:30 – 9:30 pm.
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New Events / Eternal Moonwalk
February 26, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
Wacko Jacko may be long gone, but his signature move lives on. The creation of Belgian-based radio station, Studio Brussel, the Eternal Moonwalk website is a tribute to that graceful slide where people can send in a ten-second clip of themselves Moonwalking wherever they happen to be. The site rotates the clips in an endless loop, generating a perpetual, global Moonwalk. As MJ himself would squeal, ‘ooh yeah’.
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New Events / Besh o droM tour Australia
February 23, 2010 | New Events | 
by Xavier Toby |
‘Most bands that play traditional music, do it in a traditional way. What’s interesting for us it to keep it fresh and make it a living tradition,’ said Gergely Barcza of Hungarian gypsy-fusion band Besh o droM. Formed in Budapest in 1999, the name translates as ‘ride the road’, which they’ve done with performances at festivals all over Europe, Asia and soon for the first time, in Australia. ‘When we started, I never thought the music would travel so far, and take us all to so many different places.’ Read more
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New Events / Rhett Dashwood’s video for Cheap Pop Song
February 23, 2010 | New Events | 
by Zolton |
Director Rhett Dashwood created this clever video for the catchy Kumisolo track, Cheap Pop Song. How much fun can two fingers have?
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New Events / WOMADelaide
February 19, 2010 | New Events | by Xavier Toby |
More than 500 artists, with 56 bands from 27 countries over four days. That’s WOMADelaide, the annual world music festival held in Adelaide’s botanical gardens over the Labour day long weekend, this year from Friday March 5 to Monday March 8. Read more
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New Events / Impala Gallery’s We Ride No Brakes Too!
February 19, 2010 | New Events | by Dave Mata |
After several years of curating art work at events and bars around town, myself and a few friends decided to get a space of our own. Although our first opening isn’t until this coming weekend, we allowed Ben at RVCA to host an event in our gallery. This is a video from the night featuring the work of Charlie Megna, Jake Gillispie, and Matt Jorgenson. Also featured is local rock outfit The Infected.
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New Events / Nonhorse
February 17, 2010 | New Events | by Gerry Mak |
G. Lucas Crane aka Nonhorse made some sweet noise in my living room the other night using a DJ mixer rigged with tape decks instead of turntables. Selecting from a hastily dumped pile of cassette tapes on the floor, he poked and prodded his gear to warp, repeat, and distort various audio snippets as he chanted and howled into a headset microphone. The warbled, broken sounds emanating from his floor setup summoned thrift-store ghosts and analog demons from the netherworld of discarded history.
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New Events / Write For Rat
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.
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New Events / Great Star Wars Lego scenes
February 13, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
Photographer Mike Stimpson’s Star Wars Lego shoot throws some interesting left-field plot twists into the age old series. Read more
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New Events / DIY glass heart for Valentine’s Day
February 11, 2010 | New Events | by Gerry Mak |
Zest Gallery in London is offering glass-blowing classes to make glass hearts just in time for Valentine’s Day. A couples course will take place on the 13th, but if you’re hoping to surprise your honey, Zest opens its doors on the 11th for those blowing solo.
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New Events / I Am A Stuffed Animal personal dolls
February 9, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
For the most narcissistic person in your life comes these personalised plush dolls from I Am A Stuffed Animal. It’s simple: just email them a photo and some basic info, then their artists will start working as soon as you finish paying your $65. Next thing you know, hey presto, there’s a mini-cartoony you, in an easy to cuddle format. Read more
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New Events / Victorian Photocollage exhibition at the Met
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.
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New Events / Fed Up: School Lunch Project
February 6, 2010 | New Events | by Gerry Mak |
An anonymous public school teacher known as Mrs. Q, following Morgan Spurlock’s lead, decided to eat every school lunch served to her for the duration of 2010. At the risk of her job, she documents her experience on her blog, which features photographs of the atrocious, shrink-wrapped, processed poison that she and her students are forced to choke down every school day.
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New Events / The Asteroids Galaxy Tour tour the US
February 4, 2010 | New Events | by Zolton |
Copenhagen group, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, will be crossing the Atlantic this March for their first US tour of the year, blasting out their unique fusion of happy soul and kaleidoscopic pop. The tour will kick off at Philadelphia’s Kung Fu Necktie, followed by stops in DC, NYC, San Diego, LA, San Francisco, and band SXSW. We have their song, The Sun Ain’t Shining No More [listen below], available for free download in our Music Download section.
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Artist Riki Takaoka documents every meal he eats by drawing a picture of it, which he then posts on his website, Riki’s Food Blog. Read more
Instead of spending another Saturday afternoon looking though an already plumaged St Vinnies or Beacon’s Closet before buying something you’ll never wear for $5, check out Mooka Kinney. Read more
Typography for a good cause? Designers can help make the world a better place by just purchasing one of these strictly limited posters. Animalphabet is a typographic project and a collaboration between an impressive list of 26 artists, including the mighty Geoff Mcfetridge. Read more
Formerly of Arab Strap, Scottish songwriter Malcolm Middleton sings with all the integrity and smoky purity of someone who has spent way too much time puffing away in the back corner of a sketchy Dundee pub. 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.
My town is one of foghorns at five am, the smell of salty air and the sound of seagulls, Peets coffee, steep hills and die hard fans and loyalists. For those of us who have been here in San Francisco for some time now, we know all the secret gems of this small city — from Clarion Alley, to Army Street, from Irving to Broadway. Read more
The slow building melody and delicate folktronica production of London-based James Yuill’s This Sweet Love is the perfect soundtrack to a lazy Sunday morning.
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Amazing cake designs by Charm City Cakes
Baltimore company Charm City Cakes produces the most innovative wedding and party cakes on the market. Inspiration for these creative bakers comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, and music, and each cake is individually designed to match your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating. Don’t miss these cakey engineering masterpieces. Read more
Scanners’ new single Salvation
I love this track by London based rock group, Scanners, which is off their latest album, Submarine. Having toured with acts such as The Horrors, The Wedding Present, The Charlatans, Electric Six, and Juliette & The Licks, Scanners could well blow up in 2010. Figuratively speaking, not literally. No, that wouldn’t be fun.
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Good thing Kris Kuksi channelled the trauma of growing up with an alcoholic stepfather, his disdain for ‘the typical American life and pop culture’, and his fascination with the macabre into obsessive, baroque assemblages, paintings, and drawings. Read more
Check out Mike Stimpson’s Lego reinterpretations of classic photographs. Stimpson’s version of Malcolm Browne’s iconic 1963 photograph of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc is particularly twisted. Read more
The clever folk at Code Organ made a sythesizer that turns webpages into music. Just enter a URL and listen to the sweet, sweet sounds your site produces.
It’s spring cleaning time and we have a massive pile of assorted new release CDs to give away to a randomly selected LAEM subscriber. To enter, just be a subscriber and leave a note under this message telling us the city you live in.
Cassettes Won’t Listen is the brainchild of New York-based, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Drake and is the latest of an abundance of musical monikers he has realised over the years. Small-Time Machine is Cassettes Wont Listen’s first-ever physical release and is available for US$23.70.
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