New Trends
New Trends / Heart music
July 1, 2009 | New Trends | by The Epi-Cure |
Most of us know eating a balanced diet helps maintain a healthy heart, and that there’s nothing better than a romantic ballad to nourish blossoming love. But did you know blasting Beethoven might also help to keep your cardiovascular system in tune? New research suggests that music can directly trigger physiological changes that modulate blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration. I’m definitely breathless after listening to Cyndi Lauper’s I Drove All Night, but that might be from dancing my rigorous jazz ballet routine, not necessarily from the emotion it engenders. Read more
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New Trends / Elvis on Velvet Made with Cheese Puffs
June 30, 2009 | New Trends | 
by Caitlin Zaino |
What to say about a portrait of Elvis on velvet made only with neon orange cheese puff crumbs and residue? This video from Eclectic Asylum is as intriguing as it is borderline revolting, though admittedly the end product is impressive. If that’s not enough, Eclectic Asylum has put out other videos where food is used to create odd portraits and paintings. Check out the Redneck Art made with barbecue ribs, or the vegemite on toast portrait. Despite the instinct to look away, it’s all very addictive.
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New Trends / Chic and Basic Hotel product packaging
June 27, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton 
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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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New Trends / James Kohn’s head paintings
June 24, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Oh, wow. Look closely, this is a man’s head. A man’s bald head, covered in paint. Yes, James Kuhn likes to paint his shiny bald head in an assortment of styles using Kryolan Aqua Color, Snazaroo, and Paradise by Mehron. It’s kinda like the amazing hand art of Guido Daniele. Just a little messier. Read more
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New Trends / Yes, it’s a Japanese game show, but don’t laugh
June 23, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Ok, so whatever you do, no matter what happens and who does it, you mustn’t, ever laugh. Nope. Not even the faintest snicker. Why? Oh, well, it’s a game show, you see. And there’s prizes. But if you break, if a slight chuckle creeps out of your soul, you’re out. Get it? Out. OUT. Enjoy!
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New Trends / I Want One Of Those hand casting kit
June 18, 2009 | New Trends | by Sonya Rosendorff |
I’m bored. Hmmm, what shall I do? I know, let’s cast my hand. Using the I Want One Of Those hand casting kits is simple: get that magic plaster powder, ensuring it’s a smooth liquid, chuck it in a bucket, plunge your hand in the gooey stuff, leave it there for seven minutes, then remove your hand carefully and fill it with mixed Plaster of Paris. Presto, you have a new hand. Now for that much needed third leg.
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New Trends / Knight Hawk deliveries
June 16, 2009 | New Trends | by Sonya Rosendorff |
Everyone who doesn’t live in London thinks London it’s a twenty-four hour city. Errr, it’s not. This can be frustrating, especially when you realise it’s the early hours of the morning and you want to carry on with the party. Look no further than Knight Hawk deliveries, at your service, coming to you with alcohol and food snacks from 10pm to 5am. What a wonderful idea, but there always has to be a downside. It only delivers to West and South London. Alas, we need another for the East and North.
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New Trends / Artfarm, where all tattooed pigs live
June 15, 2009 | New Trends | by Kira Heuer |
I wonder if these piggies understand what is going on? They’re a part of Artfarm, a collective of swine and tattoo ink. The Belgian artist Wim Delvoye worked with The Foundation Cartier on this recent project. Hmmm, it seems more like Artharm. Or should that be Artham? Read more
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New Trends / Skinny Blonde beer’s new ink technology
June 11, 2009 | New Trends | by Tim Cox |
It’s a hot summer’s day and you’re cracking open your second beer. Life is good. But there’s something missing, right? Not anymore. Each bottle of the new Australian-brewed low carb beer, Skinny Blonde, features the soon to be iconic Daisy Blonde on the label, who — in a clever twist — reveals more and more of herself as the beer gets drunk. Or the drinker does. Whichever comes first. This cool initiative is the result of innovative heat sensitive ink technology which sees Daisy’s Bikini top on the beer bottle label disappear with each sip until she reveals all. Seriously! Now, boys. Slow down. Drink responsibly. The beer is brewed by the Sydney-based Brothers Ink, comprised of three friends, including Hamish from Aussie rockers, The Vines. Yup, if hypercolour shirts worked like this, we’d still be wearing them. Read more
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New Trends / The Science of Food
June 9, 2009 | New Trends | by Caitlin Zaino |
Put simply, the basics of good cooking are rooted in molecular gastronomy. The more volatile flavor components foods have in common, the more likely it is that they will work well together. Building on this principle is the recently revamped Belgium site called Foodpairing, which is gaining accolades for its molecular mapping of 250 plus ingredients. Read more
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New Trends / Sublime Frequencies’s obscure Asian recordings
June 8, 2009 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Record label Sublime Frequencies, which specializes in obscure recordings from Syria, Indonesia, Thailand, Mali, Nepal, and beyond, has been releasing solid discs such as one of my favorite albums, Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop music Vol. 1, a collection of pre-Khmer Rouge pop. The label now has its first vinyl offering, a limited, 1000-copy pressing of an album by Group Doueh, Guitar Music from the Western Sahara. If you like this, also check out the CD by Group Bombino, a band that plays driving, rowdy, Tuareg blues.
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New Trends / Harem pants? Please, no
June 2, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Could this be the worst fashion trend since MC Hammer introduced the world to Parachute Pants? The streets of Barcelona are literally teeming with this fashion aberration — from the historic surrounds of the El Born area to the fancy shopping strip of the Eixample. I sense the first seeds of a spoof movie are being well and truly sewn. [photo by Alison Zavos]
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New Trends / Archie proposes to Veronica
May 30, 2009 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Ok, a confession: I once owned an enormous garbage bag full of Archie comics. Yes, a giant green bag bursting with all the antics of the Riverdale collective, whose squeaky clean adventures framed my earliest impression of life in the suburbs of America. It was all a long way removed from the bustling streets of inner-city Sydney. Yet somehow my pre-pubescent self developed quite a cartoon crush on Betty, the All-American girl next door. So it was with some shock that I read today that after years of facing the most pleasant choice in comic book history, Archie has finally decided which of his two female companions to call his own. Forever. Or for the next few issues at least. That’s right, Archie is proposing to Veronica in an upcoming issue of the magazine, and life in Riverdale may never be the same again.
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New Trends / Sweet Sue Whole Chicken in a Can
May 28, 2009 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Roasting a chicken is probably one of the easiest things to do. Some people, fearing dry breast or undercooked dark meat, fuss with the oven as they cook a bird, deploying tin foil, trussing twine, toothpicks, and crazy methods that resemble superstitious rituals. Through my favorite food blog, The Paupered Chef, I found Barbara Kafka’s flawless and ridiculously easy chicken roasting method that even a completely inexperienced cook could pull off with fabulous results. There is, then, absolutely no reason canned whole chicken should exist. It is an atrocity, as Tracy O’Connor of I Hate My Message Board proved when she cooked a Sweet Sue Canned Whole Chicken and blogged about it for Food Network Humor.
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New Trends / Faux cardboard bedding by Le Clochard
May 27, 2009 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Dutch bedding designers Snurk recently partnered with foundation for homeless youth SZN to create a line of Le Clochard sheets and pillows that look like cardboard. A portion of the proceeds go directly to SZN, who will use the money to build housing.
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Tomer Hanuka’s post-apocalyptic visions are imbued with a real sense of pathos. His characters seem at once emboldened and vulnerable, wrestling demons cloaked in shades of blue, red and green.
You know that band you’ve always wanted to form, the one with the little-girl-lost singer with the mischevious eyes and the propulsive beats that drive bass hooks so catchy you want to bottle them up and sell them to Sting? That’s right, that fictional band that lingers just that little deeper in your imagination every time you saunter down Bedford Avenue, surrounded by girls in neon tights and guys in ruffed up converse. You know the one? Well, guess what, you’re too late. It’s arrived. It’s French. And it’s so damn good.
Autumn Whitehurst creates beautiful vector works. Her bold use of colour allows her often cheekily themed line drawings to really leap out, creating a sense of visual serenity despite the occassionally dark subject matter.
FFFFOUND! is a fun website that allows you to bookmark your favorite images from the Internet and share them with fellow users, sort of like a del.icio.us specifically for pictures. The site is still in private beta and not currently supported on Mac, but as its collection of images expands, it’s likely to become much more widely available.
Sometimes we need an ad to remind us of what’s important. Normal is beautiful. Keep our oceans alive. Vote. Be more fearless. The Whitehouse Post is an international post-production company whose projects are damn fine. In fact, they are the scary mix of wit and aesthetics that makes any message convincing. Long live Coca-Cola.
Schmidt, Hammer and Lassen’s design for the Copenhagen national library is a celebrated structure in the already glittering design portfolio of northern Europe. The marble and glass façade of The Black Diamond (yes, that is what their national library is called) is an example of architectural brilliance, with even the angled walls designed to best mirror the city’s beautiful canals.
From this artist selection of t-shirts comes this Michael Gillette illustrated t-shirt, limited edition and distributed in a vinyl sleeve, with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Each tee is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic cotton.
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James Blagden’s neon fantasies
New York illustrator James Blagden’s work is so wonderfully trippy, I feel like I need to wear shades and a top hat when looking at them just to do them justice. Read more
We asked Arizona-based artist Joe Sorren what we would have been if he hadn’t been handed the most ridiculously generous serving of artistic talent: ‘Art historian and conservationalist. Or a botanist. Or I’d work with horses. It would be interesting to be behind the scenes in politics, at least for a while. Or maybe a studio musician, or invent games, or a … I would rather paint’. Ah, we agree.
Frank Kozik’s Emperor of the Golden Throne
Limited to a set of just sixty-six pieces, each Frank Kozik Hand Painted Emperor Of The Golden Throne El Panda vinyl toy is signed by Kozik and comes bagged with a hand-numbered header card.
When I did the Master Cleanse diet a few years ago — the one where you consume nothing but lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper for ten days — I sat at work looking at pictures of food as if they were porn. Scanwiches would have gotten me hot and bothered like nothing else.
Argentine illustrator Poly Bernatene miraculously creates many of his beautifully textured, painterly images in Photoshop. Despite his twenty-first century method, his illustrations achieve a sort of timelessness that is bound to mesmerize children for years to come. 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!
Shattered vintage vinyl. The likes of Rolling Stones, Beatles, Beethoven, Mozart, MC Hammer and a touch of Gospel. A combination of music history to wear around your neck wherever you go! Grab one now in the Lost At E Minor store for $33. Read more
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