New Trends
February 8, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak 
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Chapel Hill-based printmaker Bill Fick makes awesomely grotesque faces and creatures with linocuts, silkscreens, and tempera paint. They have a vintage feel to them, as if the rotted remains ’50s advertising images have risen from the dead. Read more
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New Trends / Hipster Puppies
February 6, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
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New Trends / Little Girls cover Beach House’s 10 Mile Stereo
February 4, 2010 | New Trends | 
by Zolton |
Josh McIntyre, aka Little Girls, recently released a cover of Beach House’s epic 10 Mile Stereo. Little Girls will also be releasing a 7-inch split, Volume 2 of Best of Both Records, a Toronto and Oslo based label that does splits with bands from both cities. We have a free download of 10 Mile Stereo in our Music Download section.
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New Trends / Lego Brick Boombox
February 4, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Sonic hipsters of this world, stop and bow. This Lego MP3 Boombox is the result of a collaboration between Digital Blue and LEGO and stores up to two gigs of music. And yes, you would be making quite a statement strolling through Brooklyn with one of these pressed to your ear.
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New Trends / Part Chimp: it’s noise-rock, play it loud!
February 2, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Let’s take a road trip, just you and me. We’ll stop at every dive bar and truck stop from here to Minneapolis, and crash on dirty, beer-stained couches in the houses of people we barely know. We’ll wake up every morning, struggling to remember the night before or what city we’re in, and hit the road again. We’ll only have two albums in the car: Slayer’s Reign in Blood and Thriller by UK-based noise-rock trio Part Chimp. Years from now, when we’re settled down in mild-mannered burbs on opposite sides of the country, with our kids and wives and jobs, we’ll look down at the faded tattoos on our arms-dancing hotdogs wearing sunglasses with the words ‘BROS FOREVER’ underneath — and know that we had truly lived.
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New Trends / Clash of the Titans Kraken toy
February 1, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
The impending release of the Clash of the Titans remake should spark people’s interest in these amazing action figures based on the 1981 original. Anyone who owns the Kraken, the showpiece of the collection, must be pretty stoked right now.
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New Trends / Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Male USB stick
January 30, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Now this is clever marketing. When Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Male fragrance first went on sale last year, each purchase of the iconic bottle came with a free USB stick version which slowly emitted the rather fragrant fragrance whilst you worked. Perhaps not the best idea for those in the construction industry.
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New Trends / Rock Paper Scissors World Championships
January 29, 2010 | New Trends | 
by The Uncool Hunter |
The traditional game of Rock, Paper, Scissors is generally considered to be a children’s activity, but some adults use it to solve their differences. And, get this, it’s also now a ’sport’ controlled by an international association with tournaments played in many countries. The highest authority is the World Rock Paper Scissors Society located in Toronto, Canada, which regulates and promotes the sport and organizes conferences, an annual retreat, and monthly tournaments in clubs and institutions. And then there’s the World Championship, which takes place annually in Toronto. Now, quick choose your weapon. We take Scissors. [Watch a video of last year's exciting World Championship final] Read more
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New Trends / Winny Puhh, the clowns of Estonian heavy metal
January 27, 2010 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
The Estonian heavy metal ensemble Winny Puhh was born in 2004 in the city of Polva. Their big hit was Noodles and the Victory of the Sour Milk, a hit from 2006. Now you can watch the video clip of their song Peegelporand, directed by Ove Musting [below]. Read more
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New Trends / Fruit shaped Post-It notes
January 23, 2010 | New Trends | by Raymond Koh |
Simple to use and something we all have in our homes, these fruit-shaped Post-It notes are hardly essential, but definitely fun and different, helping brighten up this traditionally dull object. Read more
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New Trends / Pants On The Ground creates new ten minute star
January 21, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
Sheez, they move quick in remix-land, that mythical place where cheesy beats and hooky lyrics combine to create ear worms that will stick with you forever. Be warned! This remix of the Larry Platt American Idol scat is one of the best, especially if you’ve spent any time riding the subways of New York City.
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New Trends / Cardboard women of the night to fight rent hikes
January 20, 2010 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
If you’re not a property owner and you fight against unfair rises in rent month after month, the solution is knocking at your door: fill the neighborhood with prostitutes. You can do it easily. Just make cardboard prostitutes and leave them standing on the corner of every street. This way, the price of the rents of your area will go down and your neighborhood will be decorated with beautiful ladies posing on every corner. This idea was orginally created in Tel Aviv by creative agency Veecee. Read more
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New Trends / Chickens Suit: glamour over feathers
January 18, 2010 | New Trends | by The Uncool Hunter |
Two Austrian designers, stretching their creativity to the limit, have created Chickens Suit, based around the ‘idea of satisfying a chicken, which came up in a dream in which a chicken was covered with hair instead of feathers’. They operate with an agenda to satisfy the chicken, to humanize them.
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New Trends / The Lost At E Minor iPhone app
January 17, 2010 | New Trends | by Zolton |
We have a free Lost At E Minor iPhone app in the iTunes store, which is a daily snapshot of the latest content from the site. So, if it catches your fancy, you can download it now. For free. Yay! Yeah?
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New Trends / Thandi Wines: for the people, by the people
January 16, 2010 | New Trends | by The Urban Grocer |
While some vineyards work hard for high ratings, others are working to empower individuals. South African-based Thandi Wines wholly embraces the latter. As the first ever all black owned and operated vineyard in the world — not to mention the first Fair Trade-certified vineyard, too — Thandi fights to strengthen previously disadvantaged communities. Read more
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We asked London-based photographer, Julia Fullerton-Batten, about her use of non-traditional models for her work: ‘I used to approach unknown people on the streets in London and ask them to take part in my photo shoots. There are so many fascinating faces accompanied with wonderful personalities around. The freshness that street cast models have, has also benefited my work immeasurably. I now don’t have the time to find the amateur models myself. But I hire a producer to source models for me’. Read more
Sure, President Obama is just as human as the rest of us, and there is a certain excessiveness to the extent to which he’s been idealized, but I’d rather have a President the world views as a secret agent ninja than one the world views as a bumbling, ignorant fool. Can you imagine an action figure like this one by Hong Kong-based DID Corporation made of Dubya? If they did make one, it’d probably be along the lines of Maxwell Smart.
Print Liberation is an exceptional Philadelphia-based creative visual agency whose website showcases a variety of deisgn styles, each immaculately executed. Read more
Bill Callahan’s Woke on a Whaleheart is a little trip I take myself on every now and then when I’m looking to really sink myself into a piece of music. Read more
The graduate exhibition of third year graphic design students at Sydney’s Design Centre is called 342 Seconds and relates to the estimated time required to view the show. The exhibition takes place on December 3 and looks to be well worth checking out, if these works by Jenny Lee [above] and Sean Batchelor [below] are anything to go by. You can check into their blog and stay up to date with events leading up to the opening. Read more
I don’t care if Jimmy Hendrix was dragged kicking and screaming from where he lies, put through a torrid round of detox, and handed an invisible guitar – a Flying V carved out of the bones of Robert Johnson. It would still pale in comparison to this. Read more
These scarves designed by Sarah Swash and her boyfriend Toshio Yamanaka always feature their whippet and play on a sense of urban sophistication inspired by the surrounds of their East London studio. Definitely a justified indulgence.
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Italian-born, New York City-based photographer Paolo Ventura creates fairy-tale like pictures out of amazingly constructed, miniature dioramas that almost trick the eye into thinking he’s a tilt-shift photographer. Read more
Damn hipster dogs coming in here with their parents’ money, acting like they own the place, not respecting us real dogs who know what real culture and art are. We were here first and we knew about all those bands before they did. Read more
Hong Kong-based illustrator Man-Tsun draws dark and beautiful painterly images that look like they are straight off a high-end Japanese animated film. 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
Oslo artist Gry E.Pedersen blends digital artwork and photos, but her generally experimental artwork also includes more traditional forms of paintings. Read more
These resin necklaces are the result of a collaboration between the artist Gaella Gottwald and local artisans in Indonesia. They are a mix of traditional craft with modern design, and use the natural sustainable material of resin. Read more
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