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Cool Websites / People Of Public Transit
November 7, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
Following on from the People of Walmart website, comes People Of Public Transit: ‘The public bus and subway systems are littered with amazing photo opportunities. Many of us have been sitting alone witnessing something amazing and only wishing we could share the experience with our friends. Well now you can!’ Read more
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Cool Websites / Malcolm Middleton’s Secret Playlist
November 5, 2009 | Cool Websites | 
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Malcolm Middleton (ex-Arab Strap) has just released his fifth solo album, Waxing Gibbous, composed from years worth of scribbles in notebooks, which were ‘chiseled and connived into being songs’. We checked in with him to get his words n the music that inspired the new recrding. He started with The Auteurs song, Lenny Valentino [listen below]: ‘I must have missed this band the first time around, but since reading Luke Haines’ autobiography, I am hooked. Anyone who can write about their own life and come across so badly gets the thumbs up from me!’ Read the rest of Malcolm Middleton’s Secret Playlist.
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Cool Websites / Dads In Short Shorts
November 2, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
I have an unwritten rule by which I live: never, ever wear shorts unless I absolutely, positively need to. Why, you ask? Well, from a lifetime of experience, the only men who should wear shorts are professional athletes and skaters. On everyone else, they just look damn awful. That’s right. Men’s legs are either too scrawny, too hairy, or too disproportionate. Which is why I love this blog so much. It merely affirms what I’ve always suspected. Now, for the life of me, go and put on some jeans and look half respectable again! Read more
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Cool Websites / But Does It Float
October 30, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Found-image blogs are a dime a dozen, but but does it float is a particularly well-curated one that has an interesting layout, using flash for continuous scrolling without freaking your browser out. The blog focuses on art and design images, many of which you might recognize, but the juxta-positioning of the images draws out certain themes and ideas.
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Cool Websites / Cave Chaos
October 29, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Side-scrolling funage for a rainy, lazy day. I’ve been putzing around on this and sipping nettle tea. Moles are cute.
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Cool Websites / Thao Nguyen’s Secret Playlist
October 28, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (Adam Thompson on bass, keys and additional guitar, and Willis Thompson on drums and percussion) return with the follow up to their critically lauded album, We Brave Bee Stings and All, the best-selling record of 2008 for Kill Rock Stars. We checked in with Nguyen to get the inside word on the music that inspired it all. She started with The Avett Brothers song, Will Your Return [listent below]: ‘So catchy, forlorn, provocative and rakishly charming. It reminds me of touring. I love the cutting sincerity and the charisma of the Avett Brothers. And, totally unrelated, they are the nicest band in the world. Seriously. Ask anyone’. Read the rest of Thao Nguyen’s Secret Playlist.
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Cool Websites / Dogs dressed up for Halloween
October 28, 2009 | Cool Websites | by The Uncool Hunter |
Why don’t dogs like Halloween? This is the title of an article on the Urlesque website, which recently featured the craziest costumes of the canine world for Halloween night. Dogs with manes, a dog being bitten by a crocodile, the All-American football player, the giraffe, the tarantula, and the shrimp are just some of the pseudo-artistic expressions that these poor animals are subjected to. Read more
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Cool Websites / The Brick Testament
October 22, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
The Brick Testament is an illustrated version of the King James Bible done with Legos. Though the site is meant to be satirical, it’s a pretty good summary of the Good Book.
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Cool Websites / Photoshop Disasters
October 20, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
Photoshop Disasters posts some of the most atrocious acts of Photoshop ever committed. It’s amazing how many horrible shop jobs make it to print. Read more
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Cool Websites / Cake Wrecks
October 17, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Caitlin Zaino |
Cake Wrecks is a seriously addictive, mostly hysterical blog that is perfect for those hours of procrastination. From sad to silly to creepy, the site is all about cakes gone wrong and ‘finding the funny in unexpected, sugar filled-places’. Cakes branded with shockingly bad spelling, missing words, absent punctuations, and horrific decorations, cram the blog to create a photo library full of cringing — though hilarious — blunders. Read more
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Cool Websites / Virtual Piano
October 16, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
This virtual piano would have been a really useful tool for me when I was learning how to play as well as when I studied music theory. Being able to see all the chords and scales makes everything so much clearer.
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Cool Websites / Lou Barlow’s Secret Playlist
October 13, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
With his new album, Goodnight Unknown, Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow has created a collection of melodic pop songs that he describes as being ‘a cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh. To my ears, anyway’. We checked in with him to get the inside word on the songs that inspired the recording. He talked about Bill Callahan’s brooding All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast [listen below]: ‘A simple song beautifully played and masterfully built. An insistent guitar riff with a devastating lyric, this time with delicate strings and growling guitar to punctuate his poetry. His usually unemotional baritone raises as this song grows and it feels revelatory to me’. Read the rest of Lou Barlow’s Secret Playlist.
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Cool Websites / Dude Mountain
October 12, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Dave Mata |
Dude Mountain is ridiculous. I have this sinking feeling we are all a year out from television getting as ballsy and completely stupid as the attempted poignancy in these shorts. That said, I identified with and laughed at more than I care to admit whilst watching the episodes on this site that launched just a few days ago. My feelings aside about ‘the point’, there is an undeniable purity to seeing a couple of knuckle-heads just trying to make people laugh, as opposed to worrying about writing a joke based around a new Snapple product.
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Cool Websites / Look At This Hipster F*cking
October 10, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Gerry Mak |
As a response to the obnoxious meme blog Look At This F*cking Hipster, some people got together to create the infinitely more appealing Look At This Hipster F*cking, a blog of arty and graphic photos of beautiful, fashionable, tattooed people doing the nasty. Very NSFW.
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Cool Websites / The Do’s Secret Playlist
October 8, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Zolton |
French duo, The Do, stormed into our iPods with their brilliant album, A Mouthful. We checked in with them to find out the music that inspired their album and they started by propping the Radiohead track, I Will [listen below]: ‘This is sort of a religious track. Someday it could be sung in churches Radiohead is full of grace!’ Read the rest of The Do’s Secret Playlist.
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I love the deep sense of mystique and other-worldliness that resonates through Bill Carman’s artwork. Of his creative process, he says: ‘Things seem to crawl from my brain, through a sketchbook, and end up on some beautiful surface. I am an image maker who illustrates, draws, and paints’. Read more
A broken snare drum rolling gently over a scratchy acoustic guitar; a deep lyrical catharsis smothering a melody which is predictable but endearing. Your Rocky Spine by Great Lake Swimmers is a magical song; all wrapped up in three and half minutes of lustful introspection.
Simple, colorful and somewhat esoteric, I really dig the work of New York illustrator, Rich Tu, a new SVA graduate student. It was something else to see his finely textured images blown up to poster size and beautifully displayed at the recent SVA student show. Read more
With the streets of New York already covered in a thin layer of ice after a heavy snowstorm yesterday, it’s interesting to see how other cold winter cities deal with this ubiquitous companion. At the annual Ice and Snow Festival, in Haban, China, they get kinda creative with it: building an entire city out of ice and then lighting it up like an extra frosty, colourful Christmas tree. Read more
History is the story of the winners, and western dominated culture recounts few triumphs from the east. Mongol is an effort to correct this balance, and the eastern influence is evident in much more than just the storyline. It is more like a fairy tale or legend handed down through generations, than based on fact, with mythical elements playing a major part, and the character’s motivations remaining simple. Read more
I received a Kobe Beefcake t-shirt today and I’m already in meat-lover’s heaven. Who’d have thought all those funky shapes are actually cuts of meat? This new label from Kobe Japan is an insider’s (and meat-lover’s) treasure.
This one-stop shop for all things eco-friendly is proof that protecting the environment is becoming a popular pastime. Almost every material category that comprises our society, from design to celebrity to transport, is looked at through a green lens. They’re ranked number twenty-two on Technorati’s list of 75,000,000 blogs, and even Daryl Hannah is singing their praises. Why? Its writers, they claim, ‘have the ability to take topics that most of us snoozed our way through in school, and make them the addictive juicy, green bits that they are’.
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I live the upbeat, feel good tempo of the new single — A Hundred Hearts — from Philly group, The Swimmers. Off their latest album, People Are Soft, this song is a strangely fitting anthem for the blustery day outside.
Illustrator Timothy Karpinski sews painted paper together to create his images, giving them a classic look. Read more
Charlie Immer’s pastel-pallete sometimes obfuscates the gory violence in his surreal images. At other times, it heightens the gut-wrenching and visceral effect of his work. Read more
Our celebrity-saturated culture makes many of us irrationally hateful of the faces we see on our TV screens and magazine pages. Good thing there’s Celebrity PunchOut to let off some of that steam.
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
Wolfmother. Rock n roll. Mystical lyrics. Heavy riffs. They have a new album out, Cosmic Egg, and we have five copies to giveaway, along with their debut album. To enter, tell us your favorite Wolfmother song and the city you live in. Yo! Two fingered salute. Read more
Junior Massive is a newly launched Australian boutique t shirt label making limited edition tees using only Australia cotton. It’s street meets indie; design meets durability; edgy fashion meets edgy fashion. We have them for sale in the Lost At E Minor online store. Read more
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