September 2, 2010 | New Events | by Yuko Shimizu |
Three illustrators from vastly different backgrounds — Sam Weber (Canada), Yuko Shimizu (Japan), and Tomer Hanuka (Israel) — are meeting at the crossroads of a distinct American aesthetic to examine their new-found artistic voices through personal mythologies, broken narratives and remixed identities. Each of the illustrators featured as part of BLOW UP (running at New York’s Society of Illustrators until October 16) created new works to be shown for the first time in this exhibition. Read more
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September 1, 2010 | New Products | by Nini Baseema 
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Are you heading out for the night and wish to look at your girly best? Now you can not only pimp yourself, but also your vehicle. We proudly present to you car eyelashes. Simply install these inexpensive little accessories on the headlights, with a little automotive grade adhesive, and you’re good to rock the road. Read more
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September 2, 2010 | New Eco | by Nini Baseema |
Did you ever wonder what goes on inside a banana before you eat it? This photo illustrates the horrors these little yellow mates go through. We’re now seriously concerned for the emotional balance of the apples, melons and cabbages Dimitri Tsykalov tortured for his art.
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September 2, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Lamia Larkin |
TV is full of fashion icons. From The Mary Tyler Moor Show to Gossip Girl, viewers have watched in awe of the amazing outfits worn by the leading ladies and gentlemen of the screen. But no one was quite as glamorous as Fran Fine from The Nanny. Luckily, someone else out there agrees with me because there is a blog dedicated to Mrs. Fine and what she would look like in today’s hottest trends. From Stella McCartney to Dolce and Gabbana, Nanny Fine has never looked so, well, fine.
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September 2, 2010 | New Illustration | by Contributions |
These stunning new illustrations by Japanese designer Yoshi Tajima were inspired by the work of biologist Ernst Haeckel. Read more
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September 1, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Totally random thought inspired by the work of Michael Ostermann: why don’t more people have awesome design and illustration work done on their tombstones? Read more
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September 1, 2010 | New Fashion | by Jess Zaino |
For gents that have a hard time growing in a full beard, and the more straight laced types want to let their freak flag fly for a night, this crocheted striped beanie beard is a perfect accompaniment to a naked face. Designer Tara Duff created it to fit snug on the face like a mask during the cold winter months. Or a night out at the dive bar.
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August 27, 2010 | Cool Travel | by The Urban Grocer |
If you have an affinity for all things pickled — and you’re not alone — then Brooklyn Brine is an absolute must-have. Based out of Brooklyn, this budding company owned by vegetarian 20-somethings enthusiastically leapt onto the independent food scene just over a year ago to heaps of rave reviews. Read more
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September 1, 2010 | New Food and Packaging | by The Urban Grocer |
So you think you’re all cupcaked-out? Had enough of the trend, eh? Well get ready for more because at American Cupcake, their red velvet is all the rage – on fried chicken, that is. Yup, at this San Francisco-based eatery, chicken is marinated in red velvet cupcake batter (um, YUM), dredged in red velvet cupcake crumbs, and then deep fried. (We understand if you need to re-read that sentence.) But wait, there’s more! Read more
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September 1, 2010 | New Photography | by Nini Baseema |
The ONEHUNDRED Project is an experiment from the artist Kid Grandios. He started it in 2009 with the idea of creating posters including landscape and grunge elements. One Hundred posters later, the project is done and it turned out truly amazing. Read more
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September 2, 2010 | New Trends | by Adri Cowan |
A book geek to the end, I grasped an old leather-bound Shakespeare tome from a thrift shop, smelled it creepily, and wished I could bottle and wear its scent forever. When I found Brooklyn-based CB: I Hate Perfume’s In The Library anti-perfume, I nearly died of a bibliophilic nerdgasm. In The Library is my perfect fragrance, but you can find your real-world bottled smell, too. Perhaps Burning Leaves, Gathering Apples, Gingerbread, or At The Beach?
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August 26, 2010 | New & Cool Architecture | by Zolton |
Some people have way too much time on their hands. Or perhaps they’re just bursting with ideas. Whatever. Our friends over at io9 gave artist Faith Pearson some empty ink cartridges and left her to work her magic with them. Which she did, in the somewhat inspirational shape of this Trekkie masterpiece. Yes, beam her up, Scotty. Read more
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August 30, 2010 | New Design | by Nini Baseema |
Graphic design posters to music videos instead of movies, events or books? That seems new. Italian designer Federico Mancosu has created a cool set of posters for tracks by such artists as Depeche Mode, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and Jamiroquai.
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August 30, 2010 | New Film | by Gerry Mak |
Wow, the new French-Hong Kong film Les Nuits Rouges du Bourreau de Jade may appeal to a lot of orientalist fantasies, but I can’t deny that I really want to see it.
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August 30, 2010 | Video | 
by Michelle Wilding |
Zero Views is an online collection of YouTube videos that are yet to take off. Although the curated concept is rather odd, the unwatched but deserving uploads are quick to surpass zero views once they’re featured on this viral site.
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August 27, 2010 | New Music | 
by Melissa Banigan |
Surf punk, Theremins, NASA costumes, flaming instruments, video displays and … Tesla? Indeed. The members of Man or Astroman? arrived from their own musical solar system. Seeing is believing. Check them out during their next American East Coast tour in early November.
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Paying homage to Francis Bacon, Annie Godfrey Larmon’s gestural paintings depict the sometimes cruel, sometimes sentimental relationship humans have with animals, couching the horror, violence, and hypocrisy in bright suburban colors, with smiling human figures seeming indifferent or unaware of the slaughter around them. Read more
Seattle-based artist Justine Ashbee makes undulating, amorphous drawings by hand using paint pens to delineate the topography of imaginary forms and textures. Read more
Who wants to be famous? A lot of people, that’s for sure. And the first ones are the mothers of little American girls. High Glitz: The extravagant world of Child Beauty Pageants shows images of the children that take part in the different beauty contests around America, bursting as they are with extravagant haircuts, haute-couture dresses, false teeth and all the artificial beauty that you can imagine. Read more
Too beautiful to simply pass by, this is the Ring House by young Japanese architectural firm, TNA. Read more
The Australian film collective behind the sci-fi spoof, The Time That Time Forgot, perfectly capture the look and feel of awkward, low-budget rip-offs from the ’70s — the psychedelic lighting, bad dubbing, and amazing hair. One almost wishes Italian Spiderman was for real. [more about Italian Spiderman]
The fashion brand Jack Spade created a new concept in winter fashion: the moustache gloves. Available in red, blue, grey and yellow, they are recommended for putting right below your nose. Enjoy! Read more
If Pharrell’s calling these guys ‘geniuses’, you’d better watch out! Chester French are Ivy League prep boys from Massachusetts who have mastered an interesting Beatlesque sound tinged with Motown influences. When, in May 2007, the duo — D.A. and Max — completed their recording and their degrees (in African American Studies and Social Anthropology respectively), they were snapped up by Pharrell Williams’ label Star Trak.
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WE'RE POSTING / SOME OF THE BEST
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
Mathematics? Leave me out. Fashematics? Now you’re talking! This gem of a site is a runway equation that adds up to a whole lot of wonderful.
A little infectious lollipop rock anyone? Feel free to embarrass yourself singing along at the stoplight. If the other drivers give you that look, roll down the windows and spread the love.
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Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
Baltimore Mural by Josh Van Horne
My friend Josh Van Horne, a local Baltimore artist, did this amazing mural in our neighborhood that depicts the history of this warehouse-laden area.
Maximum Balloon is the debut release from David Andrew Sitek (TV On The Radio). We have a prize pack to give away to five LAEM subscribers featuring the 7″ vinyl single Tiger, Groove Me single (feat. Theophilus London), and two Maximum Balloon red balloons! To enter, just tell us the city you’re in under this post. Read more
Known for his installations, as well as his two dimensional pieces, the art of Hamburg’s Stefan Marx invites you into a phantasmagorical, mesmerizing world filled with rich and curious characters that congregate in subterranean worlds. Marx has applied this same flare to a Dosh wallet design. Read more
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