SPONSORED: An interview with RockCorps CEO Stephen Greene
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RockCorps is starting to kick along nicely here in Australia. With The Script, Tinie Tempah and Guy Sebastian taking to the stage in a matter of months, we had a chat to RockCorps CEO Stephen Greene about all things volunteering and music. LAEM: You’re the CEO of RockCorps. How did you gain that position? SG: [...]
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Fresh mix: Massive Attack’s Teardrop played with fruits and vegetables
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Brooklyn-based electronic music producer Jonathan Dagan (who goes by the stage moniker of j.viewz) hooked up a bunch of grapes, strawberries, kiwi, carrots, mushrooms and eggplants to his keyboard to dish up an especially fresh take on Massive Attack’s Teardrops. It’s spectacular.
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New music video for Gun-Shy by Grizzly Bear
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Sometimes you have to sacrifice in the name of science. And Grizzly Bear takes that concept to a whole new level in this music video from their most recent album Shields. The Brooklyn band’s chill vocals and haunting melodies are contrasted against jarring scenes of self-mutilation. One second a man is collecting plant samples from [...]
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Jump Ship: the new song from Brooklyn band Railbird
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This is a band you should know. I’ve been fortunate enough to write and perform with these guys and gals based in Brooklyn and I’m continually blown away by what they come up with. Sarah Pedinotti is the frontwoman, a brilliant singer, musician, arranger and composer. I’m always surprised how she can take a song [...]
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Surrealist paintings by Brooklyn artist Robert Lucy
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There’s just not enough surrealism in the world, which makes Robert Lucy’s paintings extra important to me. I believe he refers to them as ‘figurative’, but I’ve never seen dolls like these before. Maybe they are magical realism. I first got turned on to his work at an open house in Bushwick, Since then, he’s [...]
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The mind-melting fluoro coloured world of Brooklyn artist James Blagden
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What’s not to like about the fun, fluoro-dripped world of New York illustrator James Blagden, whose work is so bright and trippy, I feel like I need to wear shades just to do them justice. This guy going to be big, big, BIG. If these illustrations don’t do it for you, check out his stunning [...]
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St Jerome’s 2013 Laneway Festival
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St Jerome’s 2013 Laneway Festival in Sydney posed a number of questions for the young, hip crowd in attendance to one of the big festivals that sits just off the edge of mainstream. Would it rain on the festival goers? Could gumboots be risked as possible fashionable items anyway? Who would hit it off with [...]
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A look into Australian artist Kid Zoom’s childhood home
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Ian Strange, aka Kid Zoom, is an Australian-born visual artist now based in Brooklyn. Just when we thought we’d lost him to the US forever, he recently returned home to built a giant replica of his childhood home inside Cockatoo Island’s famous Turbine Hall in Sydney. Running for just over a week, the project also [...]
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Hipster dads get their own mag
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Paper Mag pointed us to Kindling Quarterly, a new magazine that celebrates fatherhood and hipster dads, with a comment that it’s ‘kind of cute and very well designed, even if it’s laughably Brooklyn (e.g., every dad pictured has facial hair and is sporting flannels and/or Steven Alan sweaters)’. Hmm, ukeleles, warm portraits lit by natural daylight, whimsical homes… yep, very hipster indeed — and gorgeous too.
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K/LLER Collection: jewelry from Brooklyn
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Katie deGuzman and Michael Miller met at Parsons in 2000 but it took them 10 years and some frustrating work experiences to start their own business, K/LLER Collection. Now they are tearing apart found materials and objects to create androgynous but still quite feminine jewelry. The characters of HBO’s True Blood wear their broken-down-aesthetic-pieces on the show.
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Rooftop-parking garage in Melbourne transformed into veggie plots
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From Brooklyn to Hong Kong, Durban to Melbourne, urban gardening is on the rise. Adding a bit of green to the concrete jungle, clever urbanites-turned-green thumbs are creating hidden spaces to nurture and grow everything from vegetables to chickens to beehives. Pop Up Patch in Melbourne is one of our favorite projects to come out of this movement.
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Burlesque stars naked and in full costume
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Brooklyn-based photographer Van Sarki got the idea for his Burlesque Compere series when he realized one of his college friends was a burlesque star. He photographs beautiful dual portraits of the performers in their stripped down state and in their full elaborate burlesque getup. Plans for a book are in the pipeline too.
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Ignacio’s Mostly Latin Lunch: short video by Todd Selby
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From lifestyle photographer, illustrator and food creative, Todd Selby, comes this charming digital short. In the film, New York-based Chef Ignacio Mattos creates a Latin lunch for his friends and family at this home in Brooklyn. It’s a sweet snapshot of one chef’s every day life in New York. [Ignacio's Mostly Latin Lunch, A Selby Film. Presented by T, The [...]
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Awesome street art by Brooklyn-based Australian The Yok
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Even though The Yok lives in Brooklyn nowadays, we can call his street art Australian, because that’s where he’s originally from: Perth. The loopy characters with the awesome staches and beards do not only look good on walls, but also on canvas, as paintings and illustrations. His potato headed gargoyles have been exhibited around the world, from Berlin to Taipei, and his success doesn’t seem to stagnate. So if you love surfing like The Yok does, keep your eyes open for an original artwork close to your local beach, too.
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Kinfolk: a unique bar in NYC and Tokyo
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So four years after opening a small bar in Tokyo and plenty of Whiskey Sours poured, my good friends at Kinfolk recently opened their new spot in Brooklyn, NYC. It’s got a really good stocked bar and I also hear the food is some New York’s finest. Get down and check them out if you’re in the area. It’ll be worth your while.
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