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Fumi Nakamura and Don John’s art show in Galapagos

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By Don John in New Events on Tuesday 16 April 2013

It all started about a year ago when I wrote a post about Fumi Nakamura from New York here on Lost At E Minor. That started a correspondence between Fumi and I. We quickly agreed that it could be great to see if we could do a show together, either in Denmark or in the US. We [...]

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Desaturated Rainbow: a travelling show of work to be exhibited in New York

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Events on Monday 15 April 2013

Expertly curated by Amir H. Fallah and Colette Robbins, Desaturated Rainbow is a travelling show of work from New York and Los Angeles artists. The show revolves around context, stereotypes and originality of how artists use color on both ends of the country. Desaturated Rainbow will run from April 11th to May 18th at Field [...]

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Reasons My Son is Crying tumblr

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Saturday 13 April 2013

Any parent would empathise with this: seemingly endless moments when their baby is crying, with a seemingly endless list of causes for the unhappiness. Part-time radio executive Greg Pembroke, a dad from Rochester, New York, basically accepted that his 20-month-old son Charlie was just going to have his frequent meltdowns and set up a hilarious [...]

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Jose Guizar illustrates the windows of New York

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Illustration on Friday 12 April 2013

Usually, it’s not socially acceptable to stare into windows. However, when you’re Jose Guizar, it’s more than okay. Windows of New York is blog of weekly illustrations of, well, windows in New York. Guizar is a graphic designer who has become increasingly fascinated with observing windows in the Big Apple, and his gorgeous illustrations highlight [...]

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Understanding artists by the stuff they own

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By Low Lai Chow in New Art on Friday 12 April 2013

Really liking the new weekly STUFF series by New York-based art blog Art F City, which illuminates artists through their stuff instead of their art. As they state, ‘Art history never elucidates the importance of the artist’s dual role as creator and person who owns STUFF, even though STUFF is important: it’s what accumulates when [...]

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Now playing: live LAPD police radio set to ambient music

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Thursday 11 April 2013

Mark this, then bookmark this: You Are Listening To Los Angeles combines live LAPD police radio with ambient music. It all started when Eric Eberhardt saw some tweets about a live police scanner webcast from soma.fm and gave it a listen: ‘Interesting stuff to be sure, but I got bored listening to just the voices [...]

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Menswear Dog shows all men how to dress well

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Friday 29 March 2013

Dogs don’t just drool. They are also capable of cleaning up their slobbering acts and picking out impeccably chic outfits. Case in point: the fashion-forward Menswear Dog from New York City, who regularly shows off his faultless sartorial choices on Instagram and Tumblr. The 3-year-old Shiba Inu is also a bit of a player — [...]

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Irving Harper: Works in Paper

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Art on Tuesday 26 March 2013

Irving Harper is an industrial designer who is best known for his logo design for Herman Miller as well as his Marshmallow Sofa and sunburst clocks. Harper was the director of design at George Nelson Associates during the 1960s, and now Skira Rizzoli has just released a book detailing a relatively unknown aspect of Harper’s [...]

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Delicate Pin Prick art by miso

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By Matt Blackwood in New Art on Monday 25 March 2013

Miso is a Melbourne based artist whose beautifully crafted pieces have an intricate balance of vulnerability with the tactile nature of a Flake chocolate bar. For her series New York Moon, she looks into the futurepast, and maps the New York city grid over the valleys and craters of that great big ball in the sky. [...]

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Beautifully Strange David Bowie Doll

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By Cheyenne Tulsa in New Art on Friday 22 March 2013

These freakishly beautiful and realistic David Bowie Dolls are the work of New York-based author and skier E.V. Svetova. Featured on the DeviantArt site (under the name Katyok), Svetova doesn’t make the 70cm high polyurethane resin dolls themselves but customises them with paint and Yamamoto-like style. Sadly, they’re not for sale, instead they are ‘created [...]

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Daily Dishonesty: Gorgeously illustrations of the lies we tell

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By Low Lai Chow in New Design on Friday 8 March 2013

Straight out of the cool brains of Lauren Hom, a graphic designer and illustrator based in New York City: that’s Daily Dishonesty, an ongoing series of illustrations of little lies and commonly abused phrases that people say all the time, like ‘We’re just friends’ and ‘Just ten more minutes’. Wicked stuff.

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Photographs by New York’s Mark Hartman

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By Mareike Muller in New Photography on Thursday 7 March 2013

Manhattan-born Mark Hartman takes photographs that are so balanced and genuine that you actually relax while looking at them. Seeing is peaceful shots of mother nature as well as his beautiful portraits of people of all different kinds cultures gives you the feeling of being there yourself; no filter, just real life.

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BookMooch: a book lovers social media dream

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By Sara Halas in Cool Websites on Thursday 7 March 2013

BookMooch is a website for avid readers who like giving away old books in exchange for ones they want to read. If somebody has a book on your wish list, they send it to you. If someone wants a book from your inventory, you send it to them. Membership is free, and has reached around [...]

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Photographs of flying babies by Rachel Hulin

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Wednesday 6 March 2013

Rhode Island and New York-based photographer Rachel Hulin’s latest series, entitled The Flying Series, features adorable and etherial floating babies. She is working on publishing a children’s book that tells the story of one flying baby in particular: Henry. Flying Henry will be released in April 2013.

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SPONSORED: An interview with RockCorps CEO Stephen Greene

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Music on Tuesday 5 March 2013

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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