From the LAEM Store: Passo Dello Stelvio tee by Vaughn de Heart

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By Alison Shepard in New Fashion on Friday 17 May 2013

Passo Dello Stelvio is the Italian mountain pass high above the sea, regarded as the most beautiful driving road in the world. Clothing designer Vaughn de Heart with an always unique graphic play on text and color sums up this very traverse and its feeling with a new shirt. Aquatic blue with a bold yet [...]

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Photographs of semi-nude girls by Liesje Reyskens

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By Angela Sofo in New Photography on Friday 17 May 2013

Bright and intense colours, originality, sensuality and innocence characterize the work of this young photographer. Liesje Reyskens is a graduate of the Media and Design Academy KHLIM in Genk, Belgium. A contemporary photographer with an international and modern style, she aims for a naive, fairy-tale look in her images and she often does the make-up [...]

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Tony Fitzpatrick’s latest exhibition at The Pierogi Gallery

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By Michael Amter in New Art on Friday 17 May 2013

The Pierogi Gallery impresses again with Tony Fitzpatrick’s latest exhibition The Other Kind. Fitzpatrick is a talented playwright, performer, radio personality, with a natural ability for the visual arts. The show focuses on the artist’s obsessive collage work, loaded with iconic graphic imagery.

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Illustrations by Eszter Zetelaki

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By luca meneghel in New Illustration on Friday 17 May 2013

These illustrations by Eszter Zetelaki let you enter a personal world of dreams, moods and thoughts through a metaphorical aspect. They are frisky and meaningful. I find them really inspiring.

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Dreams Factory: a Buenos Aires-based handmade sunglasses company

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By Mareike Muller in New Fashion on Friday 17 May 2013

If you literally feel like widening your horizon, you should take a closer look at one particular suburb of Buenos Aires called San Isidro. It’s a beautiful, hip area where a lot of creative people and artists reside and work. For instance, Dreams Factory, a local company manufacturing sunglasses and graduated glasses. All hand made [...]

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Jeff Bridges’ collection of photos from movie sets

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Friday 17 May 2013

Just recently, Jeff Bridges has been nominated for an award for the photographs he’s been taking on the sets of movies he’s been involved in since 1984. Who knew this famous actor and producer was compiling this incredible collection of photos for all these years? His website has tons of behind-the-scenes pictures and Bridges’ own [...]

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Nietzsche Family Circus

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By Erik Kraft in Cool Websites on Friday 17 May 2013

I don’t remember all that much about the Nietzsche that I’ve read. I do, however, remember the essence of The Family Circus, and I find it more nihilistic than anything old Friedrich wrote. If you swap out the grody familial schlock and put in some random Nietzsche quotes, it improves the comic considerably. I almost [...]

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Real life baroque paintings by Claudia Rogge

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By Angela Sofo in New Photography on Friday 17 May 2013

I discovered Claudia Rogge two years ago. She is a German artist and photographer whose bodies collection creates a wide range of artistic human patterns. One of her cycle of works is inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy and illustrates Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in her personal vision. These images remind me of the atmosphere of [...]

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Wild african animals photographed by George Logan

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By Angela Sofo in New Photography on Friday 17 May 2013

Translocation, a book by multi-award winning photographer George Logan, is a collection of wonderful pictures. This work seems to have a funny appearance but the real meaning of this project is to let people know how important it is to eliminate suffering and preserve wildlife in its free and wild state. To complete Translocation, Logan had [...]

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Rembrandt Van Gogh: are they the same person?

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By Roberto Voorbij in New Art on Friday 17 May 2013

Rembrandt van Gogh or Vincent van Rijn is the theme of this collage by Amsterdam graphic designer Jeroen Huijbregts. This perfect symbiosis of Van Rijn and Van Gogh goes beyond just a physical analogy. Vincent van Gogh adored Rembrandt. For that matter, it’s certainly possible that this specific portrait of Rembrandt served as an inspiration for Van Gogh.

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Abandoned urban spaces: a photo series by Lori Nix

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By Angela Sofo in New Photography on Friday 17 May 2013

Lori Nix is a non-traditional photographer who is best known for her meticulously constructed subject matter. She was born in Kansas and studied ceramics and photography. Nix uses background to hand-construct her scenery and various methods of lighting, scale, and materials to recreate visions she has for her photos. Her project, The City, is a representation of a [...]

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The many posters of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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By Stuart McBratney in New Design on Friday 17 May 2013

When a film is released today, it’s treated as a brand. Like a burger chain’s logo, artwork for posters and Blu-ray covers barely change between markets. But back in the 70s it was a different story. So when indie horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre deservedly became a global sensation, distributors from Germany to Ghana had [...]

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From the LAEM Store: Sarah Beetson Art Prints

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By Alison Shepard in New Art on Friday 17 May 2013

Introducing 2 incredible new limited edition prints from artist/illustrator extraordinaire, Sarah Beetson, signed and hand-screened (with 20+ colors, to boot!). What we love most about Sarah Beetson is her exploration of body images and perversities in pop culture, all shown in an outwardly playful and dynamic explosion of color. We’re thrilled to have snagged a [...]

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Street artist Hush

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By jen disisto in New Art on Friday 17 May 2013

The artist who goes by the name of Hush is a prolific street artist who has taken to fine art as well. His work depicts geishas with generally high contrast images that layer up graffiti to create complex patterns. A lot of the work relies on a palette comprised of primary colors.

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Ryan Gosling’s cereal problem

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By Francis Andrews in New Trends on Friday 17 May 2013

Sometimes the best things in life are of the simplest, most mundane kind, like this collection of six second clips, known in iSpeak as Vines, of Ryan Gosling refusing his cereal.

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