Posts tagged with Minneapolis
August 19, 2011 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak |
Izzy’s Ice Cream Cafe in Minneapolis has taken frozen treats into the digital age by installing RFID technology in their freezers and on their scoopers to keep track of the availability of their flavors, so that customers can know exactly what’s on the menu by checking online before they make the trek out to the store.
April 2, 2011 | New Photography | by Contributions |
Photographer Josh Kohanek has new imagery composed at Gay 90s, a bar in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where drag shows are performed six nights a week. Read more
January 21, 2011 | New Trends | by Zolton |
It always amazes me how much outdoor advertising is uninspiring, flat, and unmemorable, when all you need to kickstart a campaign, and conversation, is a great idea, an element of interaction, and superb execution. Simple, really. This Minneapolis bus shelter, by ad agency Colle + McVoy, promotes Caribou Coffee’s new hot breakfast sandwiches in a way that is both eye-catching and memorable. Heck, it even comes ‘equipped with real heaters to keep the waiting commuters warm in this cold weather’.
December 27, 2010 | New Music | 
by Gerry Mak |
With permanent and occasional members based in Minneapolis, New Orleans, and New York, ethereal gypsy-folk band Dark Dark Dark has roots in many places, which reflects in its music. The meandering piano, haunting strings, and wheezing accordion that are the heart of the music seem of yet beyond all time and genre, especially with lead vocalist Nona Marie Invie’s gorgeous voice floating above it all. Their albums are great, but this is certainly a band to check out live. Luckily they tour a lot.
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June 8, 2010 | New Music | by Anna Trier |
I have to say I have always been a sucker for a band with an accordion, so when I meet the Minneapolis based Dark Dark Dark in Venice this summer and they not only had an accordion but an upright bass and a cello, I fell in love with their sound. This music is magnanimous, touching and intuitively narrative. It is some sort of mix between Eastern European folk music, jazz and a soulful piano singer, but it doesn’t get lost to any one category that could be used to describe it.
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February 2, 2010 | New Trends | by Gerry Mak 
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Let’s take a road trip, just you and me. We’ll stop at every dive bar and truck stop from here to Minneapolis, and crash on dirty, beer-stained couches in the houses of people we barely know. We’ll wake up every morning, struggling to remember the night before or what city we’re in, and hit the road again. We’ll only have two albums in the car: Slayer’s Reign in Blood and Thriller by UK-based noise-rock trio Part Chimp. Years from now, when we’re settled down in mild-mannered burbs on opposite sides of the country, with our kids and wives and jobs, we’ll look down at the faded tattoos on our arms-dancing hotdogs wearing sunglasses with the words ‘BROS FOREVER’ underneath — and know that we had truly lived.
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January 29, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
Let’s take a road trip, just you and me. We’ll stop at every dive bar and truck stop from here to Minneapolis, and crash on dirty, beer-stained couches in the houses of people we barely know. We’ll wake up every morning, struggling to remember the night before or what city we’re in, and hit the road again. We’ll only have two albums in the car: Slayer’s Reign in Blood and Thriller by UK-based noise-rock trio Part Chimp. Years from now, when we’re settled down in mild-mannered burbs on opposite sides of the country, with our kids and wives and jobs, we’ll look down at the faded tattoos on our arms — dancing hotdogs wearing sunglasses with the words ‘BROS FOREVER’ underneath — and know that we had truly lived.
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November 19, 2009 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
As abstract as Paul Metzger‘s hypnotic, thrumming improvisations are, they have recognizable influences from Middle Eastern, Chinese, and Japanese folk traditions with the Minneapolis-based musician seeming to summon an entire orchestra of ancient sounds and extinct instruments from his cymbal-rigged guitar and 24-string banjo, which he plucks, strums, bows, and taps.
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October 26, 2009 | New Eco | by Nikki Savvides |
The Miss Rockaway Armada is a group of about thirty artists, musicians and performers who hail from across the United States. In the summers of 2006 and 2007, the group floated down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans on a flotilla of handmade rafts. Crafted mainly from junk and recycled materials, the rafts ran on wind and solar power, were fuelled by bio-diesel, and their crew subsisted on rainwater and dumpstered meals for the entire journey. Read more
Ah, did we mention the stunning tattoo art of Thomas Hooper? Yes, we did. And then there is Wim Delvoye, who gets a strange thrill from inking the oinking. Read more
The thing about successful memes is that they generally have no purpose other than to ridicule other people with cruel and derisive humour. Hmmm, probably why we all like them so much.
Having originally sprung from the Shaky Isles (otherwise known as New Zealand), I can appreciate the humour in the New Zealand cartoon series, Bro Town, the first homegrown animated series to screen during local prime time. It’s simply brilliant, a real play on the ‘thuck’ accent and small town ways of our Kiwi brethren.
I just came back from teaching a week-long illustration workshop in Venice, Italy. After finish up the class each evening, the students and I often ran to our favourite gelateria in town, Nico. Read more
This has to be one of the best design websites going around. The greatest part of the website is how you can filter design by colour. Mix and match a couple of colours and BANG! It will show you all the designs that utilize them.
The sound New Zealand band The Brunettes make is Hallmark card pop — naïve sincerity mixed with low-fi, casual kitsch. Says chief songwriter, Jonathan Bree: ‘You’ll find us somewhere between US punk and just before classic 60s romps’. And so we will.
The latest in the Stephanie Simek jewellery collection is the Powder necklace, a pearlized Turbo Cinereus shell with tiny holes drilled into the bottom and filled with a sparkling silver-colored powder. Read more
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Pencils made from recycled newspaper
The problem with awesome things like these pencils made out of recycled newspaper is that you almost don’t want to use them.
Communication prosthesis by Sascha Nordmeyer
This ‘communication prosthesis’ by designer Sascha Nordmeyer is hilarious and awesome. I want to wear one to a job interview.
Honest Food Preparation Instructions
Yes, we’ve all been there: the chinese food from last week that still looks edible amongst the bare surrounds of an empty fridge. But really, we shouldn’t. Just let it be. Or College Humor will expose you! 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.
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
Made from 100 percent organic cotton and eco-friendly, this super soft tee celebrates a sinister world of kaleidoscopic colours and ripples of psychedelia, of serenading Queens, of dancing flamingos, of unimaginable euphoria. It’s all the work of Sydney label, Das Monk and it’s available through the Lost At E Minor online store for just US$40. Now, there’s one hell of a Christmas present, even if we do say so ourselves!
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