Posts tagged with New Orleans
March 2, 2011 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
Inspired by the storied history and the haunting aesthetic of her home city of New Orleans, Brandi Couvillion creates gorgeous assemblages and jewelry from found and discarded objects and artifacts. Read more
March 2, 2011 | Cool Travel | by Gerry Mak |
New Orleans is known for its food, but not all of it is cajun. Check out Pho Tau Bay in the West Bank, a place that serves really excellent Vietnamese noodle soups and bahn mi sandwiches. I had the bo kho (beef stew) had loads of super tender beef and big chunks of carrot, the broth was savory and rich, and the glass noodles were perfectly chewy and satisfying.
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 29, 2010 | New & Cool Architecture | by Lin Tan |
As part of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right project in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans — the area infamously known for being catastrophically destroyed by Hurricane Katrina — architectural group, Morphosis designed The Float House in hopes to aid residents in coping with living in the flood-susceptible area. The Float House is green, cheap-ish ($150,000), and made from mostly pre-fabricated material. Above all the thing actually floats, like a boat, whenever it floods.
February 3, 2010 | New Products | by The Urban Grocer |
Most people crochet hats, gloves, and scarves. Clare Crespo, however, knits oysters on the half shell, hamburgers, sushi, and smoked salmon. Yup, it’s yarn intended to make your mouth water. In her latest collection, Crespo’s creative talent is focused on Mardi Gras, that infamous New Orleans carnival celebrated in her native Louisiana. Traditional, hyper-local eats, like seafood gumbo, beignets, catfish poboys, and soft shell crabs, have made their way into her inventive crocheted ode to the city. Read more
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
Jessica Allan is working as a freelance illustrator in Shoreditch. Her work is a mixture of screen prints, etchings and mixed media, and she is inspired by dreams, narrative, meditation, Mexico, Japanese patterns, Aubrey Beardsley and M.C.Escher. Read more
It’s looks as if, in the cover of the night, the mysterious Banksy has left his mark once more, this time on a wall in Fitzrovia, London. Read more
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
We’ve just launched a new Bullet Web Studio designed website to complement our new weekly email publication, My Secret Playlist, in which we invite our favourite bands and musicians to give us the rundown on their eight favourite songs or albums right now. The latest band to do a Secret Playlist for us is Washington-based indie rockers, Jukebox The Ghost. Check it out, and check them out below.
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Describing their sound as ‘nihilist suicide pop’, Rome-based quartet Spiritual Front draws immediate comparisons to Nick Cave, but their approach to dark themes have a hint of irreverence — they inject unexpected doo-wop flares and new wave bombast to their atmospheric neofolk. Their latest album, Armageddon Gigalo, is a beautiful and catchy masterpiece for fans of Death In June, Sol Invictus, and even latter-day Duran Duran.
The largest selection of hats you will ever find is at The Berkeley Hat Company. Specializing in all types of hats, even if you want to blend in with Polar Bears or a Yeti, they have you covered. Literally.
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Valentine’s Week has us in the mood for love, and nothing says that better than the Punk Ring by Lusasul. Romance meets badass, just the way we like it. Available now in the Lost At E Minor store.
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