Posts tagged with noah butkus
August 2, 2007 | New Fashion | by Zolton |
We’ve long been a fan of the work of illustrator and designer Noah Butkus, so it was nice to stumble upon a cool little write-up about him on the BiBaBiDi blog: ‘His stuff is very impressive. I am a huge fan of Moebius, and this guy obviously draws heavily from the legendary French artist. Ah, look! Noah’s testimony: “When I was 14, I was fortunate enough to meet him and he has been the biggest influence on my work”. Like Moebius, he draws in a science-fiction sort of style and uses tons of details to fill up every page. Also like Moebius, he has a slightly shaky line, which makes the work look more organic and natural’. Read more
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July 31, 2007 | New Products | by Casper Johansson |
Created by Brooklyn artist Ryan Waller, the New College Beat is a ‘small circulation, self-published work of minority interest’. The latest issue features the work of Noah Butkus and Steven Harrington among others and ‘was created in response to the art of scrying, a practice used to discover the future and to re-imagine the present’. Read more
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September 29, 2006 | New Events | by Zolton |
This one comes direct from the source: ‘Appearing spontaneously in elevators throughout Melbourne’s CBD, Random Acts of Elevator Music will enlighten the consciousness of office workers with live muzaktronica. Dressed in suits, their portable studio hidden in briefcases, who knows where these undercover sonic redesigners will next strike. Log on to their website for the inside tip on where and when to experience the soothing oscillations and melodies of Random Acts of Elevator Music. Just don’t tell your HR department or the security guy at the front desk. Random Acts of Elevator Music will occur in CBD office buildings on weekdays within office hours during the Melbourne Fringe Festival between Monday October 2 and Friday October 13. Each evening information will be posted to the Random Acts of Elevator Music website on where they will appear the following day’. [see also Noah Butkus]
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September 21, 2006 | New Illustration | by Zolton |
As well as creating some wicked t-shirt designs, American illustrator Noah Butkus has done some really interesting and creative work for Burton Snowboards. He told the Road Trip Nation website: ‘I just grew up skateboarding at a real early age and reading comic books … just drawing and drawing and did that my whole teenage life’. There’s more of his work at his Safe As Kittens website. [see also Edwina White]
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This design by Gabriel Dishaw is an original creation constructed from little more than old junk such as adding machines, typewriters, and computer parts bound together using wire. Read more
Do the Norwegians know something we don’t? On a remote island near the North Pole they’re going to build a seed vault that is able to survive future cataclysmic events such as asteroid strikes, nuclear war or climate change. Read more
The t-shirt range of Lollipop Loretta is essentially a bright and bubbly collection of wearable art. There are only two of each shirt in each size and the illustrative monster characters are printed on quality American Apparel shirts. Fun! Read more
Argentinean artist Benito Laren’s illustrations roll through the mind like a restless childhood memory. They remind me of building blocks — solid, inviting and always full of potential.
The uber-hip French producer M83 has compiled a Secret Playlist for us in which he props Brian Eno, Julee Cruise, and Tears For Fears’ Head Over Heels: ‘This song was the biggest influence for my new album. Our track, Kim and Jesse, takes a lot of inspiration from 80s bands like Tears for Fears. This is one of my favourites’. Read the rest of M83’s Secret Playlist.
Oh man, my eyeballs feel like they’re dropping out of my head. This clip is pyschedelic in a way that platform shoes and polyester shoes could never be. The Faint are the shizz, and that’s the truth.
Bay Area duo The Human Quena Orchestra sounds like a skyscraper falling in slow motion with their scraping, crashing, screeching drone pounded out of guitars, samplers, and circuit-bent electronics. Listen to their track Progress below.
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Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Alex Passapera’s dizzying pen and ink drawings are cascades of images melting into one another, often looking like contorting, mutating creatures spewing blood-like ink splatters. Read more
Wheeeeee! This game is so freaking fun! You move your cursor over each dot to make them split into four smaller dots ad infinitum.
Amazing cake designs by Charm City Cakes
Baltimore company Charm City Cakes produces the most innovative wedding and party cakes on the market. Inspiration for these creative bakers comes from everywhere: art, fabric, furniture, architecture, landscapes, science, and music, and each cake is individually designed to match your personality, and the theme of the occasion you are celebrating. Don’t miss these cakey engineering masterpieces. Read more
Karen Caldicott’s clay head models
British born, New York-based model maker Karen Caldicott has been making clay heads for all major US publications over the last decade. Read more
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
This beautiful archival pigment print by New York-based illustrator, Fernanda Cohen, is called Fashion Ruined My Life. And it speaks for itself. Just look at her face! We have it for sale for just $75 in the Lost At E Minor online store. Read more
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