Versionfest
Chicago's 4th annual Versionfest is 18 days of experimental art, guerrilla graphics, indie music, political activism, and technology, opening today, 20 April 2006, and running through 7 May 2006. For the Urban …
Ami Kealoha
Little People: Mickey Mouse Operation
Like others schooled in hip-hop who make electronic music, UK-based Little People (aka Laurent Clerc) is like a soundtrack to an operatic cartoon. In fact, Clerc scored films and theater before coming …
Fotolog.book
An offline component to the world's largest photo blogging community, Fotolog.book is 1,000 of the millions of digital images posted to Fotolog in its four year history. Edited by former New Yorker photography critic Andrew Long, the hard bound anthology ranges widely in tone, subject, and style—from artsy black and white compositions to spontaneous quotidian moments—but the photos all share a unique straight-ahead point of view and comments left by users function as off-the-cuff captions. Sections include more straightforward themes like "Domestica", esoteric concepts such as "Dialog", and photographer-specific chapters. The opening series titled, "New York, New York", includes an uncredited Laurie Anderson quote that may describe the book and the digital photography phenomenon (and perhaps the entire modern era) most eloquently: "This is the time, and this is the record of the time."
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The Vines: Vision Valley
Three years after the debut of Highly Evolved, a 2004 release that barely registered, and frontman Craig Nicholls' diagnosis wth Aspergers, the Vines have a new album that came out this month …
Puma Easter Clydes
Better than an Easter bonnet, 300 of each of these three new colorways—Lavender, Paradise Green, and Aurora Yellow—will be available exclusively at Barney's nationwide starting 15 April 2006. Featuring artwork by tattoo …
New York Auto Show Preview
Four years after the debut of the Scion, Toyota unveiled an all-new sport coupe concept called Fuse yesterday at the New York auto show press preview. Like Toyota's concept minivan, the F3R, …
Gym Dandies Children’s Circus
Where on earth do six-foot unicycles, flying lacrosse balls, intermediate/middle school age students, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade have anything in common? You'll never guess…on the rocky coast of Scarborough, Maine, …
Refinery29: Radical Reconstruction
Thrift store fanatics This Old Thing? are well aware that many people consider the reconstructed vintage thing a tired trend. Relying more on meticulous craftsmanship than the gimmicky design that has marred …
Salone Satellite 2006
Hopping a fence to get to the Salone Satellite from the main furniture fair made it clear that the grouping of smaller independent designers and schools was separated not only by the …