Bruce Weber + Shinola Pet Accessories

Deborah Sussman's vibrant career, outlaw Instagrammers, the truth about yawning and more in our look at the web this week

Photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber has long involved his beautiful dogs in the creation of iconic images. It makes sense then that he’s partnered with Shinola for a line of pet accessories and stationery. In true Shinola form, women from local Detroit shelters have been employed to produce the plush balls in the series, benefitting the community for the sake of a thoughtful item for …

Leikeli47: Two Times a Charm

Devonté Hynes' piano improvisation, Kindness' "World Restart," a look back at Secret Machines and more in the music we tweeted this week

Rapper Leikeli47 is masked in mysteryliterally. The artist who crosses genres from soul to Caribbean step has only been photographed wearing a mask and her videos usually feature her friends instead of the artist herself. Her recent single “Two Times a Charm” sees the most advanced confluence of influences in the (supposedly) Brooklyn-based rapper’s catalogue. Quick spit verses la Busta Rhymes seamlessly turn to an …

Blood Orange: Piano Improvisation 1

Devonté Hynes' piano improvisation, Kindness' "World Restart," a look back at Secret Machines and more in the music we tweeted this week

Blood Orange—aka Devonté Hynes—spent a late night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music preparing for his upcoming TEDxMartha’sVineyard talk, and took a break to “have a laff” and ended up creating this calming piano improvisation. The NYC-based musical mastermind—and subject of a Cool Hunting video—began by playing the piano at age seven, before moving onto the cello, then the guitar and seemingly any piece of …