Simply Red: Stars

Cascine's Guilty Summer mix, School of Seven Bells, a PrivateJam by musician Jonny Nash and more in the music this week

School of Seven Bells’ cover of the Joey Ramone song “I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up)” is beyond bittersweet. As a listener, it would be hard enough not to be taken by the lyrics, which describe Ramone’s seven-year battle with lymphoma toward the end of his highly successful career. But compounded by the fact this version is the last song recorded (from his …

The Serpentine’s Unearthly Summer Pavilion

Futuristic workwear in Milan, London's new Serpentine Pavilion, electronic sign language and more in our weekly look at the web

For well over a decade now, London’s Serpentine Galleries have annually commissioned a different architect to create a temporary structure in the famous Hyde Park space, and this year’s concept from Chilean designer Smiljan Radic presents what’s sure to be the project’s most obscure offering to date. Radic’s cocoon-like alien structure presents a great juxtaposition of materials and textures; massive boulders strewn about set the …

TrapCrunch

Futuristic workwear in Milan, London's new Serpentine Pavilion, electronic sign language and more in our weekly look at the web

Following the launch of Buzzfeed parody site ClickHole by The Onion, this week we saw the introduction of TrapCrunch, a new satire site taking aim at TechCrunch. From Tim Cook leaving Apple for G-Unit to Elon Musk giving public access to his Facebook account, the cheeky site is filled with hilarious faux-innovation stories and impossible products, making it as clever as one would hope.