FAILE’s Large-Scale Venice Beach Installation

Rancho V's Rocco Gardner commissions the Brooklyn artist duo for a meaningful mural

741 California Ave in Venice Beach isn’t your average city corner. Here, Brooklyn art duo FAILE have installed, by hand, 16,000 custom tiles inspired by the city’s iconography. It stretches across the home of Rancho V‘s Rocco Gardner, occupying a facade roughly the size of three billboards. It’s the largest tile mural by FAILE thus far. Gardner had observed the area’s rapid changes and wanted …

Marijuana as a Non-Profit Industry

No longer a question of if, it’s really a matter of when the US—like Canada—will legalize recreational marijuana use. As producers in states that have already embraced the bud can attest to, a commercial endeavor in the weed industry leads to competition, marketing and more. To prevent that from getting out of hand (in Canada) medical researcher Francois Gagnon has proposed a unique idea: “delete …

Queens of the Stone Age: The Way You Used To Do

With production by the sonic wizard Mark Ronson, one might expect the forthcoming Queens of the Stone Age album Villains (out 25 August) to be a departure from their hard rock soundscape. But, if new single “The Way You Used To Do” hints toward greater expectations from the LP, it’s clear that another rock tour de force is on its way. There are pop flourishes, …