Techies Project by Photographer Helena Price

Unique perspectives of Silicon Valley life, told through 100 interviews and portraits

The two words “Silicon Valley” immediately stir up stereotypes, stigma and maybe an HBO show. The name has become a cultural reflex, and that’s what photographer Helena Price wants to change with her ambitious, large-scale portrait and interview series. Techies Project, launched today, is a collection of 100 in-depth interviews that breaks this idea of the “sameness” plaguing the area. Turning the camera toward those …

Rebecca Louise Law’s “Garten” at Bikini Berlin

30,000 suspended, real flowers make for a one-of-a-kind deconstructed garden in this transient art installation

Nothing offers a greater anticipatory nudge toward the summer that awaits than real flowers. In the colder climates of the Northern Hemisphere, flowers have already begun to bloom, but within the Bikini Berlin concept shopping center something more conceptual has taken hold. With copper wire and 30,000 live flowers donated by Tollwasblumenmachen.de—an affiliate of the Flower Council of Holland—London-based artist Rebecca Louise Law created “Garten.” …

Nosaj Thing: N R 2

The mostly enigmatic LA-based beatmaker Nosaj Thing (aka Jason Chung) has something for the fans. After three intensely personal albums, he’s releasing No Reality, an EP that finds the artist pushing himself to overthink less, flow more. “Most of these songs are new and were written within the last two months. I wrote one of the songs all on my iPad, and arranged and mixed …