Simon Joyner: Beautiful Losers

You know that weird musician friend of yours that would be huge if he wasn’t such an asshole and didn’t smoke so much pot? Simon Joyner strikes me as that kind of guy, only he got a few breaks along the way and achieved a small celebrity among a group of artists who shun the limelight (a patch that includes Mountain Goats and Will Oldham). …

Third Drawer Down Limited Edition Dish Towels

Bringing art and style into the everyday doesn't have to be out of reach or precious. Companies like Ikea and Target are helping drive that point home. Third Drawer Down, an Australian company, makes limited edition dish towels, aprons, napkins and runners using silkscreens and embroidery. Abigail Compton has taken work by artists/designers including Royal Art Lodge from Canada, Tobias Rottger from Germany, Frederique Daubal …

SXSW Highlights

SXSW is: …Southern sui generis, like this sign reminding people not to forget their cowboy hats or oil boom-era cell phones in their rental car. …finding the way out of a labyrinth movie theater with help from Rachel McIntosh, who won an award at SXSW for her charming pop-up book-based music video called Don’t Fuck With Love by The Sad Little Stars. Turns out the …