The North Face Founder Douglas Tompkins Dies at 72

Douglas Tompkins—a non-stop adventurer, prolific conservationist and founder of The North Face—has died on Tuesday at the age of 72 while exploring the Patagonia region of southern Chile. Before founding The North Face, Tompkins spent his days hiking, skiing and climbing mountains—a life he later returned to after selling his stake in the company to focus on his conservation efforts. He spent most of his …

Elise Peterson’s #blackfolk Series Challenges the Art World’s Whiteness

From Foxy Brown, Grace Jones, Sade and more, Brooklyn-based artist Elise R. Peterson adds photos of prominent black figures to fine art paintings in a collision of creative eras. The collage series, called #blackfolk, is Peterson’s way of opening up a conversation around gender, identity, sexuality, blackness and people who are marginalized. Speaking to the FADER, she explains, “The work […] evolved into not only …

Watch a Cardboard Guitar Come to Life

For their latest experimental project, Signal Snowboards—a company known for previously building a skateboard, push bike and surfboard from cardboard—has ventured into the music world. Teaming up with Fender and Ernest Packaging, they built a custom Stratocaster guitar completely from the paper product and then passed it around to factory workers and musicians to test it out. Watch the cardboard guitar come to life at …