The Collect Music Series

Lo-fi music videos from Barking Irons

Bringing new bands to light, NYC clothiers Barking Irons‘ recently launched an acoustic video series The Collect, created in partnership with creative production agency Phearcreative. The resulting videos capture musicians as they write, perform and discuss their music. So far, the Collect has illuminated the work of eight artists, including Riverboat Gamblers and Justin Towne Earle. Barking Irons will continue to show more of “cool …

The Official Be Stupid Philosophy

Diesel's video explaining why stupidity is so truly smart

You may have noticed the Diesel ads recently running on CH (not to mention plastered all over NYC), and while we’ve heard no shortage of criticism from the haters out there, we think the “Be Stupid” campaign actually pretty brilliantly nails a particular cultural moment that’s very “now.” Based on the notion that without stupid thoughts creativity wouldn’t really evolve, Diesel shows that taking a …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Drunken revelries at the Times, state-of-the-art bathing, vintage models of brains, the newest music videos and more

1. Lady Gaga: Telephone The highly anticipated follow-up to the pop giant’s music video “Bad Romance,” covered by On Smash, finds our Lady jailed in ripped tights, latex and caution tape. She gets sprung by Beyoncé, (whose music video Videophone last year featured Gaga) and the two cause general nonsensical mayhem and mass homicide in the spirit of “Kill Bill.” 2. Kid Cudi: Pursuit of …