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Arcade Fire: The Suburbs, Favorite Tracks

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The new Arcade Fire Album, The Suburbs, is off the chain.  Click the links below to hear our favorite tracks:

Rococo
Half Light II (No Celebration)
Suburban War

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Daily Inspiration: Yago Hortal

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Images via Yago Hortal

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Minjae Lee: Abstract Artist

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Minjae Lee is a highly talented 21-year old, self-taught, South Korean artist.  Lee captivates a raw, theatrical drama using markers, pens, crayons and acrylics to manifest a dark, dramatic fairytale using ethereal female portraits as his subjects. Lee’s art has a mysterious appeal that instantly draws you in and creates a sense if intimacy and sensuality that [...]

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Big Bambú: Starns Installation on Met Rooftop

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The world is full of nice, ordinary little people who live in nice, ordinary little houses on the ground.  But didn’t you ever dream of a house up on a tree top?
How about atop the largest museum in Manhattan? Big Bambú, an installation by twins Doug and Mike Starns, dominates the roof of the Metropolitan [...]

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Shepard Fairey: Street Artist

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Shepard Fairey has a powerful and varied integration of design that covers all aspects of our visual popular culture from political art and fashion to street art and museum installations. Fairey works in a wide variety of media such as screen prints, stencils, stickers, illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal and canvas.  The core [...]

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Daily Inspiration: Norway

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Photos courtesy of Dave Pinke, my amazing friend and amateur photographer.

I’m always jealous of Dave’s amazing adventures.  Check out our last blog post on his travel videos.  Thanks Dave, we love/hate you.

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Daily Inspiration: William Kentridge

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

In preparation for his show at MoMA, we’re featuring a classic William Kentridge film, “History of the Main Complaint” completed in 1996.
His films are dark, dangerous and politically motivated.  His technique is to photograph successive charcoal drawings on the same sheet of paper.  Traces from previous drawings are usually still visible on the next frame, [...]

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Daily Inspiration: Outer Space

Thursday, January 7, 2010

There’s something really great about the vintage take on space and technology, especially as it manifested on album covers…
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Daily Inspiration: Kim Noorda for Cover Magazine

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Loving the multiple…
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Images via MODELS and but does it float

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Daily Inspiration: Mark Bradford

Monday, November 2, 2009

“Maybe it’s about mapping or tracing the ghost of cities past. It’s the pulling off of a layer and finding another underneath. It’s the reference and the details that point to people saying, ‘We exist; we were here.’”
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“I have a labor-intense practice- cutting and cutting, which is grunt work, almost mechanical. That’s foreground. But what’s [...]

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