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May 8th

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Apr 14th

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Mar 31st

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Second: Dogtooth. This Greek film from director Yorgos Lanthimos may not have the general appeal of ‘A Prophet’, but really good. Think Michael Heneke directing a Wes Anderson script? I may be off base. Overprotective parents keeping their children locked up in a walled compound, dark, funny. Another winner at this year’s Cannes (Prix Un Certain Regard). Watch the...

Mar 26th

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Mar 26th

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 22nd

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Mar 7th

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Phantom Camera + Steven Hawking + Violence = Pink Terror (by Mike Barz) Watch it larger here.

Mar 5th

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Mar 1st

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Feb 25th

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Feb 19th

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This is the trailer for Stairway to Heaven, a short film (bike porn) about a race organized by Takeover LA. The trailer is tight. The short could have been …uh shorter. It has it’s moments and a good soundtrack, but it starts to drag at parts. Not sure about the jumping from B&W to color back to B&W. Is that an artistic choice? Recap: B&W and shorter. Watch the trailer...

Feb 19th

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Feb 17th

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Feb 15th

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Neat video for the band AU from Japanese motion graphics artist Takafumi Tsuchiya. You can watch it larger here.

Feb 12th

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Halloween in Harlem

Amy Stein has a great photo series titled Halloween in Harlem. You can view more here. (via The Daily What)

Feb 11th

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Alberto Hernández

A nice portfolio from London based Alberto Hernández. You can view more of his work here. (via The Strange Attractor)

Feb 9th

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Feb 9th

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Josef Schulz

Josef Schulz alters photos of corporate signage and makes them generic & lovely. More here.

Feb 8th

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What’s not to like about this video from Belgian/Congolese rapper Baloji? He samples heavily from fellow Congolese group Konono Nº1 and the footage (shot around Kinshasa) nods heavily towards Muhammad Ali’s “Rumble in the Jungle”. I guess the album was supposed to come out January 27th…. but I guess it’s been pushed back? Dunno. You can go to Baloji’s...

Feb 8th

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Grant Harder

Snapshots from Vancouver photographer Grant Harder. You can view more of his portfolio here.

Feb 7th

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Feb 7th

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Ryan Fleck gets an A+ in awesome class: Half Nelson, Aces. Sugar….F-ing amazing. Seriously, I don’t even like baseball. ps -Don’t watch the trailer, it’s misleading.

Feb 7th

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The Guardian posted a film about fishermen in Belgium that utilize a 500 year old tradition of trawling for shrimp on horseback. You can watch it larger here.

Feb 5th

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Guy Tillim

So….not to come across as a cheapskate, but I found these photos by South African photographer Guy Tillim at the Daimler Art Collection’s website. Really haunting & beautiful portraits of child soldiers in Sierra Leone from 2001 (you can view more from his collection here). But here’s the kicker: for some reason Daimler decided to post them as 8”x10”, 360dpi....

Feb 5th

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Fresh Tripe

I was browsing through Fresh Tripe’s site and saw this. So classy. You can lurk Fresh Tripe’s site here.

Feb 5th

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Feb 3rd

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Plural

So I was having a conversation today with my friend Morgan about Chicago designers and she mentioned Plural. I hadn’t heard of them before, so she sent me their link. I really like their work, not a huge fan of the site’s interface…but whatever. Above is a poster they did for one of my favorite bars, The Whistler, that is responsible for many lost memories. You can view more...

Feb 3rd

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Dennis Hopper Photos '61-67

Not sure who does pricing over at Taschen….but they’ve just released a book of Dennis Hopper’s photos throughout the 60’s. I think $700 is a little pricey, but maybe Barnes & Noble has a display copy that we can casually leaf through. Also, I watched Hearts of Darkness the other night, the documentary about Coppola attempting to make Apocalypse Now… Jesus!...

Feb 3rd

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Feb 3rd

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Penguin Great Ideas

Penguin Books has a four part series titled “Great Ideas”. The goal of the series is to publish special editions of books that presented ideas that somehow changed the course of history. Some great covers too, but I guess that’s Penguin’s thing, right? You can browse the collection here.

Feb 1st

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Hubert Blanz

Really cool photography from Hubert Blanz. You can see more of his work here.

Feb 1st

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Print Liberation

I just bought a shirt from Philly based Print Liberation. Browsing their site has inspired me to clean out our own screen printing studio in the basement…it’s fallen into disrepair (maybe tomorrow). I should also plug their book which is a great primer on silk screening. You can buy some tees or the book at their site here.

Feb 1st

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“Light Forms” is a cool experimental animated short by Malcolm Sutherland. Watch it larger here.

Feb 1st

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Josh Keyes

I noticed Josh Keyes work a few months back on ffffound! and really loved it, but just came across a print that he’s selling through Tiny Showcase to raise money for Haiti. $15 from the sale of each archival print will be donated to the relief organization Partners in Health. You can purchase the print here. More of Josh’s work is below or you can visit his site here. ...

Jan 31st

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Jan 30th

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Paco Pomet

Sesame Street & Somalia?… Obelix & Shantytown?…Spanish artist Paco Pomet creates absurd (and sometimes amusing) worlds from reimagined current & iconic photos. Supposedly, his oil paintings are massive and these images may not do them justice. You can view more of his work here.

Jan 28th

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I’ve written about Kelly Meador & Daniel Elwing before, the Portland based duo go under the name Impactist. Music, film, motion graphics, short stories, photos, print….they do it all. They’ve just released a short titled “Hello Neighbor”, which features music from their Hello Neighbor EP. Since the EP is a download only and would probably be listened to on an iPod...

Jan 28th

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Howard Zinn, RIP

Howard Zinn, Boston University professor and the author of “A People’s History of the United States” died in Santa Monica, CA at 87.

Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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Christian Faur

Ohio artist Christian Faur creates his own analog version of pixel painting using hundreds of Crayola crayons. You can view more of Christian’s work here.

Jan 26th

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Jan 26th

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Maguila #14

Maguila #14 is out now. The PDF zine is put out by the Sao Paulo art & design collective Base V and features a number of artists, coincidentally including Talita Hoffman that I wrote about two days ago. Download it here.

Jan 25th

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Director Benjamin Ducroz used a mixture of 3D renderings printed out on an inkjet and basic watercolor paints to create this really cool stop motion short “PRESS+”. You can view more of Ducroz’s work here. Watch it larger here.

Jan 24th

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FREEDOM, RHYTHM & SOUND

Soul Jazz Records in London has released “Freedom, Rhythm & Sound” as both a book and double LP. The book, edited by Gilles Peterson & Stuart Baker, features 200 pages of album sleeve artwork from jazz artists at the forefront of the civil rights movement from 1965-1982. The corresponding album features 23 tracks including Archie Shepp, Sun Ra & The Art Ensemble of...

Jan 24th

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Talita Hoffman

Talita Hoffman lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil and I am really digging her illustrations and artwork. She doesn’t seem to have a website, so in the meantime you can view more of her work via Flickr here. (Thanks to The Strange Attractor for the link)

Jan 24th

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Jan 23rd

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Naoko Ito

New York based artist Naoko Ito has chopped down some trees and stuck them in jars. You can view his site here. (Thanks to Colectiva for the link)

Jan 22nd