The collaborative short film Prada commissioned from Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola to advertise their new Candy fragrance clocks in at just about three and a half minutes, but has all the familiar details of Anderson's longer features.
The three episodes, starring Léa Seydoux, chronicle the romantic exploits of two best friends dating the same woman simultaneously with the understated dialog and raucous soundtrack (this time provided by supercool French rocker Jacques Dutronc) that works so well in the duo's earlier collaborations.
With all the blood, sweat and tears bands put into making an album, it follows that they'd like to present their music in a package that will stand the test of time. But encasing your album in a block of sugar, that's a statement of a different kind.
The duo Beacon (Thomas Mullarney and Jacob Gossett) met in school at Pratt, and the former art students have teamed with sculptor buddy Fernando Mastrangelo on the case for a deluxe edition of their upcoming album, The Ways We Seperate. Mastrangelo has cast a piece of all white sugar with the acronym for the album title debossed on the front. On the back, there's an inlay where the precious vinyl will rest. You will want to keep this away from children, pots of coffee, and open flames, we think.
The Ways We Separate is out on Ghostly International on April 30th.
For some of us, names like J. Grant Brittain are just as important as Tony Hawk and Mark Gonzales in skateboarding lore. Brittain's images of star skateboarders of the 1980s helped catapult the sport into the imaginations of young people across North America and beyond. It made skaters like Christian Hosoi household names. Decades later, skate photography of the '80s has an unmatched allure, both for its technical aspects (capturing high-speed action beautifully) and historical importance in independent pop culture. Brittain, you might know, kept on shooting into present day.
As luck would have it, Brittain is on Etsy selling prints of his iconic (to us, anyway) original skate photos.
Just find those old Bones Brigade VHS tapes and your skate shrine is on its way.
Mark Gonzales
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Being a New Yorker is kind of like Fight Club. You don’t even have to talk about the sometimes-brutal nature of the best city in the world to a fellow subway straphanger, or sailor-mouth lady tossing back shots at the bar. Because we wear a certain look like a certified badge: “Oh, this shit again.” And, FYI, there’s no tapping out unless you plan on heading upstate for an extended vacay.
As a fairly recent newcomer to NYC, artist Nathan Pyle observed the New Yorkers code and created a funny, informative series of GIFs, “NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette,” that describe the bizarre, albeit charming, bubble that is NYC living. We must confess, we too have gone "upstream" to get a cab.
A design student in New Brunswick, NJ has just launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign with the goal of creating a new shade of black. If the project reaches its funding goal, the new shade will actually be the first crowd-sourced color. The designer, Nick Black, has a practical future in mind for the project: he'll develop the shade with Pantone, so the color will have its own hex code, RGB, and CMYK values to make sure it can actually be used for design projects. The campaign is running until March 31, and rewards for backers include iPhone wallpapers, swatches, a gallon of the new black paint, and some custom posters.
One look at the artwork of Romanian-born twin brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias and we sense that they communicate via a secret code that no one else understands. And that’s what makes their huge paintings, woodcut prints, and drawings so captivating—a lush-colored folklore freak show of sharp, often symmetrical, graphics that meld the duo’s Transylvanian roots with deranged pop culture and sharp Constructivism.
Creepy ghouls with melting faces, jagged flowers, a color-blocked bed with a serrated saw wheel above—the works are slightly horrific, and yet utterly majestic. You can see all of these pieces and more at NYC’s Team Gallery where the Tobias’ exhibition, "Untitled ’13", runs through this Saturday, March 30 in both of Team’s gallery spaces.
Team Gallery: 83 Grand Street & 47 Wooster Street, New York, NY; Tue–Sat 10am–6pm
The Hill-Side hops on the animated GIF bandwagon with wonderful results in its animated Spring/Summer 2013 lookbook. Here's just one of our faves. You'll find even more at the Hill-Side's Tumblr.
Tilman Zitzmann, a German designer for the agency The Warriors of the Light, noticed that, in his time outside of the studio, he had a habit of making simple geometric illustrations. The habit became a daily ritual when he realized that the simple illustrations were actually increasing his creative energy for his contract work. After a few weeks, the images started piling up, and he started a Tumblr to share each day's sketch. All of his work is done digitally, but to give the illustrations a more tactile appearance he processes the images in Photoshop to give them a physically printed texture.
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Omote 3D Shashin Kan touts its pop-up store, which recently occupied a Gyre mall in Shibuya, Tokyo, as the first 3D family portrait scanner and 3D printer project. We liken the concept as much to a photobooth that spits out an action figure of yourself as the family photo portrait gallery. Either way, we could see 3D portrait figurine creation really taking off.
Omote 3D's three-step process requires the subject or family to pose for 15 minutes for 3D scanning, the creation of a model in software based on the scanned data, and finally the 3D printing of the miniature figurine in color.
Olan Mills, are you listening?
Signmaker and street artist Jay Shells' new project Rap Quotes annotates NYC locations with homemade traffic signs bearing site specific lyrics from rap tracks. Shells has the installation down to a science: he pops out of his car with a sign, a footstool, and his cell phone, and has each quote hung and tweeted in just a few moments. The tweets aren't just for vanity purposes, he guesses each sign probably won't last longer than a week before another fan steals it, so the quick photos are likely his only record. When asked about the theft, Shells doesn't seem to mind. "It's my gift to you," he says. [via Animal]