Subliminal Projects Video

Posted on July 15, 2008 Under Art

Yesterday there was a lot of Shepard Fairey news to cover. Today we have an update from his better half. Shepard's wife Amanda, the curator and co-founder of Subliminal Projects gallery in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, takes…

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Speartalks: Mary H. K. Choi @ Missbehave

Posted on July 11, 2008 Under Life

When I was 12, I really liked reading women's magazines. A voice of wisdom in a world of tight-lipped adults, they offered up tantalizing life-lessons. Lessons like The #1 Best Sex Position to Try When on African Vacation, and How…

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SpearTalks: Casey O'Connell

Posted on July 3, 2008 Under Art

The story of a rejected artist finally making it big time is as familiar as the tales our grandparents like to tell us: "I walked 17 miles, barefoot, through three feet of snow; I dog-walked in New York through rejection…

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Speartalks: Public School

Posted on June 6, 2008 Under Fashion

Rebellion, in any form, has a few consistent characteristics. The color black, for instance, is a common accomplice, as are hot tempers, cool demeanors, and five o'clock shadows. However, the most important element to rebellion is the one thing that…

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Zeptonn

Posted on May 30, 2008 Under Design

Jan Willem Wennekes, also known as Stinger, crafts a killer monster. Well, "killer" in its most docile, endearing sense -- because the creatures of this Netherlands-based designer have always had more success drawing aww's than arghh's! As founder of Zeptonn…

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Au Revoir Simone

Posted on May 23, 2008 Under Music

From an organizational perspective -- even a musically inclined one -- the odds of finding three beautiful girls, all long-locked, well-worded, and in possession of keyboards, seem slim. The odds of them finding each other -- that seems near impossible.…

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Speartalks: Joe Sorren

Posted on May 16, 2008 Under Art

There are people in the paintings of Joe Sorren, but they're not quite human. We have ways to relate -- they hold instruments, they take pictures, they build sand castles by the sea -- but there is something in them…

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Konstantin Grcic @ ICFF

Posted on May 12, 2008 Under Design

If you're big into sitting and design, you'll want to be at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair next week in New York when former House & Garden Style Editor Brooke Stoddard speaks with world-famous German designer and head of KGID,…

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Speartalks: Chris Rubino

Posted on May 9, 2008 Under Design

From the looks of things, Chris Rubino knows how to mix work and play. The NYC based designer, a 2006 ADC Young Gun and possessor of a shining list of lustworthy clients, hasn't abandoned his personal pursuits in order to…

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Speartalks: The Little Friends of Printmaking

Posted on May 2, 2008 Under Design

JW and Melissa Buchanan are the husband and wife team known as The Little Friends of Printmaking. Known for their God-like mastery of screen printing, their brightly layered imagery, and their quirky sense of humor (take that, douchebaggiezz!), this Milwaukee-based…

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