If you took a listen to Jessie Baylin's new record Firesight without glancing at the album cover, you'd probably guess she was older than her 24 years. Based in Los Angeles by way of New Jersey, Baylin has a voice…
Continue Reading →If you need any reason to drop the mid work week blues and are in Los Angeles, change up the go-home-and-watch-whatever's-on-WB routine by heading out on Wednesday night to check out French street artist and moviemaker Mr. Brainwash's premiere Life…
Continue Reading →No one expects a hip-hop producer to be a guy named Alfred Darlington, but that's exactly what long-haired, tuxedo and top hat wearing hipster Daedelus is. Named for the mythological Greek artisan said to have invented images, the L.A.-based beatsmith…
Continue Reading →Attention Los Angeles-based art-seeking missiles: Have you been scanning your radar looking to track down another enthralling exhibit? Well a new blip has popped up at the Subliminal Projects Gallery in Echo Park (which also happens to be owned by…
Continue Reading →How did the Swedes become such good designers? Their idea of Wall-Mart is IKEA, the people are gorgeous, and their streets are always clean no matter what time of night you are out. It's a question we may never solve.…
Continue Reading →LA-based artist Jorge Pardo turns us on mostly because his design looks delicious. Sure it has a fresh breath of a minimalist modern aesthetic that evokes a...blah, blah, blah. But honestly, his pendant lamp fixtures kind of look like marzipan.…
Continue Reading →Today is officially Earth Day, and while many companies will aim to show off how they've gone green for one shining moment in April, others are keen to the fact that earth day is not just on April 22nd, but…
Continue Reading →Jessica Joslin is the kind of artist who would worry Darwin: bones, brass, glass, and pieces of musical instrument are all soldered together to form impossible skeletal animals that either, a) you'd find in a backwater taxidermy shop from the…
Continue Reading →In 1982, I was busy wandering around my house wearing kickass Spiderman pjs with footies and learning to put sentences together. Not far away in New York City, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a not for profit organization 'committed…
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