Speartalks: Marion Peck
Our general consensus is that it is in the eyes. It has to be, for there is nothing else to offer up that feeling of wrongness in the art of Marion Peck. Her palate is sunny enough, her subjects innocent…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Luke McCann for Mottainai
You know, as a resident of Boulder, CO (a place that, for those unfamiliar, holds the earth in higher regard than 102% of the rest of the world) I shouldn't be saying this. Progress is progress, as they say, and…
Continue Reading →Speartalks: Grant Hamilton
You have heard by now that Polaroid film is dying. Rightfully, no, but inevitably, yes, and we have few words to appropriately state our reaction (of the few we have, the following do share company: appalled, mystified, f*cking pissed). Of…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Alyson Fox
Alyson Fox likes doing things. In her case, 'things' mean drawing, taking pictures, designing clothes, making shop windows pretty - and probably one or two more 'things' since we last talked. But Alyson hasn't always been so dexterous; rather, it…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Ryan Catbird
Several months ago, I wrote an embarrassingly impassioned post regarding a music blog. It was a sappy, raison d'etre-style diatribe, involving too many adjectives, too many hallelujahs, and way too many myspace references. I don't think I was drunk when…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Matthew Waldman, Nooka
According to what we learned in kindergarten, a watch is a watch is a watch. However, according to Matthew Waldman, the free-thinking founder of New York's Nooka, a watch is just another opportunity to turn a washed-up concept into a…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Gizmodo's Brian Lam
Whether you're willing to call yourself a nerd or not, you've likely perused the pages of Gizmodo, one of the internet's favorite gadget guides. Reporting techie playthings at the rate of around 60 posts per day, Gizmodo employees chase dorky…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Leah McSweeney
It's good to be Leah McSweeney, the twenty-five year-old head of women's label Married to the M.O.B. (that's Most Official Bitches). For starters, her small company -- born from a porch stoop, a plan to make a few tee shirts,…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Vulcan
Thirty years ago, when graffiti was withheld the respect of the subtitle "Art Form," a twelve year-old Vulcan hit the subway cars of New York with his collection of wildly colored paintcans. Over thirty years -- and countless walls, trains,…
Continue Reading →SpearTalks: Simone Legno
Not so many years ago, an Italian by the name of Simone Legno created a site from which he could display his artwork. A successful Rome-based illustrator, Legno had formed a love of Japanese culture in his early childhood, and…
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