While the Brazilian street art invasion continues to migrate to the farthest walls of the world, its home territory is getting action from outside street artists as well. A few months ago Parisian stencil artist C215 joined up with the…
Continue Reading →Let's say you always go to a certain coffee shop, where a certain cute waiter/waitress does his/her afternoon shift. You spend your entire time there hunched behind your laptop, but sneak occasional peeks over the screen. Suddenly you see this…
Continue Reading →Alert to all the animation nerds in the audience: The wow-worthy trailer for Virgin Comics' new online animation series MBX, written by real-life superman Grant Morrison and superbly animated by Brazilian motion graphics talent Guilherme Marcondes, is up for giddy…
Continue Reading →After Oprah endorsed açai -- the Amazonian berry that's making a sensation on the grocery aisles and likely in your tummies in your part of the world right now -- it was only inevitable that cachaça, the Brazilian rum made…
Continue Reading →If that external hard drive is looking a too much like ... well ... a hard drive, Brazilian design company Meninos' hard drive cases might be the color you need add to your other desktop. Made in acrylic, these cases…
Continue Reading →Two of my favorite groups have gotten together for a seriously awesome collaboration that takes words off the page and puts them into pockets. For the When Wallets Eat Words workshop, McSweeney's 826LA arm got its young, aspiring writers to…
Continue Reading →You're getting a sneak preview at just a small slice of part deux of Nike Sportswear's winter collection, the first of which they launched on the opening day of the Olympics in August. It continues to feature the eight iconic…
Continue Reading →I ran into a DJ here in Sao Paulo yesterday named Hisato who handed me a new EP from his rock-electro outfit, Hello, Kate!!, called Girls. Even before listening to the songs, I was struck by the incredible hand-done illustration…
Continue Reading →A toothpick holder that becomes a spiny animal and salt and pepper shakers disguised as trees are just two of the freshly released items in the second series of Alessi's Orientales animated tableware collection. We first featured Giovannoni Stefano and…
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