A lot of barbs were thrown at James Blake on the run-up to his debut LP. Music critic Simon Reynolds playfully referred to Blake and his fellow soulboy bass-heads (i.e. Mount Kimbie, Jamie Woon) as ‘blubstep.’ A poster on a music forum...
With overdubs reminiscent of Imogen Heap, “All The Way” by Nightlands seems like a musical collage — layers and layers of the phrase, “All the way,” work with occasional sprinklings of notes. The video is similarly a...
Opening December 8th at Gallery Hijinks (2309 Bryant St.) in San Francisco: works by Martin Machado and Todd Freeman. The show is entitled, As It Was Before, and has a focus on artists that “use nature and science to reinterpret memories...
These delicious little vignettes feel like stumbling into the middle of a different era. I admit to mixed feelings about the fact that nostalgia for simpler times has become so pervasive in our current culture, but Alex Higlett does such a wonderful...
Hedi Slimane has a really simple website where she takes one photograph a day and lays it all out vertically — one giant black-and-white photograph at a time. Most of the shots are portraits, and the best part of this layout lies in the fact...
Sometimes an artist will do something so simply wonderful that you can only think that it’s, well, kind of dumb. It’s dumb how creatively brilliant he or she is, kind of like ugly animals and pets sometimes appear to be adorable...
Just a quick note showing you what Matt W. Moore is going to be doing soon, cause I think it’s going to be so godamn cool… these shapes are just already so aesthetically pleasing. In his words: Super excited to begin work on this new...
This “ad girls blog about art, design, advertising and everything else…” showcases some really solid work of all disciplines and persuasions. I am always impressed by a blogger who can put together cohesive posts without...