In an economic atmosphere of downsizing and cutting corners, SPIN Magazine launches a new approach to reallocating resources and costs. As competitors like Rolling Stone and VIBE have reduced their trim size in recent years to cut costs, SPIN puts a new spin on the concept of reduction: reduce to a bi-monthly publication and blow the trim size up to a dimension that harkens back to the music mag glory days of the 90s.
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Floria Sigismondi, director of stand out music videos for artists like Katy Perry, Marilyn Manson, David Bowie and Björk, along with Minneapolis advertising agency Peterson Milla Hooks, has created a new TV spot for Barbie that suggests that time spent with the Queen of Life In Plastic instantly transports little girls into a candy pink and bejeweled universe. Continue reading
"The Two Fridas", 1939, Oil on canvas, Frida Kahlo
In Wonderland: A Journey Through the Fantastical World of Women Surrealist Artists in Mexico and the United States, featuring work by Iconic figures such as Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, and many more. It will show at LACMA until May 6, so you have plenty of time to explore its offerings.
México kitsch is a book to savor visually, to linger over the details of the photographs and the insightful words that accompany them. It is an invitation to open our eyes and discover the things that have always surrounded us, yet we have never taken the time to admire.
"You try waiving muscular suntanned limbs demanding compassion! It’s a Bloody disaster!"
If you took Ke$ha’s electropop sound, Kasey Chambers’ voice and Natalie Imbruglia’s demureness from the “Torn” video, you’d have Canadian electronic artist Lights, an addicting amalgamation of disparate elements to say the least.
Photographer Jamie Beck and Web/Motion Designer Kevin Burg work together to create stylish animated gifs that prove both captivating and fashionably chic in nature. The team’s attention to detail and use of subtle movement is truly mesmerizing.
Andrej Pejic, 20, is a Serbian-Australian model who has emerged as a poster boy for fashion androgyny.
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These cats have style, names, and occupations. They’re cute, they’re chic and would look great next to your tchotchke collection. Get your kitsch on this holiday season and give the gift of Cats in Clothes by Heather Mattoon!
Created by Bonsoir Paris, the Duramen Series is an effort to challenge traditional methods of exhibiting. The resulting dichotomy between material and form proves quite successful in it’s “liquid” rigidity.
