These are so fucking good. Graphic artist Albert Exergian has created a series of minimalistic posters for some of television’s most popular shows. Scope them out below.
If you dig them as much as me, you can purchase some of the posters here.
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I LOVE this pillow from New York-based design house Lost City. The white canvas pillow is hand embroidered in scarlet silk rayon in the shape of forensic blood splatter. Lost City specialises in hand-made fabrics, pillows, scarves, bags and chairs. The pillow is part of their “Forensic” series. As the Lost City website says, “fascinated by the different shapes, angles, hues, and distribution of blood spatter patterns…we decided to translate and transform these somewhat macabre but intriguing objects into hand embroidered works of beauty on canvas pillows.” It’s as if Patrick Bateman discovered a penchant for interior design and came up with these.
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Shi Jindian’s motorbike and sidecar is one of 60 works at White Rabbit Gallery’s ”The Tao of Now” exhibition in Sydney. The bike is made from blue coloured stainless wire.
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Wayne White reinvigorates vintage landscapes from thrift stores with his own unique sense of ironic humour. Nice.
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Gawker has an interesting article on the future of indie cinema by Edward Jay Epstein:
If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may be hearing is Avatar draining money from your future projects. While this brilliant Pocahantas-meets-Jurassic Park mashup may be a bonanza for Rupert Murdoch’s 20th Century Fox studio, which gets a distribution fee on every dollar it brings in from theaters, video stores, and TV, and its producer-director James Cameron, who gets a cut of the gross after it reached its Hollywood-defined $500 million cash break even point, it will further convince the heads of the major studios that their salvation lies in putting their money in “high value” movies laden with mesmerizing visual effects that can be simultaneously opened on more than 5,000 screens around the world and lend themselves to sequels, merchandise tie-ins, toy licensing, and theme parks rides…To be sure, even before the phenomenal success of Avatar, the Big Six studios were shying away from smaller movies despite their potential profits.
Read the full article here.
My new fashion obsession is Qasimi. The Autumn / Winter 2010 Qasimi show in Paris earlier this year showed leather trousers in black and grey teamed with beautifully tailored jackets and hooded cashmere jumpers. Every look finished with a slick head wrap. The brainchild of Khalid Al Qasimi, a UAE native and a graduate of London’s Central Saint Martins, the Qasami label blends Eastern and Western influences with an urban appeal. Me likey.
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The degenerates over at Asylum have a rather entertaining piece on the etymology and history of the word “motherfucker”:
The word motherf*cker is 120 years old, according to one source, which dates its first use to a Texas court in 1889. However, a variety of valid sources suggest that the polysyllabic word’s exact birth date cannot be validated, but that it was likely born between 1900 and 1918. It spread most rapidly during World War II, a global bloodbath for which the word f*ck was obviously insufficient, and grew in strength after World War II, when soldiers, upon discharge, brought it home to their families and workplaces.
To read more about one of pop cultures favourite nouns, go here.
Here is the new video for Mia Doi Todd’s Latin jazz-inspired single “Open Your Heart” directed by none other than Michel Gondry. Enjoy.
This is bound to be cool:
Johnny Depp is making a film about Keith Richards, and he’s calling it Happy. The guitarist, who is known more for his benders than for his grin, will be the focus of Depp’s first directorial foray in more than a decade.
“Now that I’m wiser, and that enough time has passed, I can experience directing again,” Depp told the Serbian magazine Politika, according to a translation by the Playlist. “Next week I’ll start working on a Keith Richards documentary.”
Read more here.
Emilia Terzon over at Lifelounge has written a very nice piece this week about pop-cultural film and television references:
As super-nerdy as it is, it’s a safe fact to say that everybody in existence with a television, computer, local movie cinema, or iSomething likes to occasionally recite the odd infamous pop-culture film or television quote. Some of the glaringly obvious no longer endure repetition, however others have had made a hobby of sneaking past our digital media in to the local colloquial speech of every annoying, giggling, film-quoting person that you know…some of those stupid, silly little sayings that we all know have begun to transgress cultural relevance and have entered normal, everyday speech. One could even go as far as to say that we’re all one step away from believing that we made them up ourselves.
Too true. You can see a taste of my fave pop-cultural film and television references below and read Emilia’s full post here.
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) from American Psycho – “I have to return some video tapes”
Dave Chapelle - ”I’m Rick James Bitch!”
Zoolander – “So hot right now!”
Losing a camera is a real bitch and can cause equal parts embarrassment and heartache. But never fear, Andrew McDonald, a Melbourne author, has found a creative prevention technique. All you have to do is take some photos – which you never delete from your camera – and the person that finds your camera will be able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner. Andrew demonstrates below…
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