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Puma Dance Dictionary
Street dance and freestyling has normally been owned by Adidas, but now their competitor Puma is making a play to own the trendy language of dance by turning it literally into its very own ‘body’ language. Puma, the urban sportswear company, has created the Puma Dance Dictionary which allows the public to send personalised messages … Read more
Sing Sing My Darling – Lady
Toulouse four-piece, Sing Sing My Darling may not be name on many music lovers lips, but their light, airy and easily palatable pop-rock is going down a storm in France. Their infectious ‘Disco Love’ single has now been followed up with ‘Lady‘, with the music video by studio Margoulaine sees lead singer Jonathan Raharison lusting after … Read more
England’s New Nike Football Kit
Sportswear giant Nike has unveiled the new home kit for the England national football team, the first since they were announced as the shirt supplier following an association with Umbro since 1954. The clean and distinctive design takes the strip back to its roots with the traditional colors of white and dark blue to celebrate the … Read more
The Sketchbook Project
The Sketchbook Project is a crowd-sourced art project which sees artists turn a small 32-page grey sketchbook into a living, breathing piece of art. Each sketchbook is then catalogued and becomes part of a traveling exhibition of the handmade books, before eventually ending up in the permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library in Williamsburg. Allowing … Read more
Recycled Brooklyn
Sustainable living is grabbing a hold of all of us, forget 3D printing, recycling, reusing and re-selling old, unwanted materials has never been more ‘on trend’. Williamsburg, New York-based furniture design company Recycled Brooklyn – the clue is in the name – are masters in making sustainable items fashionable must-haves. They do this by ensuring … Read more
Dave Cole – Patriot Games
New Hampshire-born, Rhode Island-based conceptual artist Dave Cole mixes craft with political messaging, often making the viewer rethink their thoughts on national identity and patriotism. Cole’s protean craftsmanship gives voice to both a scholarly knowledge of this nation’s past and a conscientious understanding of what it means to be American in today’s society. His work is a poetic inquisition … Read more
David Bowie – The Next Day (Video)
David Bowie has enlisted some of Hollywood’s A list talent for his latest music video ‘The Next Day‘, the second coming from the album of the same name. Directed by Floria Sigismundi and features sultry French actress Marion Cotillard as a prostitute suffering from a severe case of stigmata and Gary Oldman as a less-than-pious … Read more
Cisco by David Bellemere
German-born Franziska von Tschurtschenthaler never wanted to be a model, but is fast becoming one of the most talked about models around. The 24 year old from Munich has even got her own model alias, Cisco Tschurtschenthaler, or Cisco for short. An avid surfer and deeply spiritual new age traveller, Cisco spends her time away … Read more
Hiromi Hirasaka’s Kokeshi Matches
Japanese artist Hiromi Hirasaka has created a series of matchsticks which feature facial expressions on their heads, igniting a bit of a humour to what is typically seen as the mundane. Aptly named ‘Kokeshi Matches‘, the fire starters already have physical attributes similar to the Japanese dolls which have long cylindrical bodies and spherical heads, … Read more
Evian – Baby & Me
The clever folks in the marketing department at Evian and their team of creatives at BETC Paris have come up with another smash hit, with the baby-infused dose of pure fun in their latest ad campaign Baby & Me. The follow up to 2009′s all-conquering Roller Babies video and 2011′s Baby Inside, sees a group … Read more
Portrait of a Poet
Paris-based French film director Kendy Ty has a penchant for brilliant visual portrayals of creatives and his latest film ‘Portrait of a Poet’, is another stunning example of his work. The short film features French poet Mai Vallee who narrates the piece with her own poem that starts “Thank you dad thank you mum, for … Read more
Les Bains – Street Art Makeover
A derelict nightclub in the heart of Paris has been turned into an evolving gallery space with the help of fifty of the world’s finest street artists. Les Bains-Douches, a stone’s throw from the Pompidou Centre in Paris was built in 1885 as a municipal bathhouse. More recently, as Les Bains, it became one of … Read more
Abbey Clancy – Hunger Magazine
Blonde model, mum and the wife of footballer Peter Crouch, Abbey Clancy has stripped off for celebrity portrait photographer Rankin. The Liverpudlian wag is captured in nothing but expensive shoes in a series of sexy, provocative and smouldering black and white images for Issue 4 of the photographer’s own Hunger Magazine. It is good to … Read more
Light Show – Hayward Gallery
The immensely popular Light Show at London’s Hayward Gallery is the latest in the Southbank gallery’s great succession of entertainment shows. The exhibition shines bright with series of art that twinkles, glistens, glitters, radiates and glows. For anyone that loves neon lights or even that horrible 90s office strip lighting – this will blow your … Read more
Lucy + Jorge Orta – Cloud: Metéoros
St. Pancras International is fast becoming one of London’s most iconic public art spaces and last week saw Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Cloud: Metéoros, two 2om wide magical nebulae float high above the Eurostar concourse. Set amid the glass-vaulted architecture of the listed Barlow Shed, Cloud: Metéoros resembles vast cumuli populated with travellers, a ‘magic carpet’ … Read more
Emily Ratajkowski – Darius Magazine
New York-based fashion-slash-porn photographer Jonathan Leder has captured Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines star and model Emily Ratajkowski in a series of Polaroid images taken in Woodstock, New York last May. The images are distinctively Leder, who solely works in analog under little or no lighting and never using retouching. The series of erotic images have … Read more
Sarah Anne DiNardo – Tape Artist
Sarah Anne DiNardo is no ordinary artist; she has a unique skill born from a curious childhood love of Chiquito banana stickers. DiNardo’s love of the tactile feeling of tape evolved and manifested itself in her adult life into a creative passion for making intricate tape sculptures. The talented artist, creates one-of-a-kind tape sculptures with … Read more
Martin Usborne – The Silence of Dogs in Cars
East London-based artist Martin Usborne’s has turned a childhood memory of waiting in a car whilst outside a supermarket into a series of photographs that focus on the ever-curious relationship between humans and man’s best friend, the dog. The series, entitled ‘The Silence of Dogs in Cars’ showing now at The Little Black Gallery in … Read more
Hanksy – More Than Just Tom Hanks
New York-based artist Hanksy uses the streets as his canvas, employing clever puns and turns of phrases to delight fans and observant passersby. Shortly after moving to New York in 2010, Hanksy began noticing the city’s vibrant street art scene, in which hand painted works of art, elaborate stencils, and detailed screen prints enrich blighted … Read more
Nitehawk Cinema – Williamsburg
Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, the creative hub of Brooklyn, New York and hipster mecca, is the historic independent movie house in the area. Opening in 2011, Nitehawk offers an unparalleled cinematic experience by combining exemplary first-run and repertory film programming along with tableside food and beverage service in all theatres. It is only possible because it … Read more
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