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Home Depot announces LED lightbulb that costs under $20 -- and lasts for 30 years. Seiko Kato's collages are, how you say, AMAZING. Sea Change: Photographers respond to the BP oil spill -- with optimistic pics of sustainable farming, beekeeping, and urban homesteading. No more Mr. Nice Guy: "End of Nature" author Bill McKibben says it's time to get pissed off about climate......read more
Aussie psych-sters Tame Impala have put out no less than three great videos for songs off their 2010 record Innerspeaker (this one, this one, and this one), all of which nicely complement their hallucinogenic sound. But we somehow weren't aware of this superb animation that came out a couple years ago. It was created by Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali, aka New Zealand creative studio Special......read more
For Dallas-based artist Matthew Cusick, repurposing stuff balances out his hoarding impulse. "I have a natural inclination to collect stuff," he says. "Repurposing is an alternative to hoarding. It is also an alternative to consuming and creating waste. It takes patience and a willingness to tinker." Cusick creates collage portraits and landscapes from the vintage maps he collects.......read more
Since 2006 photographer and artist Patrick Winfield has been making massive multimedia works using Polaroids, reinterpreting how we conventionally see this instant film. Winfield explained his approach to Dazed Digital: “My work is about juxtaposing various elements to make something new, playing with the familiar to form some fantasy. A recycling of imagery to create new......read more
Val Britton's oversized collages use the language of maps to draw imaginary paths through memory. The Berkeley artist's work is inspired by an attempt to connect to her father, a long-haul truck driver who passed away when she was a teenager. Britton's cartographic interpretations merge what she knows about her dad's journeys with what she can never know. From her artist's......read more
Operating under the recording moniker Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier ("I Am The Little Knight"), Belgian artist Felicia Atkinson creates dreamy, experimental soundscapes that go deep into psychedelic territory. To mark the release of L'Enfant Sauvage, Chevalier's new album out this week on Aguirre Records, Atkinson hooked up with Sarah Mosk, who crafted this......read more
From exciting Montreal creative outfit Newfoundland Tack comes this wholly original animated video for Dan Deacon's "Surprise Stefani," off his latest LP, Bromst. Using clippings from old issues of National Geographic as their source material, the animators created an amazingly surreal moving collage piece, with movement inside the cut-out negative space. It's pretty great. It's worth......read more
Derek Vincent Smith, aka Colorado-based electronic musician Pretty Lights, recently dropped this rolling, uplifting new track, "We Must Go On." To mark the release, Smith and his girlfriend, visual artist Krystle Blackburn, put out this video chronicling their travels through 2011. Shot on a pair of Canon 7Ds with about six lenses, the clip documents their ramblings through London,......read more
Coasting, the Brooklyn-based indie-pop duo comprised of Madison Farmer and Fiona Campbell (Vivian Girls), just unveiled this great collage-style video for “Same Old Same Old,” off their underappreciated 2011 LP, You’re Never Going Back. Directed by Alice Cohen, the animated clip is a pastiche of pastel-toned retro images of cars, hairstyles,......read more
Here is the latest video output from Everynone, everyone's favorite crew of short-film maestros, who you might remember from previous films "Words" and the Vimeo Award-winning "Symmetry." For "Ball," director Daniel Mercadante pulled hundreds of images from Google and wove them together in a poetic visual collage. Like the rest of Everynone's work, "Ball" eschews traditional narrative in......read more
