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Small Black is Long Island duo Josh Kolenik and Ryan Heyner, whose self-titled EP was released earlier this year on Jagjaguwar. "Bad Lovers" is the second single off the release. We have no idea what's going on in this Nick Bentgen-directed video, but it suits the hazy, fuzzed-out sound of the song, so who cares? Not us. ...read more
The new video for "Drifting In and Out" from Mauro Remiddi -- aka Italian electro-pop maestro Porcelain Raft -- goes heavy with the smoke machine, harkening late nights at the club when your favorite song comes on. A bit of found footage and translucent dissolves of the singer round out the visuals. Honestly, the track itself is buzzy and dissonant enough on its own, so the hazy dry ice effects......read more
Guerrilla Grafters are vandals with hearts of gold. For the past year, the renegade gardeners have been risking the wrath of city officials by secretly splicing fruit-bearing twigs onto barren public trees in the Bay Area. Combining guerrilla gardening with urban farming, the group aims to use the city's trees to provide "delicious, nutritious fruit for urban residents." Passers-by are......read more
During his five months onboard the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield became a social media sensation, gaining nearly one million Twitter followers thanks to his regular posts. Among them were many amazing photos of Earth from space, from which we've pulled a few of our favorites. Check them out, alongside Hadfield's witty quips. Photos, left to right: 1. I'm used to rivers......read more
Benoit Paille has a knack for making run-of-the-mill places on earth seem like strange landscapes from some faraway planet. First we had his eerily lit Alternative Landscapes, then it was his super-saturated skyward shots of forests at night, now we have Winter Walk, a collection of snowy landscape images shot around his home in Quebec after a winter storm. With no retouching, Paille captures the......read more
Harkening the Richard Linklater film Waking Life, this new(ish) rotoscoping video for "New Sum (Nous Sommes)" by Hey Rosetta! is a nice little bit of live action animation. Directed by Jesse Davidge and produced at Blatant Studios in Vancouver, the clip features performance footage mainly filmed at the band's sold out show at the Commodore Ballroom late last year. Interwoven in the narrative is a......read more
On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia’s carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $25 to $30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute. This was good news not only for the environment but for nearly everyone who pays taxes in British Columbia,......read more
If there are two worlds more diametrically opposed than fashion photography and tree planting, we can't think of them. But Troy Moth has existed in both. Born in a remote tree planting camp on Canada's west coast, Moth in his twenties found himself in Toronto working as a fashion photographer for big-name clients like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Eventually, inevitably, he left that world......read more
What's with Canadians and turning trash to energy, eh? The latest ingenious idea is to convert waste soda and beer (because no self-respecting Canadian would throw good beer down the drain) into ethanol that will in turn be used to power a waste plant on the Atlantic seaboard. The pilot project is an initiative of New Brunswick Community College's Bio-energy and Bio-products Applied......read more
This compact glass form, designed by Toronto's gh3 architects, sits on a granite plinth at the edge of Stoney Lake, Ontario. With a transparent, north-facing facade that's continuously bathed in diffuse light, the structure is perfectly suited for its intended use as a photographer's studio. From the outset, ecological considerations factored into the design. The granite’s......read more
