With their debut album out on cult label Tough Love, young Leeds-based four-piece Fun Adults deliver their video for the lush, delicate lead single. Created by bandmembers Dan W Jacobs and Huw Thomas, the video is a visual collage of frame-by-frame hand-drawn images, made of a combination of paint, pastels and oil on glass on a light box. Talking to Dazed, the band explained the......read more
NYC picture taker and Ryan McGinley compadre Chad Moore is near the tops of our list of young contemporary photographers. With a keen eye for color and composition, Moore captures his friends in fleeting moments of freedom and rebellion. His interest in shooting young people having fun can be traced to his own teenage years, when shredding his BMX was all he cared about. As he told Young......read more
A new fund wants to disrupt recycling with the help of $100 million from corporate giants like Walmart, Goldman Sachs, and Coca-Cola. By this time next year a major high-tech recycling plant in Baltimore could be sorting 54,000 tons of recycled plastic materials—yogurt cups, milk cartons, plastic soda bottles— annually and servicing a 500-mile radius area across the East Coast. It......read more
Because fungal outbreaks can completely wipe out their crops if they're not careful, farmers do two things. One, they spray with fungicide. And two, they test the soil for fungal spores. Neither action is ideal. Fungicide is toxic, and overuse leads to resistance. And testing can take time and be expensive. While farmers are waiting for their results back from the lab, their fields can already be......read more
Brooklyn furniture designer Daniel Moyer found an ingenious use for the waste trimmings created by the furniture making process: 60s surf-style longboard decks. FUNKINFUNCTION LONGBOARDS reclaim wood from furniture making as well as scraps salvaged from felled trees. All materials are locally harvested and naturally air-dried in Brooklyn. The longboarder's size, skating style, and personal......read more
This video actually falls under Lifestyle, Politics, and Sports. That doesn't happen too often. And this important message from Octopus: Listen to Ministry....read more
Muskedunder Official Vide from Todd Terje Plus Made with love by Bendik Kaltenborn and Espen Friberg. ...read more
Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit put themselves on the indie music map with covers of bands like Fleet Foxes and R.E.M. Their latest cover comes in the form of Simon & Garfunkel's "America," a staple of their live show. In a statement, the Söderberg sisters explained the appeal of the song: “The structure of the song and the melody just make for an epic journey. The lyrics are......read more
Fun animated love stuff to brighten up your day. Taken from Sebastien Tellier's new album "L'Aventura" : http://smarturl.it/LAventura - http://recordmakers.comValentine Reinhardt : Director...read more
"The Writings on the Wall" is one of the coolest most innovative music videos we've seen in a long time. The optical illusions are not only fun and will tickle you silly, but all the tricks are revealed as they go along. Plus the track is dope. That's just a fact. All the scenes are performed, one after another, in a single take. We have a saying in film that......read more