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For accomplished practitioners of the trade, mixtape-making was once an the #1 method for landing girlfriends and/or boyfriends. The death of the cassette has essentially killed off the artform. It's sad, really, tech progress interfering with getting action. But it doesn't have to be that way. This 1G Mixtape Memory Stick resurrects an obsolete medium with a USB drive packaged in an audio......read more
Brilliantly executed animated video for "Me-I" by TV on the Radio, from Adult Swim's Warm & Scratchy music comp, about a fantastical pigeon-man who can't tell the difference between consciousness and dreams. Also features dancing trees and a murderous ham sandwich. Co-directed by Mixtape Club and Daniel Garcia of Bent Image Lab, the vid won Best Music Video at both the......read more
As we approach SXSW 2010, let''s celebrate by revisiting a stunning video launched at the festival two years ago. Wonderfully imaginative work....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
"Bonfire," from Ontario, Canada-based duo Evan and Denise (aka Memoryhouse), has a hazy, ethereal feel, with feathery vocals supported by soft acoustic strumming and sparse tambourine flourishes. The Jamie Harley-directed video, featuring a blurry woman running through a field in slow-motion, suits the vibe nicely. Warning: maybe NSFW, depending on where you work....read more
Are Jamie Harley and Memoryhouse the rice and beans of indie rock? 'Cause they go together goooood. Harley's hazy Polaroid aesthetic, full of quick cuts and double exposures, is basically the visual equivalent of the Memoryhouse sound. The video for Memoryhouse’s “Heirloom” is their second collaboration, and much like their first, features sepia-tinged visuals compiled from......read more
Memoryhouse's The Years EP, first recorded and released in '09, has been re-recorded and remastered for its official "reissue" on Sub Pop, available September 13. In advance of the release, the duo put out a video for the dreamy and delicate "Quiet America," starring (and directed by) Memoryhouse vocalist Denise Nouvion. On the strangeness of seeing their two-year old songs dug up and......read more
Hu2 Design in London offers a pretty great array of stickers for walls, windows, computers and pretty much any other surface. The best part? They're all PVC-free, and completely free of chlorine and plasticizers. The Hamster Wheel Generator design perfect for your kid's bedroom wall. Adhere it to the wall near a light switch and they'll never waste energy by forgetting to turn the......read more
The work of North Carolina-based artist Patrick Dougherty proves our theory that the most interesting things are the ones that are hardest to classify. Whatever you want to label the sweeping structures he makes from sticks and saplings -- Environmental art? Sculpture? Architecture? -- they are definitely entrancing. Springing from the earth in whirling animated forms, the sculptures inevitably......read more
Made in collaboration with New York City designer Julio Cesar, these limited-edition ties are constructed from 50% recycled cassette tape, and are intended to impart the wearer with "special, subtle powers of perception and attunement, and to emit an intangible sense of the miraculous." Available in three sizes: skinny (1.5"), medium (2") or standard (3.5")....read more
