Today on my way to work, I passed our old office, which is now a hole in the ground. While I was walking up to it, I saw Hillary Clinton. From afar it was hard to tell what was on her hat, was it a moon or a space station? It was an Obama Logo. Upon looking at the wonderful wheat-paste, I couldn’t help but notice she wasn’t wearing the official merch, she must have bought it in china town.
This comes to us from our friends at thehappycorp, an experimental branding and design lab in NYC, after all the talk about Presidential Branding, they thought they would throw a hat in the ring. Watch the video here. Word is there will be more to come.
Not only are the objects that make up this world utterly fascinating - the way we document those objects is equally intriguing.
Wikipedia gives the title of every entry exactly the same preference, the same weight. There is never any disparity between boldness, font, size. However detailed the body copy, in the headings we are all created equal.
Open several Wikipedia pages at once and read the title of each entry in a judicial monotone:
“Jesus. Bottlenose Dolphin. Tim Allen.”
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For further proof that the world is populated by…
Weezer’s new album cover.
Never accentuate how much you don’t look like a younger, more talented, less irritating version of yourself, even if you’re trying to make some obscure Harvard Thesis Point about what makes a hit song.
I fail to understand how you could spend 3 years on an album and then go with an ironic cover.
ALSO:
Weezer clearly owes royalties to Louis Joseph Comeau IV for shamelessly biting his style.
via Pitchfork
Another gem of a press release for you kids:
FISCHERSPOONER - NEW RELEASES ON KITSUNÉ
After two full-length albums, #1 and Odyssey (featuring the hit
“Emerge” ) Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer team up with Kitsuné to
release two singles.
So Fischerspooner are back, returning to fill that hole they left in
‘theatrical electro’, with energetic, finely spun electropop tracks
that all the fans have been waiting for.
The releases, “Danse en France” and “The Best Revenge,” preview tracks
from their upcoming 3rd album and also include great remixes from…
Press release that just landed in our inbox, apparently for a band called We Were The States. Apparently from a publicist named Dave Clifford.
Well boys, you need to let Dave go. This may be the most convoluted piece of promotional gibberish we’ve ever seen.
If “90s Brit-Pop meets 70s Punk Rock meets Y2K Williamsburg” is the best description a human being can some up with to describe the sound of your music then you have no real sound, because those words, strung together in the English language, are utterly…
LVHRD member Karin Partin sent us this transcript from the thick of things last night: 3 train from Clark Street to Utica Ave. We’re grateful to Karin for putting herself in the line of fire and for being able to write so damn fast. She swears that what follows is absolutely true.
CHARACTERS
BLACK WOMAN (40s)
Long black skirt, sweatshirt, and a blue shawl around her head. She has two big black suitcases, three trash bags tied in a knot and two black duffel bags.
WHITE GUY (30s)
Red sporty jacket, light jeans, white hair.…
Our second Master-Disaster Photography Duel invited Jonathan Harris, Joseph O. Holmes and Elizabeth Weinberg to create Polaroid mosaics live at the Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO. Afterwards everyone voted for the winner at PHTHRD.LVHRD.COM.
Event Coverage
Two kids play some variation of California Cruisin’ at the Fun Zone inside the International Arrivals Terminal at JFK.
A man, perhaps a guardian (though the remove at which he watches suggests he is a stranger) has been drawn from his seat towards the whirring glow.
The placement of the Fun Zone, in the middle-smack of a smooth swath of terminal linoleum, suggests that its makers understood the Zone’s resplendent, almost monolithic quality. It seems to radiate prophecy, the potential for salvation.
The placement of the Mastercard advertisement on the…
Front page of the NY Times online: “Generation Gap As Older Addicts Seek Help.”
Typically, an ignored demographic, alcoholics and drug addicts over the age of 55 have little in common with their youthful counterparts. They seem to take getting healthy a bit more seriously, showing up on time for therapy sessions, supporting each other instead of bragging about who walked the most screwed up road to hell.
We’re delving into the power of narrative for PHTHRD II: learning from those who have gone before, acknowledging the living history in…
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie Rose) made her thoughts on 9/11 clear in an interview about a year ago on Paris Première - Paris Dernière:
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” Cotillard said. “We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
She…
Gothamist has an interview up with BIFOLD CNFLCT host Anthony Lappé about his graphic novel Shooting War. Set in 2011, the story follows Jimmy Burns, a young blogger sent to cover the still-bleeding conflict in Iraq after he captures a live suicide bombing at a Starbucks in Williamsburg.
Shooting War developed from a mix of Lappés experience as a journalist, his observations in Iraq and not so far-fetched imaginings of future cataclysm–the fruit of undead American economic hubris.
Something we’ve often wondered that Lappé brings up in the interview: why have there been…
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