Wow — who would’ve thunk it? Already the 50th volume in our beloved and illustrious Because We Love You Series, and who better to knock it out than homegrown Los Angeles photographer Estevan Oriol. We’ve shown some of Oriol’s work before, including when we interviewed him for the coffee table book counterpart to this aptly titled […]


Every year the Pirelli calender brings a little dollop of joy to a very troubled world, and today we receive the first images of the 2012 edition — just when we needed some really good news. This year’s photography epic is shot by the great Mario Sorrenti, just another legend in a long string of Pirelli […]


29 Jul
Surfrider Foundation slathers naked girls in oil... for a good cause

Look, we all hated the BP oil spill that happened last year — it was one of the worst environmental disasters in American history. It was a natural abomination, a gut-wrenching illustration of greed, corner-cutting and lack of accountability, and finally got that stupid Palin drone to drop the “Drill, baby, drill!” refrain from popping […]


27 Jun
Get your summertime tunes rolling right

With his usual ambition to stay on the cutting edge of global dance sounds, Diplo dips his toes in the latest much-buzzed movement with his official Moombahton 2k11 mixtape, utilizing many of the Moombahtonized tracks he’s been spinning out lately. The summertime jammy mix features the likes of DJ Shadow, Missy Elliot, MIA, Beastie Boys […]


23 May
LIAS gets their hands on 2011's most coveted calender

Last week we met with the fine folks at Pirelli and the ID Agency for a possible project, and in said meeting they were kind enough to hook us up with this year’s coveted Karl Lagerfeld-helmed Pirelli calender. Of course we previewed the mythology-based calender of International Supermodels Gone Greek back in November, but to […]


6 Dec
Karl Lagerfeld photographs the Greek gods

Last week we previewed the highly anticipated 2011 Pirelli Calender, and this week the Italian performance tire manufacturer released a video showing the Making Of process behind the calender. Featuring interviews with this year’s chosen photographer and curator Karl Lagerfeld, as well as interviews with models Daria Werboy and Abbey Lee Kershaw and actress Julianne […]


You know those advent calenders your parents would give you around Christmas time — if you’re Christian, that is? The cardboard paper ones with hidden boxes that you’d open, and there’d by like a chocolate in there or a decoder ring or some other cereal-box-level prize? Well Porsche just designed one, only this one costs […]


18 Jun
Taking soft porn to an entirely new level

Do you ever look at porn and think sometimes they show a little too much? I’m no gynecologist, nor do I have any interest in becoming one, so sometimes the degree of graphicness they delve into leaves me wanting less. Much less. Now the Eizo Pin-up Calendar 2010 comes along and takes things to an […]