Element Skateboards just introduced their first line of eco-conscious menswear. As the industry evolves Element is attempting to grow alongside the organic style evolution of the surf/skate culture, and thus the collection focuses on environmentally friendly materials and manufacturing processes. Using Earth-tone colors and showing an appreciation for living with respect to the environment, the pieces […]

At the beginning of the month we posted YACHT’s Fly On, UFO mixtape, and it turned out to be incredibly popular with the ladies. Who knew they liked their sci-fi tinged disco mixes so much? The mixtape was in preparation for YACHT’s brand new album Shangri-La, the latest volley from the inimitable DFA Records — […]

Los Angeles’ premier custom bike builder Falcon Motorcycles debuted the 3rd bike in their Concept 10 Collection this weekend at the the Quail Motorcycle Gathering in Carmel, CA. We were there to witness its unveiling to the wowed eyes of central Cali, and we’ll be posting images from the event plus full description of the […]

Award-winning filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg casts his talented cinematic eye on the world of Pollination. The footage is taken from his film Wings of Life, which centers around the alarming global population crash of the honeybee. One of the most important processes to the sustenance of life on Earth, pollination still remains largely unseen by the […]

I’m just gonna say it: Noah & the Whale’s debut album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, is one of my favorite albums of the decade. No shame, no caveats, no qualifiers. Not only is it an emotionally candid album (sometimes painfully so), with some of singer/songwriter Charlie Fink’s most personal lyrics, but it is […]

We touched on this epic plastic dilemma facing the Planet Earth a couple years back when we covered photographer Chris Jordan’s Midway: Message from the Gyre in 2009, but it doesn’t get any less scary. We have a serious, serious fucked up problem with our consumption of plastics, and if nothing changes we can just […]

Another ingenious cinematic-inspired remix from Pogo, this time sourced from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. “Murmurs Of Middle-Earth” is the first LOR track from Pogo (aka Nick Bertke), who’s not exactly choosing hyper-relevant source material here but still delivers another beautiful track. Like the Snow White’s re-edit he did awhile back, all sounds come […]

Transcendent Man, the documentary on the life and ideas of fearless Futurist and Singularity visionary Ray Kurzweil’s has been uploaded to YouTube for all to see. Directed by filmmaker Barry Ptolemy, the doc follows the millionaire inventor and best selling author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology as he promotes his book […]