The great Modeselektor team up once again with Carhartt on a collection of gear for their latest tour in support of the recently released Monkeytown album (which we previewed here if you want a teaser). Beyond the hoodie, tshirt and varsity jacket above, Modeselektor (aka Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) mixed up an exclusive Cahartt […]
18
Oct
Berlin Kings of Future Bass' special tour mix for Radio Carhartt
4
Aug
45 seconds of Berlin future bass loveliness
Normally we don’t post teasers of tracks, but we worship the almighty Modeselektor here so we are totally stoked that the Berlin future bassheads are blessing us with a small sample of their third LP (out September 20). Monkeytown sees the German producers (aka Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) teaming up with Thom Yorke on […]
28
Jan
Hand sculpted wild animals to benefit wild animals
San Francisco-based artist Markus Diebel has created a line of jewelry that benefits a good cause: the manymals. The idea behind the design was to create animal charms that hang naturally from the necklace as they would in their indigenous habitat. Each animal is hand sculpted and scaled down, then cast in sterling silver. The […]
22
Nov
Forentijn Hofman's "Fat Monkey" squats a São Paulo park
The Rotterdam-based artist Florentijn Hofman has created this giant flip-flop sculpture of a fat and colorful monkey, lazily fallen flat on its backside. Constructed with the help of local students in São Paulo, where the “Fat Monkey” project was created, Hofman selected Brazil’s very own infamous flip-flop icon as the material of choice to construct […]
27
Oct
Buy some art, help fund Burning Candy's exploration into graff culture
Once frowned upon by most of the free world outside of the taggers themselves, graffiti long ago grew into its own respected art form. While previously jailed and widely persecuted, some erstwhile underground artists are now collecting millions from their art. Burning Candy, a group of world-renowned artists in their own right, are working to […]
UK’s The Vinyl Factory, known for their high-end special edition packaging/collections, has just put out a signed, numbered and limited to 2,000 copies worldwide art box set of Monkey—Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s Chinese “circus opera.” Each edition contains a set of four exclusive Jamie Hewlett giclee prints, a hardback art book and 200-gram super […]
