After forming during their high school years in Calgary, Alberta, the four best friends who make up BRAIDS moved their prairie Canadian behinds to the cosmopolitan wonderfulness of Montreal. Entrenching themselves in the city of poutin and painfully cute artsters, the foursome holed up in a dilapitaded house in a Hasidic neighborhood to craft the […]

Angie H. Iver‘s artwork has a dream-like affect to it — surreal in content, and hazy and sometimes dark in execution. In fact, depending on your perspective, some might argue more nightmarish than dreamlike. Born in a “a pretty charming medieval town” in East Germany, Iver has since moved on to the larger Düsseldorf to […]

Kira Shaimanova‘s art is a unique conflation of sculpture and illustration…or rather, it’s a super stylized sculpture work that when photographed — and thus rendered in 2D — appears as if it were an illustration. The Russian born artist moved to Toronto when she was 5 years old where she currently resides and makes her […]

Fashion Figure INC is unlike any organization you’ve ever heard of. The brainchild of the elusive, artistic savant Reggieknow (who we’ve profiled before), FFINC has arguably the world’s most unique business model: they make dope ass gear for your action figures, and they will style them the hell out. If you’ve ever, absolutely, 100%, no […]

Do you want to see a Unicorn clubbing baby seals? How about trying to peek at a breastfeeding woman’s nipples? Or destroying a sandcastle? Or judging his daughter’s black boyfriend? If sights like this tickle your humor, then you’ll surely enjoy C.W. Moss’ Unicorn Being a Jerk illustrations. The absolutely hilarious cartoon series follows the exploits […]

The French photographer Denis Darzaq created a photo series called Hyper which captures his subjects frozen in mid air, motionless and preserved, always in supermarkets. Needless to say this resonated with us. The name refers to Hypermarkets, which is how the French call supermarkets, and the appeal of the environment is the same that inspired […]

The droning, looping wonderfulness that is Woodsman is what you hear while getting your teeth drilled under the heavy seditation of some analgesic, painkilling drug — only without the teeth-drilling part. Hailing from Denver, their ambient post-psychedelic instrumental missives sound more like sonic backdrops to a lost teenage trip than to a couple dudes banging […]

Los Angeles-based designer Ramón Coronado has made some furniture that we can really get behind here at LIAS headquarters. We should have the Meadows — our secret, subterranean offices — stuffed with the plastic seating. Mercado Negro, or Black Market, is Coronado’s attempt at reclaiming these devices of corporate consumerism. In making his shopping cart […]