TASCHEN has taken it upon themselves the horrible chore of traveling around the world — North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia — to photograph 100 home interiors representing a variety of contemporary styles for this TASCHEN 25 Edition 100 Interiors Around the World book. Interior decorations give a dwelling and its inhabitants […]

Yesterday we noted that Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire’s short film Scenes From the Suburbs was now available online… Unless You Live In America or Canada. Well guess what? It’s once again OK to live in America, as Scenes From the Suburbs has made its indirect way onto YouTube. America, Fuck Yeah! Directed by Spike […]

Awhile back we posted that Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = Probably Really F*cking Amazing Flick, which was about a short film titled Scenes From the Suburbs. Well that short film, directed by Spike Jonze and based on the motifs of Arcade Fire’s Suburbs album (and co-written by Jonze and Arcade Fire’s Win and Will Butler), is now […]

Cyclus, the brand behind this eco-friendly backpack, started with five basic principles: re-utilization of urban materials, recycling of raw materials, minimal use of resources, less excess production and the utilization of 100% environmentally friendly materials. With the addition of the Pangolin backpack to their collection of environmentally friendly products, they’ve yet again shown the path […]

Six national parks, 11 national reserves, 26 conservation priority sites, 16 wetlands and 32 private protected areas are set to be decimated, all in the name of energy. That amounts to roughly 6,000 hectares or 60 square kilometers of land. That’s bigger than the Vatican City, Monaco and Bermuda combined. The Chileans have fought against […]

Without seeing this first, if someone told me their inspiration for a storage/work surface/kitchen utility comes from the shanty towns all around South America, from las ciudades perdidas in Mexico City to las favelas in Rio de Janeiro, I’d probably look at ‘em a little crossed eyed. But when you see it, it all makes […]

These photos were just taken from some anthropologists’ plane who are trying to prove uncontacted tribes still exist in the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier, specifically the Envira region. Ho-lee schmoley, this is the best news I’ve heard in weeks. Sure, I know there are remote tribes in the Amazon, but this particular tribe is completely unknown — […]