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 […]

When Spike Jonze first directed Arcade Fire’s “Suburbs” video, the idea was that the piece would play as a sort of “trailer” for an upcoming short film which would expand on tropes touched on in the music video. Well now these ideas have begun to expand and evolve, and the collaboration has put out this […]

When you combine two creative powerhouses like Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze you basically can’t go wrong. And such is the case with the video for the title track off Arcade Fire’s Suburbs album. Directed by Mr. Jonze, the clip was shot in Austin and is a poignant  6-minute mini exploration into the shittiest era […]

We first became aware of the work of Mark Jenkins during a recent Los Angeles gallery show, where his absurd human-like characters dominated the room. Raised in the scintillating art Mecca of Fairfax, VA, it probably wasn’t too obvious to Jenkins as a child that he’d wind up a renowned artist. But despite his rising […]

The New York Times have an interesting article this morning about a carless suburb development in the German town of Vauban: “Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban’s streets are completely “car-free” — except the main […]