The LA-based artist Freehand Profit has released a piece of headgear with inspiration from Star Wars, the movie franchise whose marketing schemes seem to know no human limit. The helmet required the deconstruction of two adidas x Star Wars Superskate Mid shoes to create, along with the help of one EFX Studio Stormtrooper prop replica. The […]

Pittsburgh DJ/producer Kastle dropped a really interesting mix this week, one that heavily samples an interview by WNYC’s Radiolab with Ann Druyan. Druyan was interviewed about her NASA-driven love story with Carl Sagan and their role in the compilation of the Voyager Golden Record. “Toward the end of the summer of ‘77, NASA launched two spacecraft as […]

In a brief but very well done animation, motion designer Sean McClintock combines Jack Kerouac reading “Lucien Midnight” — the long narrative poem now known as Old Angel Midnight —over DJ Shadow’s beautiful “Second”. Enjoy… Friday Afternoon in the Universe from Sean McClintock on Vimeo.

Japanese retailer Kinetics in partnership with boot king Timberland have announced their third series of boots with guest designer Jeff Staple of Staple Design. While the exact release date is still unknown, these extra cushioned high tops will be available soon. The boots are business in the front with a cool gray exterior, but party in the inner […]

What would our solar system sound like if each planet made a beat? Website designer WhiteVinyl has created Solarbeat, an innovative idea in animation form, to find out. When each planet makes a single rotation around the sun, a distinct musical tone is produced. Eventually it all adds up into musical harmony, just like the […]

You know we love our Passarella Death Squad here at LIAS, so it’s always nice to see the latest that Danny offers. Brand new for Autumn/Winter 2010 comes this 3 t-shirt collection, all inspired by concert posters from the 1960’s. Each tee is named after a Velvet Underground track (“What Goes On”, “I’ll Be Your […]

With the exception of Christopher Nolan’s rebooted Batman franchise, Marvel has consistently kicked the everliving shit out of DC’s comic universe in film format. The Bryan Singer X-Men (1 & 2, not that Brett Ratner abomination) and Ironman alone slay the best of what DC’s managed to come out with, and that doesn’t even count […]

Fresh off his stint nearly melting the interwebs with his red hot M.I.A. video “Born Free” French director Romain Gavras unleashes the trailer for his debut feature film Notre Jour Viendra, aka Our Day Will Come (Gavras also directed the Justice documentary A Cross the Universe). Notre Jour Viendra tells the story of a young […]