We never really miss up a chance to spread the Gospel of BLU — arguably our favorite street artist working today. The Italian artist has taken a break from the winter doldrums to update his site, and let his fans know a bit about what he’s been up to recently. His Walls and Drawings sections […]

Following in the disco-infused indie rock of its Aussie compatriots Cut/Copy, Midnight Juggernauts and Empire of the Sun comes Strange Talk, who just released their self-titled debut EP on Neon Gold Records. The first single from the record, “Climbing Walls”, shimmers with all the swagger, melody, rhythm and background vocal textures that have made Australia […]

World renown architect Zaha Hadid has taken her designs into another world, the world of wallpaper. Marburg has given us a reason to bring out the paste and plaster our walls with their collaboration with Hadid — converting the walls in our homes into pieces of modern art. The signature waves and odd shapes she’s […]

A new creation by SMIT, Solar Ivy are solar panels arranged to resemble ivy growing on historic buildings. Besides adding a unique texture and aged grace to an otherwise bland facade, the thousands of panels capture sustainable solar energy to power the building. The way most solar energy works is the massive panels capture a […]

I stumbled across the Shout Out Louds one hot August night in Oslo back in 2007, playing in some graffiti-ravaged cellar the night before the Oya Festival kicked off. I wasn’t expecting much, as I never am, especially considering I was heavily brain-frazzled from the 20-something hour flight and drunk on the cheapest plastic-cup beer […]