If tan’s the new black, 90s are the new 80s, and rounded sleeve’s the new puff, what’s the new cake? Ma chere, c’est les fleurs!  “Times are hard, but we mustn’t let darkness rule; we need flowers,” says Alexis Mabille Marie-Antoinette-style about his Automne/Hiver haute couture collection.  But a closer look says he spent more time sketching at le D’Orsay than Les Tuilieres.  →

Air Max Moire: Lighter Than Ever.
Building upon the iconic silhouette of the Air Max 90, Nike launches the Air Max Moire. “The Icon Design team is always looking to innovations created by our Sport Performance teams to give our icons a new and unique identity rooted in innovation first and foremost.” – Global Design Director Jessed Leyva.  In the name of innovation, this season’s Air Max 90 was remixed with technology born from the Air Zoom Moire →

Ghost Town DJ’s – “My Boo”

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Anything else you might want to find out about this tremendous heat of a song is google-able. But what the internet might not tell you about this jam, is the complete madness it did on dancefloors in the summer of 1996. Granted, it still works wonders to this day. During one particular club in ’96 called Blizzard, I was consistently able to see this hot butter joint cause dancefloor mayhem, which is saying a lot. →

Photo credit: Carolina Vargas

EM:  Occupation and Position.
Owner and designer of Pituqui-Pinaqui

EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with?  What makes your community so unique?

In general simply that we are far away, really in the south, almost at the end and that we are a small market (Santiago, capital of Chile) →

Juxtaposing the traditional techniques of hand-drawn animation with new media, Sun Xun, a Chinese artist born in 1980 recently risen to critical acclaim in Hangzhou and internationally. While attending the China Academy of Fine Arts, he started off learning the art of print-making, but he soon developed an intense interest in moving images that led him to found his own animation studio in 2006. →

FADER TV: Studio Time With Passion Pit
In this exclusive segment of Fader TV, Michael Angelakos, the brains behind Passion Pit conceived of a grand project for the band’s well-received full-length debut. He decided to enhance the electro candy-coated pop songs with an exhilarating 46-member children’s choir.  The PS 22 from Staten Island, to be exact (a celebrated group which already recorded with Tori Amos and Coldplay). Check out this ecstatic video of indie-pop jubilation →

Guilherme Marconi is a self-taught artist who has done very well for himself and has an impressive resume to boot, creating artwork for such companies as:  Absolut Vodka, Nike, BBH UK, Nokia, Havaianas, MTV, Itaœ Bank, Tudo Agency among others →

THIS IS THE FUTURE BEFORE IT HAPPENED
The Glendale College Art Gallery – Glendale, CA
2/7/09
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Please join us for an opening reception on Saturday, February 7, 6-9pm.  Featuring an exhibition of artwork by Jeff Cain, Krysten Cunningham, Tom Dale, Veaceslav Druta, Adam Frelin, Olexander Gnilitsky, Vlatka Horvat, Tim Hyde, Yuliya Kostereva + Yuriy Kruchak, Nebojsa Milikic, Maarten Vanden Eynde, and Angie Waller →

dublab’s “ENTER THE NEW ERA” Calendar
DJ Frosty wanted to keep everyone abreast of a fun project they just completed in line with their ongoing Positive Projection Proton Drive Fundraiser.  They worked with 13 talented, independent artists to create a calendar for the drive →

Set in contemporary Tokyo, TOKYO SONATA is a story of an ordinary Japanese family of four. The father, Ryuhei Sasaki, like any other Japanese businessman, is faithfully devoted to his work. His wife Megumi manages the house and struggles to retain a bond with Takashi, her oldest son who is in college, and the youngest, Kenji, a sensitive boy in elementary school. The quiet unraveling of the family begins when Ryuhei unexpectedly →