Scion Presents An Art Exhibition exploring Sci-Fi
Scion Installation L.A. – Culver City, CA
11/21/09

Euphoria Left the Room is an exhibition addressing the sense of creativity and visionary imagination, which throughout the 20th century was set free through experimentation and what-if scenarios governed by the “if anything was possible” logic commonly displayed in Sci-fi literature and film. This exhibition wishes to question what fragments of this avant-garde thinking and visual experimentation are still at work in contemporary art practice. →

Interview with Dengue Fever
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This ring a bell?

“Now get your patchouli stink outta my store!”

Nothing? Well. Recall “rings on his fingers”… “awful cooking smells”… unbuttoned shirt and a greasy, salt/peppery ponytail. Light a little incense, maybe fondle some original-press wax. Is it coming back to you now? Are you thinking, “High Fidelity, circa early 2000?” If you are, you’re absolutely right: it’s that “f***ing Ian guy” →

Interview with the Meat Puppets (Chris Kirkwood)
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“Basically, we found something that we liked to do, which was play music,” Chris Kirkwood began.  “Curt and I came from different angles.  I started playing after I saw the movie Deliverance. When I was twelve, I got a banjo. Curt had taken up guitar… we had gotten really into it in our teens. I started playing bass at some point and then we [got] together with Derek [Bostrom] and started a band.

“It felt right at the time. We thought about “what it is to be” and “what do you want to do with yourself” and those decisions you make definitely depends on who you are as a person. →

To style a fashion editorial or an advertisement, it takes an entire team to produce an effective and more importantly, engaging pictorial. There are many details that go into these projects and often enough, the consumer, reader or viewer is not aware of how industrious these ventures can be. From make-up and wardrobe to set design and product placement, a certain sensibility and work ethic is commanded.

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When it comes to art, music and design, there really are no limits or boundaries to creativity. Eness, an Australian-based group of interactive designers or “electronic puppets” is proud to present their latest exhibition at ART Taipei 2009, “Cross Sections in Space”. Rather than displaying art on a canvas or wall, Eness challenges the boundaries and limits that come with time and space by using a series of four translucent screens, each representing a →

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in England gets creative when it comes to getting their message across. They’ve come up with a series of short promos through a program, Family Supercooks, to promote and inform viewers of healthy eating. The videos include various kinds of foods talking with their unhealthy counterparts. For example, a dried apricot talks trash with a regular apricot, telling him, “You’ve got a face like a backside.” In another promo, a →

In a world where print is slowly dying out and anything and everything is read via the Internet, there have been innovative design concepts which combine the two mediums such as the Rolltop created by Orkin Designs. The concept device rolls up like a traditional newspaper but when unfurled, it becomes a touchscreen OLED display. Yes, a touchscreen that can be rolled up like a newspaper. What can’t be done with technology nowadays? There’s been talk →

Aaron Britt, one of six editors at Dwell magazine, is a perfect example of the modern-day journalist, putting his hands in as many pots as possible in the hope that one heats up.  It’s the only way to survive in a market where immediacy has become paramount to all else.  Print is suffering across the nation, newspapers are on the endangered list, and more and more people like Aaron are out of work.  However, Aaron is one of a rare few who have carved out a niche for themselves by writing about what they love.  In addition to editing Dwell, he also pens a bi-weekly column on men’s style for the San Francisco Chronicle called The Pocket Square. →

WK Interact at Subliminal Projects this weekend. Check it out.

You can hardly pick up a magazine or turn on the television without being bombarded by trends in one form or another. Whether it’s the morning talk show circuit breaking down the latest diet craze, critics outlining current hot genres in movies or scientists constructing new movements in biomedical engineering, it seems there are few (if any) industries that exist void of the idea of “the next big thing”. There is no doubt that trends are a powerful force; they decided what we wear, how we eat, what medicines we take and what products we use. →