_what can you do with that old typewriter, you say? Write poems on it? What are you, a hundred and forty? Hey! So Keira Rathbone’s got an idea!
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_this is awesome because we may or may not be guilty of making geometric patterns with our knick-knacks-
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_the London-based Sara de Bondt is much more than a graphic designer, sometimes she also co-curates exhibitions.
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_this series of a superhero grandmother by Sacha Goldberger is absolutely amazing (and greets you with “what? don’t you have anything better to do? — well, no, I will never have anything better to do ever again, grandma Mamika!)
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_hum, second time in less than a month that we follow a link straight to Adam Ellison‘s website. Is this some kind of plan that you are up to Mr. Ellison?
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_ now I kind of wish that all fashion editorials were drawn by the ladies at “Fashion from Old People”
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_apparently developed by Place studios in Argentina, Sudamerica is a type with a message: Sudamerica no es Latina.
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_”in early 1971 Sun Ra was artist-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley, teaching a course called “The Black Man In the Cosmos”… one half-hour of each class was devoted to a lecture, the other half-hour to an Arkestra performance or Sun Ra keyboard solo”.
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_broadcastr, that brainchild of the folks at Electric Lit is launching tomorrow. Not gonna lie, kind of excited.
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_hey and since we’re talking about internet, if you have a friend in a country with internet censorship, send them the Alkasir browser [ made by our buddy Walid al-Saqaf! ] so he can circumvent censors.
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_one of the best projects we’ve seen in years: some friends are buying a satellite from a bankrupt company and using it to send free internet to the countries that need it the most.
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_”i hate perfume” says Christopher Brosius, so he’s bottling experiences. Like the smell of a Library, or Gathering Apples. He’s won awards.
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_free online lectures might be the David to the university system’s Goliath. Or so says The Telegraph.
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_we ended up with one of these postcard-sized prints by Rand Renfrow. Turns out, it’s Rand Renfrow’s card. Now look at his portfolio!
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_it’s no secret that we can’t wait to get Granta’s “Best of Young Spanish Novelists” (Best of Young Novelists Writing in Spanish” didn’t have quite the same ring to it, I guess). Until then, sneak a read at Conditions for the Revolution.
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_designer Matt Stevens told designers in Dallas to work for free last month. And probably other stuff too. Here’s the poster for the event.
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_obsessed? We’re not obsessed! Obsessed is such a strong word, man. (okay, we reeeally like Micah Lidberg)
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_the latest issue of Kaleidoscope just landed in our mailbox [ thanks Lili! ], we still can’t believe that this magazine is free.
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_”her art is both humorous and sentimental while exploring her love for nostalgia” – Lyndsey Lesh, on Lyndsey Lesh.
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_Eleanor Rudge is an illustrator based in Brighton blah blah, look pretty, colorful mountains say hello! Hello! Hello pretty mountains! (visit Eleanor’s site, for serious)
Elle Lefant is pachyderm-style indie pop
Continuing with the habit of interviewing bands that find their name inspiration in the Animal Kingdom, this time The Gopher went to talk to Nijae Draine, half of American indie pop duo Elle Lefant. Injecting love and emotion into fresh beats and electronic rhythms, this young duet embark on their musical endeavors with a lot of dynamism. Take your shoes off, sit back, and get to know them, as we did, from a conversation over a college cafeteria table… you’re bound to find something [...]
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_this is “a video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium“, produced during a 2009-10 Knight Fellowship.
