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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_Ben Wilson scours the streets of London with only one thing in mind: to transform the gum that everyday folks leave behind into fine art.
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_thinking of building a bookshelf with all those crayons hanging around in your desk drawers? Dominic Wilcox teaches us how to.
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_with incredible detail and killer music, the Macro Kingdom will amuse even the least sciency ones.
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_Amberlee Rosolowich‘s whimsical illustrations, now showing at the Hespe Gallery! Hide, seek, click, and reminisce.
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_awesome impromptu typography lesson right here. Oh, how we wish we could have it up on our wall!
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_taiwanese artist Pei-San Ng simply cannot resist the urge to burn down her art once it’s completed. Pyromaniacs, this one’s for you.
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_who wouldn’t want to wait for hours at one of these cool bus stops located around the world?
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_stop biting your tongue and go to Mural Locator, an easy-to-use tool that will make the lightbulb over your head turn on immediately.
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_these amazing collage works have connected Derek Gores with some of the big names out there!
Neon Gold Records kind of hearts Destiny’s Child
Interviewing labels like Neon Gold – inspired, ambitious and genuine lovers of music – is the reason we decided to create this series of posts. Having come across Passion Pit “on MySpace” these guys decided to throw caution to the wind and create their own label while still in college representing musicians with “pop sensibility and accessibility.” They talk shop and tell us why the “death of the music industry” might be a good thing.
Tunes straight from the mouse’s house
Bronzerat Records is a UK-based independent netlabel. With the amazing and creative talent a metallic musical rodent obviously needs to have, BR works with a variety of genres focusing on the individual artists and their genuine music. With worldly appeal, Bronzerat delivers pieces of music charged with their eclectic sense oftaste. Get to know these folks through this lengthy but interesting interview. You’re bound to find something you’ll want to play on repeat.
The SZ gives us music in B+W
In the audiovisual era of today, it is definitely not new to experience music both through eyes and ears alike. Concerts and musical presentations have become a mix of visual and auditive stimuli running through entire crowds around the globe. In fact, to some extent it has become the norm for the musical component to be paired up with its siamese sibling -the visual addition- in order to achieve success on stage. The SZ is a French musical duo (Franck and Damien) that has [...]
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It was a rainy summer afternoon when I discovered her in the attic above my mother’s bedroom, hidden beneath a thick layer of dust and surrounded by a fortress of boxes and spider webs. She was an old Minolta, and with her I started practicing the very basic skills that I could teach myself from the library’s old-fashioned manuals or by imitating the photographers with big cameras on the main boulevard. Before long I found myself snapping all sorts of things around me: the zigzagging [...]
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_if the concept of ‘fingering a wall’ sounds weird to you, let your mind be further blown by Judith Ann Braun‘s graphite-charged work.
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_Betsy Walton‘s imaginative creations entertain our sleep-deprived eyes this morning and make us long for drea…m…y… dre…am…s…
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_our love for diving and the underwater world makes us go crazy over Guillaume Néry and Julie Gautier’s Base Jump video.
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_old newspapers come back to life in the streets of NYC as they take part in Nick Georgiou‘s humanoid slash animalesque set of sculptures.
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_spanish freelance illustrator Joseba Elorza (MiraRuido) has some wicked digital collages featuring characters of the 50s and 60s. (Also: Happy Birthday to Gopher editor Michu!!!)
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_with an arachnid-esque technique, Chiharu Shiota’s massive installations seem to capture objects like dresses and pianos in space and time.
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_tackling the issue of fragile urban expansion, Thai Chinese artist Nippan Oranniwesna builds entire cities out of just… baby powder.
The Peppermill: conquest through music
This here is a disclaimer for the change-sensitive.
Cool new idea we’re going for: this Sounds section will now have a series featuring music labels. Yes! We’ve decided to reach out to independent record labels that (a) are doing interesting things, and (b) are awesome. Why? Because with a tiny bit of research we’ve stumbled upon some of the most exciting, innovative creative people congregating around these independents. So, to the point, shall we?
The Peppermill Records is a fun little netlabel based in the mountains [...]
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_when graphic designer Corey Holms put together food dye, vegetable oil and water he wasn’t particularly thinking on cooking lunch. The result, equally tasty, was an explosion of abstract colorfulness.
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_Tokujin Yoshioka‘s natural crystal chair emerges from the water using the laws of nature and with ‘beauty that exceeds our imagination,’ sends its message to the future.
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_dutch artist Mike Thompson redefines the symbiotic relationship between lamp owners and their artifacts. Owners of Latro are required to treat it like a pet – feeding and caring for the algae in exchange of its light.
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_artist Mia Liu has transformed her daily routine of eating donuts at the Guggenheim Museum café into the topic of her creative work.
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_Keetra Dean Dixon (FromKeetra) is the mind -but not the body- behind the Anonymous Hugging Wall, part of her series ‘Methods & Apparati for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation.’
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_Eric Ellis is the mind behind NoonStudio in Chicago, but something tells us he works around the clock.
