YULIA GORODONSKI

Belarusian photographer Yulia Gorodonski has an incredible collection of self-portraits. She gets inspired by her surroundings, films, music, props, and of course the way she’s feeling. She’s been working professionally for about a year, and her work has been featured in Chaos Magazine.

Yulia is currently based in Israel, and at the moment she’s finishing up a book of her fantastic self-portaits.

Here are some of them:

GREENAID: CANDY DISPENSERS

Two Los Angeles designers have come up with an innovative way to make seed bombing easy for everyone. They’re retrofitting old candy dispensers so they can dispense seeds packed in nutrient-rich clay.
Their first model is in Los Angeles’s Chinatown and is filled with indigenous plants. They’re hoping that they can expand the program and partner with parks and botanical gardens. At this point, it costs about $500 to retrofit each candy machine, but that price tag would fall if they scale up the program and if the machines prove to be popular they could pay for themselves.

VIA

flannel_bear

born_free

wow!! this is crazy!!.. reminds me of Justice - Stress

photogram

PHANTOGRAM is a psych-rock, synth pop, hip-hop Influenced duo from Saratoga Springs, NY consisting of Joshua Carter and Sarah Barthel. Their music can be described as a culmination of unique street beat rhythms, and psychedelic melodies, with combined technology and organic textures.


Phantogram // 10,000 Claps

capsule

Capsule // I Wish You (Corporate Remix)

Capsule // Hello (Shawn Ryan Edit)

cecilia_sörensen

Art direction and design for Cecilia Sörensen autumn/winter catalog. 2009.
Photography Wai Lin Tse.

POLKADOT MIXTAPE

Enjoy this mix filled with songs selected by our team during the last month. We will try to publish a mixtape a month, so just follow us. This is the track list:
One Life Stand by Hot Chip
Go Do by Jónsi
Giving Up The Gun by Vampire Weekend
I Need A Dollar by Aloe Blacc
Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem
Baby by Devendra Banhart
Despicable Dogs by Small Black
Best Friend by The Drums
Come Saturday by Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Soundtrack by All is Love
Ambling Alp by Yeasayer
Royal by Crookers Ft. Roisin Murphy
Beautiful Rebel by Jeremy Jay
Belong by Washed Out
Can’t sleep by Adrian Lux

glasnost

Indie electro band from Houston, TX.

Matt and Kim – Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare (Glasnost Remix)

crystal_castles

Their new album is allmost as good as the first :)


crystal castles // celestica
when it’s cold outside, hold me

kaskade

In the run up to the release of Kaskade’s upcoming album, Dynasty, the Chicago-born DJ teams up with Dragonette on his new single, “Fire In Your New Shoes”.

Pure amazingnesssss! Click to dl for free:
Dragonette – Fire In Your New Shoes

Dragonette – Pick Up The Phone (Michael Van She Remix)

sticky_notes

sticky note experiment!

from the guys that did the mentos + diet coke experiment

!!!

only_in_'merica

1. Only in America……can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America……are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America……do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America……do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
5. Only in America……do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America……do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America……do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America……do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America……do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well: Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.
10. Only in America……do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering
:: via

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Using the Red One and 5d Mark II to Create Living Magazines

Magazines are going down the crapper as a medium, but the crew at Alexx Henry photography envisions a world where OLED and eInk screens put motion into mags and makes them cutting-edge. Is this what the future of publishing looks like? Well, I’d be pretty surprised if these techs became anywhere close to disposable anytime soon. Instead, we’ll be seeing things like the Apple Tablet and Microsoft Courier coming along to load up stuff like this. But despite the packaging differences, the finished product loaded on these next-gen displays could be pretty similar to this. (via Gizmodo)

square.

hahaha whaaat. don't be lazy, you can at least punch numbers in :: Square

forever_and_ever

P&P

Vincent and Lorenzo started their own blog, P&P, to recreate the posts of French Fashion bloggers like Betty and Louise.



hahaha. awesome :: via

kittehroulette

reeeeemix

the curious incident of big poppa in the nighttime [the notorious b.i.g. vs. the xx]

hollywood_logos

cool article I found on Neatorama:

You see these opening logos every time you go to the movies, but have you ever wondered who is the boy on the moon in the DreamWorks logo? Or which mountain inspired the Paramount logo? Or who was the Columbia Torch Lady?

1. DreamWorks SKG: Boy on the Moon

In 1994, director Steven Spielberg, Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, and record producer David Geffen (yes, they make the initial SKG on the bottom of the logo) got together to found a new studio called DreamWorks.

Spielberg wanted the logo for DreamWorks to be reminiscent of Hollywood's golden age. The logo was to be a computer generated image of a man on the moon, fishing, but Visual Effects Supervisor Dennis Muren of Industrial Light and Magic, who has worked on many of Spielberg's films, suggested that a hand-painted logo might look better. Muren asked his friend, artist Robert Hunt to paint it.

Hunt also sent along an alternative version of the logo, which included a young boy on a crescent moon, fishing. Spielberg liked this version better, and the rest is history. Oh, and that boy? It was Hunt's son, William.

The DreamWorks logo that you see in the movies was made at ILM from paintings by Robert Hunt, in collaboration with Kaleidoscope Films (designers of the original storyboards), Dave Carson (director), and Clint Goldman (producer) at ILM.

Photo courtesy of Robert Hunt - Thanks for the neat story, Robert!

2. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): Leo The Lion

In 1924, studio publicist Howard Dietz designed the "Leo The Lion" logo for Samuel Goldwyn's Goldwyn Picture Corporation. He based it on the athletic team of his alma mater Columbia University, the Lions. When Goldwyn Pictures merged with Metro Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, the newly formed MGM retained the logo.

Since then, there have been five lions playing the role of "Leo The Lion". The first was Slats, who graced the openings of MGM's silent films from 1924 to 1928. The next lion, Jackie, was the first MGM lion whose roar was heard by the audience. Though the movies were silent, Jackie's famous growl-roar-growl sequence was played over the phonograph as the logo appeared on screen. He was also the first lion to appear in Technicolor in 1932.

The third lion and probably most famous was Tanner (though at the time Jackie was still used concurrently for MGM's black and white films). After a brief use of an unnamed (and very mane-y) fourth lion, MGM settled on Leo, which the studio has used since 1957.

The company motto "Ars Gratia Artis" means "Art for Art's Sake."

Sources: MGM Media Center | Wikipedia entry on "Leo The Lion"

3. 20th Century Fox: The Searchlight Logo

In 1935, Twentieth Century Pictures and Fox Film Company (back then mainly a theater-chain company) merged to create Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (they later dropped the hyphen).

The original Twentieth Century Pictures logo was created in 1933 by famed landscape artist Emil Kosa, Jr. After the merger, Kosa simply replaced "Pictures, Inc." with "Fox" to make the current logo. Besides this logo, Kosa was also famous for his matte painting of the Statue of Liberty ruin at the end of the Planet of the Apes (1968) movie, and others.

Perhaps just as famous as the logo is the "20th Century Fanfare", composed by Alfred Newman, then musical director for United Artists.

4. Paramount: The Majestic Mountain

Paramount Pictures Corporation was founded in 1912 as Famous Players Film Company by Adolph Zukor, and the theater moguls the Frohman brothers, Daniel and Charles.

The Paramount "Majestic Mountain" logo was first drawn as a doodle by W.W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Zukor, based on the Ben Lomond Mountain from his childhood in Utah (the live action logo made later is probably Peru's Artesonraju). It is the oldest surviving Hollywood film logo.

The original logo has 24 stars, which symbolized Paramount's then 24 contracted movie stars (it's now 22 stars, though no one could tell me why they reduced the number of stars). The original matte painting has also been replaced with a computer generated mountain and stars.

Paramount logo history, for more details, see: CLG Wiki

5. Warner Bros.: The WB Shield

Warner Bros. (yes, that's legally "Bros." not "Brothers") was founded by four Jewish brothers who emigrated from Poland: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner. Actually, those aren't the names that they were born with. Harry was born "Hirsz," Albert was "Aaron," Sam was "Szmul," and Jack was "Itzhak." Their original surname is also unknown - some people said that it is "Wonsal," "Wonskolaser" or even Eichelbaum, before it was changed to "Warner." (Sources: Doug Sinclair | Tody Nudo's Hollywood Legends)

In the beginning, Warner Bros. had trouble attracting top talents. In 1925, at the urging of Sam, Warner Bros. made the first feature-length "talking pictures" (When he heard of Sam's idea, Harry famously said "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"). That got the ball rolling for the studio and made Warner Bros. famous.

The Warner Bros. logo, the WB Shield, has actually gone many revisions. Jason Jones and Matt Williams of CLG Wiki have the details:

Warner Bros. Logo History - see the full details at CLG Wiki

If you're interested in WB cartoons, you can't go wrong with Dave Mackey's Field guide: Link

6. Columbia Pictures: The Torch Lady

Columbia Pictures was founded in 1919 by the brothers Harry and Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales. Many of the studio's early productions were low-budget affairs, so it got nicknamed "Corned Beef and Cabbage." In 1924, the brothers Cohn bought out Brandt and renamed their studio Columbia Pictures Corporation in effort to improve its image.

Vintage Columbia Pictures Logo (Source: Reel Classics)

The studio's logo is Columbia, the female personification of America. It was designed in 1924 and the identity of the "Torch Lady" model was never conclusively determined (though more than a dozen women had claimed to be "it.")

In her 1962 autobiography, Bette Davis claimed that Claudia Dell was the model, whereas in 1987 People Magazine named model and Columbia bit-actress Amelia Batchler as the girl. In 2001, the Chicago Sun-Times named a local woman who worked as an extra at Columbia named Jane Bartholomew as the model. Given how the logo has changed over the years, it may just be that all three were right! (Source)

The current Torch Lady logo was designed in 1993 by Michael J. Deas, who was commissioned by Sony Pictures Entertainment to return the lady to her "classic" look.

Though people thought that actress Annette Bening was the model, it was actually a Louisiana homemaker and muralist named Jenny Joseph that modeled the Torch Lady for Deas. Rather than use her face, however, Deas drew a composite face made from several computer-generated features (Source: Roger Ebert, Photo: Kathy Anderson)

If you like this article, please check out Neatorama's articles on logos:

• The Evolution of Tech Logos
• Evolution of Car Logos
• Who Owns What on Television?

icade

Think Geek’s April Fool’s iCade ... haha pretty cool...i guess.

the_lonely_island

just made me smile

theophilus_london

mmkay. lovin this guyyyyyy and this video!

Theophilus London is a Brooklyn rapper in the style of Kid Cudi and Kanye, fusing hip hop, straight up pop and electronic music, but with a way better name. The video is for his song Humdrum Town and features a retro, VHS style music video with him getting ready to meet up with his girl, though he leaves her sitting a little too long… via

zuriick.

Zuriick yet again ups their game with another fresh batch of good looking shoes. It seems to me like they’re starting to branch out from the standard sneaker genre, which I think is a smart move. Above are three of their newest styles, I’m not quite sure when they were released, but I’m really digging all of these.

I like the variety of these shoes but the best part is that they’re all round $100, so you’re not breaking the bank by any means.