Beach House, a lovely duo from Baltimore, will release their follow up to their self-titled debut at the end of Feb. in 2008. Until then, they’re teasing us with a sample track, “Gila.” The new album, Devotion, will feature more Mazzy Star-ish tunes rich with layers of piano, slide and organs, a welcome format […]
Grain Edit has a great slideshow of images from the children’s book Henri’s Walk to Paris, which was illustrated in 1962 by designer Saul Bass. Leonore Klein wrote the text.
Over at Photopreneur, you can look at a list of the top ten most expensive photographs ever sold. Above is ndreas Gursky’s “99 Cent II Diptych,” the first photograph to ever sell for more than $3 million. Sotheby’s sold the piece in early 2007, but not at a photography sale, at a contemporary art sale. […]
If you aren’t, you should be looking at Onesixoneeight’s Flickr Stream: awesome images accompanying mp3s. Simple and straight to the point, the stream acts as a wordless blog that invites you to imagine what inspired the guys to pair certain images with certain songs. You might also want to just subscribe to the blog @ […]
This year, I’ll be posting a daily Gift Watch, featuring items that I think would make great gifts. Even the godless exchange gifts in December, and there’s no shortage of cool gadgets, books, records and art to shower on your friends and family this year. Enjoy.
The Collected Poems 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert is […]
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