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It’s hard to summarize the work of about someone as varied and un-pin-downable as Paul Sahre (pronounced “say-er”), but here’s a stab at it. (Deep breath.)

First, Sahre is an illustrator and graphic designer who contributes to places like Good Magazine and the New York Times, among many others. He also designs book covers for Rick Moody, Chuck Klosterman and Ben Marcus, lives in New York and, in his own words, “finds comfort in the fact that we are hurtling thru space.”

Sahre’s brilliance lies in the fact that his illustrations—always surprising, always ingenious—manage to broaden and deepen whatever text they accompany, no matter how disparate the topic. An OpEd about fixing Washington? No problem. A book that makes the case for vegetarianism? Why, yes. And so forth.

And last but not least, here’s a nice little video of Sahre talking about Old Spice, beauty and G.I. Joe.

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Swiss-born artist Clarina Bezzola mainly wears the hats of sculptor and performance artist, but lately we’ve become fixated on her psyched-out kooky drawings and gouache paintings. These portray a world of trash heaps and severed fingers, multi-armed women and anonymous human bodies into abstraction. Bezzola is a pro at painting the most grotesque elements in a light hand that renders them deeply engrossing, if not exactly pretty.

The artist opened her most recent show of sculpture with an Albert Einstein quotation: Every Belief in Separateness is an Illusion! and proceeded to explore that liminal space between interior and exterior worlds with gnarled tree stems and more severed fingers. It is teh radness.

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Durr, is there anything more scintillating than the phrase “renegade graphic designer”? Usthinks not. Ji Lee, an exemplar of the term, fashions intricate, miniature interiors that he terms “parallel worlds” and—the best part!—installs them on the ceilings of homes and corporate offices. “People don’t look at the ceiling anymore,” Lee writes on his website. “It’s a dead space. So I wanted to bring a small wink to this space.”

In this week’s edition of T Magazine Ji Lee explains further. “I’m interested in exploring areas like the back of business cards and ceilings— why are they left empty?” Indeed, why?

One of Lee’s parallel worlds contains a cherry-red electric guitar, psychedelic Hendrix poster and potted plant. Another features a cozy leather club chair, Oriental rug, and newspaper folded atop an ottoman. Lee ’s project combines the innate appeal of small objects with a whimsical absurdity and the vaguely sci-fi notion of universes that coexist in secret. Please enjoy.

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Shane Jones’ novel Light Boxes opens with a beautiful little epigraph by Joseph Wood Krutch which reads:

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”

We can all agree on that, no? The snippet foretells the book’s central conflict, which is a battle against the month of February. Only “month”, in this case, is a misnomer: the February of Light Boxes is an endless season of bleakness, a metaphysical state, a spiritual personage, sort of, and an oppressor above all.

Not to get anatomical here, but the form and the language of Jones’ novel are important to think about, because both are unusual. The book is divided into segments of a few paragraphs or a few sentences, and the prose will splinter freely into a recipe, a list, a monologue, a catalog or a cryptogram without warning. Somehow the transitions feel seamless, like reading the direct transcription of a story told by someone with no regard for conventions but an instinctive grasp of narrative.

Don’t want to spoil the plot—it’s delicate!—but trust us that this pocket-sized treasure is worth devouring. (Psst: Spike has acquired the rights to Light Boxes!)

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Вуди Харрельсон  Актер, 48 лет

                          Хреново родиться хомяком – не поболтаешь и не покуришь.

 Что меня раздражает, так это когда люди смотрят на мои интервью по телевизору и говорят: «Черт, да он удолбан». Хочу заметить: я никогда не работал удолбанным, не дал ни одного интервью в удолбанном состоянии, никогда не появлялся перед публикой удолбанным, и сейчас я тоже не удолбан.

 Я помню, как на какой-то пресс-конференции встает один такой полупидор и говорит: «Вот вы, Вуди, играли серийного убийцу, порнографа, а сейчас вот играете адвоката. Я смотрю, вы упорно беретесь только за темных героев, но постепенно снижаете планку». А я сижу и думаю: «Знал бы ты, чувачок, что адвоката сыграть сложнее всех. Вот где тьма-то».

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The floodgates have opened and bidding has begun on Binki Shapiro’s awesome auction Crafts for a Cause! All proceeds will go towards the critically underfunded earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. An impressive assortment of artists and musicians have crafted more than 60 unique objects for exclusively for this auction, and now’s your chance to get your hands on them.

Where else can you get a pair Kubrick’s rare Daft Punk toy robots custom-decorated by the band? How about the Taylor guitar that Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste learned to play on? A Pentax camera pimped out by Drew Barrymore? And how about some one of a kind drawings by Spike? Crafts for a Cause has it all, and the money goes to a great cause! So go put in your bids!

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The great thing about zines is that they encourage the dissemination of unusual enthusiasms. Or collections of unusual enthusiasms. Dan Murphy is an Illinois-based enthusiast of horticulture and music and biking who is currently in grad school studying green roof technology (COOL!) and produces a steady stream of zines, our favorite of which is his recent issue of The Juniper.

Issue #12 includes writings on happiness, a recipe, discourses on microbes and emergency preparedness and bike-riding. And more! If you ever wanted to get a closer read on the type of person who knows the difference between Mad-Dog Skullcap and Baikal Skullcap, here’s your chance.

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We know F.Scott Fitzgerald for a few things: his preppy coming-of-age tale This Side of Paradise, his coining of the term “Jazz Age”, and his authorship, lastly, of everyone’s favorite tale of doomed romance, The Great Gatsby. But there’s another Fitzgerald, too! The one who wrote a brutally realistic novella with political aims and a rather dark mood, called May Day, and published it in July 1920 in exchange for $200.

As part of its awesome series The Art of the Novella, Melville House is reissuing the 94-page classic with a bubblegum-pink cover that is probably the best use of irony we’ve seen thus far in 2010.

Another novella to check out in a series full of treasures is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes mystery published in 1901 shortly after the author returned from a stay in South Africa. It tells the story of a wealthy landowner (found dead, naturally), a lust for revenge, a family curse, a contested inheritance and a freakishly scary dog (possibly diabolical!)

Anyone with a fondness for clues and sleuthing will dig The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is not only classic Holmes but more of it, too. Read it out loud to a friend for maximum shiver-inducing effectiveness.

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Dr. Dog has 2 songs floating around from their new album Shame, Shame due out April 6th from Anti. They always seems to take what they do best and just add a little bit to it each record which in turn never lets me down.

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MP3 >> Dr Dog – Shadow People

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MP3 >> Dr Dog – Stranger

Listen to more at Myspace.

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дизайнерЛиза Орешкина15 марта

Считается, что мы живем в информационном обществе. Вокруг информационные технологии, поводы, войны. Где-то даже информационный голод. Но понимаем ли мы, что такое информация?

^*эхо моноблога

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John D’Agata learns, in the opening pages of his new book, that las vegas means “the meadows” in Spanish. The place was named so in 1829 by the pioneers who settled the 335,000 acres of valley, and it is the central misconception that underlies About A Mountain.

Another fact about Las Vegas: it is the fastest growing metropolitan area in America. D’Agata begins his book as he helps his mother move to the city, carrying books and a cat and boxes into her new home not far from Lake Mead, the artificial lake formed by Hoover Dam that provides 97% of the city’s water supply.

The author learns, while he’s in town, of a plan to store nuclear waste inside a patch of federal land called Yucca Mountain, located ninety miles north of Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, this plan has come under debate. Also not surprisingly, people have voiced vehement opposition to it. The half-life of the toxic waste proposed to be stored in Yucca Mountain is an estimated 28 million years. Take a minute to absorb that.

!!!!!!!!!!!

About A Mountain is a work of such masterful reporting and whoa-dude moments that it makes for the most contradictory kind of page-turner: D’Agata evokes curiosity, suspense and dread in such equal measures that you almost don’t want to know what happens next. Except, of course, that you do.

Catch a taste of the book at The Believer, the real shebang is here.

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The endless stream of awesomeness that eminates from Julieta Venegas is staggering. From her early ’90s musical infancy as the accordianist in ska-punk band Tijuana No! to the multi-instrumental force to be reckoned with she has blossomed into, Venegas has brought us a constant stream of eminently catchy and deceptively complex pop. Her latest LP, Otra Cosa, boasts a sublime single called “Bien o Mal.” It’s a song that typifies the sunny-melancholoy dialectic that runs throughout the singer’s work. Agustin Alberdi’ gloriously gaseous clip for the song can be found below, and for extra radness, revisit the video for classic Julieta jam “Seria Feliz.”

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Joseph Lobato of TOLA! (not a made up word, just an acronym for “Take Over L.A.“) made this majestic little video of Hernan Montenegro and his bike. Really, I’m just posting a video of someone riding a bike. But it’s such a blissfully visceral video. Doesn’t this just look like fun? Let’s go ride bikes.

via Say Mayday.

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If you’ve ever read anything by David Foster Wallace, or if you’ve ever read anything about David Foster Wallace, you’ll know first and foremost that his style and his genius were unmatched in the modern era of “less is more literature.” Say what you will about the practical application of implementing hundreds of pages of footnotes to help broaden the understanding of your story, or layering characters so deep that they often fold in upon themselves, the steps that he took to advance the cause of what great writing can be will no doubt still be a topic of debate on college campuses and coffee shop sofas for decades to come. While DFW left us with only a handful of titles to his name (each one a delightful gem) he also left a substantial library of notes and notebooks. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin acquired the archive and has been diligently digitizing the papers one by one so you too can have a flip through the (virtual) pages.

The archive contains manuscript materials for Wallace’s books, stories and essays; research materials; Wallace’s college and graduate school writings; juvenilia, including poems, stories and letters; teaching materials and books.

Highlights include handwritten notes and drafts of his critically acclaimed “Infinite Jest,” the earliest appearance of his signature “David Foster Wallace” on “Viking Poem,” written when he was six or seven years old, a copy of his dictionary with words circled throughout and his heavily annotated books by Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, John Updike and more than 40 other authors.

Wallace’s materials at the Ransom Center will reside alongside the papers of contemporary writers such as DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Doris Lessing and James Salter, as well as those of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

Wallace’s publisher Little, Brown and Company is donating its editorial files relating to the author to the Ransom Center. Wallace worked with Little, Brown and Company beginning in 1993.

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Partners & Spade is a store-cum-gallery-cum-studio-cum-performance space in Lower Manhattan established by Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti. How to describe the storefront? It’s a bit like Pee-Wee’s Playhouse for creative adults— a place where you can look at art, browse and buy neat things, and generally soak up the conceptual shenanigans of the two founders.

Along with hosting art shows, the two are fond of hosting one-shot events in the vein of ping-pong tournaments, avant-garde preschool classes and, for two memorable weekends, a fanciful French bakery with treats baked in-house by artist Will Cotton. The macarons were impeccable.

It’s to our great delight that Spade and Sperduti have recently launched a website worthy of their space. If you’re not in the neighborhood, an online tour makes a fitting substitute for the store experience. Be sure to check out the custom fixed gear bike, the backdated confidence trophies, and the Stacy Wall skate deck!

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Stop, breathe, and take a moment to appreciate how rad bugs are. Let’s send waves of positive thought about insects into the Universe. Here in the English-speaking world, where they are semiotically bound to concepts of destruction and annoyance, bugs could use some respect and affection. Not so much in Japan, as we learn in Jessica Oreck’s dazzling documentary Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo.

…While people of many other countries fear all manner of creepy crawlies, the Japanese love and respect them: they’re sold live in vending machines and department stores; they’re the subject of the No. 1 videogame MushiKing; and a single beetle recently sold for $90,000. Insects have been an integral part of the centuries-old traditions of the country, once described as the “Isle of the Dragonflies.”

The film’s gorgeous imagery links people with the strength of beetles, the music of crickets, the magic of fireflies and the endless colors of butterflies. Using bugs like an anthropologist’s toolkit, the film uncovers Japanese philosophies that will shift Westerners’ perspectives on nature, beauty, life, and even the seemingly mundane realities of their day-to-day routines.

Take the rare opportunity to reflect on the elegance of the microscopic and watch this film. It’s playing tonight at Cinefamily in L.A., for one night only. The screening will also feature a Q&A with Oreck.

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Airplanes is the single off of Los Angeles/Silver Lake based band Local Natives record Gorilla Manor which was released this month by our friends over at Frenchkiss records.

Watch the official video for it above and stream the entire record by going to thelocalnatives.com. They just earned a “best new music” over at Pitchfork and are hitting the road starting this month headed all the way into June so be sure to check them out.

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