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Jason Polan

stranger to stranger more...

Posted by David on July 14, 2010 at 02:11 PM

Scott Blake

the prince of patterns more...

Posted by David on June 14, 2010 at 03:40 PM | 1 Comment

Steve Olson

“Old school, new school, fuck school!” – Steve Olson more...

Posted by David on June 14, 2010 at 02:50 PM | 1 Comment

Jani Laitiala

Interview with finish skater Jani Laitiala more...

Posted by David on June 02, 2010 at 04:10 PM

Doppeldenk - Alienation Retreat

Posted by lenny on March 24, 2010 at 01:45 PM

Jason Hackenwerth

With a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting under his belt, you can't really say that Jason Hackenwerth took the usual artist-route after graduating. While others try to create this one piece more...

Posted by lenny on March 17, 2010 at 04:29 PM

John Schuh

While the majority of collage artists still love to use the aging hipster’s back catalogue - B-movies, psychedelic imagery, obscure underground material - as their main source of inspiration to more...

Posted by lenny on March 17, 2010 at 03:45 PM | 1 Comment

Paris Nous Appartient

Photography _ Keffer / www.kround.org Styling _ Jenni Mc Farlane more...

Posted by lenny on March 17, 2010 at 11:41 AM

The Red Chapel

Some balls are bigger than others. Follow Denmark's enfant terrible Mads Brügger into the staged reality of North Korea's capital Pyongyang. more...

Posted by lenny on March 16, 2010 at 01:20 PM

Dallas Clayton

You might have heard about it somewhere on the ungraspable Interwebs, but after holding a copy of Dallas Clayton’s “An Awesome Book” in our furry hands, we immediately knew that we more...

Posted by lenny on March 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM

Beach House

Dry Humping Other People’s Trash more...

Posted by chris on March 16, 2010 at 12:42 PM

Mike Blabac

Mike Blabac is one of the preeminent skateboard photographers of his generation. He was born in 1973 in Steubenville, Ohio, and spent his youth in Lansing, Michigan. He first started skating when he more...

Posted by lenny on March 15, 2010 at 03:35 PM

Local Natives

2009’s almost over, so what can a keen and dedicated ear-expect from yet another LA band? More of that No Age/Abe Vigoda/Mika Miko sort of thing? More lo-fi lessons from the DIY gutter? One more...

Posted by lenny on March 12, 2010 at 05:06 PM

PhaseOne

Burial. Radiohead. Animal Collective. Banjo Or Freakout. Fool's Gold. Just a handful of accidental consent-artists whose innovative approach to music, even though you can't really compare them to more...

Posted by lenny on March 12, 2010 at 05:05 PM

Massive Attack

Every year just before Christmas the UK music media goes into that much of a frenzy about what next year’s band to be, album to listen to and trend to follow will be, that sometimes they forget more...

Posted by lenny on March 12, 2010 at 04:30 PM

Yeasayer

Having released their debut All Hour Cymbals during the 'all eyes on Brooklyn' high-time in 2007 via We Are Free might have worked in their favour in terms of being in the right place at the right more...

Posted by lenny on March 12, 2010 at 03:34 PM

Cloud Nothings

No names, no photos, just a vague address. Almost from nowhere Cleveland based Cloud Nothings thundered into earshot with a tremendously weighty song titled Hey Cool Kid, a bitter(sweet) high school more...

Posted by chris on February 05, 2010 at 01:28 PM | 1 Comment

Felix's Machines

It's all about aesthetic and sensory pleasure. Felix’s Machines are music making sculptures. They were constructed in his bedroom and exist to facilitate music by translating rhythmic audio more...

Posted by jan on January 14, 2010 at 05:36 PM

ENTER THE VOID

sex + drugs + beethoven. seven years after irreversible, director gaspar noé fucks with our heads once again more...

Posted by chris on November 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM

Chris Burden - Through Life Never Softly

Not many people can claim to have had a friend shoot them at close range with a .22 rifle (“Shoot,” 1971). Even fewer can say that they spent five whole days in a locker (“Five Day more...

Posted by marok on November 19, 2009 at 07:24 PM | 15 Comments

Aotorea by Benji Wagner

The cumulative cycle touring experience of these 10 skateboarders was precisely none and yet they embraced it whole heartedly. A few did some light training, most did nothing. more...

Posted by jan on November 17, 2009 at 04:41 PM | 1 Comment

smart urban stage in São Paulo

Following the Brazilian launch of the two-seater car in April of this year, smart provided local artists with an unconventional platform: the smart Urban Stage. The platform combines a gallery, more...

Posted by chris on November 10, 2009 at 01:41 PM

Green Tokyo Gundam Project

Odaiba, Tokyo. Between July 11 until August 31 in 2009 a life size Gundam appeared in Japan's capital. Launched in the late 70's, 1979 to be exact, Gundam was one of the first international more...

Posted by chris on November 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM

ANDY GILMORE: BLACK MATH

Bright swirling colors, intricately interwoven lines morphing into sleek harmonious forms – the mesmerizing kaleidoscopic images of Rochester, New York-based talent Andy Gilmore have a more...

Posted by chris on November 04, 2009 at 04:52 PM

Tom Sachs - Pioneer Of Sustainability

Tom sachs is widely known for his do-it-yourself version of Pop appropriation, having built representations of everything from a functioning McDonald's restaurant to a full-scale Apollo lunar module more...

Posted by chris on November 02, 2009 at 01:16 PM

Serengeti & Polyphonic

Re-Upping The Ant more...

Posted by chris on October 09, 2009 at 07:21 PM

Amanda Blank

Amanda Blank’s frankness is the very antithesis to your ordinary artist biography or release information sheet: whereas usually it takes but 1-3 paragraphs and/or blurbs into any given text to more...

Posted by chris on September 10, 2009 at 01:29 PM

WHITE LIGHTNIN’

Immortal folklore and living legends about outlaws, hobos, desperados, stuff that oscillates between myth and mystery – that’s normally the kind of raw meat suited to get our fantasy more...

Posted by chris on September 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM

Erik Sandberg

Saying that Erik Mark Sandberg’s work feels like pop culture squeezed through the sieve of the computer generation, just because he pursued a degree in 3D animation when he was still living in more...

Posted by chris on September 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Tortoise

In Zeno’s Paradox, also known as “the tale of Achilles and the Tortoise,” the land turtle holds the number one position at all times because Mr. A., eternally damn close on the more...

Posted by chris on September 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM

Warpaint

While the 90s proved that fantastic music was being made in small town America, the major media centres of New York and Los Angeles are back with a bang in the 00s. LA in particular got its groove more...

Posted by chris on August 18, 2009 at 06:45 PM | 3 Comments

THE PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND - RIDERS ON THE STORM

What’s wrong with doing things in a big way? Why not create a high-brow, yet fun and self-aggrandising, shit-can-happen-when-you-party naked musical universe that would be the highlight of more...

Posted by Erik on August 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE

chaos reigns in a town called panic more...

Posted by chris on August 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM

Health

Here comes the new urban regeneration. Blog-darlings with a much welcome background (yes, they recorded their self-titled debut at the Smell), jaw-dropping live-performances and a raging musical more...

Posted by chris on July 30, 2009 at 03:38 PM

Alison Scarpulla

Seductive twilight more...

Posted by chris on July 30, 2009 at 03:23 PM

Kill Pixie aka Mark Whalen

The times of being a regular fixture on the ‘ones to watch’ lists are long gone for Sydney raised and now LA residing artist Mark Whalen aka Kill Pixie, his visual monopoly on society more...

Posted by chris on July 27, 2009 at 02:35 PM

MODERAT - POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE

Modeselektor plus Apparat equals Moderat, but actually it’s not that simple since Berlin’s premium address for visuals, also known as Pfadfinderei, is an active part of this collaboration more...

Posted by Erik on June 23, 2009 at 04:14 PM

MICHAEL NAJJAR

Berlin residing Michael Najjar can be easily considered as one of the most important visual artists of our time, riding the tides of relevance and maintaining an air of vision and spirit in more...

Posted by Erik on June 23, 2009 at 03:28 PM

THE 50 MOST UNDERAPPRECIATED AND UNFAIRLY FORGOTTEN MOVIE TREASURES

Viral marketing hadn't been invented, people didn't understand the narrative, the topic was too hot to handle, or they were punished with the same release date as Star Wars, Pulp Fiction and the Dark more...

Posted by Erik on June 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM

THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT, OVERALL FASCINATING AND WITHOUT A DOUBT BESTEST DOCUMENTARIES EVER MADE

We love documentaries and so should you.  With mainstream movies becoming more and more bland and banal, this is the place to look (back) for the really good, mindblowing stuff. And since the more...

Posted by Erik on June 16, 2009 at 06:07 PM | 1 Comment

25 DE MARCO - DON'T FORGET TO USE OUR TAX FREE SERVICE

Asprilla lives in São Paulo, downtown. He lives with his wife and her daughter in a one-bedroom apartment rented from one of his bosses, a Chinese dealer for products made in China that more...

Posted by Erik on June 15, 2009 at 04:32 PM

DAMIAN LAZARUS - SMOKE THE MONSTER OUT

Damian Lazarus is best known for being one of the founders of the Crosstown Rebels label, a taste-defining A&R and a jet-setting DJ, who has helped to shape the sound of contemporary dance music. more...

Posted by Erik on June 15, 2009 at 03:58 PM

HOLY GHOST! - A SKIP IN YOUR STEP

Back in early 2004, they kicked our collective butts with a dope-ass rap band called Automato. Unfortunately, the NYC six-piece vanished from the scene as quickly as they stormed it, but now two of more...

Posted by Erik on June 15, 2009 at 02:16 PM

EDWARD DEL ROSARIO - ILL COMMUNICACIÓN

St.Louis-born and Brooklyn-residing artist Edward del Rosario carefully places his protagonists in isolated scenarios where they have to face quirky yet psychologically challenging situations with more...

Posted by Erik on June 15, 2009 at 01:13 PM

SEAN MALTO - KANSAS CITY KID

So Sean, how is your life going at the moment? Life’s great! I am just travelling a lot, skating lots. Hanging out and having fun. more...

Posted by Erik on June 11, 2009 at 05:01 PM | 1 Comment

TELEPATHE - THE REAL BANG BANG

When we first introduced Telepathe back in summer 2007, Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes had merely dropped a few songs – well, tracks, really – on Social Registry. Describing more...

Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 05:16 PM

HERE WE GO MAGIC - NOMEN EST OMEN

Unforgettable songs, unmistakable artwork, elaborate sentiments. Not the worst things one could state about the new album of a multi-instrumentalist who actually attended the School of the Museum of more...

Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 05:10 PM | 1 Comment

NICOLAS MUELLER - BACK TO NATURE

Back to Nature, face to face. Feel it, breathe it. Love for everything at all stages is what we can work on now, because the rest, money and its power, will soon loose its attraction. Because the more...

Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 04:29 PM

SCOTT POMMIER

Scott Pommier was born in Elliot Lake Ontario sometime in the mid to late-mid-seventies. At age three he moved his family, older brother Andrew and parents Shirley and Eugene to Sudbury Ontario. It more...

Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 04:08 PM

MATT LEINES - IN THE EYE OF THE TIGER

Paterson, New Jersey. The place William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg wrote poems about.  And the place – or more precisely: the area – Matt Leines first saw the light of day more...

Posted by Erik on June 09, 2009 at 03:27 PM | 1 Comment

Jen Ray - When conformity breaks down

There is a certain sensitive touch with Jen Ray`s art works, but it’s not the sensitiveness that is brittle and tender. Within these extra fine lines and forms she puts on paper, there is an more...

Posted by marok on May 19, 2009 at 01:51 PM

Andrea Crews - Vive la trash

Andrea Crews shakes the Parisian fashion world with dresses made from vintage clothing more...

Posted by marok on May 06, 2009 at 03:28 PM

and you will know us by the Trail of Dead

Right on cue Conrad enters the room. He immediately lies down on one of the two beds. He looks a little tired too. You can tell his nose ain’t snotty. more...

Posted by chris on April 04, 2009 at 02:25 PM

Mike Mills - Years Of Change

Lodown had the chance to talk to the almost irritatingly grounded artist about his experiences with Hollywood, predators and Winnie the Pooh while he was in Berlin in an unfriendly January. more...

Posted by marok on April 03, 2009 at 12:49 PM

DJ KAOS GOES TUTU - A LODOWN EXCLUSIVE

DJ Kaos is an integral part of the Berlin underground scene, producing a variety of twisted dance music for a number of years now. His first single was a collaboration with Ash Ra Temple’s more...

Posted by chris on April 01, 2009 at 04:56 PM | 1 Comment

KEIICHI NITTA. camera very obscura

Japanese photographer Keiichi Nitta’s biographical description on his website only contains three basic facts: more...

Posted by marok on March 30, 2009 at 06:43 PM

FIGHT CLUB

On a Thursday Night in the middle of the concrete jungle, the lions come out to play. Already notorious for its garrison politics and lavish lawlessness, the Tivoli Gardens Community in West more...

Posted by chris on March 05, 2009 at 06:49 PM | 1 Comment

Skateboarding - Less Looks, More Skills

Even though Seoul, with all its inner city hills and precipitous streets, kind of resembles San Francisco in places, it never really emerged as the Asian equivalent to the Californian skateboard more...

Posted by chris on March 04, 2009 at 11:27 PM

Face-to-Face Jaywalking

The Lit Corner: a Q&A with Chuck Klosterman more...

Posted by chris on March 04, 2009 at 11:03 PM

Tom Penny

Tom Penny is both a living legend in the modern skateboarding world, and a long time friend since we were both the size of small rats. He has survived the ups and downs that life throws at us all more...

Posted by chris on March 01, 2009 at 10:17 AM | 2 Comments

CHARLIE ISOE - the original drifter

If the definition of a street artist doesn’t only involve the protagonist invading public spaces through his art but actually implies living on the streets, then Isoe’s portrait should more...

Posted by chris on February 20, 2009 at 09:32 PM

HIGAMOS HOGAMOS - back to the future

Higamos Hogamos is the brainchild of Londoners Toby Jenkins and Steve Webster, who have previously worked together as Fort Lauderdale and also gained recognition for their solo incarnations The Black more...

Posted by chris on February 20, 2009 at 08:48 PM

THE INVISIBLE - the empire’s new clothes

When Tom Herbert and Leo Taylor met Dave Okumu towards the end of 2006, all they intended to do was help a good friend out with his solo project, but a beautiful (as in ‘beautifully more...

Posted by chris on February 20, 2009 at 08:06 PM

KNOW1EDGE

KNOW1EDGE was founded back in 2004, by Indonesia-born, now Hong Kong- residing Julius Brian Siswojo with his wife, and partner in crime - Annie Lee Siswojo more...

Posted by chris on February 20, 2009 at 03:56 PM

Paul Pretzer

Paul Pretzer, a young painter with a dark, Baltic soul was born and raised up until the age of six, in Estonia. The painter now resides in Dresden, where he enrolled at Dresden University of Visual more...

Posted by chris on February 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM

WONDER WOMEN OF AMERICA

If you’ve ever been to San Diego Comic-Con you’ll undoubtedly remember the costumed fan-girls and boys. These wannabe superheroes dress up in tribute to their fictional idols and wander more...

Posted by chris on February 04, 2009 at 09:26 PM

Paulo Lemos

next level paulistanos more...

Posted by chris on January 21, 2009 at 11:09 PM

Tame Impala. Chasing The Antelopes

Perth, Western Australia, has produced many inventive artists like Sleepy Jackson, The Silents and the Panda Band, all of them known for their neo-psychedelic harmonies and more...

Posted by chris on January 16, 2009 at 07:18 PM

Final Fantasy

California based artist Geoff Kern prefers cabin fever and loud heavy metal music to the limitations of art school. The self-called "mountain-man" has become indispensable by creating more...

Posted by chris on January 08, 2009 at 10:43 PM

Lemmy dishes the dirt

It seems funny somehow to be sitting in front of a tipsy grown man who´s playing air-bass-guitar to his latest tunes, clinking his glass and then excitedly flipping through the pages of more...

Posted by chris on January 08, 2009 at 07:27 PM

Terry Rodgers

Cocaine dreams of the hypermaterialistic society? more...

Posted by chris on January 08, 2009 at 07:25 PM

Typographical creationism by Sean Freeman

A rectangular shaped vase, a piece of white paper, an ear dropper filled with black food colouring and a digital camera. Sounds rather simple, doesn´t it? more...

Posted by chris on January 07, 2009 at 09:38 PM

Beirut/Lebanon - The Thin Blue Line

by Jane Stockdale more...

Posted by chris on January 07, 2009 at 09:31 PM

Man On Wire

’It’s impossible, that’s sure... so let’s start working!’ On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit and his unlikely cadre of co-conspirators rigged a tightrope cable between more...

Posted by chris on January 07, 2009 at 09:29 PM

The Wrestler

jab talkin’ : a conversation with Mickey Rourke more...

Posted by chris on January 07, 2009 at 09:27 PM