Countless new hip-hop acts are loved for sounding like they came out 15 years ago -- turning modern rap into an ironic party favor. Because ingenuity is rare, those looking for quality in boom-bap dig back. That's what the Hoarsemen…
Continue Reading →The fashion world is changing. The ethics of where and how clothes of made have become just as important as the color and the shape. Our friends at Apolis Activism have taken a strong approach to making some remarkable clothing…
Continue Reading →Social Revolution. The thought of it has been woven into 2008 like an election campaign narrative. Change, equality, sustainability -- all huge ideas in need of huge effort to bring them to life, and even bigger efforts to make them…
Continue Reading →We talk a lot about artist on joshspear.com, but when we get to talk with artist its like peaking inside their head full of amazing visions. Sickboy's Stay Free is full of scary, amazing, funny and just wacky visions. The…
Continue Reading →You know what we like? When the names of people we love (Jesse Hora) start winding up next to names of artists we worship (Si Scott; Alex Trochut; Hellovon). Not that we would expect any less of the designers, illustrators…
Continue Reading →Richard Haines is designerman, a fashion designer and blogger whose sketches of NYC style cause as many double takes as the people who inspire them. A brightly talented illustrator with a taste for the streets, Richard strolls New York City…
Continue Reading →When Corey Rich was 13, a teacher noticed that he had very capable biceps. This happened during a pull-up contest - one of those middle school battles to trick kids into fitness over fatness- and Corey had knocked out 35…
Continue Reading →Many of you met Seth when he told you to be a purple cow. Some of you met him when you fell upon his blog, one of the world's favorites. The luckiest of you met him in person, either at…
Continue Reading →The creative industry: Yeesh. On one hand, working in it can result in the most un-careery of all careers; an endlessly fulfilling extension of what you love into what you do. On the flipside, that same industry can be the…
Continue Reading →Let's start things off right by saying this: Wow, did we love that Hand Job. Not that that's an atypical reaction for us (we'll take hand-drawn ABC's over Photoshop-perfected ones anytime), but regardless, that book just felt good in our…
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