Who remembers this post from April? The one about color, backdrops and photo trends? Today we’re translating those palettes to music and media with the London ska/dance trio, Sam and the Womp with their latest video, Bom Bom.
The beat’s surprisingly catchy, isn’t it? I recently heard the tune off my husband’s laptop and fell for the video’s playfulness. It’s clear creativity works best on a budget, what do you think- are you a fan?
I’ve had my eye on Black Milk since since crossing paths with their skeleton bathing suit. Though I didn’t buy it -medium’s been out of stock since day one – I keep noticing their line in my Instagram feed.
A majority of the imagery seems to be from LA & Williamsburg hipsters as well as inked influencers. The dollar leggings at the top brought me back to their site (I’m a fan). After giving the collection another perusal, I noticed something interesting.
Aside from the underground, in-your-face themes and general punk design ethos, there’s a button to the right of each style that offers styling advice.
When you click it, a collective aggregated feed appears, compliments of the brand’s many fans. Reminiscent of Fashism‘s self styling sight, Black Milk and their design team have figured out a way to reassure potential consumers while creating comradery among their customers.
Brilliant, if you ask me- a simple idea with great execution. This is a nice example of ecom marketing that feels organic and in line with the ethos of the brand.
From the top: Dollar Leggings | Cathedral Leggings | Galaxy Leggings | Mucha Black Leggings | Jelly Fish Leggings
Last week I got a present in my inbox from my friend Sam. I recently saw Moonrise Kingdom and have been non-stop raving about it ever since. Knowing my affinity for camp, colorways and good branding, Sam passed this gem along from Beth Mathews’ blog. She did the tedious job of combing the color essence of each film then compiling the results (which are rather interesting). Feels like Autumn doesn’t it? Which one’s your favorite?
Kon Trubkovich’s newest series translates the psychological underpinnings of the weak TV connection. The theme suggests that behind the static and disruption is a broadcast confirming our existence. Prominent in the exhibition are a group of large-scale portraits of the artist’s mother, culled from a home video, documenting the final party she threw in the U.S.S.R before immigrating the the family to the U.S.
Defining a transitional moment of flux, these works illuminate the difficultly of tracing the past. Through oil on linen, Trubkovich visually describes the sensation of relating to a person or physical location that no longer exists and aims to parse latent tangible codex.
In Erich Fromm’s book, The Art of Loving, which inspired Trubkovich’s exhibition, the author suggests that love is a refuge – a remedy for isolation and our disconnection from each other and nature. By archiving whispers of feelings and recollections, which are dangerously close to disappearing forever, the artist simultaneously forms a pictorial and emotional space. Click here for more info.
It’s always fascinating to see how illustrators, photographers and editors choose to portray a city. Recently a crop of overlapping interpretations have been surfacing online and in print. Vasco Mourao is an illustrator-turned-architect with an arsenal of highly detailed drawings. This Mourao image of Manhattan recently appeared in The New Yorker.
Stepping into a more commercial category, the Blackberry Bold campaign has chosen to express mobile diversity by taking an overhead shot of a city intersection on a rainy day. Rounding out the category with the overhead image frequent flyers are all too familiar with, we have a photograph that was recently published in The New York Times T Magazine (photographer unknown).
It seems like everyone’s familiar with the Gotye song by now (with over 200 million views) for Somebody That I Used to Know. Impressive, right? The animation’s consistant with the crystal trend we’ve grown accustomed to seeing, though the application’s fresh and fitting for the story. I only just stumbled on the original version after catching up on a blog favorite of mine, Apron Anxiety.
Alyssa puts it best, “Listen to words – holy shit who hasn’t been there, on one end or the other – come on now. I’m supposed to be blogging about good reviews and food-porn and purple carrots and book parties all that good stuff, but it’s Saturday and just want to let it all goooooooooo….”