I’ve always wanted to do something like this, but I never really had the wall space…or painting ability for that matter. A guy with an empty wall in his apartment made a stop motion of his artistry turning the black space into a mural of ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa, a classic Japanese woodblock by Katsushika Hokusai. The vid has a solid backing track by the Foo Fighters, and plays with some cool paint characters too: definitely a fun watch. As the story goes, the artist needed to move to a larger apartment due to a ‘monkey invasion’, and created a 2nd stop motion of the take down. Catch it after the jump. (More…)
Willard Wigan can’t read nor write. In fact as a young learning disabled student, Wigan’s teachers would belittle him, confident that he would amount to nothing. Little did they know, he would be amounting nothing into micro-sculptures and reaping fame and fortune from rare art collectors and even honors from the Prince of Wales! (More…)
Apparently, the theremin was originally intended to be used as a classical instrument–now it serves a far greater purpose in radiating smooth electric vibes over this Daft Punk cover.
The A&V office seems to be lacking a hide-away for our writers to surf the nets and brainstorm. The Ovei entertainment ‘egg’ looks like the solution…once we get $40,000…and an office.
And while in the time capsule (I mean egg), how about cooling off with a laser cannon? (I mean Dyson’s new blade-less fan)
And lastly, Claire wanted to share Tada’s Revolution with everyone: if you’re a fan of hand crafted stuffed animal figurines acting in 2-line plots, check it out.
The internet is a many-faced beast with a personality disorder: some sites are tame, others trouble, and a few, like chatroulette, are grab-bags of people who shouldn’t be allowed to leave their basements and the most incredible people you’ll find on the net. Luckily for me, I stumbled upon the latter. Dustin McSwane, a passionate fashion stylist and the topic of this post, along with Brain ‘Geno’ Nettle, a photographer now stationed in NYC, found their way onto my monitor, and now onto A&V. (More…)
“This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you dont have enough time, stop watching TV.
If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.
Stop over analyzing, life is simple. All emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite.
Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them.
Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come once, seize them.
Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.
Life is short. Live your dream, and wear your passion.”
This pretty much encapsulates the mission of Holstee, a fresh NY based clothing start-up with a serious agenda. Not only do you support kick-starting the businesses of impoverished entrepreneurs around the world through KIVA with 10% proceed donations, help save the planet with eco-friendly and extremely high quality materials, and look awesome in a pocket shirt or my personal favorite, a versatile FIN, but you also support the dream of two brothers who want to challenge people to wake up and start living. Nobel cause, awesome designs, I wear it, check it out.
Here’s an analogy for you: Fomato cards is to Hallmark, as A&V is to <insert your least favorite large blog here>. Sure, 2 of them make cards and 2 might write blog posts about making cards, but I’d like to think that the former do their job just a little more awesomely. Unless they’re stuffed with greenery, I’ve never really been thrilled with any card I’ve ever received–they’re usually just cliched commercial cardboard. And then came fomato, and with it, a whole new perception of gift-cards. Outrageous dry-humor, solid illustrations, and themes bizarre enough to make you forget about your own birthday, these cards completely defy the stereotype. You can be sure that any card I send will most definitely be a fomato. (More…)
Feeling depressed? You haven’t met misery until you’ve met the blobfish, a drifting mass of sadness from New Zealand. It’s face reads: ‘kill me, please’–and ironically, they are in fact on their way to extinction. Efforts to save them are strangely absent from the enviro-con scene.
Ever wondered if the sounds of strangers’ pains could be remixed into album? Wonder no more: it’s the pain-pack.
Want to cheer up after checking out the last two links? Try to find some patterns in these giant lists of beers and bell towers compiled by a dude with much too much free time and far to little sanity.
Express your inner engineer without trading in your accessories for motherboards–it’s the gear ring. [via swiss-miss]
And last but certainly not least: it’s a tub of mud…that controls a computer. Oh yeah.
For those of you who haven’t reviewed the history of Antarctic explorations for a while, you might not be familiar with the Irish adventurer Ernest Shackleton, who spent a great deal of time en route to the bottom of the world. For those of you who haven’t seen the light of day since your 10th birthday, you might not be familiar with Scotch, a whisky caramel in color and tasting of the spirited combination of love and magic it was distilled from. Guess who kept two cases of Mackinlay’s finest in the snowy tundra to warm his spirits? That’s right: and now historians and Scotch aficionados alike are kicking off their own expeditions to bring this adventure fuel back to civilization and into our glasses. (More…)
I’ve always wondered what it would be like to play music instrument-by-instrument on separate record players like an orchestra caught somewhere between Carnegie Hall live and a room full of iPods. Strangely enough, Otomo Yoshihide and Yasutomo Aoyama have pretty much constructed my oddly specific hypothetical–minus the vinyl. It’s a symphony of white noise, and it’s pretty solid. (More…)
So I was walking through a grocer today when I wandered into the cold commodity section and really took a look at the copious varieties of H2O on the market. I’m not really in favor of mass produced bottled water (mainly due to the plastics involved for an expensive sub for tap), but I definitely appreciate a fine artisan aqua, comparing the sourcing, minerals, and bottling procedures which all generate pretty unique tastes to the stereotypical ‘tasteless’ beverage. I almost considered myself a connoisseur of sorts…then I found these guys. (More…)
