Beim sogenannten YARN BOMBING werden ja hauptsächlich Laternenmasten oder Hydranten mit bunten Wolldeckchen umstrickt und geben dieser Street Art Bewegung einen leider oft dinkel-drögen Hipster-Chic Charakter. Bei unseren Streifzügen durch die New Yorker Lower East Side im Dezember 2013 entdeckten wir jedoch die durch Maschendrahtzäune gezogenen Woll-Graffitis des Künstlers HOTTEA. Die dreidimensionalen Tags von Eric Rieger,
Let´s face it. We all grow old and this slow process of getting scrunchy in the face and squishy in the head makes no exceptions for anybody. Even not superheros. Swedish artist Andreas Englund shows this process in his humorous ongoing series of photo realistic oil paintings called Aging Superhero. Looking at his paintings with one laughing eye, we
Our attentively readers know that we at LJOE love crowdsourced projects from all over the world. And this one here is as simple as powerful. Everyone of us knows these kind of days when you feel sad or depressed. But The Nicest Place On The Internet will turn your sadness into happiness and
Da staunten die Fahrgäste der New Yorker Subway Linie 7 nicht schlecht, als sie wie jeden Morgen an der öffentlichen Aerosol-Art Ausstellung 5Pointz vor den Toren Manhattans vorbeirauschten: Viele Bilder des Graffiti-Mekkas waren über Nacht unter blankem Weiß verschwunden. In dunkler Nacht und unter Polizeischutz begannen die ersten Umbauarbeiten an dem alten Warehouse, um die weltbekannte
Looking at the earth from space changed the life of any cosmonaut who travelled a spacecraft or the ISS. Although the goal of space research was reaching the stars, the cosmonauts experienced the so called Overview Effect, a breathtaking, cognitive shift caused by simply looking back at the earth. Overview is an outstanding documentary that
A woman in a provocative outfit approaches a brand new model house. She starts kissing, holding and caressing the domecile as her desire for posessing it grows. This work engages with the fetichized commodity, in this case, a prefabricated house, whose purpose is to hold a model family. Elizabeth Wurst, born 1985 in Lima –
Its Cleveland 1978, Life Stinks– by Pere Ubu— ricochets from a squalid….. No, it’s 1985. Asylum Party is playing in your head. You’re passed out standing up, leaning on a tottering book-case in Courbevoie, France. The denuded and pointedly emotional sounds festoon around each other sending one into a blurry dream orbit. Or it might
London based producer and musician Jon Hopkins released his Immunity LP earlier last month and the first taken video „Open Eye Signal“ was filmed by Aoife McArdle in California. We voted this video as one of the greatest music videos that were done during the last months. Watch this hypnotic journey of a skater
Wir wissen nicht wirklich, wie das alles begann, aber eines Nachts hat irgend ein Lümmel beim Pornoschauen festgestellt, dass viele Porno-Sets mit IKEA Mobliliar ausgestattet sind. Prompt schuf er den Tumblr Blog Just Another IKEA Catalog. Alle fanden´s extrem witzig – nur das IKEA Management in Helsingborg nicht so wirklich. Ihre Anwälte prüfen wohl immer noch, mit
If you ask me for my personal dream that never comes true I would tell you some freaky weird stuff like joining a show at Maxwell´s, Hoboken, with Yo la Tengo on stage rocking together with Sonic Youth´s Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley to my favourite SY song „Mote“. Freaky weird? It happened. Not for
Das ist das tolle an unserer Zeit: In einer Postmoderne können Musikkünstler Mash-Ups beliebiger Genres erstellen oder sich, wie mit einer Zeitmaschine reisend, in jegliche Epoche der Popkultur zurückbewegen und sich ihrer Mittel bedienen. Ein wirklich erstaunliches Album erreichte uns diese Tage aus dem Hause des Nürnberger Labels Avant-Pop. WINGS OF LOVE veröffentlichten vor wenigen
Her last Amsterdam exhibition was sold out in 20 minutes. Seattle´s Roq La Rue Gallery owner and Hi-Fructose Magazine Editor at Large, Kirsten Anderson, calls her one of her favourite Pop Surrealism artists worldwide. Amsterdam based artist Femke Hiemstra is one of the most interesting, uprising contemporary art superstars these times. We met her for
Growing up with a deep fascination for sci-fi, robots, and otherworldly oddities creates an attraction to the artist Brian Despain that, for me, is a direct connection to my childhood loves. When I see his work and it not only reminds me of my youth, sitting in my room listening Stars Wars on vinyl on
Folks who love bands like The Shout Out Louds, Polock or Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin should pay attention to this limited 12-Inch called „Scrimmage Shark EP“ by the US Indiefolk duo Whispering Olympians, that was released on Jan. 1st. It´s Domenic Maltempi and William Olsen from the Hudson Valley region of New York who produced
The day Yoko Ono sat right next to me in a plastic chair started out as a regular day being a visitor in NYC. Back at our hotel that was located directly in the East Village, with sore legs from walking all day and a growling stomach, I checked my Twitter account while being lazy,