China has a population of over 1 BILLION people (*said with Dr. Evil pinky*). Internationally-published freelance photographer and travel writer Tom Carter has traveled extensively throughout the 33 provinces of China documenting the 56 wide-ranging ethnic groups that compose the vast nation, collected in his book CHINA: Portrait of a People. This book is the most comprehensive collection of imagery of [...]
There’s nothing like the smell of a book from the library (as Carrie Bradshaw says), or admiring a good magazine from cover to cover, reading every article (even when you have to skip to the back for the continuation), and soaking in every ad or pictorial. With the world being heavily technology-driven, we’ve almost forgotten what printed matter on ACTUAL [...]
Whatever your opinion is on birds (personally, they freak me out), you have to appreciate the work in Andrew Zuckerman‘s “Bird” series. They’re beautiful, colorful pieces of our feathered friends/foe. But what’s most shocking and interesting about these pieces is that they are 100% real photographs, not paintings or digital creations. The colors are so vivid, the textures [...]
I don’t know about you, but as a kid, I dug pop-up books. It was the moment of surprise on each page, and the curiosity of “How’d they do that?” that got me. As an adult, a kid at heart, and a former New York resident, I can definitely appreciate Daisy Lew‘s Pop-Up NYC, a series [...]
Artists are visual people, not wordsmiths. So it was natural for Hawaii-based artist Jacqueline Rush Lee to create art out of discarded books. Shes bakes them in kilns, dyes them and intricately forms them to make sculptures with incredible texture. Some literary nuts may see her art as sacrilege, others, amazing art. She chooses used books as her [...]
Haven’t you always wanted to color on your fave indie rock bands?? Yeah I know you totally have been! Well you are just sooo lucky cuase now there is such a thing! yellowbirdproject.com just came out with an indie rock coloring book featuring some of your abso-fave artists including: Bon Iver, Broken Social Scene, Little [...]
You know a Moleskine notebook when you see it. That simple, black, legendary notebook has collected the thoughts and ideas of writers, intellectuals, artists and travelers alike for two centuries. From gifted artists Henri Matisse and Vincent van Gogh, to poet and leader of the surrealist movement André Breton, to Ernest Hemingway, considered the most influential writer [...]
Martha Cooper is best known for documenting the New York graffiti and hip hop scene beginning in the late 1970′s. Her famed photography has given her legendary status when it comes to street art and the culture that comes along with it. In her latest book, Name Tagging, Cooper takes a mundane nametag sticker that was once used primarily in the [...]
Name taken from David Choe’s recent show, “Nothing to Declare” is also a zine based on several painting by David Choe, story written by Jason Jaworski. via.
On May 29th, 2010 the ever multi talented Dennis Hopper passed away. Known mostly for his legacy of movies such as Rebel Without A Cause, Giant, Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet and so many more, little is it talked about how he himself was both a painter, and a rather good photographer. In his [...]
