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To mark the forthcoming release of Immunity, Jon Hopkins' debut LP, the techno producer partnered with art director Craig Ward, biochemist Linden Gledhill, and The Creators Project to put out this perfect teaser video. Hopkins' warm, layered sounds provide the audio track for a time-lapse of various immiscible liquids, dyes and chemicals interacting under a microscope. "Jon's music is......read more
With the end of summer on the horizon, it's a good time to reflect on adventures in the sun. These photos from British photographer Jonny Revill should help the cause. The series, called "Atlantic Coast," nicely captures the carefree feeling of a summer sojourn along the seaboard. There are good waves, good friends, and good food. That's what summer travels are all about. Follow Jonny's......read more
New York-based photographer Joni Sternbach specializes in the wet plate collodion photographic technique originally used during the American Civil War. The process requires a portable darkroom, since the wet plates have to be exposed and developed within about 10 minutes. In her amazing SurfLand series, Sternbach captures portraits of surfers from New York to Australia. The juxtaposition of......read more
When Finland's Joni Niemela goes to work, he heads directly the Great Outdoors, where he gets down to the business of capturing the natural world on camera. For Joni, nature is both subject and muse, whether he's shooting sweeping natural landscapes or hyper-detailed, macro images of flora and fauna. The title of one of his recent series, Misty and Atmospheric,......read more
Fact: The more pot high school seniors smoke, the more music they buy. That's just one of the many offbeat sociological observations made by Australian artist Jonathan Zawada in Over Time, a series of oil paintings that recently wrapped its run at Prism Gallery in LA. A self-described "tech junkie," Zawada collected random bits of data — like the value of land over time in Dubai vs. in......read more
We came across the work of UK photographer Jonathan Hyde over at the always-inspiring Boooooom, and hot damn it's some nice stuff. Based in Brighton on England's south coast, Hyde says he is inspired by "endless vistas over shires and highland peninsulas, crisp winter chill and bright white ice, chemical malfunction and torn negatives, and harsh rocks and gentle boughs." These wonderfully organic......read more
Jonathan Franzen is the author of the acclaimed recent novel, "Freedom," and an avid conservationist and bird watcher to boot. In a weekend op-ed for The New York Times, Franzen takes us on a fascinating exploration that finds unlikely links between consumer technology, love, and environmentalism. [T]he ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world......read more
Farmscape, California's largest urban farming operation, has recently launched what may be its most ambitious project to date: a 200-square-foot custom garden on the roof of The Jonathan Club in Downtown Los Angeles. Completed in December, the garden provides fresh, organic produce for chefs working in the kitchen of the private social club. Writing for LAist, Lauren Lloyd sums it......read more
It is a rare scenario when new year's resolutions last for a whole year. Hell, we're barely a week into 2013 and mine are already in the toilet. That's what makes this Jonathan Britnell-directed video, spotted on Booooooom, so impressive. In 2012, looking to add a dose of creativity to his daily routine, Britnell resolved to shoot one second of footage every single day of the year. Shot by a......read more
Here's a simple and beautiful form with a decidedly 21st century function. Designer Jonas Damon's Alarm Dock allows you to recreate the classic and iconic bedside alarm clock by placing your iPhone or iPod Touch in the cradle. Download (for free) a flip clock application for authentic alarm clock flavor. Says Damon, "Augmented by a flip clock app, this dock returns meaningful form to......read more
