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A.P.C JOURNAL » A voir/A faire. Video. “The Lobster And The Rat: A Love Story”: style file: daily fashi. June 29, 2010 4:30pm One of the hometown heroes of L.A. culturati is contemporary artist John Baldessari, whose career-spanning retrospective, Pure Beauty, is now up at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sure, there’s a catalog, but if you want to commemorate the exhibition in more of a 2010 style, may we suggest Baldessari’s iPhone (and iPad) app—the first app created by a contemporary artist? Baldessari worked with L.A.’s ForYourArt to create an application based on his famous In Still Life, 2001-2010, which invited viewers to digitally manipulate and rearrange Abraham van Beyeren’s Banquet Still Life (1667) to create their own work of art. The app—and its attendant Web site, www.in-still-life.com—lets you do the same, with the added bonus that a Flickr gallery allows you to see fellow artists’ work.
To celebrate the genius new time-waster, we invited one of our own favorite Angelenos, Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders and Boy, to make his own (above). —Matthew Schneier. The Cookie Blog. Sperry Top-Sider Original Workboot Chukka. Fashionable Shorts | These Movies Have Credits - T Magazine Blog. Album Reviews: ceo: White Magic. One of the most interesting things about the Tough Alliance is the Swedish duo's relationship to optimism.
TTA don't make songs about being happy; they make songs about wanting to be happy. They're as troubled as anyone else, but in line with the effervescent nature of their music, they simply refuse to wallow in bad feelings. When on 2007's A New Chance, Eric Berglund pleaded, "don't you die yet" and pointed out that "there's something else... something bright and pure that you've never felt before," it wasn't naïve positivity. This was a guy struggling with fear and depression and trying his damndest to stay hopeful. When we talked to Berglund recently about his solo project ceo, it sounded like he may have found some peace. "[I have] a profound sense of belonging that will always stay with me no matter what happens... a feeling that I only dreamt of until a while ago", he said.
That emotional clarity matches the album's sharp songcraft. BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU on Vim. "Life in a Day", le projet fou de YouTube.