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Ambsn – Real Californian Lifestyle in One Cool Brand
What began as a fundraiser for a friend in need, ambsn has since grown to be one of the top up-and-coming brands in the nation.
Since 2005, brothers Dustin and Dylan Odbert have been making fresh, vibrant, youthful, and 100% recognizable warm weather gear that goes against the grain. With a home base in San Clemente, CA (pictured), ambsn continues to produce top-quality California inspired menswear.
The ambsn brand is everything FUN! It is a childhood memory that reminds you of everything right in the world. Really great stuff. Check it out.
Let’s Eat Grandma – Deep Six Textbook Blows Our Mind
Let’s Eat Grandma are a pair of near-identical teenage girls from a strange and distant kingdom called Norwich who deal in glacial gothic pop and brittle folky weirdness. Lorde comparisons are inevitable, although Let’s Eat Grandma seem unbothered about playing the game: Deep Six Textbook hovers for five-and-half-minutes, eschewing any kind of chorus for a brief glockenspiel solo and some inscrutable warbling about starfish and cat’s eyes. What can it all mean? Not sure, but don’t blame us if your garden is suddenly overrun with weeds and you’ve turned into a frog.
Undercover – The Fashion Lovers Brand Is Fresher Than Ever
Jun Takahashi is the founder and head designer of cult Japanese label ‘Undercover’ – a label that is hotter than ever – 26 years after it’s been founded. Born in Kiryu, Gunma prefecture, Japan in September 1969, Takahashi studied Fashion Design at the Bunka Academy of Fashion. During his study period, he founded the ‘Undercover’ brand 1990 with his friend and classmate, Nigo (who heads the inconic Japanese streetwear label ‘A Bathing Ape’).
The brand really began in 1993 when Takahashi and Nigo opened a store called Nowhere in the trendy Tokyo district of Harajuku. Undercover began to take off after the opening of Nowhere; therefore Takahashi and Nigo opened another shop in Aoyama (fashion district in Tokyo). Soon enough, Takahashi was seeing his designs on the catwalk in Tokyo and later in Paris. The brand’s punk and street-style look have propelled Takahashi in the fashion world and he continues to see success with his Undercover brand today. The designs are the essence of japanese cool.
Undercover has won countless awards and been praized by other fashion designers including Miuccia Prada and Rei Kawakubo. The pieces are hard to get and in high demand.
Twin Peaks – The Full Cast List Revealed
The entire cast of the Twin Peaks revival has been revealed, with the announcement that new stars such as Monica Bellucci, Laura Dern and Jim Belushi are to join key original cast members.
While the return of Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick and Sherilyn Fenn had already been announced, a full list of all 217 cast members, published by the US cable channel Showtime, indicates that he will be rejoined by David Duchovny, Alicia Witt, David Patrick Kelly – who all had minor roles in the original series – and Harry Dean Stanton, who appeared in the big screen version, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me .
The series, set 25 years after the story last ended, will apparently not include original cast members Lara Flynn Boyle (who played Donna Hayward) and Piper Laurie (who played Catherine Martell) when it airs next year.
New characters will be played by Naomi Watts, Tom Sizemore, Jessica Szohr, Amanda Seyfried, Matthew Lillard, Balthazar Getty, Hailey Gates, Michael Cera, Tim Roth , Ernie Hudson, Ashley Judd and David Koechner as well as the musicians Eddie Vedder, Sharon Van Etten and Trent Reznor.
Fans had already been excited by the announcement that David Lynch, who co-wrote the original, would return to the director’s chair he vacated after overseeing the critically acclaimed first season. And one more thing: Apparently it will be at least 2 new seasons of Twin Peaks. Can’t wait till 2017…
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 207
Strange and Familiar – Martin Parr Shows the Real Britain – Barbican
Curated by the iconic British photographer Martin Parr, Strange and Familiar at the Barbican in London considers how international photographers from the 1930s onwards have captured the social, cultural and political identity of the UK.
From social documentary and portraiture to street and architectural photography, the exhibition celebrates the work of leading photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand. Bringing together over 250 compelling photographs and previously unseen bodies of work, Strange and Familiar presents a vibrant portrait of modern Britain. For those who remember it’s a vivid reminder of an almost lost time. Not sure we want it back but it’s so deep and emotional. Easily the best exhibition we’ve seen this year. Easily. This can be seen at the Art Gallery of the Barbican until 19 June 2016
Teleman – Brilliant Sanity Reminds Us of Metronomy and Kraftwerk
Having originally risen from the ashes of the beloved Indie Rock band Pete & The Pirates, Teleman have a more electronic sound. Brilliant Sanity is the follow up to the bands acclaimed debut Breakfast, and as the initial chords of opener Dusseldorf ring out. There’s an immediate acknowledgement of how perfectly polished the record sounds.
With its bright synths and jaunty rhythm, there’s a slickness to the track, it’s instantaneous and the hooks stay with you for days. The band have been quoted stating Brilliant Sanity is all about the crafting of an immaculate pop song. This does shine through on Brilliant Sanity, from its jaunty opener through its more measured title track to its delicate close.
Islands – Stargazer – The Next Bastille In The Making
Gripping from the opening chords, ‘Stargazer’ is a mesmerising guitar delay, and gravelly, searing vocals, the unfixed instrumentation of ‘Stargazer’ is full of youthful abandon, purpose and promise.
Think early Artic Monkeys, Foals or Arcade Fire, with ebbs and flows that spellbind, peak, and evolve, the four-piece create music that breathes range within its songs, and simply, just breathes. Islands are from Oxford – the home of Radiohead. A good sign?
Everybody Wants Some!! – Richard Linklater Shows Us The 80’s
He might be one of the greatest directors of all time: Richard Linklater. Now he is back. Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull-session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab-bag of ideas and loose ends held together by the director’s generous sensibility. Or maybe the new film is the missing link between the two, turning these apparently disparate works into a continuum, a journey between checking out, attaining self-knowledge, and achieving transcendence. That might seem like a lot of weight to put on a movie that is, at least on its surface, about a bunch of college baseball players trying to get laid. But Linklater’s great talent is to remain light on his feet while drifting into the metaphysical — to balance the earthly with the profound, and to find the people somewhere in between.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THU_T5qPpbE&nohtml5=False