The Modern Age

Long-time reader Beat Royalty sent over these rad links to custom book covers that musicians have done of some of the world’s most famous pieces of literature. It’s all part of a campaign to promote the “My Penguin” book series in which you can design your very own book cover to the book of your [...]

Hey guys…need some help with something. I know someone looking for an illustrator to do some “artist renderings” of a handful of famous people. Do you guys have recommendations of people who might be appropriate? Think Wall Street Journal drawings meets Daily Candy. The style should be bright and cheery, not overly cartoon-y, with the [...]

This weekend I was lucky enough to crash the Brooklyn set of the latest project by music video director Adam Neustadter (Morningwood’s “Nth Degree” and “Jetsetter”, Kidz Bop “Since U Been Gone”)–the vid for the new Fountains of Wayne single, “Someone to Love”, off their upcoming album Traffic and Weather.
The best part? I got to [...]

I’m fascinated by Claire Danes’s budding dance career. Rach sent me this link to a video of Claire Danes dancing with megahottie Patrick Wilson for the new Gap ad for Boyfriend trouser.
I love it!!!

Uh… but that kiss at the end. Let’s just hope that Wilson wifey Dagmara Dominczyk and baby has [...]

Today I saw the trailer for Julie Taymor’s new movie, Across the Universe. It looks spectacular! Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood star in this fictional love story set in 1960s America, with the music of the Beatles being paired with pivotal scenes.

I can’t wait to see it. I’ve been a big fan of Julie [...]

In 2005 I went to go see Claire Danes perform a dance piece called “Christina Olson: American Model” at PS 122. Zac Posen was there with flowers. Claire Danes came incredibly close to my face. I was confused.

Now that Danes is no longer a homewrecker (when you are no longer with your homewreck-ee, does [...]

I was just talking about Yoko Ono today and I did a search on YouTube for her and I stumbled across this footage of Yoko Ono performing “Cut Piece” in 1965 (pre-John Lennon) at New York’s Carnegie Hall. In the work she sits motionless on stage as members of the audience come up and cut [...]

I fucking love that Damian Loeb has a photolog. It’s so… nerdy of him. Check out the pretentious text he writes with the pics.
And because I feel like it, I’m linking to an old Neumu article today.