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INSIDE THE 20TH CENTURY FOX ARCHIVES
7 years ago
As a lifelong movie nerd, I was thrilled to get exclusive access to the 20th Century Fox archives in Los Angeles. Through my strategy work with NYC branding agency Gretel, I was chosen to be the curator of the living installation we're designing for global media giant 21st Century Fox at their corporate headquarters on 48th & 6th. The show should be ready by December. For the time being, I am [...]

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THE JOCKEY CLUB: FLYERS & PHOTOS FROM THE HARDCORE SCENE
8 years ago
The Jockey Club in Newport Kentucky was really one of the best punk clubs in the entire midwest. Freaks regularly came from mid-Ohio, Kentucky, & Indiana to catch a glimpse of their favorite touring bands. It was the foundation of the Cincinnati hardcore scene; and if you ever went there in the 80s, your life was changed forever. You were no longer one of “them”. You were officially punk. [...]

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THE GRIMM REAPER
10 years ago
Came across these wonderful illustrations by Romanian-born / New Jersey transplant Andrea Dezsö for a re-printing of the 1812 first edition of the Brothers' Grimm Fairy Tales. Below is an excerpt from an interview with the artist that you can read in full HERE. "I like the tension that arises from using a medium in a way that it’s not typically used. In the case of the Grimm book, these are [...]

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SOFAR SOUNDS: BROOKLYN
10 years ago
Sofar Sounds is a really cool idea. The basic premise is this: Curated live music in a very intimate setting. And by intimate, I mean someone’s living room. Or loft apartment. Or small cafe. Or office space. It started in London in 2009. Now they do this all over the world in over 100 cities. For free. Events are invite only and BYOB. All you have to do is sign up on their website, and they le[...]

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SUFJAN STEVENS' RODEO ROUND UP
10 years ago
I was kinda late to the whole Sufjan Stevens thing. I walked in on him playing the Sevens Swans LP from beginning to end at my first ATP festival 5 or 6 years ago, and I was blown away. I bought the album on vinyl right after the show and have been a fan ever since. His records are pretty hit or miss for me, but when they hit… man, do they hit. Case in point, the song Djohariah, which somehow [...]

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THE FOG OF WAR
10 years ago
Marc Wilson: "Since 2008 I have been researching, recceing and shooting the photographs that make up The Last Stand, which aims to document some of the remaining physical remnants of war in the 20th century, along the coastlines of the UK and Northern Europe. These man-made objects and zones of defence now sit silently in the landscape, imbued with the history of our recent past. Some remain[...]