The vinyl collection in your home keeps growing but your old turntable just took a crap on you. So your looking to get a new turntable to jam out to your indie styled collection. How about checking out the Pro-Ject RPM 1.3 Genie Turntable ($500) to replace your broken one. It features a very stripped down design, the Genie will turn heads with its minimal design, while it quietly runs it's synchronous motor, two-step pulley, resonance optimized platter, aluminum tonearm and external power supply combined to provide some ear dropping sounds.

Check out some of there other uniquely designed turntables.

Since I'm a computer geek I can find humor and amazement at the new use a floppy disk can have. Nick Gentry a London based artist uses old school floppy disks to create floppy portraits and art from the obsolete technologies of societies past. The paintings are made from all recycled media so instead of buying new disk he uses what others can provide to him. He asks that if you have any old floppy disks feel free to send them to him. Better to go to art then to end up in a landfill and just be a technology lost and forgotten.

Today seemed like a Green kind of day. So with that being said, let me introduce the beautiful repurposed bottle terrariums. The artist behind these is Jose Agatep who gathers glass containers of various shapes and transforms them into beautiful terrariums that are filled with locally grown plants, wild mosses, and small stones, soil, and wood chips found in nearby forests and train tracks.

According to Agatep, the tiny self-contained ecosystems offer “a journey to ancient connections that once existed between humans and plants”. There terrarium are perfect for a small house or office desk. They are very low maintenance and only need water once in a blue moon. Condensation gets trapped on the lid and walls, so the natural water cycle occurs that brings precipitation back to the soil.

His Philadelphia-based shop The Slug and the Squirrel currently can only do pick-ups or local delivery on all sales. They are currently looking to find a delivery services that can accommodate the needs of the shop to guarantee safe delivery. This doesn't mean though that there aren't exceptions to every rule. So if you're interested in these it wouldn't hurt to ask or you could just pick one up the next time you're in Philadelphia.



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Shyscapes is a beautiful and surreal short art movie that was created for Misha Shyukin graduation project. It's a stunningly dark, mysterious but mesmerizing and entrancing video. Misha recommends you don’t view it in full screen and asks you to please watch it with your eyes half closed. Either way you watch you may come to the same conclusion that it's a beautiful short video.

Check out more of Misha Shyukins video's on Vimeo

Transient is the word that comes to mind when I think of the works of Jim Denevan. They are short-lived as he uses the world as his landscape and use sand, ice and earth to create his geometrical sculptures. The brushes of choice can be anything from a piece of driftwood to a rake or even a bicycle. The result of using the landscape are stunning but without the remarkable location photography they would simple be a waste of time. Something that was once transient is now forever captured and that my friend is not a waste of time.

Here is another tidbit about Jim Denevan he is man behind the the traveling outdoor dining experience Outstanding in the Field. It's sort of traveling dinner event that sets up shop in farms, gardens, and other interesting dinning location across the U.S. They currently are doing a New tour for 2011 so maybe you can check it out this year.





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Computer virus are known by many to be a big pain in the you know what. They cause people nothing but headaches and time, however in this video Hungry Beast talks about the Stuxnet virus the first every weapons virus. It's more of an infographic type video that captivates your interest with visual information. The actual visual information in this video is really well develop, but the story being told is just as fascinating and true.

If you have some time check out some of the other Hungry Beast episodes. They have new episodes every week.



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Junip played at the Crowbar in Ybor on June 18th with King of Spain and Helado Negro and let me be the first to say it was a great evening.  The first band to play was a local Tampa ambient/experimental duo King of Spain. They played a relaxing but electro-folk sound that seem to get the crowd ready for an evening of notable music. What was even more notable was the bands choice to sell copies of their new EP Peeks on a cassette tape, but don't you worry they gave you a mp3 download code to go with it. Just in case your dad threw out his cassette player.

The next performer of the night was Helado Negro, who I hadn't heard of before but was willing to give it a listen. I'm glad I did because his live pa set gave an overall uplifting energy. I do have to admit that his vocals were in Spanish so for the most part I didn't understand a word he was singing, however with his vocal effects it made it sound soothing and it didn't really matter what he was singing.

Then we have Junip, who sound just as good live as they do on their album. The band was on point all night and José González was wooing the ladies with his soothing vocals. Nothing but screaming indie girl just waiting for a chance to have him sweep them off their feet with his voice. Junip for the most part though played popular tracks off their album Fields, like "In Every Direction", "Rope and Summit" and more. I personally can't complain because if you don't have the 3 disc album it's a must have in your dark moody indie folk collection. Overall this show had great acts who brought nothing but their A game and I applaud you Aestheticized for your great choice in music.

Lastly, I want to give a big thanks to Eliana Rowe who was kind enough to allow me to use her images from the show.  So if you get a chance check out Eliana's Flickr account to see more pictures of the show.

I stumble upon the works of Patrik Svensson a.k.a (Prince Hat) and his series of minimalistic movie typography posters. In this series he tries to visualize the movie by using only the first letter(s) from the title, for example the i from "The Insider" as the shape of a cigarette, or the two k's from "The Karate Kid" as two fighting karate kids.

This series provides space which is great because sometimes less is more in the design world. People are sometimes just looking for something to fill that space, but if you take out all that noise. You can then direct your vision on something that's actually worth focusing on.

I highly recommend checking out more of Patrik work or check out his blog. If you want to know more about the thought process and see more of this series check it out on Designmodo

Bronia Sawyer's book sculptures are just fantastic. I personally didn't know you could craft something as detailed and elegant as these book sculptures. Each sculpture has such great colors, folds and rolls to create these birds and flowers. It's very intriguing as well to hear her take on why she got into designing book sculptures.

I love to take something like a book and turning it in to something visually pleasing. With book sculpture I like the fact that books are flat and square they have order but by cutting them and folding them you can create organic and random shapes. I also like to add colors but mainly for the way it looks in photographs.

Check out more of her work via Flickr




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