The majority of this afternoon was spent writing creative briefs and catching up on unread emails, tweets and RSS feeds. I experienced a moment of intense anger when I came across GQ’s The Girls of Coachella, 2010 slideshow. I’m not bitter that I missed the festival; rather I’m jealous that an intern got tasked with [...]

Vancouver mansions. Old money. New money. Nature. Inspiring people. Good fashion. Great music. Tasty cuisine. The past. The present. The future. A shared taste for the finer things. Beautiful.

I first had the pleasure of meeting Josh Michnik a.k.a Charles Lee a few summers back. He was dating the sister of the woman that I was dating at that time. Over the years we’ve had some serious fun together. Most notably, doing navy seals dives off the back of a ripping speedboat on Tulameen [...]

Today’s savory/delicious web findings are as follows:
Theme magazine writes, “Given the frequency of earthquakes in Japan, it would seem a bad place to build elevated highways; but given their space constraints, they’ve got no choice”. Check out Ken Ohyama’s documentation of Japan’s elevated urban expressways. Be sure to add the dude as a contact on [...]

“People who remember when tobacco advertising was a prominent part of the media landscape — and others who recall what they learned in Marketing 101 — probably recollect that actors like Barbara Stanwyck and athletes like Mickey Mantle routinely endorsed cigarettes.” Read When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco.
I’m digging the wheatpastes of Vancouver based [...]

I’m really digging the creations of artist Josh Keyes. His idiosyncratic paintings are surreal cross-sections that feature animals and societal artifacts.
From Keyes’ site:
“A central topic in Keyes’ work is his speculative imaginings about a dystopian future, where the United States operates on the world stage as a political and environmental tyrant (whether these works are [...]

Brooklyn based artist/musician Bjorn Copeland’s visual/audiovisual creations are a strange potpourri of geometric shapes, forms and fluorescence that test the limits of sound and vision.
More here, here and here.

Photographer/street artist JR’s latest project Women Are Heroes is Dre Urhahn and Jeroen Koolhaas’ Favela Painting on steroids.

You come across a lot of strange towns while traveling by train through Europe. Eerie, remote locations whose only inhabitants are gypsies, transients, and those employed by the train stations to service them. One such place, somewhere off the beaten path in France - its name escapes me - struck me as being particularly odd. [...]