“In a triumph of art, science and architecture, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s site-specific exhibit 14 Billions scales a Black Widow’s web up to magnificent proportions. Currently on display at Stockholm’s Bonniers Konsthall, 14 Billions is an extension of the work he showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called ‘Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.’

“The Frankfurt-based artist worked in collaboration with astrophysicists, architects, engineers and spider researchers to create a stimulating series of installations with 14 Billions as the focal point. A massive undertaking, the project took two years to complete with the black rope spanning 400 cubic meters, consuming much of Bonniers Konsthall main gallery.

“Saraceno’s work looks to scientific study which uses the imagery and structure of spider webs to map the origin and structure of the universe. Referencing these studies, the sculptural pieces explore the delicate balance between ourselves and the earth.” (source: Cool Hunting)

posted by: Harold Johns III

Matthew Cooper, aka Eluvium, has created a blend of ambient shoe gaze drone flirting with piano pop sentiments in his latest release Similes. The incorporation of brevity into his compositions makes the album both expansive and digestible all at once. From minimalist techno drone to looped, sampled laptop layering; Eluvium creates an interesting background blend for his rich piano and vocals.

“The Motion Makes Me Last” starts off with a digitally delayed and repeated drone that bleeds into Cooper’s voice, a previously uncharted area for Eluvium – and a feat, as Cooper’s vocals go exactly where he intends. “Nightmare 5” is lush and carefully woven, with the audible attention oscillating from passionate piano riffs back to great walls of gorgeous ambient drone. And the power of the piano writing takes the forefront on “Making Up Minds.”

Although clocking in at a minimal length unusual for most ambient enthusiasts, the album feels rewardingly deep. With Similes, Eluvium’s subtle craft unfolds slowly, reading like a weathered hardcover classic. As the album comes to a close with “Cease to Know,” electronic wisps carry the listener out, a perfect complement to nighttime drivers lost in both the luminescent blur of a city’s lights and the catalog of their own scattered history.

More info about Similes can be found via Temporary Residence

by: Bene Garcia

Yeasayer has marked the release of their latest single “O.N.E.” with a new video directed by Radical Friend, aka Kirby McClure and Julia Grigorian, the duo behind the mind-melting video for “Ambling Alp.” The setting is a post-apocalyptic future world that may lack societal constraints like traffic laws but still has radio stations, a banging dance club that homeless people can’t get into, choreographed dancers and what appears to be a glass microphone. The trippy game board you see the main characters messing with is supposed to represent the “psychological warfare in which these otherworldly club kids engage.”  So basically it’s what LA would be like if civilization were to crumble in the not so distant future.

Download “O.N.E.” here (right click + save as)

posted by: Harold Johns III

Claudio Ethos, a Brazilian graffiti artist, was commissioned to paint a large mural inside Casa Das Caldeiras in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The project was funded by the non-governmental organization EXPERIMENTA.

The film features 30 hours of footage time lapsed into 15 minutes which was played during the opening for the mural.

Filmed, written and edited: Jared Levy
Producer: Nathalie Stahelin
Additional help: Lucas Do Prado Coelho

See more of Ethos’ work here

posted by: Brent Carter

From Style.com:
“Alexander McQueen’s last works were given final honors by his trusted team in a hushed and dignified showing that went to his core as a designer who scaled the heights of couture accomplishment. Sarah Burton, his right hand, described how, in beginning this collection, McQueen had turned away from the world of the Internet, which he had so powerfully harnessed in his last show. ‘He wanted to get back to the handcraft he loved, and the things that are being lost in the making of fashion,’ she said. ‘He was looking at the art of the Dark Ages, but finding light and beauty in it. He was coming in every day, draping and cutting pieces on the stand.’ The 16 outfits shown had been 80 percent finished at the time of his death.”

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posted by: Tricia Rock