A 34-year old Frenchman named Gilles Trehin has created a city in his mind, and built out drawings, histories, geographies and cultures of his city, called Urville.
In addition to more than 200 detailed drawings of cityscapes, buildings, parks and industrial zones, the documentation of Urville extends to an historical overview of Urville, from Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, and up through 1945 and modern times.
FULL STORY »In her new single, Sweet New Orleans, singer/songwriter Rachel Black asks the question, "What kind of a country tells a population that they're not worth saving?"
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The Oscar nominated film Capote, which tells the story of gay writer Truman Capote's creation of the "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood is sending film audiences to buy that very book. The "tie-in" edition of In Cold Blood is currently in its third printing. Barnes & Noble claims book sales for the title are up almost 30% from last year and it was the top selling book for Barnes and Noble in October 2005.
On Sunday, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit finished No. 1 in the United States on its opening weekend. It grossed $16.1 million in ticket sales.
Madonna's new album Confessions on a Dance Floor, is due to be released November 15, 2005. Confessions will be Madonna's 10th studio album.
Memoirs of a Geisha, the best-selling novel by Arthur Golden, will finally grace the big screen this Winter. Geisha is the story of Nitta Sayuri, who is sold to a geisha house at the age of 9. She goes through training to become a geisha, and lives her life as one. Ziyi Zhang, of House of Flying Daggers and Hero, plays the starring role as Nitta Sayuri.
Postsecret.com is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. The secrets are displayed on the website, and reading through them is a fun and wonderful distraction.
Director Ang Lee's newest film Brokeback Mountain was awarded the Golden Lion award at the at the Venice Film Festival.
This week Cool Hunting is featuring a classic version of the memory card game...their version is called "Pair-o-deez".
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While the Hurricane Katrina disaster was unfolding, tens of thousands of artists and revellers gathered, unaware, in the Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man event.
Many cities are beefing up laws to fight graffiti. In San Francisco, California for example, property owners are now given 30 days to clean up graffiti on their properties, or face paying the city to do it for them. Inevitably the question will come up, when does graffiti become art?
From about World War I through the mid 1920's under the reign of Emperor Taisho in Japan, there was an evolution of a new culture in Japanese society.
The American Roaring Twenties reached Japan, and the Jazz music and styles mixed—and clashed—with the traditional Japanese values of tranquility and harmony.
These styles were reflected in the Taisho artwork of the period, which focused in large part on the "modern girl" (modan gaaru or moga), whose styles were equivalent to the flappers of the Western world. The art of this period evokes a stunning mood and fascinating mix of cultures.
You can view the artwork at Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia and Deco at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from September 14, 2005 - December 23, 2005.
