Wanna share in the cupcake craze but can't bring yourself to get your guy (or yourself) a syrupy sweet heart laced confection concoction a la hallmark? Well then, these cupcakes may satisfy both your sweet tooth and your Rock Band fantasy at once.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Afternoon Delights
Feeling blue? I have not forsaken you dear readers! We're super busy here at POP with a huge Coal and Ambiguous Sample Sale and new Spring shipments so my blog writing has fallen a bit short this week. Never fear, Free Music Friday is still in effect and below, a little eye candy for your Friday afternoon. See blue can be a good thing....
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
High Art, low prices
What to do when when you've long since moved beyond concert posters and collages of your friends and magazine clippings but still lack the cash (or desire) to become a collector of "art." No worries. There are so many options for great looking walls that will still leave you with money in your wallet. Affordable Prints! Not the Urban Outifitters/Ikea prints that are by the thousands, were talking limited additions you don't have to see in your friends living room or on every design site (yes wer're talking to you "Stay Calm And Carry On.") While originals are often investments, you can still get great looking prints that don't have to double as your 401k. The obvious number one resource is Etsy but there are also tons and tons of amazing sites/artists on the web (links below prints). I just discovered this fantastic site, 20x200. The site, an extension of Jen Bekman's Lower Eastside Gallery, sells many beautiful/unique prints by emerging artists, for only $20. Here are a few of my favs today from around the web...
Lisa Congdon--Available when we launch later this week!
One for the Kipper
Aaron Ruell is probably best known for playing the role of Kip in the movie Napoleon Dynamite. But the Californian native is also a super talented and accomplished commercial director and photographer. He was recently declared one of the most promising new directors in the world of advertising by Shoot magazine. Besides directing commericals, Ruell was the only filmmaker to have two films, Everything's Gone Green and Mary, which he wrote and directed, premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. His photos, a little awkward and staged, are simultaneously very layered, colorful and rich with naratives. Take a gander.
Monday, January 18, 2010
How Long Doctor?
A few years back, when I was in fifth grade, we watched a Martin Luther King, Jr. documentary in school. This was pre-MLK day, in an otherwise blue collar conservative upstate New York sub-suburb. Admittedly much of elementary school, shy of memorizing the U.S. presidents (a party skill I still can pull out on demand), is a blur of playground games, forgetting my homework, and band practice. However, the Martin Luther King Jr. documentary and our reactions to it, made vivid and lasting impressions upon me. As the child of immigrants, being of mixed ethnicity, in a pretty white enclave (and passing for white myself) I remember feeling a strange sort of pride and kinship. The idea that people of all colors, all religions, all races and genders would someday stand together as equals, while not new to me at that point (being half Indian, the teachings of Gandhi had long been my legacy), moved me deeply and personally. The most resounding memory was from the clip above, in which Dr. King refrains, How long? Not long. For some reason, maybe our inability as ten year olds to truly embrace and digest the enormity of the movement and ideas, or more likely simply because of the catchiness of the refrain, it became our "saying", the greeting we used on playgrounds, signed in yearbooks and joked about at least for a couple years. Never teasingly. Never mean spirited. Just simple. Someone would say, "How long?" Another would reply, "Not Long." Sometimes you add brother, or Martin or Doctor. But the sentiment was the same. Did we understand truly what we were saying or why? Maybe not but it stuck with me and hopefully with a few others at Sullivan Avenue Elementary School. How long Doctor? Well, we're certainly not there yet, but I'd venture to say that 40 years later we are a whole lot closer to that mountain top. How long? Not long brother.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Free Music Friday
Download Marthonpack's Year End Mix, here. Bands include Atlas Sound, Here We Go Magic, Royksopp and more. Complete List after the jump....
Thursday, January 14, 2010
If you wear Green on Thursday....
Remember as a kid, you were horny if you worn green on Thursday?! Seriously. Before we even had any concept of what "horny" means. It was an abstract, like cooties. No one could quite say what it was, but you knew you didn't want it! Well, I'm bringing Green Thursdays back. Here's to horny Thursdays...
Marc by Marc Jacobs
R.I.P. Jay Reatard
We're saddened to hear that talented musician, Jay Reatard, born Jimmy Lee Lindsay, Jr., died today at age 29. We were big fans of his here at POP. Though young, Reatard had been making music for a long time; sending his first tape to Goner Records when he was 15. He was a staple of the Memphis garage rock scene for years before bursting on the national scene with 2006's Blood Visions. He recently signed to Matador Records, which released Watch Me Fall this summer. For such a short life, he was already a documentary subject, in "Waiting for Something." Definitely an interesting study of a super talented guy. Worth a watch. Posted by Brooklyn Vegan. If you're unfamiliar with his work, definitely give it a listen.
Waiting For Something - a short documentary about Jay ReatardJay Reatard | MySpace Music Videos
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Fresh as a Daisy
Marc Jacobs just named Daisy Lowe as the new face of Marc by Marc Jacobs because "she looks adorable". We'd say sexy or sultry is a bit more accurate. But just who is this doe-eyed muse? Nineteen year-old Daisy is the daughter of Pearl Lowe, a former indie band singer and current textile/fashion designer, and kicker, her dad is musician Gavin Rossdale. (There was a paternity suit and a very surprised Gwen Stefani a few years ago. They currently have no relationship). Daisy is already a fashion icon and muse around the UK and a fixture on the scene. Inspiring indeed.
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