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To celebrate the release of The Ghost Inside, the new single and video from Broken Bells, we unveil a collection of video exclusives on the Protein Vimeo Channel. The super group made up of The Shins James Mercer and Danger Mouse aka Brian Burton release The Ghost Inside from their awesome self-titled debut album. It’s haunting, smooth and spaced-out, it’s two of the leaders of modern pop music collaborating on a somewhat excess use of songwriting talent.

From Mods to Brit Pop, ska and Two Tone to punk, new wave and rude boys worldwide, it’s always been about that iconic laurel breast of Fred Perry. And there’s tennis, too... he was a three time Wimbledon champ, the vintage bread winner. So since 1952, Fred Perry has been a British cultural phenom and now with the Heritage Stories competition they’re looking for you to get involved too. There’s £5,000 up for grabs as well as shirts and runners up prizes for the most inspiring entries online - photos or videos (from 1952 onwards...) that represent your Fred Perry stories and memories, how these shirts are your heritage. There’s a ton of great entries already - just check their site for historics and inspiration.

We’ll forgive director David Allain for his Ting Tings video (That’s Not My Name) for this one. And I guess his Rascals and VV Brown videos were pretty good. Anyways, he has collaborated with VV Brown (a comic enthusiast who judged last year’s Ctrl.Alt.Shift charity book campaign) to launch a comic book series called The City of Abacus. It’s a futuristic, dystopian collection of epic tales that will be released in installments with the complete novel being released at the end of the year. To celebrate the launch, Jotta (the sparkling Uni Arts community) has teamed up with VV and David to create an immersive and interactive playground in the basement of The Book Club in Shoreditch; a life size cardboard City of Abacus for the party this Thursday, 6th May. Get on it. 

Wasted Spaces has commissioned Hellicar & Lewis to develop The Hello Wall. This installation uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road.

Starting Monday 8th March, you can get involved by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall, or shapes (triangles, squares, circles), commands (more, less, shake) or just hello.

Hellicar & Lewis are a London-based duo – Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis. They have embraced the open source revolution which creates art that is accessible and interactive.

The artists explain the artwork in more detail as follows:
“In visual terms, The Hello Wall will be a simple single colour background, with a foreground of simple shapes, in a physically realistic two dimensional simulation. Imagine a series of red circles on an orange background, bouncing off each other in zero gravity.
The installation is designed to empower people, to allow them to have a creative input into the architectural space that they find themselves in – often without any sense of control or ownership.”

http://www.absolut.com/uk/imhere/events

To mark the day one month before Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie hits theaters, Alice 2010 presents their Cheshire Cat paper toy.

Build your own Cheshire Cat and download + unzip the pdf file (283KB) here: Cheshire Cat

1. print it out on 60# card stock.
2. score the dotted lines.
3. fold the dotted lines.
4. cut out the pieces following the solid lines second.
5. glue everything together using the tabs.

Enter The Ninja is an awesome video by South African band Die Antwoord (translated: The Answer).

Check it.

PS: I SO want a Yin Yang shirt.

Printable Valentine card by EMpapers

Inside reads: ‘Can’t you see I Love You?’. An instant printable valentine card, just download, print and fold. A2 envelope template included.

An orchestral milk float, robots drawing humans, and a family of holographic beings as well as other immersive experiences and arty happenings at the second annual Kinetic Art Fair.

February 4th - 7th 2010, P3, 35 Marylebone Road, W1 London.

Cool industrial ring by KinektDesign.com

Kinekt Design’s Gear Ring from Glen Liberman on Vimeo.

Kate, Naomi, Kristen, Amber, Natalia, Daria, Jeneil and Lara shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot.

Out on Feb 8th.

New work by Dutch net-artist Rafael Rozendaal

Into Time

Source: deleteyourself

Tonight The Vinyl Factory, home to Fact Magazine, will see the private view of xx: A Sculpture of the Album. It’s an audio-visual collaboration between London trio The xx, and acclaimed director Saam Farahmand. The work is 3D physical interpretation of The xx’s debut album, which will be open to public from 8th – 12th January 2010.

I have been doing a lot of research into video art and projections for Wasted Spaces lately, and I just came across this really amazing interactive projection on a building on the Today and Tomorrow blog. It’s called Night Lights, by YesYesNo.

It’s really cool - see for yourself:

night lights from thesystemis on Vimeo.

Photographer Alex Prager completes her trilogy of intriguingly unnerving photographs—awkwardly posing her doll-like subjects in vintage-inspired panoramas—with her upcoming exhibition “Week-End” at NYC’s Yancey Richardson Gallery.

The source of a lot of buzz at the recent 2009 Pulse Fair in Miami, Prager’s highly-saturated heroines and oft-startling scenes speak to her fondness for David Lynch and Hitchcock films, as well as her belief that deep down “all women are actresses.” The carefully-executed compositions also draw both on Cindy Sherman’s early film stills series and on the fellow photographer’s later use of color.

Xmas party this Thursday at Vinyl Factory with Protein and FACT and beers from Tuborg and wine from Costcutter.

Comanechi play live, Hot City, Patchwork Pirates and FACT and Protein DJ.

rsvp@protein.co.uk
10th December
7pm - 11pm
Vinyl Factory (Phonica entrance)
Soho, W1

Arch Daily has been nominated for Best Online Magazine on the Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards.

Vote for them now: www.archdaily.com/vote

Cultural chef de cuisine Jarvis Cocker will be making an appearance at The Museum Of Everything this weekend.

Popping over from gay Paris to introduce his now legendary televisual trilogy, Journeys Into The Outside – the one-of-a-kind visual document which followed him across the globe in search of the greatest self-taught artists and environments known to mankind.

If you happen to be in London this Sunday 29th, don’t miss it. Screening starts at 12.30

French retail walhalla Colette has teamed up with Nissan Cube to open a mini space in East London. On November 26th, the Colette Cube Store, stocking a range of Japanese lifestyle products, will be open to all untill January 3rd.

You need to apply online to gain excess to oh-so interesting events. These include Japanese film screenings, a live cyber rabbit orchestra, and a private fashion show by Mary Katrantzou (pictured) on Thursday November 26th.

Fill in the (very amusing) questionnaire here to gain access:  CUBELIST

I’m loving Wieden & Kennedy’s jewellery range. Inspired on graphical data, this is taking geek-chic to a whole new level…

After its window displays for Selfridges and recent collaboration with onedotzero festival, Wieden & Kennedy now takes its extra-advertising work in to the world of fashion. What’s next?

Today sees the new It’s Nice That online shop unveiled, with a fresh batch of exclusive products.

Very nice.

Make sure you check this out when in NYC between November 13th and 22nd.

Brought to you by the lovely people over at Refinery29.com, Save Fashion brings you a new kind of sample sale with big names, and small prices - just how we like it.

Brands stocked include Acne (pictured), April 77,  Filippa K, Helmut Lang and Rag & Bone.

Our favorite Dalston nail bar WAH Nails (also headquarters of WAH Magazine) will be at Selfridges from Thursday 5th November to 11th November.

Check it out before it’s gone!

I’m very excited about this one… Bang Bang Berlin’s new online fanzine went live yesterday.

Capturing the very best of your favorite city in the world, that’s Bang Bang Berlin. Headed up by Liz McGrath, Liz and  her 3-strong editorial team bring you the best of Berlin’s art, fashion and club scene that is run 100% by Berliners…

Bang Bang Berlin is my new little black black book when I head to Berlin next week for sure…

Since its inception in 2004 The Cool Hunter has become the world’s most-read culture and design site, a leading authority on all things creative and a truly global hub for what’s cool, thoughtful, innovative and original. Selecting what is beautiful and enduring from all that is sought after in architecture, design, gadgets, lifestyle, urban living, fashion, travel and pop-culture, The Cool Hunter celebrates creativity in all of its modern manifestations.

If you want to advertise on The Cool Hunter – go here

We're super proud that we're now representing the awesome FACT Magazine over at Protein Networks.

Providing a platform for talented young musicians, artists and designers, FACT online will provide you with regularly updated must-read articles, upfront music reviews and articulate rants, as well as news of events and exhibitions from around the world that we reckon you might want to check out.

If you want to advertise on FACT – go here

We just signed East London's nicest music zine to our network...

Launched by DJ's and editors Princess Julia (Vice Magazine, i-D and QX) and Hanna Hanra (i-D, The Sunday Times and LOVE) The P.I.X is a free monthly music paper with an online edition. Focusing on both the underground and the establishment, the P.I.X is like no other music paper with its editorial stance.

To show The P.I.X. some love and advertise on the site – go here

Chainsaw mania at Viktor & Rolf’s. The duo acctually used a chainsaw to create the coolest layers of tulle ever made.