Finally got the paypal cart up and working over at Taupe. So exciting! Feel free to email me or get in touch somehow if you experience any trouble with the check-out. Lots more great stuff coming soon! Mark and I are STOKED.
Also gotta thank Morgan Hungerford of PANDAHEAD and PANDAHEAD MAGAZINE for the shout-out on Urban Outfitters.
Bored of Trade = total SUCCESS. Lindsay’s vision came to fruition beautfifully this past Saturday. Pictures are forthcoming but I’m pretty positive everyone had a great time.  Can’t wait for the next one coming up sometime in LATE JUNE. Also, expect more news and work from Taupe in the coming months.
Been super excited about Helvetica director Gary Hustwit’s current film project Objectified, a documentary about product, environmental, and industrial design. As I’m sure every other designerd / trend-savvy / aesthete has, I scanned the upcoming screening locations for any occuring in or around DC, to no avail. Nevertheless, check out the website if you haven’t yet. It looks to be shaping up pretty nicely and as well-paced and elegantly shot as Helvetica juding from the trailer below.
ALSO JONATHAN IVE SWOON.
My good friend Marissa, program coordinator and manager at Transformer (not to mention a very talented artist in her own right), has been awesome enough to include me in the gallery’s upcoming flat files show, Paper Trail, which will be a dual exhibition in conjunction with Heineman Myers Contemporary Art gallery in Bethesda. Suffice it to say, I’m stoked. I’ve included the flyer below in case anyone’s interested, along with a sample of one of the pieces I’ve put in the show(s). I produced an edition of 5 for the gallery (3 works total) and I’ll be posting all six prints in the work section soon. If you’d like one of these prints please get in touch, I’d be happy to take your money (no seriously). At any rate, the openings are this Friday and Saturday, 12/12 and 12/13, 6-9pm. There will be several other gallery openings going on that saturday evening as well. Totally make it out if you can!
Several months ago I was tuned into NPR.  While I can’t recall what program was on (it might’ve been Fresh Air), [**UPDATE: of COURSE it was All Things Considered.)  The piece broadcast centered around a relatively unfamiliar musical instrument called the Hang (pronounced more like “hahng”).  The Hang has quite a unique sound to say the very least.  It is ostensibly a percussion instrument, with physical qualities similar to that of a steel drum, albeit convex and double-sided.  It looks unequivocally like a UFO upon first glance.  Or maybe two woks joined at the rim.  I mean I guess you can see what I’m talking about from the photos.
Anyhow, the sound this thing makes is the real point of interest. The video below is pretty demonstrative, but there are tons more on YouTube. Check it out.
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