Neil Krug
David Neale
Raquel Allegra
Blogotheque films a fistful of on-the-cusp Montreal bands (including Clues & the Luyas), via StG
Photojournalism, propaganda or art? Errol Morris on photography and its viewers
Aesthetics and economics: Brooklyn gentrification novels
Hey ho
Maiden art
Iris Schwarz
Daylight noir, Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles as imagined by photographer Catherine Corman
She writes, a new social networking site for female writers
The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers, all twenty-one of them. The solution: twenty-one specimen boxes
Gillian Lee Smith
Nichole van Beek
Pale and interesting
Best holiday gift-buying advice (highly endorsed!)
What’s behind the Venetian Table?
The Americana film project
Bookhou
Craft pantry
Shecological
Pratt Manhattan Gallery’s Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion
The exquisite art/design of the Loyal Loot Collective
Holiday gift alert: 365-day ecological desk calendar
Abigail Ahern/Graham Atkins Hughes
Isabella Zocchi
Jewels of New York
Most amazing music video of the year: Grizzly Bear’s “Ready, able”
Napa Valley’s ghost wineries
Winners of the Tribute 21 plate design challenge
Ragna Berlin
English relics
Antti Lovag
How to make your own pinhole camera
2009 Tournament of Cookbooks: It’s down to two
Why book clubs are bad
Melanie Rutten
Mia Pearlman
Jake Chessum
Remembering Harlem photographer Ray Carava (more work here)
Sevensevennine considers the aesthetics, ethics and legality of street photography
“Nervous” a brooding little folk-pop song from Athens, GA’s Nanny Island
Pixelthis
Jonathan Simons
Celina Mancurti
Paul Auster’s new novel of metafictional gamemanship
“Ears”, Julian Lynch’s whimsical bedroom pop
Why humans love (need) stories
Vivetta
Grijs
Raw art letterpress
Just me & my dad, a wonderful concept for a blog
10 questions about music packaging
White Rabbits’ awesome performance of “Percussion gun” for Blogotheque
Foldedpigs
Nadine Byrne
sMacshop
Too hilarious: Regretsy (odd & inept etsy items — some NSFW)
Martin Scorsese’s favorite scary movies
Video: “28 years in the implicate order” by Pascual Sisco