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MIT Media Lab’s Disobedience Award

“The Media Lab Disobedience Award seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across disciplines (scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights, and the freedom to innovate, for example). Disobedience Award objectives are to […]

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Paige K. Parsons Photography Gets a Facelift

If you were wondering why things had been a bit slow around here at The Color Awesome, here’s the answer. Paige has been hard at work updating her photography website, Paige K. Parsons Photography. This […]

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British Journal of Photography Launches on iPad

Photography fans with iPads get something special this week. The British Journal of Photography has launched its official iPad app. The best part? The first issue is free! Issue 1 is a whopping 400MB free […]

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Celebrate Record Store Day 2011

This, Saturday April 16th is Record Store Day! When was the last time you visited your local independent record store? Was it last year’s Record Store Day? I hope it hasn’t been that long. Here’s your […]

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Ooh Thees Bitches Is BAD!

Thee Satisfaction has done it again.  Actually, it looks like they’ve done it twice; read on. It’s popular opinion around thees parts that Seattle is primed to roll back onto the international stage as a […]

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Matt Groening Simpsonsizes Joanna Newsom

Matt Groenig, if you’ve been living under a rock, is “that guy” who does The Simpsons and Futurama, and recently curated All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minehead, U.K. He drew pictures of the musicians that played. […]

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NYU: MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY MASTERCLASS WITH MICK ROCK

The photographer behind the landmark iconic images of Bowie, Queen, T-Rex and Lady Gaga among others, MICK ROCK will join NYU’s faculty to offer sage advice in this summer’s “Music Photography Masterclass.” at The Clive […]

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Objectified US television premiere on PBS

As we reported back in May, Gary Hustwit, Director of Helvetica, the documentary about typography, graphic design and global visual culture, has a new project, Objectified. Objectified explores industrial design and the manufactured objects we […]

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Unfound Pleasures

Got Joy Division? Macclesfield Silk Museum is currently searching for interesting Joy Division artifacts for a proposed exhibition due to take place in May 2010. The exhibition is being curated by Jon Savage, and Peter […]

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Anton Corbijn to Release “Waits/Corbijn” Book

Anton Corbijn created some of the most iconic portraits, album covers and music videos of the last two decades. From the cover of U2’s The Joshua Tree to Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” video Corbijn has left […]

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URGH! A Music War Finally Released on DVD

Via Annie Zaleski at RTF: Here’s some unexpected news: The legendary punk/new-wave concert film Urgh! A Music War was released yesterday on DVD via Warner Archives. (Thanks to Shiv for the tip.) Up until now, […]

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LEAKED: Official Treasure Island 2009 Lineup

I won’t say how or where I found out, but here’s The Treasure Island 2009 Lineup, a day early. Saturday: MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Girl Talk, Brazilian Girls, The Streets, Passion Pit, LTJ< Bukeum Feat Mc Conrad, […]