The updated 2–99 Records store has recently opened. In general, it is not possible to talk about the store without telling a little about the label itself. 2–99 Records is the brainchild of one of the most colorful characters in the Russian rap party of George Korga . The label is released on the CD of both an informal rap and other music styles and adheres to the ethics of DIY (do it Yourself do yourself).

Yesterday I posted the “golden” winners of the 43rd annual competition for the best magazine design organized by the Media-Fronts community ;-) from New York. In the comments they asked to give "silver". I give. 54 works, many of which are even more interesting than the winners.

Daren Newman Me & My Pen Daren Newman. An illustrator and a typograph from Manchester. Thin, clear, moving and confident lines of his illustrations entangled, twisted and forced me to write this post. [Me & My Pen. Daren Newman] ( http://www.meandmypen.com/index.php )

The fifth number Rude is the Self -portrait theme. Hi all! We finally released the fifth number, You can see it here . The next theme of the magazine "Abstraction". We are waiting for your work to rudemag@gmail.com , until June 20. Thank you for your attention! In the new issue: Tomato Senya Anna Alexandrova Vasily Egorov Legend Eika N.I. Petrov Elay Justa Dint Stas Sipovich NAKA Plusedelica Flip the magazine (Flash, average quality) Watch or download (PDF, better quality - 13 MB)

Apple has patented a new technology for its iPod players. Thanks to a special coating that will be applied to the iPod and iPhone in the future, if your gadget is discharged, it will be enough to put it in the sun and in an hour and a half, it will be completely charged. A great solution, it remains only for us to do something with the climate, so that there is still more sunny days. And in continuation for you the first photo, the future iPhone-2. Well, we know what weekend without positive? =)

Sneakers - #1 Crime Shoes in the world. Police departments of different countries have long been the databases precisely on shoe prints. Sneakers in these lists take first places.

Dolphin - without us On the Children's Day, a new dolphin website with its new animated video was opened. Dolphin: “This is not an attack ... This is protection and weakness. This is a song of hopelessness. ” In general, the new sound of the dolphin made him somehow cybernetically gloomy. The clip also does not particularly shine with positive. On June 7, in the caviar will be a presentation of this video and a Dolphin concert.

If you say, in the hairdresser, “cut me so that my muzzle has a German shepherd’s muzzle” - you will most likely be sent to the nearest psychiatric care department. But if you like animals so much, and you want extravagance, it is not necessary to spoil your hair-just put on one of these hats-paramils.

Bo Diddle has entered the history of music so tightly that it is perceived as an icon from the past. This canonization, I must say, played a bad role: many people think that Didley has not been alive for a long time. Meanwhile, Mr. Bo died on Monday, June 2, from heart failure. Diddley is the owner of the Grammy Award for life achievements (1998) and is one of the twenty greatest musicians in the history of rock and roll according to Rolling Stone magazine.

Anton Apchekhov is a superhero. He calls himself a bar Savior, who sits in a bar and helps a dozen or two to those who lack beer. And in their free time, Anton Up4ehov is an illustrator and writer of sentimental speech on the network. He describes his style as “bright, but gloomy”: There are more work here: http://up4ehov.livejournal.com/ http://www.behance.net/up4ehov And on the Flikra of his gang: http://flickr.com/photos/no_aim/

I do not think that many of you are interested in politics, especially American. I am almost sure that you are not worried about who will be the president there. But to ignore the fact that one of the presidential candidates inspires art people is difficult. Barack Obama is a senator, presidential candidate from the Democratic Party, African American. Actually, this is all that I wanted to tell about him as a person.

The new project of Mark Jenkins , a street art installer, known for its fake and provocative figures of people, depicts almost the end of all street art. The idea of ​​the installation of the “last graffiti artist” made in the Swedish city of Malmö is simple and expressive at the same time-at the end of the wall, painted graffiti, lies a dusty and beaten person-a sculpture of Mark, which he made with the help of tape and dressed, as an ordinary graffiti-player.

Steve Jobs, LSD and Picasso More recently, the next book about Apple “Inside Steve's Brain” was published, which can become an interesting manual for those who are interested in how you can combine creativity and business, forcing them to work on each other. The author of the book, Leanor Kani, in a fairly exciting form talks about how Steve Jobs managed to save Apple, which almost went bankrupt in the mid-90s, and turn the company as an example to follow all Startups in a silicone valley.

Modern domestic literature, despite the seeming chaos and the non -Euclidean nature of the artistic space, actually possesses a relatively ordered structure and even the likeness of internal logic. If we talk about the mainstream, the main voltage lines are located along the glamor/anti-Lamur axis, as well as in the sunshine of bohemian-medical literature. The latter will be discussed.

German native of Sarah Illenberger , formerly a student of Chelsea College and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, for the 7-year-old career of the artist in his portfolio, presents a number of different art objects for each other. The last for example - wooden hamburger. Also, in Portolo, you can find portraits laid out tablets, human sculptures blind from food, paper cabbage, edible shoes and bags ...