The Public School Process
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
http://la.thepublicschool.org/
Now, on a personal note, the design of this site is amazing and super clean. It’s inspiring to know this is out there and that guerilla education can rule supreme if you want to make it happen! I’d like to take a class and see how this works.
http://la.thepublicschool.org/calendar – Here is a link to their calendar of classes. Check it out!
Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament 2009
Buried beneath the glitz and the glamour, Los Angeles has a soul.
The City of Angels, its claim to fame is its star-spangled status as an A-list enclave. But contrary to popular belief, there’s more to Tinseltown than meets the eye. People come to here with fame and glory on the mind, and the ones who stay refuse to let anyone cut them down to size, which might explain how LA turns out some of the quickest, slickest designers we’ve ever seen. Populated by media visionaries, this town operates with a partygoing philosophy that overwhelms the senses. Loud music, dim lights, massive crowds? All in a night’s work, kids.
NEW SITE!
Hey guys. So with the help of Paige Maguire over at Flux-Rad I have finally gotten the ‘real’ site started. During the transitionary period there will be few if no new posts at all. It shouldn’t take more than a couple days so be looking for an update soon. I’m going to be starting a mailing list for email updates on:
- Interviews
- Give Away
- Releases
- Shows
Go check out the current status of the site at www.theLIPmag.com
If you have any design/web/art interests and want to be apart of the rebuilding just shoot me an email! I’d be happy to provide you with a free tshirt too!
-Adam
MayMix.Music
New Mix playlist for May by ShotsRingOut. Download it here.
1. River – Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
2. Easy – Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day
3. Young Hearts Spark Fire – Japandroids – Post-Nothing
4. Starry Eyed – Ellie Goulding – Ellie Goulding
5. The Strangers – St. Vincent – Actor
6. The Place Where We Lived – Hayden – The Place Where We Lived
7. Drowning – Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
8. When We Were Alive – The Thermals – Now We Can See
9. Idiot Heart – Sunset Rubdown – Dragonslayer
10. When You Whispered – The Handsome Family – Honey Money
11. While We Were Dreaming – Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love
12. The East Coast – The Daredevil Christopher Wright – In Deference to a Broken Back
13. Northern Lights – Bowerbirds – Upper Air
14. California – Eugene & The 1914 – Eugene & The 1914
15. Belated Promise Ring – Iron & Wine – Around The Well
JoseManuelHortelano.Art
Saw these awesome paintings by Jose Manuel Hortelano over at Booooooom. Really incredible watercolors going on here.
OliviaFrolich.Photog
Danish photographer Olivia Frølich is quite a new breath of fresh air. Her inspiration comes from the dreamcatcher universe of Wendy Bevan. (according to Signe Kassow) Im not sure about her photography yet. I like it but I think Olivia’s work is just blossoming and that’s a great compliment seeing work like this in the early on.
IREGRET.art
Combining Digital and Traditional art forms has always been somewhat taboo. Whether its the way its done or the lack of skill, one thing always makes it seem… bad. Iregret has broken the expectations of many with these incredible Digital/Traditional works. Unfortunately my browser does not have the language pack need to read any of the info on the site so I really don’t know anything about them!
ClockClock.Design
The designer Humans since 1982 designed this really interesting…ClockClock. Its a bank of analog clocks that develop a digital style clock with their hands. Really interesting to watch but dang that would take up a lot of wall space.
Humans since 1982 is a group of student from HDK Gotenbuorg in Sweden. They have done two successfule projects, “Surveillance Light” and “Celebrating the Cross 1″. Their new project “Clock Clock” composes of 24 manual alarm clocks. Along with the exposure of the Clock Clock they developed a typeface to signify the event.
WhiteRabbits.Music
In a musical age of autotuner spam, indie rock blandness and electro overload its nice to hear the piano friendly style of The White Rabbits. The video for the song “Percussion Gun” makes me a little dizzy but I liked the song enough to grab the album “Its Frightening” available over at iTunes.
Interview with BrockDavis
Remember those Jack Links Beef Jerky commercials? Yah well Brock Davis is one of the creative brains behind it and he talks with me about a bunch of fun art stuff. Click the link HERE
