How does an artist move forward without forsaking his past? Take something he's already made and give it new meaning? Over the course of one year, filmmaker Jim Helton documented New York-based artist Chris Rubino as he explored these paradigms and new direction in his work... http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-chris-rubino-love-kills-demons/feed/ 3 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-brooklyn-space-program/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-brooklyn-space-program/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:13:57 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=10476

Aside from being visually breathtaking (and goosebump-inducing), this film pretty much showcases some of the best things in life: science, nature, education, experimentation, and... good times with the fam! The film documents the build, release, and recovery of a video- and iPhone-rigged weather balloon that, in the span of a wee 70 minutes, managed to climb nearly 100,000 feet (hitting the upper stratosphere) before bursting and frantically dancing its way back to earth — landing in a tree a mere 30 miles from the launch site! http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-brooklyn-space-program/feed/ 13 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-marcel-the-shell/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-marcel-the-shell/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:04:43 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=10036

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Eeek! Big fat thanks to Nami for putting a little shell named Marcel on the Lo's List's radar! This stop-motion animation (by Dean Fleischer-Camp and SNLer Jenny Slate) is a cornucopia of quotidian wisdoms and life questions. http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-marcel-the-shell/feed/ 2 http://www.los-list.com/blog/i-heart-art-orto-collective/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/i-heart-art-orto-collective/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:46:10 +0000 Adriane Q. http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=9979

While the Americans are still cranking out duct-tape wallets, the Slovenians have gone above and beyond. (Tape wallets? That’s sooo '90s Janeane Garofolo at a Pavement show.) En lieu of spray-paint, the ten-person ORTO collective relies on neon-toned industrial tape — the material best known for fixing disasters — taping over the city’s dull streets with scream-worthy graphics... http://www.los-list.com/blog/i-heart-art-orto-collective/feed/ 2 http://www.los-list.com/blog/papercuts-moleskine-pac-man/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/papercuts-moleskine-pac-man/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:41:06 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=9433

It was at the local ice skating rink where I first battled Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde. I would feed the game's coin slot with a bottomless pocket of quarters while destroying my pearly whites with Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales. http://www.los-list.com/blog/papercuts-moleskine-pac-man/feed/ 3 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-bart-van-der-gaag/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-bart-van-der-gaag/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:26:44 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=8901

It's hard to imagine that cold weather season is upon us when it's a whopping 90º here in Los Angeles today. But, back home in New York (and in other corners of the world), autumn is on with winter at its heels. This killer montage by Bart Van Der Gaag entitled "Autumn by the Lake" has all the nose-biting and romantic feel of this time of year — plus some very white swans... http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-bart-van-der-gaag/feed/ 6 http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-the-japanese-popstars/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-the-japanese-popstars/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:37:48 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=8806

What a kick-ass and creepy new video from totally-not-Japanese band, The Japanese Popstars!! The trio — Decky Hedrock, Gary Curran, and Gareth Donoghue — hail from Northern Ireland and have gathered a near-cultish following of fans in the few years since they began their musical collaboration. This latest video, for the track Lets Go off the Destroy EP, is illustrated by upcoming T-Shirt Tuesday-er... http://www.los-list.com/blog/beatbox-the-japanese-popstars/feed/ 9 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-everynone-radiolab-words/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-everynone-radiolab-words/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:47:03 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=8203

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We mentioned Lo's List's soft spot for podcasting gem Radiolab in our Complete Carry-On post from last year but the love just keeps growing for Jad and Robert. For those of you who aren't up-to-snuff with the program's format, the premise is as follows: each episode dissects — whether scientifically or philosophically — a topic, from Parasites to Parabolas, Mortality to Morality... http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-everynone-radiolab-words/feed/ 160 http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-mary-and-max/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-mary-and-max/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:43:34 +0000 Lo Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=7137

"Unfortunately in America, babies are not found in cola cans. I asked my mother when I was four and she said they came from eggs laid by rabbis. If you aren't Jewish, they're laid by Catholic nuns. If you are an atheist, they're laid by dirty, lonely prostitutes. So this is where babies come from in America." http://www.los-list.com/blog/big-screen-mary-and-max/feed/ 3 http://www.los-list.com/blog/do-goodism-adopt-a-sloth/ http://www.los-list.com/blog/do-goodism-adopt-a-sloth/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:02:42 +0000 Jerome Luc Martin http://www.los-list.com/blog/?p=7042

Despite all our efforts here at Lo’s List to bring you the best of art, design and commerce on the internet, there should be little doubt of what the world-wide-web, regretably, is really for: the sharing of sneezing pandas, short-sighted manatees and, now, these adorable, tottering baby sloths. Shot at the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, this video features our Folivoran friends doing what they do best: sleeping, yawning, falling over, eating, sleeping, hanging from stuff while asleep, eating stuff while apparently asleep, scratching their butts and sleeping. No other creature that we know of has evolved quite this degree of somnambulatory excellence. http://www.los-list.com/blog/do-goodism-adopt-a-sloth/feed/ 10