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T-Shirt Tuesdays » Jean Jullien @ Palmer Cash

Palmer Cash - Guitar Boy and Lights On

(L) This guitar boy is growing up. One day he’ll be a guitar man.
(R) When the light goes on for some ideas, there should be a lamp shade… just to make sure they are appropriate first.

Illustration, photography, video, costumes, installations, books, posters and clothing – it’s all in a day’s work for London-based, Nante, France native artist Jean Jullien. What better way to first feature the busy creative on Lo’s List than T-Shirt Tuesdays? Sold on equally cool t-shirt hub Palmer Cash (more tees from there to come super soon), the Jean Jullien collection of about 16 tees has a bold outsider-art sort of aesthetic, muted-80’s-surfwear-bright color ways, and quirky taglines like…

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Shutterbug » L’Exactitude N’est Pas La Vérité

Exactitudes - The Girls from Ipanema

So, you thought you were one-of-a-kind? Well, think again. Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have been examining the distinct dress codes of various social clusters for well over a decade now and their striking book of images, Exactitudes (that’s exact and attitude smished together), demonstrates once again to us obstinate humans how beautifully similar to one another we are…

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Fashion Scout » Ground-Zero

Ground Zero Perfect Black Coat

What do Sunkist, Joy Division, AMEX, marijuana, Camel cigarettes, Johnson & Johnson, and Care Bear have in common? It’s all just the visual fodder of brother powerhouse Eri and Philip Chu’s Fall/Winter ‘09 collection for their label Ground-Zero…

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Beatbox » Choir of Young Believers

I’m one of the oddballs that can play the same song or album on repeat for days on end. The thing is, music tends to blur with everything around you and, months or years later, when you trip over the song in a playlist, not only are you rediscovering a gem, but along with it smells, tastes, all those memories gathered during that first listen. Bob Dylan’s I Want You from his Live at Budokan album triggers springtime at my grandmother’s house in Provence, Tinariwen’s Aman Iman: Water is Life carries me across the Atlas mountains of Morocco. It’s one of those scientific magic tricks that everyone should leverage…

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Papercuts » Etsy’s Elsita

Elsita: Girl with a Magic Fruit

Originating in China circa 1500 the art of papercutting (jianzhi) quickly spread across the globe and is now a celebrated craft in dozens of countries including Japan (kirie), India (sanjhi), Germany & Switzerland (scherenschnitte), France (canivet or decoupage), Poland (wycinanki), Ukraine (vytynanky), Turkey (ka ‘ti), Mexico (papel picado), the States, Israel, and beyond…

“The process of creating a papercut piece is a wonderful way to practice and master the art of patience.” – Elsa Mora

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