Monday, February 22nd, 2010
There’s something about the joyful psychedelia of Animal Collective that gets us all wide-eyed and giddy (and maybe a little dry-mouthed, but that’s a minor side effect). So you can only imagine how excited we are to let the band guide us through a totally immersive sensory experience at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
At first glance, you probably think this Hermès Kelly bag is a beautiful use of alligator hide. But you’re dead wrong.
This bag is made of paper.
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Opposites: fascination and repulsion, physical and emotional, personal and mythical. Exhibiting at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal are a trio of Canadian artists – Marcel Dzama, Etienne Zack, and Luanne Martineau – whose latest works explore complex human dichotomies.
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Amongst the bright lights and hot starlets of Hollywood, it’s easy for promising young actors to lose their way. But talented and charismatic rising talents Ezra Miller, Carter Jenkins, and Charlie Bewley won’t let burgeoning fame distract them from their silver screen dreams.
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
The Force is strong with this one: the Star Wars legacy has lasted over four decades, with incarnations of the franchise from stop-motion series Robot Chicken to the formation of Jediism (no joke, it’s a faith based and dedicated to the practice and philosophies of a Jedi knight). This month ushers in the most coveted Star Wars item yet: adidas Originals x Star Wars sneakers.
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
This isn’t a coffee-table book inspired by Eddie Izzard’s Dress to Kill, instead, the likes of Richard Avedon’s photograph of China Machado to Catherine Deneuve’s Belle de Jour, are a few of the likely inspirations taken by François Nars for Nars’ 15 x 15 anniversary book. Celebrating 15-years in the industry, Nars has published a book dedicated to its successful line of beauty products and the icons who inspire the label; and The Block is madly in love with all 40-pages of it.
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Moray McLaren – “We Got Time”
Directed by David Wilson
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
We’ve got our hands all over Five Dials. Well, not literally; this understatedly hip little lit journal only distributes online, through PDF. But don’t be fooled by the low-maintenance distro: Five Dials pulls in some pretty big names. The most recent issue, themed around Paris, features writing from the likes of Ali Smith and John Updike; an “addendum” to the issue, posted today, centres around Guy de Maupassant. Previous issues include writers such as Arundhati Roy and Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
With its recent, star-studded opening on November 22, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is now showing a Tim Burton exhibition. A tribute to Burton’s extensive life work, the exhibit features childhood sketches, paintings, storyboards, puppets, and costumes, as well as other completed and non-completed projects, and screenings of his major movies.
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
The high street finally made its way to Vancouver last week with Manchester’s edgy brand Bench. The street-fashion retailer opened its first store in Western Canada on Thursday, and The Block was there to celebrate. Free-flowing wine, mini-burgers, and tiny boxes of delectable mac ‘n cheese didn’t stop us from hitting the till with an armload of statement-making styles.
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