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2009-04-13T14:06:00.000-07:00

CANT STOP LISTENING TO CRYSTAL STILTS!

Philips Record Player model 22GF, 1969

2009-03-14T07:07:00.001-07:00

Gotta have.

mayan math incredible

2009-03-07T09:03:00.000-08:00

Nina Levy Sculpture and Photographs

2009-02-22T14:13:00.000-08:00

Fascinating work. Absolutely stunning.

Judi Johnson & The Perfections

2009-02-21T13:13:00.000-08:00

Judi Johnson was a model, actress, singer, and dancer. In 1964, she appeared in non-speaking roles in two movies: Carry on Cleo and Carry on Spying. That same year, she recorded two songs under the HMV record label: "My Baby's Face" and "Make the Most of It". In 1965, she recorded two more songs for HMV under the name Judi Johnson and the Perfections: "How Many Times" and "A Way Out". The latter two songs can be found on the CD Dream Babes Volume 3 released in 2001. Also in 1965, she won the competition "Search for a Star" and was featured in an hour-long television special.

Ponyo English VA Announced

2009-02-20T19:01:00.000-08:00

Expected to hit North America next year, Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo will feature very familiar voices. Produced by Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, Ponyo's English voice cast includes Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Fankie Jonas, Lily Tomlin, Matt Damon, and Betty White.

Matthew Richie "The Morning Line"

2009-02-20T16:20:00.000-08:00

The Morning Line is a new experimental project by Matthew Richie, designed in collaboration with architects Aranda / Lasch and Daniel Bosia of Arup Advanced Geometry Unit.

R.I.P. Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett dies

2009-02-14T07:22:00.000-08:00

Estelle Bennett, former member of the legendary 60s girl group and sister of Ronnie Spector, has died at her home in New Jersey aged 67

A Series of Random Images

2009-02-08T08:06:00.000-08:00

Paper Dress--Jolis Paons

2009-02-08T07:17:00.000-08:00

Francis Bacon Documentary

2009-02-08T07:04:00.000-08:00

One of our biggest inspirations/bands to walk the face of the earth

2009-01-11T10:08:00.000-08:00

Psychocandy
The same year, the band signed to Blanco y Negro and released the singles "You Trip Me Up" and "Never Understand", which were soon followed by their debut album Psychocandy. The album fused together the Reids' two primary influences, the guitar noise of The Stooges and The Velvet Underground with the '60s pop leanings of The Beach Boys, The Shangri-Las and Phil Spector -- in fact, the album's opening song, "Just Like Honey," borrows Hal Blaine's famous drum intro from The Ronnettes 1963 classic, "Be My Baby", produced and co-written by Spector. Also an influence was the sonic explorations of Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd. It has been noted that the band was very fond of drugs such as LSD and amphetamines and that the drugs influenced the ear-piercing, screeching feedback, which immediately became their trademark. The record received unanimously positive reviews and is now considered a landmark recording.
Not a group to stay out of trouble, the Mary Chain were thrown out of their record company's offices after a fight broke out, and Reid was arrested for possession of amphetamines in Germany. This earned them the now infamous comparisons to The Sex Pistols (another key influence on the band) by the UK press and led to numerous appearances in the infamous UK tabloids. Like the Pistols' "Anarchy" tour, the Mary Chain were banned from Plymouth, Birmingham, Sheffield, and removed from a Glasgow concert for swearing onstage. The final date in Brighton was attended by 600 fans and an impressive army of police, but the band and the crowd behaved themselves.
Two months later, the WEA pressing plant refused to handle the Mary Chain's third single, "You Trip Me Up", because some of its staff considered the B-side, "Jesus Suck" (originally titled "Jesus Fuck"), to be blasphemous. They were forced to replace the cut with "Just Out of Reach."

R.I.P. Ron Asheton

2009-01-06T16:23:00.000-08:00

2008-12-27T07:51:00.000-08:00

A piece of movie history is going through Bonham's auction room later this month - the scooter rode by Jimmy Cooper in the cult mod flick Quadrophenia, complete with its original KRU 251F number plate.

Check out the scooter here.

via. retrotogo

happy holidays

2008-12-20T10:56:00.000-08:00

Pillowheads 2008 Good Albums list.

2008-12-13T08:59:00.000-08:00

Lykke Li

"Youth Novels"

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Spiritualized

"Songs in A&E"

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Indian Jewelry

"Free Gold!"

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Fleet Foxes

"Fleet Foxes"

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White Denim

"Workout Holiday"

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Department of Eagles

"In Ear Park"

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Beach House

"Devotion"

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El Perro Del Mar

"From The Valley To The Stars"

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The Last Shadow Puppets

"The Age Of Understatment"

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WHAT?????

2008-12-13T06:45:00.001-08:00

“Absurdly low consumption. The Polo BlueMotion.”

Advertising Agency: DDB, Berlin, Germany
Creative Directors: Ludwig Berndl, Kristoffer Heilemann
Art Directors: Marian Grabmayer, Marcus Intek
Illustrator: Kirill Chudinskiy
Chief Creative Officer: Amir Kassaei
Executive Creative Director: Stefan Schulte, Bert Peulecke
Account Manager: Kathrin Thiele

If we ever have kids this is what they will look like.

2008-12-04T05:31:00.001-08:00

PillowheadXHypernovaXFlip

2008-11-30T14:20:00.001-08:00

Bubble House

2008-11-30T14:08:00.000-08:00

Organic architecture of a different kind is represented by the Bubble House, designed by Antti Lovag and purchased by Pierre Cardin in 1990. Illuminated by the warm sun of France’s Côte d’Azur, the design has been termed by some to be “one part house, two parts hallucination.”

Fashion Show at the bubble house.

The Last Shadow Puppets "My Mistakes Were Made For You"

2008-11-13T06:47:00.000-08:00

The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You

Album of the year. This song has a Scott Walker vibe to it. dig it!!!

Ian And The Zodiacs "Why can't it be me" 1966

2008-11-12T10:41:00.000-08:00

Such an under rated band. We constantly have the album "Just Listen To" playing here at the Pillowhead Studio. Good Music!

Kevin Francis Gray

2008-11-11T08:06:00.000-08:00

Face-off 2007

Bronze, Automotive Paint, Wood Plinth

Kids on a Tomb, 2008
fiberglass resin, automotive paint, wood
65 x 43 x 39 inches (165 x 110 x 100 cm)

Spanky and Our Gang! "Like to get to know you."

2008-11-10T09:53:00.000-08:00

Found this song off a sunshine pop comp. So incredibly beautiful. Have a listen.

Jeff Koons Versailles

2008-11-09T13:46:00.000-08:00

Yayoi Kusama "I Adore Myself" Film

2008-11-08T11:32:00.000-08:00

Trailer for Near Equal Yayoi Kusama: I Adore Myself, a documentary by Takako Matsumoto. The film had its US premiere in July, 2008, at New York's Japan Society.

For those who don't know of yayoi's work. Watch this little documentary. She talks about everything from warhol to her "love forever" happenings. She is truly an inspiration to the world. We don't ever want geniuses to die.

Wrapped In Murakami

2008-11-08T11:18:00.000-08:00

"New York City’s Fifth Avenue Louis Vuitton mega-store is being wrapped in vinyl for the holidays by Takashi Murakami. WWD is reporting that the installation will cover the entire store with the iconic Monogram Multicolore print the artist designed for the luxury house. The New York flagship will be the only one to have the vinyl display which is signed by Murakami."

Click here to read more.

Japanese man petitions to marry comic-book character

2008-11-06T08:46:00.000-08:00

A Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the "two-dimensional world."

Click Here To Read Article.

Benoit Poulard "Triggering Back"

2008-11-02T12:28:00.000-08:00

Mr. Toledano

2008-11-02T08:35:00.000-08:00

We have been looking at a lot of photography lately for drawing references and recently we stumbled across Mr. Toledano... all i can say is it was love at first sight. We are totally blown away at the quality/ideas of his work.

Check out his site here.

Tim Walker

2008-11-01T14:20:00.000-07:00

Pascual Sisto "Salamander"

2008-10-30T09:04:00.000-07:00

Watch Video Here.

"THE CHASE" 2008

2008-10-30T08:56:00.001-07:00

Collectif Fact

Axel Antas

2008-10-30T08:43:00.000-07:00

Iwan Baan

2008-10-27T10:13:00.000-07:00

The Abandoned Spacecraft City of San Zhr

2008-10-21T06:01:00.001-07:00

"This pod city might have been a holiday destination for those who dream of living in a futuristic fairytale. But from what little is written about San Zhi in English, it appears construction was abandoned as the project was just weeks from completion.

There seems to be nothing wrong with the structure architecturally. Apart from the fabulous design, it seems a functional concept. Some speculate it was designed to build more pods vertically, if demand increased. Apparently, construction was halted as a number of fatal accidents plagued construction. Ghost stories abound, (but then again, there are bloggers who still believe in Midgetville.) The buildings have since been left to rot."

More photos here

Dennis Wilson

2008-10-18T10:41:00.000-07:00

Dennis Wilson "Thoughts of You" from the album "Pacific Ocean Blue"

Liam Sharp

2008-10-18T08:40:00.000-07:00

Some of our Favorite Things At The Moment

2008-10-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

Little Britain

This show is probably the best show we have seen in a very long time. We just found out about this show a couple days (i know i know we don't watch TV) ago when reading about johnny depp begging to be on the next season of little britain USA. So we got around to seeing the first episode of this season on HBO and we were hooked. We ventured out immediately and got season 3 that came out on the bbc. So good!

Mr. T

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El Perro Del Mar

Hearing her music gives us the chills. If you are a fan of the beach boys and the spector sound you defiantly have to check out our albums. The song "how do we forget?" of the album "From The Falley To The Stars" has been on repeat all day. Do yourself a favor and buy er albums immediately. We could go on and on about how beautiful El Perro Del Mar music is but you would get rather bored of that. Just see for yourself. I wish you could just turn on the radio and hear songs like hers come out of it.

Check out her myspace.

"god knows (you gotta give to get)" from the self titled album.

The Enemy

2008-10-11T21:38:00.000-07:00

Working late on a saturday/sunday morning. The enemy is hitting the spot. Great band.

Subodh Gupta "The Damien Hirst of Delhi"

2008-10-11T07:00:00.000-07:00

"These are incredibly sophisticated people who have travelled all over the world and educated themselves about contemporary art in Europe and the US," says Nagy, who has also backed Gupta's creations. "They came back here and realised such a talent like Subodh was just doing the craziest shit. It is both visionary and a no-brainer".

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2008-10-08T19:16:00.000-07:00

Them

Pillowhead Skateboards

2008-09-20T11:56:00.000-07:00

Go here to buy.

Spread the word.

Thank You.

The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth

2008-09-16T11:58:00.001-07:00

"We covered some otherwordly places before (see, for example, Bolivian Salt Lake, or The Richat Structure), but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth."

link

R.I.P.

2008-09-13T12:18:00.000-07:00

Nagi Noda

1973-2008

Nagi passed away on September 7, 2008 , at age 35, after surgical complications from injuries sustained in a traffic accident the previous year.

Nagi Noda was a Japanese pop artist and director born in Tokyo.
Her works include the short film Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video For Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl", the half-panda-half-something-else Hanpanda life-sized figures, and the video for Japanese singer Yuki's song "Sentimental Journey". Other works include direction of a television advertisement for Coca-Cola (with music by Jack White), and collaboration with Medicom Toy to produce Nagi Noda Be@rbrick. Noda was signed to Partizan.

Art/Music of Jonathan Coward

2008-09-12T20:45:00.000-07:00

SHAMS.

Peter and Gordon

2008-09-12T12:52:00.000-07:00

The Association "And Then... Comes the Association"

2008-09-11T13:07:00.000-07:00

The Association is a pop music band from California in the sunshine pop genre. They are best known for their popularity in the 1960s, when they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts. As of 2008, they are still playing. They are also notable for being the lead-off band at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival, essentially the first multi-group rock festival. They are known for tight vocal harmony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Association
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifexq95ldte

Leonardo Glass Cube

2008-09-09T11:53:00.000-07:00

Truly breath taking.

More photos here.

The Last Shadow Puppets "standing next to me"

2008-09-08T09:50:00.000-07:00

Vetsch Architektur

2008-09-08T09:45:00.001-07:00

Earth House Estate Arni
Residential House Pallavincini

Location: Arni, Switzerland
Size of lot : 650 m2
Living space : 150 m2
Cubature: 1100 m3

Beach House

2008-09-05T07:32:00.000-07:00

We have been obsessing over Beach House lately. In a period when we thought music was dead... we have found a breath of fresh air in beach house. thank you.

Mark Jenkins

2008-08-30T11:39:00.000-07:00

Mark Jenkins (b. 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia ) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, The Independent, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe and Brazil and is represented by Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the Website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits.

Worlds Largest Record Collection

2008-08-29T12:26:00.001-07:00

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

The Music Machine

2008-08-29T11:00:00.000-07:00

The Music Machine (1965–1969) was an American garage rock and psychedelic (sometimes referred to as garage punk) band from the late 1960s, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell and based in Los Angeles. The band sound was often defined by fuzzy guitars and a Farfisa organ. Their original look comprised of all-black clothing and black moptop hairstyles. Bonniwell was known to wear a single black glove.

Maria Laet

2008-08-29T09:46:00.001-07:00

Paris Fashion Week

2008-08-23T17:29:00.000-07:00

Junya Watanabe

A creation by Dai Fujiwara for Issey Miyake.

The Art of Chris Scarborough

2008-08-23T14:05:00.000-07:00

Numero Tokyo

2008-08-18T15:34:00.000-07:00

Model: Marcelina SowaMagazine: Numero Tokyo 15 Photographer: Alix Malka

We cant stop staring at these. Beautiful.

Hypernova CBS

2008-08-14T11:31:00.000-07:00

part 1

part 2

Iran rock band... Pretty interesting.

The album art we created for them is shown at the end.

Spiritualized - You Lie, You Cheat

2008-08-03T13:42:00.000-07:00

Marvin Gaye

2008-08-02T16:02:00.000-07:00

Can it get any better than this?

Changethethought

2008-07-11T13:09:00.000-07:00

One of our favorite blogs posted a link and kind words.

"Candace & Benjamin sent me a nice email this morning letting me know about their work at Pillowhead. I really liked what I saw. They have created some dense illustrations that bridge the analog versus digital divide."

Thank you Christopher Cox

Muse

2008-07-11T12:56:00.001-07:00

We have a feature on a design/art inspiration site called muse.

Thank you Drew Wilson for the feature.

Check it out!

piss for peace

2008-07-09T16:41:00.000-07:00

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace.

Aoki Jun

2008-07-03T14:50:00.000-07:00

Stunning work from Aoki Jun. One day he will create our home/office.

Find out more about Aoki Jun on his website.

Busy. New works

2008-07-03T11:19:00.001-07:00

Sorry for the lack of post but we have been busy making things.

This is a cover we created for a band called hypernova.

kokomoo

2008-05-20T11:08:00.000-07:00

Very inspiring work. Consider us a big fan. You can view more here.

Maria Elisa Duque

2008-05-19T13:54:00.000-07:00

Stunning photography by Maria Elisa Duque.

Representation

2008-05-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

We are proud to announce that pillowhead is now represented by the july group.

R.I.P.

2008-05-13T10:30:00.000-07:00

Robert Rauchenburg

1925-2008

Album for the weekend.

2008-05-09T10:56:00.000-07:00

The Monks - Oh How To Do Now
by scootaway

You better believe this album will be having lots of spins this weekend. This record is so good. Do yourself a favor and buy this record. Check out the monks myspace. If you like what you hear go to here and buy the official release. The monks don't make any money off the bootlegs selling elsewhere.

Ryan Mcginley

2008-04-30T12:20:00.000-07:00

Truly beautiful work. Check out Ryan's work here.

bird my buy

2008-04-29T19:16:00.000-07:00

Condemned 2

2008-04-28T09:46:00.000-07:00

Condemned 2 by Sega : Lollipop Gift Parade - Watch more amazing videos here

Clown Flower Time (Condemned 2)
Uploaded by objectifsega

Condemned 2: Pony Heart Quest
Uploaded by hourigan

These make us very happy.

Jeff Koons @ the met.

2008-04-27T21:17:00.001-07:00

Obsessed with koons. He is showing at the met through oct 26!

Tsang Cheung Shing

2008-04-27T20:35:00.000-07:00

Portishead - Machine Gun (Live on Jools Holland)

2008-04-26T10:47:00.000-07:00

A loss for words.

Hulu+Weekend At Bernies

2008-04-26T09:25:00.000-07:00

First off... hulu is probably the best website out. we always have to get in an episode of arrested development or american dad before nap time. But this post is not about that. Its all about movies... free movies. And this special movienis weekend at bernies. This movie is a gem.

IdN Magazine/Pick of the Month

2008-04-24T20:02:00.000-07:00

We are pick of the month in the latest issue of IdN magazine(v15n2).

You can buy the magazine here.

Thank you IdN.

Alexandra Groover

2008-04-22T09:30:00.000-07:00

This idea of taking a complex three dimensional shape and transforming it into fashion is pure genius. We really haven't been impressed with a lot of fashion recently, but this is one designer that has definitely gotten our attention.

Pillowhead/Preen Magazine

2008-04-20T11:06:00.001-07:00

We have a two page pattern spread in the preen magazine (spring issue 06) out now. We are very excited to be apart of this issue. Preen magazine is one of our favorite mags out. They feature an artist pattern on the front and last pages of the magazine every issue. You can find the magazine at racks all over the globe. Check it out!

The Sonics Baby

2008-04-19T11:05:00.000-07:00

We here at pillowhead love the fuzz. in fact... we cant get enough of it. The Sonics are one of our favorite garage bands. Do yourself a favor and pick up the album "here are the sonics." Go to the sonics myspace page and click on "psycho." Turn it up real loud!