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Pen & Paper: Nick Dahlen
Sketching serves as a way for Nick Dahlen to understand the world. Born and based in Minneapolis, the artist captures his observations in surreal drawings, paintings and screen prints that recontexualizes daily life. Broccoli, old men playing chess in the park, a couple cooking together through a window, a dog chasing a mailmen — his aesthetic is unmistakingly bold and his subjects are defined by thick applications of paint and dark shadows reminiscent of 20th Century masters, such as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.Long before Dahlen got his bearings in the art game, however, he was washing windows. While this job would discourage many would-be artists, in hindsight, Dahlen believes it allowed him to truly focus on himself and the expression forming within.“My art represents my life, so I...
Hansel Echeverria Connects Pins and Pistons with His 1973 “Hako” Skyline
For the car community, collecting nostalgia is king. Petrol heads can probably wax lyrical about what car they saw as a child to make them fall head over heels in love with cars, and thus scour the earth for magazine ads, posters and die cast model toys to satisfy their need to collect. Enter Leen Customs. Meet Hansel Echeverria, founder of favored car community brand Leen Customs. What Hansel and Leen do so well is cater to the car lovers in all of us and give us a platform to really collect and cherish, in the form of limited edition, hand-numbered pins. Hansel has been a graphic designer for over 10 years and used his passion for automotive to spawn one of the hottest accessory brands for car enthusiasts in the world. Much like Pintrill and custom pin drops from your favorite streetwear...
The U.S. Government Ordered ByteDance To Sell TikTok and Meta Launched a Paid Verification Program in This Week’s Tech Roundup
This week, the tech industry was hit with the news of a possible impending ban on TikTok throughout the country. Late last year, Congress ruled that U.S. politicians would be forced to delete the app from their work phones. Now, a branch of the Biden administration focused on foreign investments has ordered that the app’s parent company ByteDance sell TikTok, lest they institute a countrywide ban.Elsewhere in tech, Meta unveiled its own paid verification similar to Twitter’s, charging the average user a monthly fee in exchange for a blue checkmark. And on the product side, Samsung continued to build out its Galaxy A Series roster with two new smartphones, while Master & Dynamic shared a revamped version of its flagship MH40 wireless headphones.Below, Hypebeast has rounded up the top te...
Driving the Audi RS e-tron GT Will Make You Feel Like Iron Man
Tony Stark has been an Audi driver since Iron Man 1. His first automotive sidekick was Audi's supercar, the first-generation R8 4.2 FSI Quattro. But in his latest Marvel appearance, Stark went eco-friendly, driving the Audi RS e-tron GT. First unveiled as a concept car at the 2018 L.A. Motor Show, the e-tron GT drew plenty of attention, standing as the marque’s entry into the electric market. Three years later, the mass-produced version of the e-tron GT was unveiled via an online world premiere, once again making the hearts of car enthusiasts all over the world flutter – for better or for worse. But while many petrolheads sniff at the sight of an EV, there may be a saving grace: Audi RS. Standing for “Rennsport,” which means “racing” in German, an RS moniker in front of an Audi model name ...
Swarm’s Creator and Star on Embracing the “Strange” for a Dark Tale of Musical Obsession
Dominique Fishback reveals the movie Donald Glover told her to watch before starring in the new Prime Video series. Swarm’s Creator and Star on Embracing the “Strange” for a Dark Tale of Musical Obsession Liz Shannon Miller
Song of the Week: Childish Gambino Returns with the Candy-Coated Threat of “Sticky”
From the newly-released Swarm EP, made in collaboration with KIRBY and based on Donald Glover's new Prime Video series. Song of the Week: Childish Gambino Returns with the Candy-Coated Threat of “Sticky” Paolo Ragusa and Consequence Staff
Yellowjackets Twists the Knife Further in a Devilishly Fun Season 2: Review
The Emmy-nominated thriller returns for a second season of '90s nostalgia and puzzle-box mystery solving. Yellowjackets Twists the Knife Further in a Devilishly Fun Season 2: Review Clint Worthington
How LA Is Becoming the Next Mecca of Golf
To say that golf is big in Los Angeles isn't much of a news flash. The city is home to prestigious clubs like Riviera Country Club, where the Genesis Invitational has been staged since 1926, and LA Country Club, where the US Open will be held this year. Everyone has cars, making access to golf courses easier compared to somewhere like NYC, and it's more or less warm year round. All of that is quite easy to understand.But there's something else happening in this city known for its fashion, music, art and entertainment. To call oneself a golfer in LA is to identify with that cultured lifestyle rather than to adhere to the traditional archetype of the golfer who plays at all the nicest courses. It's a lifestyle that prioritizes enjoyment over performance, inclusion over exclusion and expressi...
Chance Led Jason Baum To Producing Music Videos, Now He Works With Kendrick Lamar
Jason Baum’s chance to combine his love for music with his love for video was serendipitous. Savoring this opportunity, however, is what led him to work with some of modern music’s biggest and most respected artists.It’s been 12 years since the Hawaiian filmmaker began his current career as a producer, but his work stems all the way back to 2004, when he started as a production assistant, then became a production coordinator before eventually landing a role as supervisor/manager. But Baum always had a strong artistic inkling, and spent his teenage years painting, learning darkroom photography processing, building websites in HTML and teaching himself how to use Photoshop. He thanks his high school’s strong technology department for exposing him to all these various mediums — and with his s...
In John Wick Chapter 4, Brilliant Fights Are Less Than the Sum of Their Punches: Review
Keanu Reeves punches hard at the High Table, but the fights don't gel into a cohesive whole in the newest film. In John Wick Chapter 4, Brilliant Fights Are Less Than the Sum of Their Punches: Review Gregory Lawrence
The Cosmic Success of 88rising
Eight years ago, Sean Miyashiro was sitting in his car in a parking garage in the Bronx, ideating his next venture. In 2015, Miyashiro — a San Jose native of Japanese and Korean descent who was then employed by Vice — had never worked for a record label, let alone run one. But then again, 88rising wasn’t born out of practicality. Miyashiro simply wanted to posit the Asian artists he loved in front of the illimitable audience that only a place like the Internet can offer.“I didn't know what 88rising was gonna be, but I thought it was gonna be better than anything else because there was nothing like it at the time,” he says. “Still, I had never put out a record, helped make a song, signed an artist or anything like that. I was just trying to build a home on the internet to celebrate Asian cr...
How A24 Went from Arthouse Startup to First Studio to Sweep All Major Oscars Categories
The arthouse start-up, founded in 2012, went from humble beginnings to making Oscars history in just over a decade. How A24 Went from Arthouse Startup to First Studio to Sweep All Major Oscars Categories Consequence Staff
