Tonight marks the first night of Hume’s record release tour, highlighting their most recent project, Penumbra.  Check out this All Our Noise interview with Hume’s Britton Powell, by contributing writer Marian McLaughlin.  They kick off their tour tonight at Everlasting Life on Georgia Ave flanked by Chicago’s  Bird Names, Georgia’s Quiet Hooves, and Dustin Wong of Baltimore’s MICA darlings, Ponytail.  This show, like other recent shows booked by Powell at Everlasting Life, should not be missed.  

Everlasting Life is located at 2928 Georgia Ave NW DC. Show starts at 8pm and is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

What is Sketch Crawl D.C.?

A FREE all day drawing marathon in Washington D.C.

Artists explore the city with pen, pad and their imaginations; vividly documenting the nation’s capitol. Hosted by Bored of Trade illustrator Elizabeth Graeber and the “work less, enjoy more” themed blog I Hate My 9 to 5: http://ihatemy9to5.com/

Follow these steps for crawl success:

1.) Visit http://elizabethgraeber.com/sketchcrawl.html and print out a lovely illustrated map. Stick the map in your pocket – it will be your best friend.

2.) Bring drawing supplies – paper, pen, crayons, sketchbook – whatever tickles your fancy.

3.) Walk, metro, bike to the various sketch sites.

4.) Tweet about your journey @sketchcrawldc — Hashtag: #SketchDC

5.) When you’re done scan or photograph your drawings and upload them to the Sketch Crawl DC Flicker Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/sketchcrawldc/

Questions / Comments / Recommendations OR If you’re interested in Volunteering please contact: sketchcrawldc@gmail.com

And visit the Bored of Trade blog for sketch inspiration: http://blog.boredoftrade.com/

REGISTER HERE: http://sketchcrawldc.eventbrite.com/

A Magazine is a STUNNING biannual publication exploring the creative sphere of a selected designer in each issue. They invite a guest curator – an international fashion designer, group or house – to develop innovative, personalised content that expresses their aesthetic and cultural values. Each issue celebrates this designer’s ethos: their people, their passion, their stories, emotions, fascinations, spontaneity and authenticity. As such, A MAGAZINE exists as a cultural statement for individuality in an increasingly homogenous industry.

A BLOG  is it’s online offspring, containing a collection of written material from the A MAGAZINE team, supplemented with submissions from the curators, contributors, and their contributing authors.  Recently A BLOG launched their curated series “The Early Days”, showing the reader where a now-seasoned designer began, a glimpse at their first attempt at the runway.  The posts show the forward thinking their original designs and how much their product has grown.   The Archives date back as early as Yohji Yamamoto’s Spring/Summer collection of 1983 to Haider Ackerman’s 2005 Fall/Winter show. 

Zimoun is this generation’s, sterile, robotic Marclay, forcing natural occurrences through tubes and wires, an “ongoing interplay between the artificial and the organic” to study relationships between sound and motion. 

In fact, his pieces are more research than the mere production of aesthetic and audible beauty; constant scientific experiments played out by a curious mind.  It just so happens that Zimoun’s installations become beautiful works of art by their visual repetition, minimal and secluded landscape, and random results.  Below is his newest experiment, 97 polysiloxane hoses 3.0mm, compressed air.  

Visit his site for other beautiful sound installations

DepotArt is a series of computer generated art produced by members of depotVisuals, an art collective out of Denmark producing some inspiring work.  Their general interest in Design is obvious by the amount and the array of work being churned out by this group.  My current interest in depotArt lies in the series titled Limm.  The series combines delicate thread-like lines with topographical movement and photographic quality to create some pretty stellar eye-trickery.  Take a look at their other rendered series here .