Link About It: Invader Invades Africa

Invader Invades Africa


Popular French street artist Invader, known for his tiled works that often depict 8-bit video game characters, opted for a more natural setting for his latest “invasion.” The urban artist traveled to the Serengeti in Tanzania where he drew inspiration……

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Link About It: Sonos' Sound Waves

Sonos' Sound Waves


Though many try to avoid the often undesirable wavy effect created by moire patterns, Sonos happily embraces it in the newest iteration of their visual identity. The widely celebrated “sound waves” that emanate from the Sonos logo as you scroll actually……

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Link About It: LED Illuminated Skirts

LED Illuminated Skirts


Bridging fashion and cosplay, Japanese designer Kiyoyuki Amano has created a line of futuristic skirts that illuminate the wearer’s thighs. After placing lights inside a skirt on a whim, Amano liked the way the lights lit up the wearer’s legs and decided……

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Singles Club Year Two: Brooklyn's vinyl subscription service sets its sight on new musical styles, launching into its second year with Monster Rally

Singles Club Year Two

These days, many see vinyl records as coveted relics of interest for a niche audience, though in fact international sales hit a two-decade high in 2014 with six million LPs sold in the US alone. While some chalk this up to a widespread vintage fetish……

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Entire Rolling Stone Archive Comes to Google Play

Rolling Stone and Google have made a deal bound to make music fans happy. Through a new partnership, Rolling Stone’s entire archives will be available on the Google Play Newsstand app.

The app — which can be downloaded at Google Play and Apple’s App Store — can also be customized to add breaking news as part of a daily feed from Rolling Stone.

Additionally, Rolling Stone’s covers and archives will be available at a new Rollingstone.com vertical, Cover Wall (rollingstone.com/coverwall).

That’s 47 years of music journalism — from people like Cameron Crowe and Hunter S. Thompson — right at your fingertips.

The app and Cover Wall go live January 30 at 8 am. Prepare your eyeballs now.

And the Month of February Goes to…

During an appearance last year on Inside the Actors Studio, Neil Patrick Harris handled an impromptu moment with the kind of ease and grace that will no doubt be in evidence several times on Oscar night. The actor had promised to say goodnight to his twin sons Gideon and Harper and, well, they just happened to dial into his iPhone during the taping of the March 27, 2014 How I Met Your Mother Bravo series episode.

Harris will soon be the answer to a killer trivia question for the James Lipton-hosted talk show: Name the actor who, within the space of 12 months, appeared twice on the program and also hosted the Oscars? As announced yesterday by Bravo, Harris will kick off the 21st season of the series Thursday February 12 with an individual sit-down.

Along with a magic trick or two, Harris during his return appearance told Lipton the following about the getting the AMPAS gig:

Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who are the executive producers of the [Academy Awards] show, are friends of mine and I’ve known them for some time and had been kind of, um, bummed that I hadn’t been asked earlier [laughs]. But that’s how it works out… You don’t petition for that job.”

Indulge Your Nostalgia With a Pitch to Highlights

Who doesn’t have a soft spot in his or her heart for Highlights magazine? It was the children’s publication that tracked the travails of Goofus and Gallant (who was just a little too perfect, amirite?), solved pictograms that prepped us for an emoji-laden future, and read the stories and articles that were a precursor to the adult ones we would grow up to write.

Or perhaps the audience you write for is today’s crop of 6 to 12-year-olds. Then send in your pitches — for fiction and nonfiction stories, craft ideas, puzzles and cartoons– to Highlights, and be a part of a 69-year-old tradition. What is editor Judy Burke looking for?

For fiction:

These stories should have an engaging plot, a specific setting and lively language. No series or continuing stories. Fiction for readers at a beginners’ level should be 475 words or less; fiction for independent readers caps at 750 words.

And nonfiction:

These stories may be about science, arts, biography, autobiography, sports, world cultures, economics, service/self-help, careers, adventure and history. Nonfiction for young readers average 400 words; nonfiction for proficient readers, 750 words.

For information on the rest, head to: How To Pitch: Highlights

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