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Monthly Archives: October 2011

‘Shangri-La’ by YACHT

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

It’s funny when you live with someone, you end up listening to music that you might not normally seek out (or want to listen to at all). The former was the case with Shangri-La by YACHT, the self-titled track from their newest album which came out about 4 months ago. The song is immensely catchy, [...]

The Photography of Ylenia Arca

Posted on by Philip Kennedy

Ylenia Arca is a photographer from Italy. A student of architecture, Arca’s work is a glimpse into how she sees the world and her website show’s a photographer with a keen eye for shape and texture. Arca’s photographs often explore the irregularity that exists between nature and architecture and her lens marks out the lines [...]

A beautiful video shot on the iPhone 4S

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the iPhone 4S, both good and bad. A lot of folks had some silly expectations of what the iPhone 4S should be and do, and how it shouldn’t have even been 4S, how it should have been 5. But what Apple has done has made some small [...]

Jing Zhang Builds Letters

Posted on by Alex Dent

Even though Jing Zhang says that she is “running out of patience” to finish this letter marathon, I’m hoping she can trudge through because these letters are fantastic. The communicative constructions are rendered in axonometric projections, as if we were playing an architectural video game. Zhang is no architect, but started out as a fashion [...]

Ferris Plock breaks apart culture to create works of art

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

Click images to enlarge I posted about Ferris Plock a very long time ago, May 2007 to be specific, and it’s been pretty rad to see how he’s progressed over the years. His style these days incorporates a mish-mash of all kinds of cultures, 80′s cartoons represented in a (somewhat) traditional Japanese way. The intense [...]

‘Everything We Miss’ by Luke Pearson

Posted on by Philip Kennedy

Here at The Fox Is Black we’re big fans of the work of Luke Pearson and although we’ve featured him a number of times before I couldn’t resist writing a small piece about his excellent book Everything We Miss. Published in June by the folks at Nobrow; the book is an atmospheric tale of heartbreak [...]