Now Playing in an Aspirational Design Catalogue Near You

Earlier this year, we introduced you to an Indian artist named Vijay Singh.  For decades, he painted the bright, larger-than-life murals that showcased current attractions in Delhi’s old Bollywood movie theaters.  But when digital printing recently put him out of a job, he had to find new patrons for his movie-mural artistry.  Now he’s part [...]

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Happy Birthday to Two Hip-Hop Greats

Today is a big day for hip-hop: it’s the birthday of both André 3000 and RJD2. Born just one year apart, they both have had an indelible influence on the genre – and in very different ways. André 3000 is one half of Outkast, whose 2004 double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below took home three Grammys, [...]

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Daedelus Captures Lightning in a Bottle

This Memorial Day weekend kicks off the Lightning in A Bottle festival in Irvine, California.   The four-day event bills itself as “equal parts music, art and green workshops” — and the name isn’t a bad description for the music of one of its headliners. The musician and producer Daedelus, a kind of Thinking Man’s DJ [...]

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Experimenting with Laughing Gas

The writer Richard Holmes has a gift for spinning stories.  The Age of Wonder is a cinematic romp through late 18th and early 19th century Britain and the amazing scientific breakthroughs of that era. We meet a brother-sister team of astronomers who discover comets and a new planet (Uranus!). And Holmes keeps us in suspense describing the first hot air balloon race across the English [...]

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360 Staff Pick: Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday Directed by Paul Greengrass, starring James Nesbitt Paul Greengrass’ recent theatrical release, Green Zone, gets bogged down with heavy-handed story about the search for (nonexistent) WMDs in Iraq. Far more satisfying is his 2002 film, Bloody Sunday. It portrays the Irish civil rights protest and massacre at the hands of British paratroopers in [...]

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Studio 360’s Redesign Challenge: the Fourth of July

Studio 360 has a summer project in the works and we need your help: we’re redesigning the Fourth of July. Don’t worry, it’s not a complete gutting.  We’re keeping the red, white, and blue, the cookouts, and the fireworks.  But there are a couple of elements that we think can use some sprucing up. Exhibit [...]

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360 Staff Pick: Caetano Veloso and Son

Zii e Zie Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso is called the Bob Dylan of Brazil; it may be Dylan who’s flattered there.  At 67, Veloso continues to make music with the grace of a poet and the ebullience of a kid.  In recent years his sound has been reinvigorated by the sharp edges of his son Moreno, who [...]

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The Return of the ArchAndroid

Janelle Monaé may look like a petite, pompadoured doo-wop singer straight out of early Motown.  But when she hits the stage, she bursts into something light years beyond that. Possessed by a beat too funky to be from the 20th century, she nearly dances right out of her saddle shoes. Yesterday, Monaé released her new [...]

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A Literary Talent Gone Too Soon

We were sad to learn that among those killed in last week’s Afriqiyah Airways crash in Libya was the talented Irish-born writer Bree O’Mara, 42. She was en route from her home in South Africa’s North West Province to London to sign a publishing deal for her second novel, Nigel Watson, Superhero. O’Mara had been [...]

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Alfredo Molina

Last week, Alfred Molina stopped by Studio 360 to chat with Kurt about his Tony-nominated performance as Mark Rothko in the play “Red.” Bet you didn’t know that he grew up in London as Alfredo Molina, the son of Spanish and Italian immigrants.  In this sneak preview of their conversation, Molina explains that he was [...]

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