For those of you who are frequent users of the phrase “once in a blue moon,” you’ll be delighted to hear that that time has come. This year August has two full moons and tonight is the Blue Moon. But don’t get your hopes up, the moon won’t actually be blue. That’s because a Blue Moon is sometimes defined as …
Caruso’s Rescues.
This week Quiet Lunch headed over to the Sapphire Lounge on Eldridge Street to check to the work of Andrea Caruso — not to be confused with the male Italian artist of the same name, Andrea Caruso. Caruso specializes in kitsch works. The term can be rather derogatory but when you meet Andrea and take a gander at her work, …
Ya Don’t Say…
“Well, look, when people give speeches, not every fact is always absolutely accurate.” – Rudy Giuliani, on Paul Ryan’s not-so-truthful speech at this week’s convention. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
A (Friend) of Ours.
Artist Brandon Friend creates mixed media works that translates both the rage and the machine it goes against. Friend’s sociopolitically charged collaboration with Jason Douglas Griffin provides a direct but chaotic commentary that employs a brilliant use of color and pattern. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a …
What’s Your Sign? (NSFW)
Welcome to the mind of Superfucker. Yes, Superfucker. Formally known has Marco Rached — his mother refused to put Superfucker on his birth certificate — he is an illustrator who has a knack for naked. His bio goes as written: “Born October 24, 1981, creator Marco Rached’s naughty habit of doodling naked girls and reading horror comics during karate practice …
Brains! Brains!
Halloween will be here in no time. Well, we wouldn’t say “in no time”, but you can tell by our enthusiasm that it’s one of our favorite holidays. Growing tired of Snickers and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups — not really — we found a candy that perfect for all you candy ghouls. Are these candies the bee’s knees? Made by …
Andy’s Soup Kitchen.
In spirit of the 50th anniversary of the famous work of Andy Warhol “Campbell’s Soup Cans 32”, the Campbell has decided to launch a limited edition commemorating Warhol’s iconic series. Fortunately the limited edition cans will cost the same as a normal can of Campbell’s soup. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects …
Disappearing Act.
Created by Brooklyn artist Marshall Reese and longtime collaborator Nora Ligorano. Known as Ligorano/Reese, the duo placed a 2,500 lb. 3-by-14-foot ice sculpture reading “Middle Class” in Lykes Gaslight Square Park in downtown Tampa this past Sunday and watched it melt. The symbolic sculptures are scheduled to be placed on the opening days of the Republic and Democratic National Conventions. Reese told Businessweek: “It’s …
H&M Men’s Fall/Winter 2012 Lookbook.
We got a sneak peek of H&M’s Men’s Winter 2012 collection. The simplistic collection features some warm but vibrant splashes of color and relies mostly on “leather detailing, waxed textiles, paneled fabrics, letterman jacket silhouettes, hoodies, and even double-rider-influenced jackets.” Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, …
Decoding Skolkovo.
Undeniably one of the most intriguing national pavilions at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, Russia’s QR code covered room is a dazzling presentation that sees the technology being used in a whole new light. It the most popular among World Architects and visitors are equally enamored. The innovation city called Skolkovo calls for its visitors to use iPads to decode …
Full Tilt Tea.
The following item is perfect for those who enjoy loose tea. This teacup has tilted base with an inbuilt and removable strainer; brewing your tea simply involves tilting the cup away from the leaves when it has reached the correct strength. It comes in Pure Black or Snow White. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to …
The Pie Hole: No Snack Leaf Behind.
We hate to be a bummer but summer is taking its last breath and it’s time to rake in some tasty fall goodies. Made with store-bought piecrust dough, these leaves can filled with chocolate, peanut butter chips, jam and cream cheese, or chocolate chips, walnuts, and mini marshmallows, whatever you like! Autumn Leaf Pockets.↓ Ingredients.↓ • 1 egg • 1 teaspoon of water • Prepared …
Learnin’ Youse Some Lettas: Obverse.
Obverse (Pronounced: ob•verse)→ Adjective.: a) facing the observer or opponent. b) having the base narrower than the top. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
(Stone)d Realism. (NSFW)
Artist and shaman Matthew Stone has claimed his own corner of Neoclassicism. Stone’s Body Language series and Staging Reality series presents a tangled and tortured display of the human anatomy. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance …
A Visit to the Reverse City.
Pascale Marthine Tayou‘s 2009 Reverse City installation involves rows of giant pencils hanging from thick beams in Matsudai, Joyama, Japan. On each pencil is written the name of one of the countries of the world. “The giant pencils are variously colored; some are short, some are tall. This town of pencils is fixed into a stainless steel frame and hovers, detached …
Bad News for Young Homeowners.
Last week, the real estate researchers at Zillow released their report on underwater homeowners — those who owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth — for the second quarter of 2012. They estimate that 48 percent of mortgage borrowers younger than 40 are currently underwater. It’s 39 percent among those who are 20-24 years old; 48 percent for the …
Suo Sarumawashi.
“Sarumawashi, literally ‘monkey dancing’ evolved over a 1000-year history in Japan. Ancient Japanese chronicles refer to it as a form of religious ritual designed to protect the horses of warriors. It later developed into a popular form of festival entertainment, and was performed all over Japan from temples to imperial courts. Today, Sarumawashi is ranked alongside Noh and Kabuki as …
In Between the Books.
Check these cool handmade bookmarks by Olena Mysnyk of MyBookmark in Kiev, Ukraine. Funny story, Olena is actually an architect by trade but somehow fell in the world of handmade bookmark making. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we …
Tree Crossing.
Jody Xiong of DDB China has teamed up with the China Environmental Protection Foundation to create a useful outdoor campaign that lends a subtle visual reminder of the environmental benefits of walking versus driving. Dubbed the Green Pedestrian Crossing, Xiong laid out an enormous white canvases with a bare tree and proceeded to place them across 132 crosswalks in 15 Chinese cities. As pedestrians …
Full Moon in the Room.
Why should you have to wait for a full moon? Why should you have to wait to see something so beautiful and awe inspiring? Then again, whoever is lucky to own a Luminous Full Moon Credenza shouldn’t have to worry about this problem. A striking credenza, with a photo-realistic, luminous image of the moon printed on its surface. Coated with …
PROJECT/reed.
jeffstaple is at it again with the newly unveiled PROJECT/reed. PROJECT/reed was an installation created for the PROJECT tradeshow in Las Vegas and curated by jeffstaple and Reed Space. The exhibit was conceptualized as an archive of highly-coveted limited edition releases from the street culture world displayed as artifacts in a museum. “One of the things I wanted to address …
Inside the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival 2012.
Quiet Lunch headed to the annual HBO New York International Latino Film Festival for the premiere of Lemon, a documentary about the Tony Award Winning poet, Lemon Andersen. The tale of Lemon Andersen is a prolific one. Born and raised on the streets of Brooklyn, Andersen is a three time felon who has endured hardships through his undying love of …
Welcome, Nomi!
Say hello to our modest photographic genius, Nomi Ellenson. A California native turned Gotham shutterbug, Ellenson has a warm spirit and soft demeanor that pleasantly translates through her brilliant photography. Lending her talents to the likes of Inked Girls Magazine, the Liam McMullan Company and the Huffington Post, Quiet Lunch is more than fortunate to have her on board. You …
Art Rejex.
Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ is feeding the masses another brilliant serving of well done tunes. The material isn’t exactly new but it is certainly new to us. Titled Rejex, the project consist of songs that didn’t make the cut for the epic 1999. “1999 Rejex is a compilation of tracks that didn’t make it to my debut mixtape 1999(obviously). I decided to put …
C.R.E.A.M. Team.
Summer is showing its wrinkles and will soon be the summer of old but Luke Stephenson gives a series that invokes a strong sense of premature nostalgia. The UK based photographer has captured a gang of ice cream trucks that spend their summers pitching 99 Flakes. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects …
#AwesomeMug.
The trending topic of our life right now, this über cool tweet mug. Complete with a nifty hashtag handle, this mug is microwave safe but the bird on the front DOES NOT go well with the dishwasher. Nonetheless, handing washing is a small price to pay for this cool mug. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote …
Necessary Naysayers.
“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Concords’ Cause.
Flight Of The Concords are making us guffaw for a cause with their latest video for “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)”. In an effort to raise money for the children’s charity Cure Kids, the duo employed some of New Zealand’s bright young mind to help them write the lyrics for the song. The process is hilarious and creates some funny moments that immediately …
Supra x Wayne.
Lil’ Wayne unveiled his new footwear collection Spectre, by SUPRA, at Project in Las Vegas last Monday. The SUPRA booth was swarmed with fans trying to get a peek at Wayne and, of course, his new line of lifestyle footwear. Spectre will be launching worldwide on May 1, 2013. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to …
Quiet Lunch Magazine ‡ August 27th, 2012. – September 2nd, 2012.
This week’s cover features the artwork of Michelle Ramin. We’re catching up with Ramin for this week’s issue in hopes of finding out why she’s so obsessed with balaclavas. The issue also see a few words from artists Ben Giles! Plus, we take you inside HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival with our very own SiouxZie Q. and we get …
Cracked Up to Be.
“Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements …
Getting Free.
We’ve featured a number of collage artists as of late but none are more unique than Sienna Freeman. The Philly based artist doesn’t exactly stick out like a sore thumb but possesses an elegant macabre that surely sets her apart from her peers. Freeman’s work is unshackled. It does what it wants, when it wants. But despite its untamed nature, …
Get a Job, Dirtbag!: Five Ways to Tell If You Need to Clean Up Your Act.
Light years away from pastel suits and pornstaches, most of today’s young American males are sporting a style that we’ve tastefully dubbed Filthy Hipster Chic. The style is deceptively simplistic. Your family and peers assume that it consists of not doing your laundry for months and going without a shower for days on end–little do they know, plenty of work …
Far From (Laff)able.
Xénia Laffely, a recent graduate, just unveiled her highly colorful and charmingly conceptual 2012 men’s collection titled “Bearded Faces”. Laffely meld the world of illustration and fashion, giving way to an innovation experience that only enhances the presence of the line. See more → here! ← Laffely explains: “Bearded faces. The father in classic suits and the religious man in ceremonial dress. They have haunted …
The Hall of Broken Heroes.
The Broken Heroes series by Patricia Waller is hard to take seriously but the twisted humor of it all definitely has some significance. See more → here ←. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
The Pie Hole: A Different Kind of Traitor.
Here’s a great recipe to try this weekend. Poached from The Aimless Chef, this recipe sees an Asian spin on a breakfast classic. Instead of our usual boring recipes where you have to read, we fetched an easy step-by-step video from The Aimless Chef himself! Japanese Eggs Benedict.↓ Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote …
All Gummed Up.
The Gummibaeren series by Florian Knapp plays a sweet game with defenseless gummi bears; the result is a adorable personification of inanimate food. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. When we say, “Creative Sustenance Daily,” we mean it. quietlunch.com
Is That You, Amelia?
Forty-two years ago on August 24, 1945, a telegram was sent via U.S. Naval Radio that relayed personal messages from civilian internees liberated from Weihsien Internment Camp located in present-day Weifang, Shangdong, China. These very brief messages usually gave a few words of reassurance “…family all well…,” “Advise Mother all concentration camp liberated…,” “Health perfect spirits high,” and then signed by the internee. However, …
In the Red.
Models: Max Papendieck and Don Dachuan Photographer: Alvin Kean Wong Magazine: Men’s Folio Singapore Stylist: Wei Lun Francine Lucas.noise-and-ambition.blogspot.com/
The Power of ‘Like’.
Illustrator Pankaj Bhagat has teamed up with TBWA/India to create an ad campaign that addresses the presence of cyber and generally negative social behavior online. The ads specifically ask its audience to acknowledge that their Facebook “Likes” may have more power than they may realize. The ad urges us to use our “Likes” wisely. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks …
Designer Waffles.
Label whores unite! Artist Andrew Lewicki has ensured that you can now EAT, breathe and sleep Louis Vuitton; obvious emphasis on the eating part. Besides, what good are waffles if they don’t match your handbag? Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and culture with a loving, but brute, educational tinge. …
Reinventing the US Dollar.
In an effort to ‘rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy, New York designer Richard Smith has founded The Dollar ReDe$ign Project. We have seen most of the submissions to the project but the one that strikes us the most is the submission from Dowling Duncan. Simultaneously progressive and traditional, the redesign currency tells the history …
Stripes Are In. (NSFW)
Barcelona born illustrator Chamo San take an intimate perspective on stripe patterns. The works are both playful and sensual. San presents a duel between pattern and eroticism; almost daring you to choose between ogling the female form or becoming entranced by the stripes. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication that seeks to promote various aspects of life and …
The Visualization of a Bad Bitch.
Lupe Fiasco has finally dropped visually for his hard-hitting single “Bad Bitch”. Fiasco made a splash with the song about a month ago and caused plenty of fans to proudly exclaim ‘Lupe is back!’ The video is equally satirical as the song but we honestly did expect anything short of Bamboozled II. Quiet LunchQuiet Lunch is a grassroot online publication …
A Century of Immigration.
Although certain parties would like you to believe that rampant immigration is plaguing the United States, recent studies have found that immigration is around the same percentage as it was 100 years ago — in fact, it’s slightly lower. Read more → here ←. However, what has changed is the different types of immigrants that have been arriving to the country; and …