For music producers, inspiration can hit you at anytime. Sometimes when you are in transit, a melody starts playing in your head and you don’t want to forget that beat. What if there was a way to make a proper sample without all the studio equipment while you’re mobile? Look no further. ↓ The MusixCube™ ↓ Student designer Hauke Scholz created this awesome …
Fall Threads: A Series of Items for Any Guy’s Wardrobe.
With Fall in full swing, some of us are late ridding our closets of dated beach-bum attire. Now that those cargo shorts are no longer wearable, you’re probably eyeing every dude’s outfit in order to get some idea of what you should be wearing this season. Well, eyeball no longer because we got you covered. In our brief Fall Threads …
The First Act with Hunter & Wolfe.
I would like to welcome you, dear reader, to the first installment of the newest column at Quiet Lunch Magazine: The First Act! This column, penned by yours truly, is a comprehensive music feature exclusively for small, local music acts… local to anywhere. Lesser known bands rarely get the press they need to expand their fan base and reach people …
Baby On Acid.
Magdalena Kapinos makes art so pretty it causes earthquakes. The name of her Tumblr, “Acid Baby”, is beautifully apt both because her paintings are trippy as hell, and because their vividness burns right through you. There’s a charming back-and-forth dialogue between her earliest work as an aspiring manga illustrator and her current incarnation as someone comfortable delving into the world …
A Poetic Encounter in Union Square Park.
One Saturday in July, when temperatures exceeded 90 degrees and my forehead permanently layered with sweat, I conquered the New Jersey Transit system to arrive in Manhattan. Ascending from the pervasive heat of the subway station I realized I had gone from one oven to another. But the heat became secondary at the first sight of the farmers market at …
Quiet Lunch Magazine ‡ October 15th, 2012. – October 28th, 2012.
We’ve been a going a mile a minute here at Quiet Lunch and we finally decided to stop and smell the roses. So, instead of a weekly issue, we are now switching to a bi-weekly schedule. It won’t be any less engaging than our usual timetable, just a bit more thoughtful. This issue sees the debut of “The First Act:…”, …
The Makers of Vintage.
The Japanese label, Phigvel Makers & Co., recently introduced their Fall/Winter 2013 lookbook. Hopping in the proverbial DeLorean, the label took a trip back to olden times; incorporating various traits of classic American workwear. We must say, the whole lookbook is eerily authentic. Beside a few telltale signs of modern existence, most of these photos look as if they were …