Great music post to start this week from Synth Eastwood's favourite Galway resident, Cian Ó Cíobháin. As well as outputting great work with Shock World Service and 110th Street, Cian has been presenting one of Ireland's most respected music shows, An Taobh Tuathail (The Other Side), on Raidió na Gaeltachta since 1999 (Monday—Friday from 9pm for anyone not familiar). For folks that can't tune in An Taobh Tuathail has been... [Read more]

Myoung Ho Lee is a Korean photographer in this series called Tree he hoists a simple white backdrop behind a range of trees. In doing so lifting the trees from of their normal landscape allowing us to view them as subjects on their own. Viewing nature like this without any distraction really shows us how ornate, complicated and vastly diverse everything around us is. Allowing us to truly see the wood from the trees, or the other way round. Great photos.... [Read more]

Everyone's favourite Swedish/Irish image-making studio M&E are back with a new video for Denmark's Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band. Following the lead of the bands album title "Stuff That Rotates", Matthew Bolger and Emelie Lidström built a custom-made rotating dolly for the camera and set everything to spin. The results are the usual standard of lovely that we have come to expect from the pair, if your unfamilar with their work treat your eyes to the previous gold here. Enjoy.... [Read more]

Here's a new book from Dublin based photographer Rich Gilligan. DIY is a series of images surrounding the culture of skate-boarding focusing heavily on spaces built for skaters largely by skaters. Beautiful shots as usual. The book was published by French group 1980 Editions and it's available to buy here.... [Read more]

The SCOOP Foundation ( Saving Children Out Of Property) is a charity from Dublin set up by long time friend of Synth Eastwood Andy Sweeney and a group of hard working volunteers. Together they have raised large volumes of money to help homeless children in India & Cambodia with a series of creative events. One of these events is the SCOOP Art auctions, of which alone have raised 60,000+ euros for their many causes. The next in the series comes up on October 14th and the call for submissions is still open. If you think... [Read more]

Who doesnt love a good timelapse video? Well this here is a great one. An after-dark ode to Los Angeles shot by local-man Colin Rich and produced by Pacific Star Productions. If I wasn't already jealous enough of California for their sun, sea and sand now I'm green-eyed for their Nightfall too. ... [Read more]

Aside from this Minimix No. 24, Berlin based Greystone native The Drifter (AKA Mark Flynn) brings his musical stylings to this years Electric Picnic twice. Mark plays the Barcardi tent and following on from the success of his back-to-back set with Lil'Dave at Body & Soul festival the pair perform again in EP's Body and Soul Section this weekend. Not to be missed. This collection of music here in The Drifter own words is a "warm summery mix" obvious a cruel joke on... [Read more]

I just can't get enough of William Hundley, the Texas based artist displays such effortless simplicity with his ideas and their delivery, it's quite dazzling. The Entopic Phenomenon series so addictive I could only limit my featured edit to 18 examples. His website is jam packed with sharp visual trickery in the form of photos, installations and sculpture. Take the rest of the day off and have a mosey around his brain/website. ... [Read more]

Our friends at Curate & Design as part of Design Week 2012 are planning to host an exhibition of work from graphic legend Paul Rand. For those that know him he will need little introduction and for those that don't this exhbition's main aim is to change that. Rand's work is iconic and ever-present so he already has done plenty for us, if you would like to show your appreciation and further cement his place in design history support this exhibtion via Fund-it. In our... [Read more]

Jacob Whibley is an artist who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. His output is beautifully simple in construction but subtle and skilled in composition. He is stylistically confident showing strong influences of Bauhaus especially Kandinsky. He works in 2D & 3D mixed-media with found materials largely making up the nuts and bolts of his abstract creations. Very nice altogether.... [Read more]