make sure to stay on the tip of podcast trendz

here's a sneak peek of a hot new science podcast from NPR, invisibilia. premieres january 9th.

trend alert : normcore

this is important.

Jeremy Lewis, the founder/editor of Garmento and a freelance stylist and fashion writer, calls normcore “one facet of a growing anti-fashion sentiment.” His personal style is (in the words of Andre Walker, a designer Lewis featured in the magazine’s last issue) “exhaustingly plain”—this winter, that’s meant a North Face fleece, khakis, and New Balances. Lewis says his “look of nothing” is about absolving oneself from fashion, “lest it mark you as a mindless sheep.” (via)

trend alert!

the hot new iphone game of the moment is QuizUp!

download it and link it to your fb and challenege me!

wililamsburg is the new wililamsburg

TREND ALERT!

i'm writing this trend piece about the trend i've caught onto of various new york-based blogs writing angry backlash pieces about trend pieces written about williamsburg. CONSIDER THIS TREND PIECE BACKLASH TREND COVERED.

you heard it here first. williamsburg is the new williamsburg. now and forever.

2Pz favorite thing alert!

today, joel, thomas wilhelm, and i are all obsessively listening to a funny podcast called throwing shade.

don't not get on board.

did you guys know that brooklyn is a cool place?

The nyt says that "Brooklyn's star is rising." Apparently they are beginning to set tv shows there.

 Finally!

 #amiright?

Ke$ha is having a moment

 she has been way off the radar for months, and then in the past three or four days I have read at least three positive internet stories about her (actually only two). TREND ALERT! ke$ha is hot again.

welcome to the planking party, nyt

"PLANKING has become the annoying trend that just won’t go away."

do i have to get a new haircut now :(

the nytimes is reporting on a new trendy hairstyle... mine.

you know what that means, i am now offically behind the times.


DRAT
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...is the new...

planking owling batmanning tebowing

trend alert

ever since that australian guy died, planking is so over... but don't tell your pets!


via

keekerz speakerz

i'm really enjoying this r&b throwback trend that's happening right now.

trend alert!

you know how each year there is one word that shows up in too many hot-new-band names? like it used to be bear (grizzly bear, panda bear, bear in heaven, minus the bear, etc.), then it was wolf (wolf parade, wolfmother, sea wolf, etc.), and even deer (deerhunter, deer tick, deerhoof, etc.)? you may notice that these are all animal names, also.

well, i believe i've identified this season's hottest buzz-band-buzz-word. and it's not an animal, but it might as well be. introducing.....CLOUDS!

the following are all up and coming bands. i've included popular songs of theirs. pick your favorite and hate the others!


cloud cult - when water comes to life


cloud nothings - hey cool kid


the cloud room - hey now now

clouds become your hands - ??
(they have literally no internet presence....yet.)

and now you know everything!

officially uncool : fireplaces.

“A wood-burning fire in the city is a ridiculous luxury — we would never have put it in ourselves,” said Mr. Arpels, grandson of one of the founders of Van Cleef & Arpels and the former managing partner of Netto Collection, a baby furniture company bought by Maclaren. “In the city, it doesn’t make sense to burn fires, because it’s inefficient and it’s polluting.”

Hard as it may be to believe, the fireplace — long considered a trophy, particularly in a city like New York — is acquiring a social stigma. Among those who aspire to be environmentally responsible, it is joining the ranks of bottled water and big houses. (via)

good thing i just ditched mine! thx g!

just give them growlers.

have y'all seen the ridiculous duane reade that opened on bedford avenue in williamsburg? i won't lie, it was pretty amazing to see such a huge and luxurious drugstore, especially in that neighborhood, but one couldn't help but be insulted by the growler bar that you encounter right when you walk in. anyway:

When Duane Reade opened a new store a few months ago in Brooklyn, it faced opposition from residents loyal to a local pharmacy. So it decided to include something in the store that the neighborhood did not have: a bar that specializes in beer.

The Williamsburg beer bar is part of a larger effort by Duane Reade to recognize — and capitalize — on the fierce identity and local needs of many New York City neighborhoods. (via)

however, the giant walk-in beer fridge was quite appealing.

pantone : honeysuckle 18-2120

the color of 2011 is honeysuckle! wahoo!

i got a little embearassed this morning...

...when i read this passage:

In culture, the Hipster Primitive moment recovered the sound and symbols of pastoral innocence with an irony so fused into the artworks it was no longer visible. Music led the artistry of this phase, and the period’s flagship publication, the record-review website and tastemaker Pitchfork, picked up as Vice declined. Here are the names of some significant bands, post-2004: Grizzly Bear, Neon Indian, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Department of Eagles, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, and, most centrally, Animal Collective. (On the electronic-primitive side, LCD Soundsystem.) Listeners heard animal sounds and lovely Beach Boys–style harmonies; lyrics and videos pointed to rural redoubts, on wild beaches and in forests; life transpired in some more loving, spacious, and manageable future, possibly of a Day-Glo or hallucinatory brightness. It was not unheard of to find band members wearing masks or plush animal suits.

...of this article, while listening to this:


hooray for earth - rolling/nectarine
beach boy harmonies: check. animal sounds: check.

also, i really liked this part:

Of course, there are artists of hipster-related sensibility who remain artists. In the neighborhoods, though, there was a feeling throughout the last decade that the traditional arts were of little interest to hipsters because their consumer culture substituted a range of narcissistic handicrafts similar enough to sterilize the originals. One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.

trendspotting : throat-slashing!

you might recall joel's little internet rule of three, wherein he sees something on the internet three times, and assigns some kind of arbitrary and excessive significance to it. well, he's not the only one with an eye out for today's hottest trends. i'm here to tell you about a little observation i've made, involving the latest fashion in rage: throat-slashing.

allow me to illustrate:

first, this white guy slashed his cab driver's throat just because he said he was a muslim! theeeeeenn, this guy slashed his college's dean's throat, just because he was possessed by satan! and last night, a diplomat was found on the floor of his apartment in the bronx, dead from a throat-slashing, just for being a nicaraguan!

point is, if you have any hope of earning the approval of your peers this fall, head on out and pick up the season's must-have accessories: a sharp knife and a short fuse.

broken bells interactive video

internet music videos (interactive, 3d, or both) seem to be a new trend. this one is totes fun.

hoez stoutin' hoez

well, it happened. not that i ever saw this coming. the answer to icing. ladies making each other down stout-ass beers. my my, how the tables have turned. i do NOT want to get stouted by a ho.

thx table-turner-tuttle!