Blue heads are the first thing you notice when you watch No Rome and The 1975’s music video for “Narcissist”. The video starts out with futuristic tones and then explodes into bright color as No Rome (Rome Gomez) and Matty Healy of The 1975 appear–looking almost identical in their bright-blue, decked out hairstyles. Flashy cars, […]
It’s been a great couple of months for 19 year old Manila-based artist Denice Quimbo. A full-time film student and part-time musician, Quimbo (who goes by the name Ruru online) made waves in the Internet community after self-producing and self-releasing two successful projects, Sleep EP and Far Out. Her bedroom-pop aesthetic, saccharine yet confessional, has found quite the […]
What do you see when you look at a painting by Japanese artist Indo Hisashi? For most, the answer is nothing. Hisashi’s paintings are monochromatic, simplistic, and seemingly unskilled to most–belonging to the same class of controversial modern-art painters like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Robert Ryman. But although most people would write-off his paintings […]