TODAY WE LIKE: Benedikt Rugar

Let me openly and honestly say Benedikt Rugar is one hell of an artist. Based on what we gather, his artwork is a cartoonish nightmare that oddly fascinates while we question our sanity. We at Electronic Beats have seen our fair share of disturbing artwork and the office consensus is: Benedikt i...

TODAY WE LIKE: Little Big Berlin

TODAY WE LIKE: Little Big Berlin

If good things come in small packages, then what should we say about Little Big Berlin. Vimeo user Pilpop has pieced together a charming video that is dedicated to Germany’s cultural city, Berlin.   Playing to the backdrop of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in his ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2...

TODAY WE LIKE: Land of Giants

TODAY WE LIKE: Land of Giants

Today we like electricity pylons.   You heard it right, electricity pylons. But these are not the average, visually obtrusive, garish metal structures that we have all become accustomed to having our lives.   American architecture company Choi + Shine Architects have desig...

TODAY WE LIKE: Altered Zones

When Pitchfork announced the launch of Altered Zones, a site that aggregates new music the vaults of several leading blogs including Gorilla vs Bear and Transparent, much of the blogosphere responded with the suspicion that often comes with anything associated with the American indie behemoth....

TODAY WE LIKE: Ostblock sonics on Eastern Daze

TODAY WE LIKE: Ostblock sonics on Eastern Daze

Information about latest musical happenings has reached the point of saturation. Through a plethora of blogs, websites and the few surviving magazines we receive a constant flood of updates about bands that don’t even have a release yet.   This is all well and good, but what’s happening i...

TODAY WE LIKE: Two note soundtrack

TODAY WE LIKE: Two note soundtrack

Hans Zimmer may be a world famous film composer, scoring films such as True Romance, The Lion King, Gladiator and Titanic, but his latest work, the soundtrack to Inception, is closer to that of a dance producer, than that of a renowned composer. Sampling Edith Piaf's 'Non, je ne regrette rien' (...

TODAY WE LIKE: Salzburg’s Carhouse

TODAY WE LIKE: Salzburg’s Carhouse

Fanfare for new eco has hit somewhat of a craze. For all the right reasons hotels, transportation and utilities have all jumped on the bandwagon. Stadtbaumeister of Salzburg, Austria, are applying the same sustainable techniques across the country's sleepy mountain towns.   Their newest a...

TODAY WE LIKE: Gavin Nolte’s crossroads

TODAY WE LIKE: Gavin Nolte’s crossroads

Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. Everyone grapples with life’s decisions and there is never any shortage of advice.     Typically, Gavin Nolte prides himself with his photography but recently has launched his first video installation, Crossroads (what to do). The nine-...

TODAY WE LIKE: BLU’s ‘Big Bang Big Boom’

TODAY WE LIKE: BLU’s ‘Big Bang Big Boom’

Berliner’s are very familiar with Italian street artist BLU. His massive paintings adorn many buildings in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. How could you miss the two masked hoodlums on Schlesische Strasse or the human eating giant looming over Watergate? These images along with BLU’s other work hav...

TODAY WE LIKE: Bruce Weber and DEDON teaming up

TODAY WE LIKE: Bruce Weber and DEDON teaming up

Legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber has teamed up with esteemed furnishing brand DEDON. The pair has produced something beautiful in a time when the world’s premiere fashion labels have been cutting costs and corners during the economic downturn.   Weber’s photographic series for D...

TODAY WE LIKE: Ad Bands’s rock star video

TODAY WE LIKE: Ad Bands’ rock star video

It’s tough being a rock star... constant parties, endless girls, and a vice at every corner. Eventually you grow tired of it?   Toronto based fundraiser Adband has taken this concept one-step further with their recent commercial. In the commercial we see an ‘average joe’ waking up and trap...

TODAY WE LIKE: MTV’s World Cup commercials

TODAY WE LIKE: MTV’s World Cup commercials

When I saw these new MTV commercials, I scratched my head in disbelief. Each of the quirky anti-World Cup spots are hilarious as they are peculiar.   It makes you wonder just what exactly does MTV have to do with the World Cup? Jose Molla, founder and creative director of MTV’s internatio...

Today We Like: Mr. Brainwash

TODAY WE LIKE: Mr. Brainwash

Today’s Today We Like is quite a tricky one, as we are just not sure just how much we actually like it. Those of you who have seen the recent film from street art supremo Banksy - Exit Through The Gift Shop - will understand why.   The movie begins with a wonderfully eccentric French man...

TODAY WE LIKE: Amazing chandeliers by Hans van Bentem

TODAY WE LIKE: Amazing chandeliers by Hans van Bentem

Hans van Bentem creates some of the most impressive chandeliers we have ever seen. Admittedly, we haven’t seen all that many chandelier artists’ works, but here we have a prime example of one that is undoubtedly quite magnificent.   For those of you who have a spare 20 grand or so lying ar...

TODAY WE LIKE: Graffiti with substance

TODAY WE LIKE: Graffiti with substance

Is the Be Yourself Movement just a bunch of new hooded heroes or just a collective of urban thugs?   BYM is a group of Italian street artists who are fed up with current outdoor adverts and as a result are determined to tag questionable messages and images. Disappearing as soon as they ar...

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