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CHET FAKER // TALK IS CHEAP

If you haven't seen this video yet, now is the time.

Aussie musician Chet Faker (real name: Nick) has some pretty cool stuff going on these days. In fact, while in Sydney this past week, I had the unexpected pleasure of catching up with the fully bearded and awfully charming musician and guess what? He's moving state-side! After playing two super awesome shows at SXSW, Chet will be taking up residence in Brooklyn, NY before he sets off on his world tour. If you can't pack your bags and chase him down in Brooklyn in the next month, you'll just have to listen to his new album Built on Glass when it debuts in April. Chet Faker also has US tour dates set starting in May. Lucky us.

Stay connected with Chet Faker and all of his travels at chetfaker.com

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YOKO ONO // CUT PIECE

In honor of Yoko Ono's 81st birthday, we wanted to take you back to one of her first, and certainly most influential conceptual art pieces, Cut Piece. Ono executed the performance by walking on stage and casually kneeling on the floor in a draped dress, and audience members were requested to come on stage and begin cutting until she was naked. First performed in 1964 at the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo and then later at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Yoko's seminal performance was a statement about both trust and feminism. Reflecting on the innocence she saw in her own face during her Carnegie Hall performance, Yoko says she was "expressing how women are treated and how we can survive it by letting people do what they want instead of just insisting on what we want to do." Though Yoko's statement can be misinterpreted as rather anti-feminist, but it is her overall focus on the peace and trust that should exist between humans that truly shines through.

YOKO ONO CUT PIECE by TECHNOLOGOS

Thank you Yoko Ono-- for making us think and allowing us to be.

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THANKS FOR TRYING // MICHEL

NAME: Michel

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?: A French guy with a really cool store in Beijing called Si Tou Ai Ran Se.

WEBSITE: http://www.weibo.com/starschina

LOCATION: Beijing, China

ARE YOU LEGAL: Here, there and everywhere.

WHAT YOU GOT: JOYRICH pants, Nike sneakers, Ray Ban glasses

THANKS FOR TRYING AGENT: Sam

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Q+A from 2011 with Chelsea Wolfe in Work magazine including similarities with "Numb as the Winter".

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ARTIST CRUSH // JENNIFER SINDON

Jennifer Sindon is a multi-media artist and filmaker whose videos present a weirdly meditative look at the human process and evolution. Sindon uses and distorts film through a series of other-wordly, often grotesque, images and movements. Her work has the ability to evoke both an interest and discomfort about what breathes on the inside of the human soul.

Check out more from Jennifer Sindon on her website.

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Yayoi Kusama // I Who Have Arrived in Heaven

A true dose of ethereal infinity, Yayoi Kusama’s I Who Have Arrived In Heaven is not to be missed. The 84-year old Japanese artist brings a dreamy combination of paintings, video, and mirrored “infinity rooms” to create her multipart exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City. Now a social media phenomenon, Kusama’s infinity room  “The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away” has drawn line forming crowds from around the world waiting for their 45 seconds inside the mirror lined room hung with 75 colored LED bulbs that flicker and pulse. The experience is something unbelievably spiritual; a narrative of life, death, and existence all at once.

Even if you don’t have time to wait in line for “The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,”  the other parts of the exhibition are well worth the trip. Kusama’s well-known infinity room “Love is Calling” is a mirror lined room filled with giant inflatable, polka dotted tentacles that slowly change color. “Love is Calling” leaves you standing in front of “Manhattan Suicide Addict,” a wall-size video of the artist reciting a poem she wrote in the 1960s after a suicide attempt in New York. There is also an installation of 27 painting's lives in the center gallery.

Time is of the essence to see this amazing exhibition. Yayoi Kusama’s I Who Have Arrived In Heaven only runs until December 21st. It’s time to get in line.

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Movember // Iconic Mustaches

With the end of November (err....Movember....) quickly approaching we wanted to take a look at some of history's most iconic mustaches.

While grooming your stache, don't forget what Movember is all about. Check out the Movember website for more information and how to get involved.