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ANCHORS AWAY “Baby Come Home” is like a really great playgirl video, that brings their personal blend of quirky colorful pop to a much broader audience. Coming straight out of the spotlight with the previous video “Only The Horses” from their newly released album “Magic hour”, they reenter with an eclectic theme that sees them dressed as sailors, vikings and nuns.
MODERN DAY GEISHA, KYOTO JAPAN “The Geisha system was founded, actually, to promote the independence and economic self-sufficiency of women. And that was its stated purpose, and it actually accomplished that quite admirably in Japanese society, where there were very few routes for women to achieve that sort of independence.”— Mineko Iwasaki(The most successful Geisha of all times, who was the inspiration for “Memoirs of a Geisha” )
SEEN ON THE STREETS: NATHANIEL Name: NathanielOccupation: StudentSeen: WilliamsburgWILD Wish: To be the first person to eat an ice cream cone on the moon.
ELLE DECOR: THE MODERN LIFE CONCEPT HOUSE On Tuesday May 21 I attended the industry opening of The Modern Life Concept House, presented by Elle Décor Magazine. The Concept House is located in a modest townhouse, The Dillon at 425 West 53rd Street.
WILD PROFILE: I, A MAN, FROM ‘PUNTERS’ TO MAIN STAGE Who: I, a ManWhat they do: Make musicWhere: Melbourne, Australia What they think there is too much of, and too little of:At the moment I think there’s far too much reality television and far too little reality in the world. Their WILD wish:To come to the U.S and play our music for you guys.
TIPPING POINT One hundred and eight Syrians near the town of Houla have been murdered amidst a bloody crackdown on dissidents. 
REI KAWAKUBO HONORED WITH INTERNATIONAL CFDA AWARD Rei has been creating avant-garde, boundary pushing clothes for years–shapes that re-examine the silhouettes we know and (safely) gravitate towards until they are something entirely new.
NERVESCAPE Last week the Clocktower Gallery opened a new show including one of The WILD’s favorite artists, Hrafnhildur Arnardottir aka Shoplifter, with special performance and soundscape by another darling Icelandic Kria Brekkan.
GHOST TREES, PAKISTAN Pakistan’s flooding in 2010 caused millions of spiders to climb up the trees to escape the rising flood waters. As the water took so long to recede, many trees eventually became cocooned in spiderwebs. This is a phenomenom never seen by the people in the area, who also said that the amount of mosquitoes and mosquito bites had been remarkably less. A small blessing for people that lost everything in the floods.
NORTHERN ODDITIES AT IVANA HELSINKI CONCEPT STORE The Northern Oddities showcase at Ivana Helsinki Concept Store in Nolita is celebrating eight Finnish design brands in a bold and beautiful pop-up installation of fresh design eccentricity and stylish innovation. Colorful graphics and electric hues create a dynamic setting for chic home accessories, mod lamps, sleek toys, and unique paper products – all of which compliment the free spirit of Ivana Helsinki’s experimental print fashions and traditional threads.
SEEN ON THE STREET: NADIA Name: NadiaOccupation: Blogger/ PhotographerSeen: WilliamsburgWILD Wish: To experience my dreams in reality.
LOVE AND REBELLION IN FLANDERS The Belgian fashion duo An Vandevorst and Filip Arickx has recently designed the costumes for the current Flanders Opera production of Le Duc d’Albe. The opera takes place at the beginning of the Flemish rebellion against Spanish ruling and the Duke of Alba is sent to Flanders to repress this uprising.
MUSIC TO START THE WEEK WITH #036 It’s Memorial Day everybody! While we take this time to honor the men and women who served, it is also comforting to know that we can have our break from the horrid weekly routine. For those who traveled away from the big city, those who stayed and enjoyed the great weather, and those who don’t really celebrate Memorial Day for numerous reasons, here goes the best part of every week in our blog. You know the drill: ten songs featuring the newest, timeless and most diverse sounds out there. Don’t bore us, get to the chorus and make this your personal playlist for Monday till Sunday.
TAKE BACK THE MEDALS “Instead of liberating the (Iraqi) people, I was liberating their oil fields.” “No amount of medals ribbons or flags can cover the amount of human suffering caused by these wars. We don’t want this garbage, we want our right to heal, we want our human rights.” “Our enemies are not 7,000 miles from home, they sit in boardrooms, they are CEOs, they are bankers, they are hedge fund managers… they are not the men and women that are standing on this police line, they are millionaires and billionaires that control this planet and they can have their medals back.”
FITTA, HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE When you hear the word Quakers you might think of a religious society, or even oat-based breakfast cereals, but now there’s a new bunch of cats claiming the name. This 35-member collective’s moniker is actually a reference to “earthquakes” and they are certainly shaking things up when it comes to their unique brand of hip-hop.