I'm not usually the one you'd turn to for recommendations on new music (as I'm quite happily living in the past as far as that goes) but it doesn't get much more shredding than Norway's own Gerilja and their mind-blowing new video. Keep an ear out for their upcoming album, 'Step Up Your Game.' X - Jen
These wonderful snippets of small pleasures by Oslo based artist and publisher, Jessica Williams are like a big hug. Her most recent videos are about and her trip to China with Oslo based Espen Friberg, and living in New York. - Jennilee
Our Art Department asked some of their favorite designers to show us their take on Urban Outfitters by creating a limited edition shirt for us. Meet the men and women behind the collaboration! Tell us a little bit about you, including where you are from.
I am a huge chesterfield fan when it comes to furniture and I can't get over how cute these little Bux de Luxe seats are from Dutch Summer. Litter them throughout your house or confuse your friends by putting them outside in the garden! X - Jen
For her graduation project, Lisanne Janssen hopped on a plane to Oslo and spent a month couch-surfing the country, all the while making small etchings of the places she felt most at home on her trip. Now safely back in her real home, she's offering her etchings in a series of lockets, complete with a "home is where your heart is" note in her grandmother's handwriting and two prints of vintage pictures she found during her travels. Check out the lookbook picture from our About a Girl, Valentina Vos!
When was the last time you were wishing you had a Varg, Euronymous or Dead shirt? Well now's your chance! For anyone who hasn't read Lords of Chaos yet, you're sorely missing out! I'd suggest heading out and picking yourself up a copy ASAP. X - Jen
In addition to her eponymous avant collection, designer Veronica B. Vallenes also does dance costuming for performances like Loop Loop Loop's Murder in Dreamland.
Lydia's dye-job in the latest issue of Vixen mag is reigniting our obsession with rainbow, ombre hair.
Pickles is a blog run by two of our crafty sisters up north in Scandinavia. Peruse the sewing projects and crochet patterns before whipping up a batch of treats to bring to knitting club. Sweet domesticity!
-Molly
Placing everyday, indoor objects outside, artist Rune Guneriussen manages to turn an ordinary table lamp into a thing of indescribable beauty.
Loving Lars Botten's outdoor shoots. Actually, his indoor shoots are just as beautiful but when you throw a couple masks and some half-naked devious looking characters in the mix, then you're pretty much winning over everyone no matter where you shoot it. X - Jen
The lookbook for Obscur AW '09 is inspired by super natural creatures. Creatures that have fangs, wear black, and look beautifully tormented just wandering around in the woods. Twilight, anyone?
Days of Thunder is a mountain bike competition now in its second year, and it features some of the most bad-ass riders from Europe and around the world. What goes up must come down...sometimes painfully.
