From 10-year-old Katherine Dewar’s winning design for the national emblem to Sir Paul Smith’s tribute crown for Harrod’s, creative displays of respect for Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne have reached a fever pitch both in the UK and abroad. Her Royal Highness truly embodies majesty, and several designers have successfully captured the spirit of the Diamond Jubilee with concepts that are quintessentially British—at once elegantly regal and playfully tongue-in-cheek.

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True pioneers of a sound that broke all the rules back in 1998, Stanton Warriors took garage and twisted it beyond all recognition, dropping speaker shattering bass lines and massive beats…all to devastating effect.

Stanton Warriors had arrived.

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A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better?

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Time to dust off those tie-dye shirts, as we take music back to reality. We promise your Doc Martens will be tappin at our weekly celebration of pop, indie, alternative and rock from the 80s and 90s.

We’re talking The Stone Roses, Smashing Pumpkins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cure and your other high school favourites.

Mullets, denim jackets, and shoulder pads are encouraged.

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Multi-disciplinary designer Karim Charlebois-Zariffa has worked extensively on projects for companies like AOL, The New York Times and Moment Factory, but a recent chance opportunity to try his hand at more traditional interior design tested him in new and refreshing ways.

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It’s very smooth for the category, with very little burn, and it’s almost overly flavorful. It starts with a burst of honey that sticks around till the end, and it picks up a touches of vanilla, cream, and orange along the way. The flavors aren’t supersubtle or well-integrated, but Rebel Yell doesn’t come across as forced or faked, and it’s the most highly recommended Bottom Shelf whiskey I’ve come across in months.

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Syndicate Subsession 01 featured GEMA, a lover of analog synthesizers, sub-bass and poly-rhythms. Gema’s beats and pieces are filled with warm synths over a nice dosage of low end frequencies and accompanied with smooth gliding keys. Other than his audio explorations, Gema experiments with visuals as well and he has created a series of visuals to accompany this special performance.

The inaugural installment on 24 March also featured acclaimed electronic act Muon, who launched their sophomore album The Shape of Shapes to Come on the same night. As the brainchild of Nick Chan, Muon has been evolving for close to a decade bridging the disparate gap between the worlds of explosive rock and dark electronica without falling prey to the trappings of either.

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That crazy Frenchman TILT is just a non-stop overflow of bubbly fun. He has jus had a productive year, with his Panic Room installation, a new show in L.A., and somehow managed to find time with all his globe-trotting to create a new body of work for the quarterly graffiti fanzine, PUREFILTH.

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Earlier this month, Know1edge in association with L.I.F.E. launched a photo exhibition within the Vans-sponsored SK8FIVE2 indoor skatepark in Hong Kong. Bringing together a strong roster of photographic skateboarders who have spanned the pages of Transworld Skateboarding, Thrasher, Skateboarder and Slap among others, the theme of the show was to detail the everyday simplicity of life through assigned camouflage disposable cameras. As a tribute, the show was dedicated to fallen comrades Tatsushi “Tabo” Kagaya and Akira “Takayan” Takata who had a strong impact on show curator Brian Siswojo of 8FIVE2.

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Calder Kusmierski Singer is a 22-year-old performance artist, singer and songwriter. Born and raised in TriBeCa, art, music and performance are his paintbrush, and the Big Apple his canvas.

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