If one wants music, style, art, culture, television and recommendations of blogs then The Fader is for you. The website is an advertisement of sub culture life and how cool it is to be cool. The site is sprawled with advertisements of the latest underground music and independent movies that people should give a listen to as well as playing tribute to alternative veterans (riot grrl queen, Kathleen Hanna was previously interviewed for her documentary). When you click onto the music section you are automatically presented with at least five artist per page and have a free listen to their singles. The style section consist of abstract jewelry, colorful graphic tees as well as tailored suits, basic striped t-shirts and influences from film and music that make people dress the way they do.
Art & Culture is broken down into four sections (interviews,news, video and fader television channel) from gallery spaces to hidden treasure photographs (a picture of a shirtless and chubby Fidel Castro playing ping pong).
In their blog section, Fader offers you other websites to check out and support. Dollars to Pounds is a website that covers music from literally from across the pond for hip Americans that like to say at parties, "Oh you haven't heard of them because they're from Europe and did I mention they're underground?" Around the World With A-Trak is ,also, another favorite of Fader with A-Trak (producer and Kanye West touring Disc Jockey) reviewing hotels and his global excursions.
Fader isn't the website if you want to know what your latest pop tarts are up to but if you want 'good' music by the definition of hip this isn't the website for you either. Fader is simply a website from the alternative of main stream and it gives you a large variety of what one might be into if they like both worlds.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
The Aqua
Chicago is known for its' beautiful skyline. The Sears Tower, the John Hancock, the Aon Center and now the "Aqua". Aqua meaning water in spanish is meant to purify and can be used as a representation of birth, new beginnings. One can guess this might have been on the mind of architecter, Jeanne Gang, in 2006.
Four years later the Aqua joined the skyline as the 40th tallest building in the world and is the first skyscraper in Chicago that will contain apartments, retail space and a hotel. The Aqua is the best name to suit the 86-story, 858-foot building because when one looks up from below it favors an exotic waterfall that many mid-westerns have probably never seen before. The balcony curves around the building that gives the illusion of water falling. The design is unique and stands out like a sore thumb from the rest of the buildings in the sky line. The Aqua recieved the Skyscraper of the Year by Emporis, an international building database.
Four years later the Aqua joined the skyline as the 40th tallest building in the world and is the first skyscraper in Chicago that will contain apartments, retail space and a hotel. The Aqua is the best name to suit the 86-story, 858-foot building because when one looks up from below it favors an exotic waterfall that many mid-westerns have probably never seen before. The balcony curves around the building that gives the illusion of water falling. The design is unique and stands out like a sore thumb from the rest of the buildings in the sky line. The Aqua recieved the Skyscraper of the Year by Emporis, an international building database.
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