Kanye West 1996
Everyone has an opinion on Yeezy aka. Mr Kanye West, one of the most polarizing figures in hip-hop. Love him or hate him, no one can deny his influence on modern music. But…
The Thing x Pingu – Lee Hardcastle
Remember the classic film ‘The Thing’ by John Carpenter? Remember beloved childrens TV character Pingu? Wouldn’t it be spiffing if someone combined the two? That was budget DIY claymation enthusiast Lee Hardcastle’s idea…
Marshall: On The Road
Marshall’s On The Road series has just launched season 2. The series follows Tim Harrington of Le Savy Fav as he travels through America meeting the unsung heroes of Rock n’ Roll. The…
Made By Hand
Made By Hand is a project from Keith “keef” Ehrlich – a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City and winner of Dusty awards. It celebrates the people who…
Hideout Festival 2012
Billed as the event which will establish Croatia as the new Ibiza and prime European, summer party location, Hideout Festival has just announced the beginnings of its line-up for 2012 complete with new…
Pharrell vs Tokyo vs Palladium Boots
A little while ago we posted the trailer for the Palladium Boots/Vice produced mini doc on Pharrell exploring Tokyo – Tokyo Rising. It is now up in its entirety to watch online. Split…
Keira Rathbone
Keira Rathbone has risen to fame over the last few years as that cooky girl who draws using vintage typewriters, but there is more to her art than a gimmick. Using the typewriter…
ASOS Urban Tour: Jack Greer
ASOS (the website popular with both well dressed astute early to mid 20 somethings and misguided fashionista’s who think the more cumbersome an outfit is, the better) has just launched an excellent little…
Shadow Sword Fighting
This is hands down incredible, both animator and actor have outdone themselves on so many levels.
Transfer – Take Your Medicine
2D Artistry and 3D animation combine to create the award winning new video from Transfer; Take Your Medicine. The single is taken from their forthcoming album Future Selves – an album packed with…
Competition: Vice Dos & Don’ts
Adding to their extensive library of publications, Vice have just released a new anthology of their ever popular, often ripped off, Dos & Don’ts series. Containing 400 new jokes and street style photos,…
Portal: No Escape
Seems like a rash of decent fan films have popped up recently, we got the second part to the excellent Purchase Brothers production – Escape From City 17, and now another VALVE creation…
Palladium x Pharrell = Tokyo Rising
Tokyo faces a new reality after the tragedy of 3/11. While persistent challenges still lay ahead, the city’s creative class is hell-bent on making sure that their hometown thrives. Innovative and resilient, they…
Ryan Doyle Runs Mardin
Red Bull produce a lot of extreme sports content, in their latest distraction from producing the world most popular energy drink they follow one of the world’s most creative and innovative free runners…
Audio Doughnuts, Corsica Studios
One of London’s premier bass music nights has come to its fourth and penultimate event, this time at the fabulous Corsica Studios in South London. Including cutting edge artists from the US and…
VBS: Tattoo Age: Grime
VBS has uploaded another edition to their Tattoo Age series, this time around its a 3 part look at the unique and much celebrated work of San Francisco based artist Grime. In the…
Resident Advisor: Real Scenes – Detroit
Real scenes is a series of films brought to you by Resident Advisor & Bench in which they explore the music & culture surrounding electronic music’s origins and the scenes from which the…
An interview with Dom Flannigan
Dominic Flannigan is the (co-founder and art director of LuckyMe and 1/2 ofThe Blessings), we caught up with him recently to discuss the label, its future and how he became involved in the Becks Green Box…
Black Ghosts Album Artwork
Black Ghosts (Theo ‘Fake Blood’ Keating & Simon ‘Lord Skywave’ Lord) recently announced their brand new album ‘When Animals Stare’ is to be out on Southern Fried Records, August 1st 2011. Simon had…
Leisureonly.com
When starting Faux, I took alot of influence from Readplatform.com a London based start up that was just finding it’s feet in the world of publishing as an online culture magazine. It had…
James Vincent McMorrow
Think you’re bored of bearded folk now? Meet James Vincent McMorrow, Dublin’s should-be success story. His second single, ‘Sparrow & The Wolf’, due out on June 19th and taken from his already released…
EndOfTheLine: Tron + Graffiti
EndOfTheLine describe themselves as “…true artists of the urban revolution, visionaries, masterless aerosol samurai, executing large scale graffiti productions and curating international underground art events” – in other words, their flippin good with…
Competition // Booka Shade – Scaramanga
The release of the fourth studio album from revered production duo Booka Shade last year was greeted with widespread praise from fans and critics alike, reaching the top 20 in the iTunes chart….
Culture // Red Bull Studios #1st Birthday
Red Bull studios in London are celebrating their first birthday in style! To kick it all off they will have asked for a gift from their closest family and friends who have used…
Culture // Spy Magazine
You know that snarky tone thats synonymous with blog culture? That passive aggressive, jealously dismissive anger and committed informed bark, that bloggers often talk in? Its not as new as you think. One…
Culture // The History Of Hip-Hop – Beatboxed
French Beatbox artist Eklips recently recorded this amazing 4 minutes of footage for Trace Urban in France. He uses his human beatbox skills to walk us through the history of hip hop, what’s…
Film & TV // The Best TV Of 2010
The out with the old and in with the sort-of-new methodology of television seemed to intensify in 2010, as some of America’s most celebrated series rolled their credits for the last time, and…
Interview // BOBCOM – Michael Feeney Callan
BOBCOM is a brand new musical social network, What? Like M-FLOW? No, more like an evolution of the only feature anyone still uses on Myspace, band/artist profiles with music hosting, crossed with a…
Music // 35 Best Albums Of 2010
Here at Faux, we decided the best way to look back at this year was to let our writers nominate albums and make their case for its inclusion Instead of a standard chart…
Calm Down Dearest // Enough Is Enough
Coronation Street has reached a milestone this week as it celebrates it’s 50th birthday. Now ordinarily, I’d expect a couple of party hats, a nice cake and perhaps a cheeky game of pass…
