It’s not easy to keep up with concepts, particularly if they are designed to evade. Having already hit Glasgow, Berlin, Hong Kong, Singapore and Warsaw Comme des Garcons new Guerrilla Store (+4812) opened in a disused factory in Cracow, Poland last Saturday March 24. Label founder Rei Kawakubo says that her ultimate goal is to “carry on having a free and independent company”, a statement which rings true as they continue to satiate our desires for fresh uses of urban spaces, challenging devotees to engage in an experience that goes beyond a mere retail exchange. There’s no window shopping to be done here. See more photos over at Hypebeast.

There has been a lot of discussion over at the Opulent site about Melbourne street fashion photos. The discussion mainly surrounds the site Third Best (who have received interest from Fairfax digital) and their lack of information and limited number of locations. The question of sustainability is also raised due to the many other sites out there, both locally and internationally, that seem to do a similar thing at times - us included. Obviously, people like looking at themselves, and street photography has potential to document street culture but there are only so many images you can take before you begin to need something more.

So god bless synchronicity because just as we were about to start crying, we were greeted with a link to a new site STREET PEEPER (via PSFK). What separates Street Peeper from the rest is that each image is tagged with information on what the subject is wearing, making the site searchable via style, designer and colour. Street Peeper makes beautiful people useful - now that’s progress.

A little while back we approached one of our favourite artists Erlend Oye from The Whitest Boy Alive/Kings of Convenience for an interview and unfortunately he declined, stating:

“i have stopped doing interviews.
apart from if herald tribune knocks on my door to dicuss the current state of world affairs.
but thanks for the interest.
and i dont think you need to interview me to do an article about me. “

He’s right, and it’s completely understandable, but we’ve been waiting to do a post on them for a while and with this ‘Golden Cage’ film clip by Geoff McFetridge we finally have an excuse. It came courtesy of the great blog Boico which you also must check out.

From San Diego, California, THE PRAYERS are ex-members of one of my all time favourtie bands (and one of the greatest live shows I’ve ever seen) The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower. So when I heard this I thought that it’d be some post-Contortions violence, but oh how I was wrong. Think of the cheekiness of The Plot, with a heavy influence of powerpop, brit pop, a touch of surf rock, and you’ve got a pretty good idea. Their EP, God Save The Prayers, is one of the best indie releases in a while and they currently touring with everyone’s fave juvenile powerpoppers Mint Chicks in the USA. Rumour has it both bands will be touring Australia together very soon. Somebody please make this happen.

These photos from last night’s screening of Jisoe took ages to scan so the least you could do is look at them. Please excuse the poor photoshop job as well. Thanks to Thomas Jeppe for playing paparazzi. Pics after the jump…

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