Protected: Fellows and Friends – The Holiday Album
Traveling with a Video Crew
Our own Editor and Art Director Lope went to Chile last year. And a camera crew appears to have joined his group. If you’ve ever wondered... Read More »
In Doug Freeman We Trust
Doug Freeman is a multi-talented Austin hero. The former Austin Chronicle writer, and current occasional columnist,... Read More »
Rad Tunes for you, from Desiree Mata
Photo Credit: Max Marshall
Friendly Sounds Series: Ron Berry
July in Texas is… hot. The temperature climbed up quickly in May and has been inching... Read More »
Zarouhie Abdalian doesn’t have a favorite word.
Set for the Outside
Zarouhie was in town on an artistic... Read More »
Behind the Cover: An Interview with Monocle Magazine’s Tyler Brûlé
Early last year, as we strolled the streets of London, we decided to take... Read More »
Ultra Secret Sneak Peek: The Gopher – Volume 2
Hello! As some of you might know already, some months ago the... Read More »
Big and Bold and Bad-ass
Our visit to the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection this week (a... Read More »
A sweet musical landing in Dënver, Chile.
Chilean wonder-duo Dënver (as they say, “the band, not the dinosaur”, whatever that means)... Read More »
Elle Lefant is pachyderm-style indie pop
Continuing with the habit of interviewing bands that find their name inspiration in the Animal Kingdom, this... Read More »
Storming back in: Guy Yanai shows his (new) goods
So, you know when you have this friend, this awesome friend whose life you’re so... Read More »
Crochet as [badass] Medium.
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Crochet art comes in more forms than just your grandmothers artfully studied bunny-patterned sweaters. As amazing... Read More »
Neon Gold Records kind of hearts Destiny’s Child
Interviewing labels like Neon Gold – inspired, ambitious and genuine lovers of music – is... Read More »
Tunes straight from the mouse’s house
Bronzerat Records is a UK-based independent netlabel. With the amazing and creative talent a metallic musical rodent... Read More »
Electric Graffiti: Art and Light take over power station
After bracing myself against wind and sand, I see the massive, hulking shell of a building. Its white... Read More »
Merrill Garbus: playing Tune Yards with musical rompers
Merrill Garbus is a lovely example of the power of one + friends. She decided... Read More »
The SZ gives us music in B+W
In the audiovisual era of today, it is definitely not new to experience music both through eyes and... Read More »
Making Rob Gordon proud in the blog era.
Proyecto Playlist is the brainchild of Ma. Elizabeth (Marie) Hernández and the... Read More »
Zoom in. Focus. Click.
It was a rainy summer afternoon when I discovered her in the attic above my mother’s... Read More »
Tasty, tasty Trastienda
We continue our series on netlabels with one we’ve followed for a while.... Read More »
Romeo Alaeff shows us his tapeworm
Brooklyn-born global dweller Romeo Alaeff is an artist. Any sort of... Read More »
Nick van Woert drips into our cave imagination
I always suspected that bats and rats and strange cave-dwelling animals have their very own theme... Read More »
The first 14 minutes and 23 seconds of the Gopher Illustrated !
Dear friends,
As many of you know by now, this Friday at 8:35am the first print edition... Read More »
Franke James is Drawing a Greener Conscience
Posting about climate change and a green conscience may strike some as preachy, and we at the... Read More »
The wonderful world of Denis Carrier
Denis Carrier is the mind and hands behind Studiofolk, source of a bevy of... Read More »
Pick a Piper makes us wonder about drums
Having made the (admittedly very basic) Internet rounds it’s clear that Pick a Piper... Read More »
Carol Salmanson’s light and refraction
Some of the Gopher staffers grew up surrounded by Op and Kinetic art: stripes of fluorescent... Read More »
Julia Haltigan’s cure for boredom
Uncomfortable topics and Julio Ramirez’s many hats.
Writer and filmmaker Julio Ramirez is not just a friend but also... Read More »
Aquiles Hadjis a visual hunka-love
Just like that. Aquiles-Hadjis-is-the-shit. This is an unashamed, blatant post of love and imagery about... Read More »
The Handmade tale of Lido Pimienta
Lido Pimienta is a mother, an artist, a singer-songwriter,... Read More »
Freddie Stevenson needs our supreme indifference
Freddie Stevenson, the English-born singer-songwriter is a self-taught musical genius. Freddie gives his listeners the kind of... Read More »
Sneak Peek: Lay Flat 02
_Our dear friends at Lay Flat, an incredible magazine about photography, are releasing their second edition titled Meta. The concept? We’ll just give it... Read More »
Kickstarter is feeling the love (or doesn’t hang up!)
Full disclosure here: We love Kickstarter. Through their website we’ve been fundraising to print the... Read More »
Candy Claws are Coming to Town
When the Candy Claws told us they wanted to visit The Gopher on their
Hi Ho Silver Oh: On State Lines and the Internets
Communion – Put It All in One Place and Burn It
Audio... Read More »
Wondering about Pulp and Ré
Simple fact: every time that we Gophers are not capable of finding something... Read More »
Philippe Intraligi / Bauhaus, TV and Hot Soup
Philippe Intraligi is a German-born, Brazil-interning, New York-dwelling, Graphic Designer whose impressive client includes Telecom... Read More »
Swiss Design beyond Müller-Brockmann: Billy Ben
Born in Fribourg and designer from the cradle, Bénédict M. Rohrer is... Read More »
Snuggle Up with Candice Tarnowski
After taking a tour through Candice Tarnowski’s works on her website, reading that she was born in the Canadian Prairie seemed almost obvious. Tarnowski’s... Read More »
Philosophy / Jesse Prinz’s Surrealist Embarassment
With all these music and art and design posts, we couldn’t resist waxing philosophical. On a recent... Read More »
Gonduras: Critters, and Self Exposure
Gonduras Jitomirsky is a self-taught photographer, illustrator and all ’round artist living and working in Tel... Read More »
Music / Candy Claws Sweeten the Deal
This one time I went Scuba Diving. I was thirteen, and and I felt like... Read More »
Interview / Stephen Ledwidge makes us blush
Receiving and reading submissions is probably one of my most favoritest things to do. Usually,... Read More »
El Diente de Oro
In this enormous world few galleries-cum-shops are loved by the Gopher team as much as El Diente... Read More »
In search of Emmanuel Polanco
Like many of our posts, we owe this internet-find to our incredible clumsiness.... Read More »
Interview / Shane Lavalette Talks Shop
Shane Lavalette is a Photographer. He lives in Massachussets, shoots everywhere else, often waking... Read More »
On Politics: The Left in Latin America
Kyra Choucroun is one of the founders of The Gopher Illustrated and a political fiend (try and... Read More »
Young Studios brings the flashcards
So far, the Eye Candy section has featured design, photography, painting and... Read More »
Deastro / Tone Adventure #3
Tone Adventure #3 from the album Moondagger by Deastro [ Ghostly... Read More »
Gentle Friendly / drone the pop way
Gentle Friendly begins as an environmental experiment in instrumental hodgepodge. After a friend rescues a... Read More »
Story Time with William Giraldi
The world is ending, and every page of every magazine ever printed has self-destructed – burned, BURNED!... Read More »
Mark Weaver we love you very much
A couple of weeks ago we started our annual “things we’re suckers for” list with... Read More »
Interview / 18 questions for Mike Cina
- What lessons have you learned from working in design and within the art scene of Minneapolis?
Shaken: Experiencing Dan Auerbach
Friend and Gopher-writer Dylan Shrader came up with an idea for a review format. Early on, us... Read More »
“Le Grand Content”: A Clemens Kogler oldie
An old favorite of the Gopher, the Le Grand... Read More »
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