Popped into This Issue on Saturday and picked up a nice bangbang t-shirt:

I hadn’t been into This Issue before, and it’s a really cool shop/studio with a nice mix of independent fashion, music, books and art. Copenhagen needs more places like this.

Just spotted this round the corner from where I live. I love street art like this, utilising the architectural fabric to create something ingenious, humorous and playful.

I have a set on Flickr with more Copenhagen street art as does my Flickr friend Annelogue.

The quite amazing Miracle Fortress play Loppen on Monday, and come heartily recommended by yours truly. Here’s the video for ‘Have you seen in your dreams’, from the album Five Roses:

You can spend a long time scrolling idly through It’s Nice That, The Serif and other showcase sites and never find anything that really grabs you. Recently, I’ve been getting a lot more inspiration from solo bloggers whose taste seems to mirror my own. I started subscribing to Another Company a few weeks ago, and it’s already thrown up some really exciting, intriguing links. Today’s post introduced me to the artist Megan Whitmarsh. This is one of her embroidered pieces:

Isn’t this one of the most imaginative pieces of street art you’ve ever seen?

Shamelessly plundered from rubbishcorp.

Hope everyone had a pleasant Easter. I’m in the process of moving house, which is why things are a bit slow.

I’m kind of obsessed with the forgotten corners of buildings, architecturally futile spaces whose existence is only confirmed by the interplay of shadow and dust. And as a result I’m always drawn to photographers like Popel Coumou:

Last night I had a strange dream which featured a character called Don Givenhed. Don was basically a loser, albeit a self-aware one. He spends too much time down his local pub, drinks too much, and has never achieved anything of note. I am a bit worried about this dream.

I got back to sleep for a few hours and then woke up with another dream still unspooling in the weird cinema inside my head. This was a much nicer dream though. In it I had discovered a great little bookshop which seemed to stock nothing but books on the Black Sparrow imprint. When I was younger I used to go to a bookshop in Camden – Compendium, I think it was called – which stocked a lot of Black Sparrow stuff. I used to buy up all the John Fante and Charles Bukowski I could find. The books have a very distinctive graphic style, and the covers are also really tactile, with something scrapbooky about them.

I always thought Ask the Dust would make an amazing film. Unfortunately, the version that got made a year or two ago was apparently a bit of a flop.

I’ve never really read anything as beautiful as that book.

I think I would sacrifice a limb for one of these devices:

I refuse to buy band t-shirts. It’s something to do with my innately elitist and supercilious nature. Plus they’re usually pretty horrible. But now there’s a way I can demonstrate my affection for a band and help a good cause at the same time. It’s called Yellow Bird Project and it seems pretty cool. The t-shirts are designed by bands and musicians and some, like the one below from The National, are really good. All proceeds go to charity so everyone’s a winner.