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Tomorrow, the doors of 319 Scholes open for the public unveiling of the 48-hour projects that were created during Art Hack Day at the East Williamsburg art/tech space.

Today, Hyperallergic got a guided tour by Nahana Schelling and Olaf Mathé of the behind the scene action that the invited team of hackers are producing as they realize their digital projects.

319 Scholes is a hotspot for the tech/art nexus that has a natural home in New York. Art Hack Day aims to bring ”together hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is technology.” The space is rich with technological resources and Marko Manriquez of Fabricator’s Guild showed us their Trotec Speed 300 laser printer, which is hooked up to cut into almost any surface you can image. His work on the outside of the 319 space, using moss and an adhesive, was pretty lovely. I liked the idea that a sign can grow and change, transforming a brick wall into a home for a living organism, though they’ll have to replace that soon enough, no?

Here is a small and incomplete visual tour of some of the evolving projects that should whet you appetite and encourage you to visit their big party tomorrow night, Saturday, January 28 (7-9pm), which will be followed by a DJ event.

For those outside Brooklyn, there will also be a virtual tour of the show tomorrow (Saturday) that you can watch online. Follow @319scholes or @arthackday for information on when that will occur.

The Art Hack Day exhibition open to the public Sat Jan 28 7pm-9pm at 319 Scholes (319 Scholes Street, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn)

LOOKBOOKS contributor explores the fantastical tattooed world of artist Stuart Pearson Wright. Check out the gallery of weirdly cool portraits below.

If there’s anything that separates a celebrity from the proletariat, its his or her ability to turn on the megawatt smile at the mere suggestion of a flash bulb. Artist Stuart Pearson Wright has built a small exhibition of portraits around the idea of capturing this  automated response and the ensuing awkwardness and ambiguity that results in simply asking people to say cheese.

With a lick of faux-Hollywood gloss about them, his subjects are grinning and bearing it in a kind of toothsome, medicated trance which horribly reminds me of Britney Spears, mid-breakdown. Wright’s female subjects are all tits, teeth and blow-dried hair so its a relief to move on to his smaller exhibition of tattoo portraits, where people seem much happier, you know, just getting their tats out. Wright selected subjects according to old school stereotypes; the circus strongman, the tattooed lady, the side-show freak…And they seem much more content than the freaks in frames on the opposite wall.But on the way out of the gallery, you have to pass those weird rictus grins again, with their airbrushed FUN TIMES smiles and surfaces dusted with real diamonds. It’s like we can’t believe anyone’s having a good time until we see it plastered all over their face and we’ve photographed it, tagged it, shared it, liked it… Or, as Wright put is; “the collective, hysterical conspiracy to appear happy which blights our visual world with endless images of disingenuousness.” Basically the same thing, yeh? Stuart Pearson Wright is on show at the Riflemaker, London until February 15.

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- The Fashion Fund is a new webseries that takes a look at the process behind the CFDA‘s annual award for up-and-coming designers. The first episode takes us behind the close doors of the committee that chose recent winner Joseph Altuzarra, featuring Anna Wintour in full HBIC mode. Flipping through the lookbook from Nice Collective, Anna purrs,”Well this is just generic…I mean, it’s fine. It’s not offensive.” And then she set it on fire and threw it in Jeffrey Kalinsky‘s face. [NYT]

- Apparently yesterday was “Gossip Girl Day” in New York. Which explains why everyone was making half-assed literary references and plotting against everyone in Brooklyn. [Gawker]

- Parisian couturier Jean Luc Amsler dug up Jerry Hall from whatever velvet-lined crypt she’s been sleeping in and paraded her down his catwalk. [Telegraph]

- Céline has opened their first freestanding boutique in New York. So far, no Kanye West sightings. [Racked]

- She. Died. Rachel Zoe dressed up like a vampire for LOVE Magazine. Or maybe someone just caught her without a stitch of makeup. Either way, terrifying/fabulous. [Stylecaster]

- Go behind the scenes of Alexis Bittar‘s new campaign starring the Absolutely Fabulous Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, aka the divine Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.

After the surprising loss of Demi Moore as Gloria Steinem, we’ve discovered that one of our favorite actresses/fashion icons/models, Miss Chloe Sevigny, is joining Amanda Seyfried, James Franco, and Peter Sarsgaard in the much-talked about Lovelace film. The fictionalized biopic is about the eponymous porn star Linda Lovelace, who starred in the X-rated film that shocked the world, Deep Throat (which stars this very town — or the surrounding areas anyway — as its smutty backdrop). Lovelace's legacy is a difficult one: After Deep Throat, she became a staunch activist against the pornography industry, which is where her relation to Steinem comes in. And while Sevigny isn't afraid of controversy (Brown Bunny, anyone), she isn't tackling Steinem, but is instead being tapped to play a journalist hired to write the story on Linda. While very few details have been released about the ever-shifting cast and how Lovelace will be portrayed, we're glad Los Angeles, not Miami, gets to play the seedy city, this time around.Oh, and late-breaking news — the role of Steinem is apparently going to none other than Carrie Bradshaw SJP herself. Feminist icon indeed. Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

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Zomg. No doubt you've been witness to the new KARL by Karl Lagerfeld collection, you've squee'd at his furry feline muse, Choupette, and hell, you're probably even taking your morning jogs in some of those shiny PVC gym shorts we tipped you off to, but we're willing to bet a stack of Chanel 2.55 bags that you have never seen the Kaiser give a high-five. Just moments after tapping an iPad screen for the dramatic launch of his new Net-A-Porter line in front of a space-age-looking glass cube in Paris, our main man Karl turns to the woman holding said iPad and —albeit awkwardly —high-fives her, presumably, the first-ever instance of Lagerfeld takin' it to the dog pound. And so you can relive this moment in history over and over again, we've graciously presented it to you in GIF form. You're welcome. Photo: Courtesy of Net-A-Porter, special thanks to The Verge's Thomas Houston for technical help.

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'An artist should observe and describe the time in which they live. They should SEE the world around them, the people that fill their lives, the places that they populate. The artist should attempt to record and reflect the important issues of their time and bring attention to those things that matter. I believe this and I consider myself to be an observant person and yet I refuse to see people everyday...' Illustrator Siolo Thompson.

The darkly devouring works of Mexico based artist Melissa Campa are aching with a sort of teenage confusion, the kind that you find yourself in after the heartache of a first love, where the innocence and purity of your skin attempts to lift your heart back to your chest.

Nothing says 'Get me the eff outta here' like a school desk populated by the entire Saturday morning cartoon crew. I can't even count how many notebooks I filled with drawings during class, not just doodles, like entire books. I'm not going to tell you that learning isn't cool, but I will say that spending 5 days out of your week drawing with some learning in the background is much cooler. TGIF.

Whether you're single 'n' lovin' it, single 'n' hatin' it, or snuggling up with your significant other, we all share one thing on Valentine's Day: the distinct desire to drink. And if you want to keep it classy, the best way to drink in style is by popping open a nice bottle of Champagne. It's not hard to go the extra mile and impress your fellow toast-ie by knowing a thing or two about what you're drinking. To make you look like a stud when it comes to sipping, we've rounded up 10 great bubbly options that won't set you back more than $50 a pop. Click through for a handful of Champagnes to keep help keep it chic 'n' cheap this Valentine's Day.

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Endlessly rendered rainbow gradients and the magic of the hand drawn line... Oriol Angrill Jordà is an artist and illustrator in Spain that has a tremendous skill for drawing magically vibrant portraits, perfectly blending the colors to create a full spectrum of rich, prismatic illustrative lust.

While Miami is most certainly a city for the wild and crazy, we can’t all be like that nutty Lincoln Road guy and twirl around in kitten heels while Lady Gaga plays on our portable boom box. And while being a bottle girl at a club on Collins or working as a hostess at a trendy South Beach resto has its perks, there are a number of other local opportunities begging for your participation that'll give you your share of time in the local limelight.We’ve rounded up the most exciting and noteworthy possibilities around town so you can take your passion and use it for all it’s worth. Might sound a bit cheeseball, but we’ve know you’ve got it in ya, or we wouldn’t be here in the first place.

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In this bizarre tale of low budget-brilliance, comedian Mark Malkoff contacted celebrities via Facebook, email, and snail mail, requesting to stay with them for the night while on vacation in L.A. If you think Hollywood's bests are all locked in their mega-mansions, think again—Malkoff actually gets 13 stars (okay, they are all B-list or lower) to let him spend the night. And, the funny-man is not just catching up on his beauty sleep! Malkoff ends up playing Hungry Hungry Hippos with Martin Kove, reading about compost with Ed Begley Junior, and wearing matching pajamas with Dave Coulier. Could a guy ask for anything more? How about having Mary Lynn Rajskub wait by your bedside until you fall asleep? Talk about lifetime achievement. Check out the video below to see how his little experiment went, and, if you feel so inclined, maybe it's time to send a little FB message to Michael Fassbender. Hey, you never know. (Jezebel) Photo: Via Youtube

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From a coveted studio in the CFDA Incubator, come the rough rocking metals and natural stones of Gemma Redux. The designer behind the smashing brand is Rachel Dooley, a former engineer and law student who took a short break from studying for the Bar exam to make a necklace, and never went back. Months later, her jewelry was cropping up in editorials for super major publications. Nearly each item I looked at in her webstore had the annotation, Featured in Nylon, Featured in T Magazine, Featured in Paper Magazine etc… Yesterday she dropped a film for the Spring 2012 collection that hit us close to home. So we asked her a few questions about the rocks that she’s got. 

What has been your favorite stone as of late? 

Bismuth crystal.  We don’t technically get to work with it because it’s too brittle, but we take natural pieces of it, slice it up and refine it, cast it in brass and then plate it with PVD titanium that is hit with a laser to create the same multicolored, psychedelic feel that the natural stone has.  I’m officially obsessed.

Where’s the most fascinating place you’ve found your raw materials?

Arusha, Tanzania.  Rajasthan in India is a close second.

If you could accessorize 3 runway shows this coming Fashion Week, whose would they be?

Peter Som, rag & bone, Chris Benz. All totally different but would be so fun.

From a coveted studio in the CFDA Incubator, come the rough rocking metals and natural stones of Gemma Redux. The designer behind the smashing brand is Rachel Dooley, a former engineer and law student who took a short break from studying for the Bar exam to make a necklace, and never went back. Months later, her jewelry was cropping up in editorials for super major publications. Nearly each item I looked at in her webstore had the annotation, Featured in Nylon, Featured in T Magazine, Featured in Paper Magazine etc… Yesterday she dropped a film for the Spring 2012 collection that hit us close to home. So we asked her a few questions about the rocks that she’s got. 

What has been your favorite stone as of late? 

Bismuth crystal.  We don’t technically get to work with it because it’s too brittle, but we take natural pieces of it, slice it up and refine it, cast it in brass and then plate it with PVD titanium that is hit with a laser to create the same multicolored, psychedelic feel that the natural stone has.  I’m officially obsessed.

Where’s the most fascinating place you’ve found your raw materials?

Arusha, Tanzania.  Rajasthan in India is a close second.

If you could accessorize 3 runway shows this coming Fashion Week, whose would they be?

Peter Som, rag & bone, Chris Benz. All totally different but would be so fun.

Looking for sassy street style with a dash of sophisticated polish? Rad & Refined has you covered — did the name tip you off? Featuring signature indie staples like Wildfox tees alongside femme-friendly Lauren Merkin clutches, this brand-happy e-boutique is all about balance…and amazing style. On our lust list? Opening Ceremony sunnies, A Peace Treaty jewelry, and Myne prints. And because everything gets better in Reserve-land, for a limited time, you can snag up to half-off everything!

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We head to ASOS when we're in need of a seriously stylish find on a cheap budget — their convenient free shipping, hassle-free ordering, and stellar runway view make things super-easy — but we can't say they're on our hit-list for beauty tips. Well, looks like the e-retailer wants to be a one-stop shop for all of our needs: The latest copy of the ASOS magazine features some pretty righteous hairstyle DIYs that had us staring slack-jawed at our screens for a good five minutes. The intricate coiffs made it seem like these 'dos would take hours to achieve, but when we read the how-tos, we found they were actually pretty easy to create. Click through to learn how to score these sweet styles for yourself. Photos: Via ASOS

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