It’s easier to dress all of your male friends in Saint Augustine Academy when you have the entire collection in front of you– which is exactly what I would be doing if I were in Sydney, where the accelerating line of edgy men’s apparel has opened it’s first store.

Located in Surry Hill’s, SAA’s new space takes a minimalistic approach to displaying their line of bravely designed and beautifully tailored pieces, staying true to designers Adrian and Alvin’s musically-inclined vision. The mellow palate of this season’s collection, Happy Endings, looks quite at home against the black, white and metal of the flagship - as would I, I imagine, as I slather my man friends in the kind of gear normally reserved for more professional panty-droppers (oopsie, did I say that out loud?).

On my end, it has been exciting to watch this ballsy AU label grow as it has been spotting their work on an increasing number of serious-as-shit rockers, but a flagship store– well, that’s a whole new level of awesomeness. Congrats, boys!

Anyone in the industries of marketing, graphic design, advertising, film-making, journalism, publishing, and way more knows that the indispensability of Getty Images ranks right up there with Apple and oxygen. It’s a one-stop place to shop for a mind-bogglingly huge array of images, footage, and music and is relied upon by creative types worldwide.

Now, Getty Images has tapped even further into the mindset of right-brained creative types with Moodstream, a kick-ass new brainstorming search tool. It’s amazingly intuitive user interface starts with a presets wheel where you start the foundation of your search by choosing feelings that stabilize, simplify, intensify, refresh, excite, or inspire. Then you fine-tune from there– make the mood happier or sadder, turn the images nostalgic or contemporary, go for a vibe that’s warmer or cooler, and much more. As you adjust the settings, the site plays different tracks from its music library to match what you’ve chosen, and each time you refresh your settings you’re taken down a completely new road of imagery, sound, and video footage.

As you gather materials that ‘work,’ you can collect them together into individual Moodboards that you can save online– ideal for working on multiple projects at once or, if something’s not working, forgetting about it for a while before coming back to attack it again. Though with a creativity boosting tool like this at your fingertips, inspiration probably won’t be much of a problem.

The car people out there should take a look at this video, which covers the insane sticker job that Tristan Eaton (think: Kid Robot) and the rest of the Thunderdog team recently did on a Mini Cooper belonging to Matt Farah of the New York Motor Club. After-market auto tweaks are one thing, neon blue ground effects are another, but this glow-in-the-dark job, well, it’s something from another world. Matt’s request to Thunderdog was inspired by the BMW Art Car Project, which was going on between 1975 and 1999, and featured work by artists that we all know and love (e.g. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein). My vote is that the Thunderdog crew get commissioned to kit out the next Batmobile– imagine that: a glowing black Lamborghini Murcielago.

If you need any reason to drop the mid work week blues and are in Los Angeles, change up the go-home-and-watch-whatever’s-on-WB routine by heading out on Wednesday night to check out French street artist and moviemaker Mr. Brainwash’s premiere Life Is Beautiful show at the old CBS studios on Sunset Boulevard, which will open its doors under the support of Swindle Magazine. The story of Mr. Brainwash goes that he was filming a doc about street artists in California but ended up exchanging the camera for spray paint, coming into full effect with a style that purposely regurgitates iconography into irreverent images. While the promise of a signed, hand-done print for the first 200 attendees is a great incentive, equally so is an installation made from 100,000 shoes and the presence of painter Edward Hopper’s super-famous Nighthawks in life-size form. Sounds like a good reason to not crash out in front of the boob tube.

Last month we showed you the sweet partnership between Royal Remarkable and Monsieur T, but now, Monsieur T has dropped the details on its full summer line. Contributions this time around include a neon orange splatter shirt by Ruben Sanchez, an amusing skate-inspired shirt for both boys and girls by Bwana Spoons and a wild-style cap in a zebra print (as one who keeps up with color trends every season, I’ll clue you in on the fact that zebra stripes are hot this season). Each are pictured above, in no particular order. Get them before they sell out.

At the end of their careers, Musicians usually get a best-of record; artists get some wall space in a museum. Well Blaize Simon isn’t going out like that– he has organized an entire section of street in London to display his works, which span the last ten years. Calvert Avenue, near Old Street station is where it’s all going on– Blaize will be displaying his artwork in the storefronts of shops along the road. Any and all passersby will be treated to an open-air gallery of his work. The exhibit is kicking off with a private viewing (i.e. party) this Wednesday, June 18th (from 5-10 p.m.) that’s expected to transform into a proper street party. Head over to haiti73 for an RSVP, but like any good street party, surely they won’t turn people away on the day-of, will they? For those who can’t make the opening party, you can have a ‘walk by’ between June 19th and July 18th.

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