Live From Nowhere Near You (Volume 2) is a charity concept CD with collaborations between street musicians and professionals. The album – three CDs, 210 minute long – tells stories of life on the streets and was made with no label support: most of it was recorded in Kevin Moyer’s actic, studio, basement, and in donates spaces, under bridges, on the road.

Collaborating with the street performers are musicians such as Pearl Jam, The Strokes, Bright Eyes, The Dandy Warhols, Pink Martini and many more. You can find the full list, as well as buy the CD, here.  You can also buy volume 1 of the same project, which was released in 2003, here.

All the profits are going to homeless and street youth programs of the Pacific North West – this just in the remote case you needed an extra reason to click on the link and buy the CD right now.

Around this time every year, mostly because of the infamous Indian Summer, we get hit by a tremendous need to catch the first flight to NYC. This year, W+K New York made us want to be there even more, with their awesome project SHOP.

A pop-up store hosted inside the office’s building in Tribeca, SHOP combines fashion by innovative designers with good music and food. The store is a huge success and we really wish we were there, so if you are, don’t miss out.

More on SHOP here.

Last weekend, The Times of India’s Crest Edition, a rather convivial weekend supplement, reprinted Motherland’s story on fashion trends in Nagaland, which appeared in our current Northeast issue.

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You can read the story online here or  (recommended option!) buy the Northeast issue of Motherland here.

Remember the excitement of a brand new mix tape? Our friends at W+K London are bringing it all back, only improved, with their new project in collaboration with the band Kaiser Chiefs for their new album The Future is Medieval.

Here is how it works: you go on the band’s website, pick 10 out of the 20 available songs, make your own Kaiser Chiefs’ album, design the cover, download it. And then you sell it.

That’s right: you get your own web page to sell your version of the album, and you make one pound per copy sold.

Yes, brilliant is the word.

Read more about the project here and go to kaiserchiefs.com to play.

Paris-Delhi-Bombay is an exciting show on contemporary India, up at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until September 19th. The exhibition explores contemporary India through the eyes of both Indian and French artists, and a couple of our projects have been selected to be part of it.

For the lucky ones who will be in Paris this summer, go to the Pompidou and don’t miss the video on Hanif’s Hand Painted Type and check out The India Tube in the digital space and Motherland in the reading space.

Remember when Hanif presented his typography project and ended up in the news, hipster hat and all? He keeps doing that.

Last weekend the Sunday Guardian, printed and online, dedicated a cover story to the hand typographers of India and to Hanif’s project Hand Painted Type.

Hand Painted Type is a collaborative project to document and digitalise the typefaces of sign painters across India, creating a database to prevent the rich Indian heritage of hand painted typography from getting lost and being replaced by amateurish computer graphic.

To know more, you can visit the project’s website, read what The India Tube wrote about it on Wallpaper, or watch the presentation video currently part of the show Paris-Delhi-Bombay, at the Centre Pompidou.