In 1982, I was busy wandering around my house wearing kickass Spiderman pjs with footies and learning to put sentences together. Not far away in New York City, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, a not for profit organization ‘committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design’ was being founded. Twenty-five years later, we're both still here. Coincidence? I think not. While after twenty-five years I've ditched the Spiderman PJ's and can string sentences together a little better, the Storefront for Art and Architecture continues to be one of the city's only ‘alternative platforms focusing primarily on architecture and the built environment.’ To celebrate their longevity the organization is expanding their reaches beyond the New York City Metropolitan area with Pop Up storefronts hosting exhibitions in cities all over the world. The first of these opens on April 11th in Los Angeles, and will feature Frédéric Chaubin's CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed exhibit in a partially disused printworks space. The exhibit will show for five weeks before it disappears into thin air…or at least is carried away by truck. We recommend seeing it before the latter happens.

Oh Michel Gondry, we’re so sorry. You have no longer cornered the market on stop-motion videos using toys. Montreal band Miracle Fortress (which is mostly just multi-instrumentalist Graham Van Pelt from Think About Life) made a dazzling day-in-the-life video for Have You Seen In Your Dreams off of Five Roses, using only four magnetic sketch pads. The song is reminiscent of some other psychadelia-pop revivalists (like Rogue Wave). The band is currently on the European leg of their tour with fellow quebecois Patrick Watson, but hopefully they’ll be swinging through North American this summer.

As a child, building Lego cities seemed like a creative way to while away the years of toddler-dom, provided one wasn't swallowing the pieces whole and being sent to the emergency room. However, nothing we ever made really proved to be useful and in the end our mothers discarded all of our creative tools along with the G.I. Joe's and Millenium Falcon once adolescence hit. While we certainly outgrew our Legos, not all kids grow tired of their toys. Take the design team at SmÃ¥nsk, for example. The Sweden based designers were inspired by the building blocks of childhood. A big hit at the recent Stockholm Furniture Fair, their prototype for Skew Bookcase features magnified identical Lego pieces that stack up and interlock one top of one another to create a colorful and original concept for the place you keep your favorite novels and you old lego instruction manuals. While they've yet to find a manufacturer for their playful block-by-block bookshelf, we wouldn't be surprised if IKEA came a callin'. Here’s hoping someone does.

Paul Pope (aka Pulphope) went from being a DC comics virtuoso (including his excellent Batman: Year 100) to designing his own clothing line. And, while Bruce Wayne did have certain debonairly style about him, we’re pretty sure the bat cowl hurt him with the ladies. So, what can you expect from a man who is just at home drawing superheroes as he is putting clothes on models and average joes alike? NYLON has a sneak-peak at his DKNY jeans capsule collection, with pieces ranging from storyboard sketches on T-shirts to harlequin camo pants and lacking, thankfully, any spandex suits with question mark adornments.

With Polaroid film set to go the way of the dodo sometime in 2009, it's only a matter of time before the many shutterbugs who champion the photo format run out of their remaining film stock. Luckily, for fans of the non-digital instant image some of the best scene snappers have pooled some of their favorite images together so that the art form of Polaroid photography might live on forever. For The Love of Light: A Tribute To The Art of Polaroid gathers the work of twenty-five photographers from ten countries, on five continents in one breathtaking volume of photos produced with the their precious Polaroids. The book will be available in July, and hopefully will be such a roaring success that it will lead a world wide Polaroid revival and force the parent company to reconsider its stance on phasing out their film. C’mon photo fans…band together to save an endangered species before it's too late.

We’re not sure what your relationship with lighting is like, but we’ve had a long love/hate thing with lamps. There was the Banned-In-College-Halogen-Torch-Lamp phase in college, the First-New-York-Apartment-Track-Lighting phase, and currently the Take-Me-Seriously-I’m-A-Professional-Writer-Goose-Neck-Lamp phase. What London artist Georgiosi Ignatiou does isn’t just about screwing in a 100-watt bulb and calling it a day. It’s also not mood lighting, because God knows there are enough lava lamps in the world. Let’s call it a provocative, artistic lighting solution. The pieces are clever and use everyday elements like marbles, sponges, colanders and saw blades to throw crazy shadows around the room. It’s just a bonus that they also look hot when they turned off. Ignatiou is also a poet at heart, writing little stanza’s like this about his work: Slinky walking down the stairs / Here I split one into pairs / To give it flight and make it bright / I hung one pair around the light. You just can’t get that kind of rhyme-scheme at Pottery Barn.

Brazilian sneaker enthusiasts site SneakersBR, which has the lucky advantage of getting info first and straight from the horse’s mouth, is back up again with a spankin’ new look. The most prominent change is the addition of 22 bloggers, Honeyee.com-style, featuring some big players in the lifestyle department: artist Titi Freak, DJ and publicist Marcus Ferrer, skate photographer Flavio Samelo and more. A videos section archives the action from kicks parties, and a forum lets ‘heads discuss the topics that makes their world go round. Of course, a news area still drives the site and remains at the forefront. It’s a beautiful site that matches with the pretty pictures. Congrats, guys!