Pop Art Lab – Top 50 Albums 2012!

Here is our list of 2012 favourite albums! It has been a great year and we could easily expand it to a Top 100! Please note titles ranging in Top 15 to Top 50 have been almost impossible to rank – All titles are strongly recommended within their respective genres! The list do NOT include EPs! Lastly – Please note we cover a wide range of genres from more independent to multimillion selling artists! Pop Art Lab specialize in what’s HOT and NEW and we believe this list reflects the most breaking NOW sounds of 2012.
All albums leads you to direct free streaming via Spotify.

Pop Art Lab wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for all your suppport!
Editor in Chief,
Claus Uriza aka Claus Frisenberg Povlsen

1. Teen – In Limbo

2. Chromatics – Kill for Love

3. Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony

4. Grimes – Visions

5. Cat Power – Sun

6. Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man

7. alt-J – An Awesome Wave

8. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber

9. Holy Other – Held (not available in full)

10. Beach House – Bloom

11. First Aid Kid – The Lion’s Roar

12. The XX – Coexist

13. Father John Misty – Fear Fun

14. Efterklang – Piramida

15. Grizzly Bear – Shields

16. Ane Trolle – Honest Wall

17. Daughn Gibson – All Hell

18. Blondes – Blondes

19. Tame Impala – Lonerism

20. Julia Holter – Ekstasis

21. The Walkmen – Heaven

22. Taken by Trees – Other Worlds

23. Crystal Castles – (III)

24. Arial Pink’s Hanted Graffiti – Mature Themesi

25. WhoMadeWho – Brighter

26. Lianne La Havas – I Your Love Big Enough

27. Cold Specks – I Predict a Graceful Expulsion

28. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid m.a.a.d City

29. Jacob Bellens – The Daisy Age

30. Laurel Halo – Quarantine

31. Animal Collective – Centipede Hz

32. Actress – R.I.P.

33. Raveonettes – Observator

34. Django Django – Django Django

35. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music

36. Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes (not available in full)

37. School of Seven Bells – Ghostory

38. Hot Chip – In Our Heads

39. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

40. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems

41. Bear in Heaven – I love You, It’s Cool

42. Teengirl Fantasy – Tracer

43. The Shins – Port of Tomorrow

44. Passion Pit – Gossamer

45. Rihanna – Unapologetic (not available in full)

46. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die

47. Diagrams – Black Light

48. Rebecca & Fiona – I Love You, Man

49. Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts

50. Alicia Keys – Girl on Fire

51. Madonna – MDMA

New Pop Art Lab Music Video Competition!

We barely finished our recent Giana Factory project and what happens?! I fell in love with new album by Danish upcoming band Emma Acs & the Inbred Family.
I’m pleased to announce we’ll continue pushing the local Danish musicscene and set up new musicvideo/machinima competetion!

Today Emma Acs picked “We Make Sense” as their most likely forthcoming single from their newly released debut album Champagne.

Read more →

Pop Art Lab Machinima Expo 2011 – Programme!

POP ART LAB MACHINIMA EXPO 2011 FEAT. GIANA FACTORY

Saturday 26th March
2-6pm SLT/PDT (22:00-02:00 CET) (5-11pm EDT)
Live web broadcast at: http://treet.tv/live
Access: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pop%20Art%20Lab/166/133/1204

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Earlier this year, POP ART LAB challenged film makers from across Second Life ™ to make a music video for real life, electronica band GIANA FACTORY based on their song ‘Pixelated Truth.’

This weekend……we will see the results.

POP ART LAB is proud to present all entries in our annual machinima expo at an exclusive film preview party held at our sim. The event will also be streamed live across TREET.TV and with a range of eminent guest speakers and judges, interviews with members of GIANA FACTORY- plus a not to be missed after show party-this is set to be the machinima event of the year.

Who will walk away with the L$50,000 prize? Join us to find out.

Please RSVP to either:

Claus Uriza-CEO of POP ART LAB
Persia Bravin-Press Manager of POP ART LAB

Promotional Video:

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SLT/PDT TIMES

2.00: Opening Introduction with Persia Bravin & Claus Uriza
2.15: Rhett Linden-Guest Speaker
2.30: Machinima Screenings
3.10: GIANA FACTORY interview
3.30: Announcement of winning entry plus guest speaker Toxic Menges
3.45: Chantal Harvey-Guest Speaker
4.00: After show party with guest DJ’s Evil Laa + TBA

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JUDGES:

Rhett Linden- Senior Director, Experience/ Design
Adam Hashemi – RL Film and Music Video Director
Toxic Menges-Machinima Maker

FILM ENTRIES SUBMITTED BY:

Abdullah Yazimoto, Al Peretz, Arbit Delacroix, Ian Pahute, Kira Madrigal, Lala Larix, Mommaluv Skytower and Ormand Lionheart

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PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Hosted in Pop Art Lab by Persia Bravin and Claus Uriza
Live web broadcasted by Treet.TV at http://treet.tv/live
Made in partnership with Giana Factory, Music for Dreams, Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark and Treet.TV
Set Designs: Laggy Homewood, Emily Hifeng
Creative Support: Douglas Story, Desdemona Enfield, Chrome Underwood
Avatar Creation: Ivy Maverick (Maverick Skins and Shapes)
Giz Seorn (GizzA Creations)
Promotional Video: Iono Allen

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PRESS INFORMATION

Additional information on the following partners can be found beneath. For any direct queries please contact:
Claus Uriza : clausuriza@gmail.com
Persia Bravin: persia.bravin@yahoo.com

ALL VIDEO ENTRIES: http://www.youtube.com/popartlab
POP ART LAB: http://www.popartlab.com/
GIANA FACTORY: http://gianafactory.dk/
MUSIC FOR DREAMS: http://www.musicfordreams.dk/intro.html
ADAM HASHEMI: http://www.blinkprods.com/directors/view-work/item2509/Adam-Hashemi/
ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY: http://worlds.ruc.dk/

Pop Art Lab Machinima Expo 2011

We are currently tweaking our upcoming machinima event and thought we would share the first details here by now.
Event is webcasted live by Treet.TV and access limited to 50 people. Please drop an IM, notecard or email to clausuriza(at)gmail(dot)com and we’ll try figure out whether we have to run this event by “invites only”. However event can be viewed by all via Treet.TVs livestream

*PLEASE NOTE PROGRAMME NOT FINAL!*

Pop Art Lab Machinima Expo 2011
Date: March 26
Time: 2-6pm SLT/PST (22:00-01:00 CET)
Place: Giana Factory Stage, Pop Art Lab

The making of the official musicvideo for Giana Factorys new single Pixelated Truth

2.00: Opening Introduction with Persia Bravin & Claus Uriza
2.15: Rhett Linden-Guest Speaker
2.30: Machinima Screenings
3.10: GIANA FACTORY interview
3.30: Announcement of winning entry plus guest speaker Toxic Menges
3.45: Chantal Harvey-Guest Speaker
4.00: After show party with guest DJ’s

Musicvideo Jury: Toxic Menges, Adam Heshemi, Rhett Linden
Live web broadcasted by Treet.TV at http://treet.tv/live
Made in partnership with Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark and Treet.TV
*PLEASE NOTE PROGRAMME NOT FINAL!*

Welcome! Pop Art Lab Machinima Expo 2011

Giana Factory – Pixelated Truth by Giana Factory

All entries now available in in our Machinima section
Please note these posts might be edited.

Musicvideos will be added to various other channels via YouTube and other networks.

Feel free to comment and if you like here is few tips and tricks for your evaluation:

Give each film points on a scale from 1-5 where 5 is top.
When u give points use these 5 guidelines in no particular order.

1) Original story vs. lyrics
2) Editing/Technique
3) Graphics
4) Designs
5) Overall impression

The jury have 3 weeks and final winner will be announced at digital event March 26, 2pm PST

I am grateful and want to thank Giana Factory, the producers well every single person involved in this happening.
We live in an age where we’ll slowly jump inside the medium. We’ll leave the static mode of traditional media production and dip our feets right into the story. We have seen this in the way music nowadays gets remixed and managed in new creative ways like SoundCloud or even entirely fractured by technologes like RjDj.

These new dynamics will add value not only to movies, music, games, books but in all specters of modern media.

This years Pop Art Lab 2011 Machinima Expo is one fine example.
Happy viewing!

Pop Art Lab 2011 – Arbit Delacroix – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

Arbit Delacroix interpretation of Giana Factory – Pixelated Truth:

Pop Art Lab 2011 – MommaLuv Skytower – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section

Pop Art Lab 2011 – Al Peretz – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

Al Peretz interpretation of Giana Factory – Pixelated Truth:

Pop Art Lab 2011 – FuzOnAcid – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

FuzOnAcid/Ormand Lionheart interpretation of Giana Factory – Pixelated Truth:

Pop Art Lab 2011 – Ian Pahute – Second Life Machinima

Prior to the judging process, we wanted to share every one of the Machinima Contest submissions. There are some truly talented artists participating in this year’s contest from all avenues of Second Life. Please take a moment to view their videos, and share your feedback with them in the comments section.

Ian Pahute interpretation of Giana Factory – Pixelated Truth: