The term "biophilia" literally translates to a "love of life or living systems," so it seems fitting that Icelandic Renaissance woman Björk chose the New York Hall of Science as the venue for the first American engagement of Biophilia, an interdisciplinary performance complementing her acclaimed 2011 album-meets-app-meets-love letter to the life sciences. 

Björk's: Biophilia [Free] Who else but Björk Guðmundsdóttir could mutate the tap-tap familiarity of mobile apps into something that’s literally out of this world. Her app promises to explore the relationship between “musical structures and natural phenomena” (oh, Björk), functioning as a hand-held portal into the universe of the Icelandic curiosity’s seventh studio album. With a three-dimensional galaxy as your map and 10 constellations as your compass, tap on stars to unlock different experiences, including interactive art, essays, and musical notations. Björk plans to release 10 of these—one for each song on Biophilia—but you’ll have to access them through the original app. Yes, we’re just as blissfully confused as you are.

Alexander McQueen was honored with Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design at the 2010 British Fashion Awards in London earlier this evening. The award, handed out by the British Fashion Council, “celebrates the achievement of a designer whose work has had an exceptional impact on global fashion." In addition to the award, Tuesday's event began with a film of McQueen's most iconic looks shot by Nick Knight and set to the music of Bjork. Watch "To Lee, With Love, Nick" after the jump.

Since their start in 1991, art and fashion publication Visionaire's limited-release issues have been revered for their wildly creative packaging and famous contributors who span every imaginable corner of the art and fashion worlds. Some gems are the "Fashion" issue encased in a Louis Vuitton envelope, the "Sound" issue comprised of 12" records featuring over 100 artists, and the "Solar" issue complete with black-and-white images that transform into color when exposed to direct sunlight. The cost to covet a numbered edition from recent years ranges from $100 to $800, while archived versions will set you back in the thousands. Number 59 of their literary art concept is "Fairytale"—a collection of children's books created by the likes of Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Viktor & Rolf, and Björk, and inspired by the work of Dutch photographer duo Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. As Visionaire states it, the issue "offers a meditation on innocence and childlike creativity." Bound by a classic bookstrap, it's the perfect gift for the book collector with an imagination.

I’ll admit that my love of Björk has more to do with her sexiness, style, and screen presence than her music, which I admire, but don’t particularly enjoy—the swan dress, having only one name, marrying Matthew Barney, her heartbreaking turn in Lars Von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, those great Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze-directed videos. I’ve tried many times to get into Björk’s music, and while I think she has a powerful and dynamic voice, I usually find the arrangements of her songs too new-agey, like I’m in some ultra-serious yoga class trying to bend unnaturally and suppress an erection as others search for universal peace. I’m not a huge Antony and the Johnsons fan, either—the whole cello and warbly-voice thing is a bit twee for my tastes. That said, I really like this new Antony and the Johnsons and Björk track that Antony posted this morning on his tumbler.

This is an exciting day. My plan to rid NYC of hipsters is ramping up and it looks like it might be even more effective than I dared imagine. Here's the deal: I'm going to put together an event that is so hip that it produces a sort of a hipster black hole, if you will, a rip in the coolness continuum. Just as a black hole is a deformation in spacetime caused by an incredibly compact mass from which nothing, including light, can escape, this event will be an incredibly compact mass of hipsterdom from which nothing—or no one—hip can escape. Have I been successful? You be the judge. Can you say, "Dirty Projectors and Bjork collaboration EP born out of an event at the Housing Works organized by Stereogum Senior Writer Brandon Stosuy?" Ka-pow.

Maybe from somewhere on high, Alexander McQueen's gleefully watching the rest of us below--across the vast worlds of culture, art, and fashion--squirm in anguish as we try to carry on with Fashion Week--a concept that suddenly seems redundant without McQueen's designs in the mix. While no shortage of eulogies flooding the web will feast on the salacious details of the visionary's passing, fewer will take the time out to comb through his body of work to look at his influence in arenas apart from fashion. And it's here that we look back at the more subtle ways McQueen was able to inform consumer culture.

Music fans should hang on to their horn-rims, because tomorrow brings excitement to rival the day they lost their virginity (still waiting? hang in there!). It's Record Store Day, when over 300 independently-owned music stores nationwide join together in an attempt to thwart their creeping irrelevance. Organizers are luring fans out with in-store performances, goodie bags, and so much more. Björk premiers a 3-D version of her single "Wanderlust" off the Grammy-nominated album Volta, and both Stephen Malkmus and Vampire Weekend get in on the act by releasing limited-edition vinyl with exclusive tracks. If you're in New York, Regina Spektor performs an in-store at Sound Fix, while Sam Fogarino (of Interpol) spins some tunes at Other Music. If you're anywhere else, you can check the official site for events in your area. As Henry Rollins says, "If we lose the independent record store, we lose big." Don't argue with Henry.

Who knew that Björk's album Volta could generate four singles? That's Pussycat Dolls territory. The release of the fourth single from Volta called "Wanderlust" has with it a spanking new video sure to generate a sea of fawning emoticons from the YouTube crowd. It was created by production house/art collective Encyclopedia Pictura and features the Icelandic songbird tumbling downstream on what can only be described as water buffalo made from Play-Doh. But if pixelation isn't your thing, a hi-definition DVD of the seven-minute clip is being released with the single and comes equipped with a pair of 3-D glassses. (Full video after the jump!)

Bjork cozies up to fellow earth intruders at the Official Klaxons After Party.