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Monthly Archives: April 2011

LITTLE & LARGE

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Looking very much forward to meeting Glasgow based artist David Shrigley next Wednesday at the presentation of Wall Mounted Ear at KW in Berlin, a new edition released by Little & Large Editions.
Our mono.kultur issue featuring him and his truly enchanting drawings is one of my absolute favorites!
Wall Mounted Ear is made of polished bronze. [...]

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Small Town, USA

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Alternately invoking the visual languages of Walker Evans, Peter Hujar, and Alec Soth, Brooklyn-based photographer Timothy Briner’s Boonville series is a impressive portrait of the uniquely American Small Town.

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After the train

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

60 years ago, on April 29th, an eastbound passenger train left Berlin towards what today is recognized as Central Europe by many transatlantic visitors. Previously connecting Lower Silesia to the Prussian capital, the train line became outdated by the emerging political landscape of 1951. This was the last passenger train leaving from the war worn [...]

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PRINTOUT #01

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

For most independent magazines, the problem is not producing them, but distribution and outlets. There are literally hundreds of great titles out there, alas most likely nowhere near your reach. For London, this is going to change, if only for tonight, as MagCulture and Stack team up for Printout, an evening dedicated to magazines – [...]

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The Refugee Hotel

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Print is still a vibrant medium these days (or so we’ve noticed), but to remain so it needs to take advantage of the very forces that threaten it. Or force. Or, really, the Internet. And, as the ongoing The Refugee Hotel Book Project demonstrates, it can really be quite easy.

The Refugee Hotel is a hauntingly [...]

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HOW TO MAKE A SPOON FROM A CARTON

Monday, April 25, 2011

Olive is a clever site from Japan that shares designs, food and ideas that help when living in disaster areas. Olive offers tutorials on making spoons from old milk cartons through to turning an aluminum can into a lantern.

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UNBEARABLE COINCIDENCE

Sunday, April 24, 2011

T-Shirts with writing on them are rarely cool, mostly they appear to have incredibly random messages. German website zufallsshirt.de (translates random shirt) generates completely random shirt messages combined with a random illustration in a random color & font. Once a combination of these design elements is generated it will never be seen again – apparently [...]

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IT’S LONELY IN THE MODERN WORLD

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nice easter themed contribution on the Unhappy Hipsters blog. Happy Easter.

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Omar Comin’

Saturday, April 23, 2011

BTW: “Omar comin’!  It be Omar!”

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THE RETURN OF THE MUSIC VIDEO

Thursday, April 21, 2011

There has been a noticeable return to the good old music video, some say thanks to Lady Gaga, we say thanks to increasing internet access and bandwidth. Interestingly enough, more and more bands visualise not only one or two singles, but an entire album, with examples ranging as usual from good – think Massive Attack’s [...]

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