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Monthly Archives: August 2011

THE SECRET LIFE OF MAMMALS

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Don’t we all wonder what others are doing when no one is looking? So did the The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, hence more to their point: what are animals doing when we’re not looking? To find out, they installed an impressive network of trap cameras that gathered more than 52,000 images of mammals [...]

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Self Reproduction

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Wolfgang Hahn’s photography project Into the Light stages the stage of digital self-reproduction.

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HÜTTENPALAST

Monday, August 22, 2011

Want to enjoy some camping-idyll in the middle of Berlin, also during the cold winter? Then the Hüttenpalast might be the perfect hotel for you – offering all the charms of outdoor camping – but inside!
Read the article by Tim Tolsdorff on Spiegel online (German / English) to learn more about these comfort sites under [...]

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HOLOCENE

Monday, August 22, 2011

It’s never a bad idea to start off the week with a dreamy, beautiful music video that makes you want to drop everything and see the wonders of the world, right now, summer or not. Bon Iver’s melancholy might or might not be your cup of tea, but can’t really argue with Australian director Nabil’s [...]

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THE (GOOGLE) STREET PHOTOGRAPHER

Sunday, August 21, 2011

A while ago, I sat in on a talk with Penelope Umbrico, who just published a book with Aperture featuring her various photographic projects. The most well-known (and also the cover of the book) is Suns, a collection of over 2 million (and counting) photos of sunsets found on Flickr, which she then crops, prints, [...]

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POSES

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Ah, fashion photography, that curious beast. So seductive and so utterly ridiculous when exposed for what it really is – as in Spanish artist Yolanda Dominguez’ great new series Poses, where she confronted archetypes of fashion imagery with real life, or the other way around. Find out more in a little interview with her on [...]

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UNLESS YOU WILL

Sunday, August 21, 2011

The other day I was following links from blogs of other blogs of other blogs and I came across the really quite lovely Unless you will…
“Ok, so you landed on this page because there was nothing on tv, or because you’re interested in photography, or because I told you to come here, or because you’re at [...]

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JULY’S TRAVELS

Saturday, August 20, 2011

I always imagined promotion and press tours for your new film/record/book to be dull and draining exercises, but the way Miranda July chronicles her efforts to promote her second film on her very lively blog these days gives you the impression that in fact it’s something fun and magical. Or maybe life really does depend [...]

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HOW SAD, HOW LOVELY

Friday, August 19, 2011

Elizabeth “Connie” Converse disappeared in 1974, leaving behind a haunting body of recorded music that would remain virtually unheard for the next 35 years…

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WAYS TO AVOID BOREDOM

Thursday, August 18, 2011

There are probably worse things you could do in your spare time than scan a cat…

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