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Monthly Archives: March 2012

BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE

Friday, March 9, 2012

My favourite time of the day is dusk when the sky starts to turn dark blue so I was most intrigued to hear about Steve McQueen’s current Temporary Stedelijk 3 project, Blues Before Sunrise. For two weeks (March 7 – 25) all 275 lamps in Amsterdam’s largest public park, Vondelpark will radiate blue light. Blues Before [...]

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MONO.CONTRIBUTORS #06: KONST & TEKNIK

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Yet another spanking new website by a former design contributor, this time based in Stockholm: the indefatigable Konst & Teknik, who penned our highly and appropriately conceptual issue #18, featuring Dutch architecture mavericks MVRDV (which is very, very close to being sold out, by the way… so don’t say we didn’t warn you).
Konst & Teknik, [...]

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Paradise Vendors Inc.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Now you know why 2012 is already a great year in music. And one of those 10 reasons is almost 17 minutes long.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY: ODILE DECQ

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Call them what you want – catch phrases, slogans, truisms: We love those. Phrases that are intriguing, or elegant, or silly, or plain true. So let’s introduce a new little column which will be back any time we stumble across one of these truisms that we find worth sharing, which happened just this afternoon when [...]

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CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Last June, we talked to artists Colin Snapp and Daniel Turner about how their solo practices have evolved out of their collaborative outfit Jules Marquis. It seems they’ve been on quite a roll since then. Last September, Turner had a solo show at the Journal Gallery, where he showed site-specific works that expanded on his [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: BRANDT BRAUER FRICK

Monday, March 5, 2012

These boys are the hype of the moment on Berlin’s dancefloors at the moment – as electronic music is continually looking for ways forward, a classically trained ensemble that will play rhythmic club music with grand pianos and percussion and the occasional harp might not be exactly pointing forward, but at least it’s something different.

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: FANZINE 137

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Probably, you have already met Candy, a fashion magazine celebrating transvestism, transexuality, crossdressing and androgyny. The cover with James Franco, shot by Terry Richardson was a big thing for the press. Fanzine137 is a fanzine – as it is understood from the name -published by the same editor Luis Venegas. As Candy, Fanzine137 is self published and limited edition.

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TEN REASONS TO HATE DHL

Saturday, March 3, 2012

I could think of at least one more, but here are nine good reasons to hate DHL.

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PressPausePlay

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? [...]

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STREETS SO EMPTY, SKATEBOARDING SO COOL

Friday, March 2, 2012

Skateboarding in the 1960s, photos by Bill Eppridge for LIFE magazine. Posted last week by HUH. magazine.

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