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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Well-Prepared

Friday, February 8, 2013

Even though everybody’s obviously listening to the new James Blake song all day long today, here’s a really inspiring clip directed by this guy (the guy actually cruising), so if you can squeeze it in between back-to-back “Retrograde” consumption, enjoy.

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CODY

Thursday, February 7, 2013

A rather disturbing short portrait of California youth by the brilliant AG Rojas – originally part of a portrait project for Dazed Digital, make sure to watch it until the end, when things take a decidedly awkward turn…

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FROM A GARDEN TO MARS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Valentina Karga a.k.a Berlin Farm Lab is sharing her diaries related with two projects about self-sufficiency in the new book 30 Days in the Garden / 15 Days on Mars by Crap is Good Publications. The artist is showing us how to build a bio digester or searching new ways of producing food while living on [...]

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SOMEWHERE TO DISAPPEAR

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

As winter stretches on, the short days and February weather encourage particularly hermit-like behavior in all of us – at least until spring is here. It seems perfectly appropriate then, that I finally got around to watching Somewhere to Disappear, a short documentary following photographer Alec Soth on his trail to find and document those [...]

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IMAGE ATLAS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Image Atlas is a recent project by Taryn Simon, and her first venture into the digital realm, but bearing all her signature interests in politics, society, cultural differences and visual representation. Based on a simple premise: if we experience the world more and more through the Internet, and through images in particular, what impact [...]

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FOREVER STILL

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Beach House is performing songs from the album Bloom, in the brand new short movie Forever Still. Beautiful scenes shot in El Paso and Tornillo, Texas are ornamented with the voice of admirable Victoria Legrand.

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MONDAY MUSIC: GRIZZLY BEAR

Monday, February 4, 2013

‘The idea came from a question: if the creative energy of any living organism could be seen, what would it look like? Ed, Daniel, T and Bear demonstrate where their creative energy is located by extracting their hair, nails, skin, sweat, tears and blood. This is an invitation for a very rare [...]

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ECM COVER ART COMBINED

Saturday, February 2, 2013

We received a newsletter from our cover stars ECM Records today announcing that they had a Facebook page – which they actually had for some time and anyway, so what, but then it caught my eye that they are in the middle of updating their photo albums with their legendary album covers – all 1700 [...]

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