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Monthly Archives: May 2013

ROCK IT WEIWEI!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Weiwei continues to rock in every dimension. No more words are needed.

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ONE PERSON WITH A LOT OF MACHINES

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The legend foreseeing the future. Mr. Morrison is informing the death of rock.
“It may rely heavily on electronics, tapes…One person with a lot of machines; tapes and electronic set-ups…”

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Brian Eno On Work, Technology and Deadlines

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

‘Daddy, how do you actually finish any of these?’
‘When there’s a deadline.
And that’s really true and I’ll tell you why that’s true.
When there’s a deadline there’s also a destination, a context, a reason for something and that’s what makes me finish it. Up until that point it’s an experiment. It’s sitting in my shelf and [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: LORDE

Monday, May 20, 2013

It’s been a while that we heard some fresh music from New Zealand, but if musical justice still has any meaning, then Lorde is about to change all that – Royals, indeed.

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REPAIR. 5 ACTS

Saturday, May 18, 2013

REPAIR. 5 ACTS at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is French-Algerian artist Kader Attiaʼs first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Attia develops a site-specific installation in five acts, which continues his ongoing artistic research into cultural exchange processes between occidental and extra-occidental cultures. REPAIR. 5 ACTS draws from historical African cult objects as well [...]

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THE DAILY NICE

Friday, May 17, 2013

Take some more time out with The Daily Nice.
Photography by Jason Evans

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Divorced From The World

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

In the final segment of Jarmusch’s Coffee & Cigarettes, the infamous Taylor Mead, an icon of the NY Downtown scene since the 60s, falls asleep while chatting with Bill Rice – something he had a lot of trouble with until last week when he left this planet and passed away: good news for his asshole [...]

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BLACK AND WHITE

Monday, May 13, 2013

Beautiful illustrations by the artist Daehyun Kim a.k.a. Moonassi… His monochromatic drawings are also adorning La Sardinia lomo cameras.

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FAUX MARBLING

Sunday, May 12, 2013

What is it that makes marble and its pattern so omnipresent these days? Originally composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, today the motive of marble is not only used in contemporary art, but also in fashion and textile production. Commonly used for sculpture and as building material, it now seems to be trendy to envelop the [...]

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THIS IS WATER

Friday, May 10, 2013

Now that the words by one David Foster Wallace have been tragically limited, we treasure each one of them, especially when they talk directly to us and about our lives (which they usually do anyway), as in his 2005 speech to a graduating class at Kenyon College. Prime Wallace with his pitch black humour that [...]

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