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Monthly Archives: June 2013

ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: SYSTEM

System magazine is a little bit like a super group in terms of fashion magazine publishing; art director Thomas Lenthal (founder of Numéro and Paradis, art director for Dior and many other brands), Jonathan Wingfield (editor at Numéro), as well as Alexia Niedzielski and Elizabeth von Guttmann (both of the fashion insider magazine Industrie) have [...]

WHITE BOUNCY CASTLE

William Forsythe, whose work we’ve mentioned before, is now featuring the installation White Bouncy Castle at the Berliner Festspiele / Foreign Affairs. White Bouncy Castle is part of his Choreographic Objects and ‘an examination of choreography in everyday life’. The best thing is you really get to bounce in it.
William Forsythe: White Bouncy Castle
Lokhalle Schöneberg [...]

FLOWER POWER

Flowers are blossoming all over menswear this, meaning next, summer season, as shows are in full swing right now in Paris. Now flowers is something Belgian designer Dries van Noten knows a thing or two about, so it’s no surprise that he might be one of the few who can actually pull it off. Flowery [...]

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

A new contemporary performing arts festival Foreign Affairs by Berliner Festsipele brings the beauteous choreographies of legendary William Forsythe and more on stage…

THE FIRST CRIME

Sarah Ryan
The first crime
26 June – 20 July, 2013
opening, Friday 28 June, 6-8pm
Ryan Renshaw Gallery
137 Warry Street
Fortitude Valley 4006
Queensland
Australia

WOOD B

This is the kind of bike that you’ll need three chain locks for, or at least in Berlin you will: in September, Strasbourg-based design studio BSG will launch production of their Wood.b, a new bicycle made partly out of wood. Looking impeccably stylish, it’s also the kind of bike that will make people’s heads turn [...]

DROP CAPS

The art of decorative lettering seems to be a particularly American craft, and sometimes enviably so. So no surprise that Penguin US should have come up with the idea for a special edition of lettered-cover classics, and who better to face the task than Jessica Hirsche, who has already crafted so many of our McSweeney’s [...]

PUMP UP THE VOLUME

AND BRING THE NOIZE

Plane Lavatory Self-Portraits, Flamish Style

Nina Katchadourian: ”Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style” from Seat Assignment. 2010 and ongoing.
Update: Hendrik Kerstens seems to follow a similar approach. They should talk.

MONDAY MUSIC: DAFTSIDE

No video this morning, instead a full album’s worth of Monday music, with Darkside – aka Nicolas Jaar and Dave Herrington – remixing Daft Punk’s recent Random Access Memories in its entirety, funkily named Random Access Memories Memories by, erm, Daftside.