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Monthly Archives: September 2013

MONDAY MUSIC: FUCK BUTTONS

Not quite sure what a ‘fuck button‘ is, but you can find out for yourself tomorrow night at Berghain.

SPECULATIONS ON ANONYMOUS MATERIALS

The inaugural show of Fridericianum’s new director Susanne Pfeffer, Speculations on
Anonymous Materials, is definitely worth a trip to “documenta-town” Kassel – great works, carefully installed. Personal highlight: the video Rosebud (2013) by James Richards, a fascinating composition of filmed images, found footage, and own takes.
“Art’s task changes in a world suffused with generated images. [...]

PADDOCK TO PLATE

It’s spring in the southern hemisphere and today I went on the inaugural ‘Paddock to Plate Tour‘ in conjunction with the 2013 Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. If you find yourself in the garden city of Toowoomba next spring I can highly recommend this tour (and you will even come across pineapples)!

SHRIGLEY ME DIGGLEY

Pringle of Scotland – Animation by David Shrigley from NeutralZurich on Vimeo.
Everyone loves David Shrigley drawings.  At least a lot of people do.  I really like this one (which by complete coincidence can be bought in various forms through mono.konsum).  If you like David Shrigely drawings, you’ll really really like David Shrigley animations; even [...]

NOT THAT KIND OF PRINT

1 R.I.P. Alexander Mcqueen.
2 Democratically or not, today’s sartorial companies increasingly busy themselves with producing competent chic for the lowest common denominator leaving the modern modester to angst over the fate of haute couture.
Never fear: Iris van Herpen will provide your inner sartorialist ample relief.
Though the Dutch designer is just 29 years old and her house only 6, [...]

AN ETHNOLOGIC LENS

It all began with a journey to Brasil in 1968, when the photographer Leonore Mau and the author Hubert Fichte started working and travelling together. Mau, who was not only Fichte’s companion, but also his muse, documented African-American rituals and cults. Her ethnologic approach paired with a unique eye for motives, made her to one [...]

GOING GOING GONE

‘I suppose all art is an invitation to another space, but maybe none opens the door so wide as cinema, lets you hear the music and offers you a drink. In the existential immediacy of its unmediated capacity to put us into someone else’s shoes, to time­travel us, to shape­shift us, to place us inside [...]

FOUND

The venerable publishing house of National Geographic is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and have graciously installed a new site to share the best of their infinitely vast archives of photographs documenting our weird and wonderful planet over the last 125 years. Need we say more? Beats any funky design blogs or fashion blurb by light [...]

IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

Mazzy Attack

Everybody (in the know) thought Mazzy Star were history after album #3 in 1996 (Black Session from 1993 here), and now, 17 years later, they’re back with an album called Seasons Of Your Day, and singer Hope Sandoval sounds better than ever, like you can tell right away that they’ve influenced a whole ton of [...]