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Monthly Archives: April 2014

MONO.STUDIO: TSESAY SS 2014 CAMPAIGN

Thursday, April 17, 2014

With spring in the air, high time to introduce our second campaign that we produced with mono.studio for New York fashion label tsesay. Continuing our modular graphic system of fashion images juxtaposed on land/cityscapes, this time we focused on summery sun-drenched settings as the tsesay Spring/Summer 2014 collection is largely inspired by surf and [...]

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Dekmantel Festival

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Summer is nearly upon us, and with lots of festivals everywhere, we advise not to miss the return of Dekmantel festival to Amsterdam for 2014. With the likes of Nicolas Jaar recently announced and others such as Mount Kimbie (Now on tour), Jamie XX, Joy Orbison and waves more, its at an easy all [...]

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THEY WOULD ROCK

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Helena Henneken crosses Iran with her back-pack in 59 days and the result is They Would Rock.
“If my people lived in another country, they would rock!” – that’s how a 16-year-old Iranian pictures the situation.

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MONDAY MUSIC: BLEACHERS

Monday, April 14, 2014

We were going to post the new video by Bleachers, I Wanna Get Better, directed by girl(friend) Lena Dunham, but alas, we can’t watch it – because we live in Germany. Anyone here will be familiar with the words coming up as above, which refer to a stalemate between the German GEMA, a notoriously bureaucratic [...]

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IS THERE ANY CREATION BEFORE IMITATION?

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Indeed, we can never beat nature. But we can try to learn from its elaborate ways of designing & engineering and digitally translate it to our genious invention the 3-D printer to let him create what we wouldn´t be able to.
Just to come close to nature. So does Israelian architect and designer beauty Neri Oxman [...]

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BADUM BADUM

Friday, April 11, 2014

The dating scene can get a soul down, and usually I turn to the tunes for relief for my heart burn. “Luv Sikk” by Finnish DJ Kiki is the closest approximation I’ve heard lately to the experience of  infatuation (and heartbreak). Propelled by the thudding beat, it kicks off with thrilling scales and hammers on despite [...]

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CORAL MAGIC

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Whatever our little minds might think up, you can’t beat nature, of course. Nature will just always win. And just in case one might have forgotten about that, watch Daniel Stoupin’s stupendous time-lapse film, Slow Life, painstakingly assembled from thousands of still life photographs of coral reefs in full bloom. Turn off the sound [...]

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KUSTEPE

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Kuştepe is an area in Istanbul where gentrification is brutally  knocking the door. Architect Uğur Tanyeli and photographer Engin Gerçek visited the homes of the dwellers, alas, whose spaces won’t be seen in the pages of FvF or, say, any decoration magazine.  

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: RIPOSTE

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

It’s a frequent sore point for us that the men/women ratio of mono.kultur features tends to be at 3:1, and we’re sometimes struggling even to that end. It has certainly nothing to do with that there aren’t as many talented and interesting women out there, but when it comes to having made a name for [...]

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TOP OF THE LAKE

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

As a fan of television crime series’ such as The Killing and The Bridge and the more recent True Detective too, I am now really enjoying the acclaimed 2013 Jane Campion directed, Top of the Lake.  Top of the Lake begins with a mystery – Tui, a 12 year-old girl walks chest deep into the [...]

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