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Monthly Archives: September 2014

MOOD ESCAPE

Friday, September 12, 2014

To Freya Douglas-Morris, I came across your landscapes somehow and I find them incredibly wonderful. They manage to capture almost everything invoked by a scene–the wealth of hue, the latent mythology, and the sublimity of presentness that is both concrete and dislocated, leaving the memory to imagine various permutations of some detail–maybe a fern or a tree–shortly [...]

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620 READING ROOM

Thursday, September 11, 2014

The London Design Festival starts up this Saturday, with a plethora of shows, talks and fairs taking over the city. If you need a rest in between, head over to the beautiful Vitsoe Store in Mayfair, who teamed up with our friends at magCulture to install the temporary 620 Reading Room with plenty of fine [...]

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The Library And Step On It

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

(A bit) better than Lego Star Wars: Brick Jest. Enjoy the ride! (image via)

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MAKING NOISE

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

I’m deeply suspicious of COS, the H&M brainchild aimed at a slightly older and more sophisticated target group, but one has to hand it to them that they do know how to pick their collaborators: hiring the team behind Fantastic Man for their annoyingly tasty in-house magazine, Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers also [...]

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RYAN TRECARTIN: SITE VISIT

Monday, September 8, 2014

Don’t miss the opening of American artist Ryan Trecartin’s first institutional solo-exhibition in Germany, presented by KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin – it promises to be great fun!
The show SITE VISIT, curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Klaus Biesenbach, presents a new multi-channel film and an expansive site-specific installation designed in collaboration with Lizzie Fitch, [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO

Monday, September 8, 2014

With the release of their new album Whorl, Simian Mobile Disco continue their rather amazing collaboration of videos with Jack Featherstone, thankfully.

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WROOOOAW

Thursday, September 4, 2014

The exhibition of the  Berlin Graphic Days 2014 was visually dominated by the colourful silkscreen prints in six parts by Hza Bažant from Czech ‘Hura Collective’. Hygienická Stanice is the name of the gallery that stands behind those simply amazing handmade prints on Japanese paper – each piece a part of story that lies behind [...]

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 32: HP BAXXTER

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Ever since former Spex editor Max Dax took over Telekom-sponsored  Electronic Beats magazine and turned it into a title of interviews on all things electronic, it’s served as a point in case that sponsored magazines can actually be worth the paper they’re printed on. For instance, H.P. Baxxter of German Dada techno embarrassment Scooter talking [...]

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Oneliners before Online

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Getting ready for winter. Thanks Steven Wright. Some quotes to quote.

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MONDAY MUSIC: DOUGLAS DARE

Monday, September 1, 2014

We received a big package of CDs today courtesy of the lovely fellas at Berlin record label Erased Tapes, which is going to keep us very happy and well-equipped for the winter to come. To celebrate the occasion, get in the mood with Douglas Dare.

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