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Monthly Archives: April 2015

Snowden Memorial (removed)

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Street art going “museum-quality” sculpture: Artists secretly installed an Ed Snowden monument in Brooklyn Park. But officials were quick to remove it.

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EASTER PARADE

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Easter Parade in the Big Apple captured by Advanced Style.

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ISTANBUL IN 1920S

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

One of the changes in the world considering the post-war period in 1920s was the rapid modernisation in Turkey, as a result of a new republic, which originally started in the last 50 years of the Ottoman Empire.
In Facts and Fantasies: Images of Istanbul Women in the 1920s, Fatma Türe writes about the rediscovery of [...]

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A LETTER FROM THE PAST

Saturday, April 4, 2015

God bless the Internet, that treasure chest of little jewels hidden among piles of rubbish. Of course, 2010 did eventually get made, but it took another 14 years. Happy Easter!

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KÜTMAAN

Saturday, April 4, 2015

As an asylum seeker, one is already othered, lives in hard conditions whilst waiting for one of the basic rights to be approved: the freedom of movement. No one would leave her/his country if there was no more wars or more tolerance towards other choices. Even in so-called-civilised-West, women and LGBTI rights is still a crucial [...]

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DESIGN DETAILS: MONO.KULTUR #38 GUS VAN SANT

Thursday, April 2, 2015

There isn’t much we can add to the excellent review over at magCulture as far as the design of our latest issue featuring the great Gus van Sant is concerned. Like van Sant’s cinema, the issue is a quiet affair, setting up a few basic rules and systems and then focusing primarily on the visual [...]

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Guilty Pleasures

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

A lot of times, the tracks you’d call “guilty pleasures” are so much better than the ones you’re “o-f-f-i-c-i-a-l-l-y” supposed to love (before midnight, sober etc.)… (V. Maier pic, btw.)

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