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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Sparks

Says Bukowski:
(…) it needn’t be much, just a spark.
a spark can set a whole forest [...]

TRUISM OF THE DAY 37: SOU FUJIMOTO

True, true: a very Zen-sounding Sou Fujimoto in a recent issue of Pin-Up. Have a good weekend everyone.

WITH TWO BALLS

They wear their balls as a tie, shit in the sea and throw their house out the window: these are Spanish at the peak of colloquialism. Héloïse Guerrier, who studied Hispanic in Paris and then moved to Spain, decided to explore the origins of outlandish sounding spanish phrases of which there are plenty and put [...]

GRAND HOTEL SNOOPS

Maquisard from Team Maquisard on Vimeo.
Did this a game fall from heaven? Fan metamedia at its finest, Maquisard follows on the heels of the infamous Twin Peaks inspired Black Lodge to digitize a thinly-veiled homage to Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Though not as avant-garde as its precursor, Maquisard captures Anderson’s nostalgic charm [...]

PRINT NOSTALGIA 02

Now that the mother of all streetstyle magazines, i-D, has been swallowed up by the Vice empire for a bright and digital future, it’s only fair enough to cash in on the long legacy of the printed edition with a look back at 35 years’ worth of more than 300 covers featuring that famous wink.

Most Exclusive Website

Waiting in line, or queuing if you prefer, used to be a cultural strategy to cope with deficit. In an age of abundance, waiting becomes a monastery-like virtue. But not it’s not only selective minimalism of urban micro-brew knowledge, third wave coffee meticulousness or single speed bike fetishism indicating the less is beautiful consumerism: Please, [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: YOUNG FATHERS

This has been out for a little while, but it’s still so good: Shame by Young Fathers.

TOOWOOMBA CREATED THE LAMINGTON AND ‘WONDERS OF THE VOLCANO’ CREATED THE TEA TOWEL!

Celebrate National Lamington Day on the 21st July with Wonders of the Volcano (aka sisters, Caitlin Greenhalgh and Sarah Ryan) as they launch their new creative enterprise at The Sauce Kitchen, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia! On National Lamington Day, the sisters will launch their business and first product range – locally designed and hand printed Toowoomba-inspired [...]

Dark Austrian Heat

The Austrian Heat has returned: As that heatwave is about to make us feel all sizzurp’d and lean as hell, we’re still shaking our heads over Moneyboy’s unlikely, purple colored, codeine-fueled rise to fame – what’s more: if anyone ever asks you for a Lubitz, now you (kind of) know – but luckily, we don’t [...]

PRINT NOSTALGIA 01

Last night opened the exhibition Fashion Stories, curated by Wolfgang Tillmans at his Between Bridges space, showcasing a broad range of fashion photography from the 2980s and ’90s. More than that, it is a hommage to street style magazines such as i-D or The Face that proved so influential for generations of image and fashion [...]