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BIRDWATCHING

Friday, December 5, 2014

The Birdwatching collection began in 2009 with the introduction of NY’s unofficial “City Bird”, the Pigeon, for Various Projects’ Travel/Hotel store at the Ace Hotel. Various Projects’ quirky and endearing Pigeon is now joined by an ever-growing flock of State and Regional birds. Pictured above, California Quail: Knitted in Bolivia in 100% Alpaca with 100% [...]

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NOT HAAS BEENS

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Excuse the terrible pun, but the works of the Haas Brothers demands irreverence, even the corny sort. Since officially opening in 2012, Nikolai and Simon Haas have produced a bizarre body of work that teeters between Louise Bourgeouis-Dr. Seussian surreality and everyday utility. Invoking a naive sensuality unbothered by the sexual and taboo, their work appears [...]

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WATCHING, WAITING & WONDERING: THE TRAVELING CAT

Saturday, September 13, 2014

As an animal and cat lover, I love this, ‘On our journey to find the perfect travel bag for a cat we are inspired by the Dutch Ethologist and Nobelprice winner Niko van Tinbergen. A researcher who studied communicational behaviour of animals. He would observe them and ask the right questions before he would even [...]

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SOMEBODY

Friday, August 29, 2014

It’s kind of typical of Miranda July to announce that she is currently working on her first novel, but what she’ll come around with is a messaging app instead. This lady is all over the place, one might think, and is there anything she hasn’t done yet? But of course there is this unmistakable charm [...]

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BOERUM HOUSE & HOME

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Boerum House & Home via Old Brand New.

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QUIET COMING

Monday, August 18, 2014

“Wildcat is a state of mind; an experiment inspired by the composition and performance of jazz music.
The characters that populate this world are actual – cowboys; and envisioned – angels.
The town they all inhabit is real – Grayson, Oklahoma.”
2012 gave us “Until the Quiet Comes”, the pithy collaboration between filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and musician Flying Lotus. Its [...]

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TUBE MOMENTS

Friday, June 13, 2014

Subway systems always have their particular allure, and it’s funny how they come to represent the city they are in – just compare the unique smells to be found in Berlin, compared to Paris or London. What is universal is the way how we will rub shoulders with people from all walks of life, cramped [...]

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TWINKLE TWINKLE

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Since relocating back to sunny Philadelphia (guys, the sunny part is a joke), I’ve been wanting to shed some love on one of Anerica’s most underrated art-poli. Because it’s been so gloomy recently, I feel particularly drawn to the work of Ray King–no pun intended–whose iridescent, delicate structures have been exhibited in multiple [...]

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SUNDAY, 11 AM

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Ever wanted to go people watching in front of Berlin’s famed Berghain club on a Sunday morning? So did photographer Oliver Eglin, who took a series of portraits of clubbers post-euphoria, or as he puts it, ‘in the transitional stage between the fantasy of Berghain/Panorama and the blandness of the real world’. But rest assured, [...]

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ALBUM MAN

Friday, March 14, 2014

Andrei Tarkovsky’s intense films, though numbering only seven across his almost quarter decade career, have cemented his place as one of cinema’s master craftsmen. Meditative, intimate, and often opaque, the films lack nothing in compelling narrative nor symbolic density.  Those not fond of slower films can still wonder at his meticulous composition, baptized by [...]

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