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Individual Inhumation

Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Ga-Adangbe in the South of Ghana have a tradition in representational caskets, what a great way to pass away. Some more, and even more.

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MOMA

Sunday, January 22, 2012

MoMa is now up and running on Saturdays throughout the Tasmanian Australian summer months. It stands for MONA Market (not to be confused with the other MoMA in New York!). MoMa is a produce-based market so you can expect super fresh produce from local community growers. There’s also food workshops, live music and lots of laying [...]

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INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Interview between Laura and her seven-year-old son Coen
Laura: You’re seven now. How is it being seven?
Coen: It’s okay. I liked being six more though.
L: Why?
C: I don’t know. It’s like Neverland in Peter Pan. What are you writing?
L: I’m typing what you say.
C: Huh?
L: It’s not a big deal. I’m just writing down what we [...]

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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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IRANIAN ROSES

Thursday, January 5, 2012

We mentioned Port magazine before, and with its last three issues, it has matured into one of the best titles on style and life that combines writing of the highest quality with a great and sophisitcated design. So we were all the happier when they got excited about a reportage we did years ago in [...]

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER, 1928-2011

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler, second-generation Abstract Expressionist and painterly innovator, has passed away. After studying art at Bennington College, Frankenthaler met and dated the preeminent modernist critic Clement Greenberg, and found her way into the burgeoning New York art scene of the 1950s. She met leading artists Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and her future [...]

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The Emigrant

Sunday, December 18, 2011

W.G. Sebald, one of the greatest German authors of all time, died 10 years and four days ago. He was 57 years old. Damn.

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ROAD CRASH DATA

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Thank you BBC: ‘The image shows the location of 2,396,750 road crashes in Great Britain from 1999 to 2010. Each light point is an individual collision which resulted in a casualty. The intensity of brightness shows where collisions are more frequent.’ See the video here.

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Tag der Weltmaschine – day of the world machine (LHC)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Quarks, neutrinos and other nerdy stuff – you might not know what you missed. Yesterday was the official ‘Tag der Weltmaschine’ – Day of the World Machine (LHC) – and  your chance to go and see where the Big Bang happens: Experience Die Weltmaschine live! Better still: you can still do this if you happen [...]

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WANDERING COMMA

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Opening tomorrow is Ryan McGinley’s new exhibition titled Wandering Comma (whatever that is supposed to mean…), at Alison Jacques Gallery in London, where he will be showing seven new large scale works – maybe for the first time functioning not so much as a series, but rather as single excerpts of his continuing practice of [...]

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