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LONG LIVE DEATH GRIPS

Thursday, July 3, 2014

[live tv] #049 Pt. 1-2 Death Grips – Guillotine from RaRaRa / Light & Noise on Vimeo.
As some may know–and more should know, Death Grips just announced their break up yesterday–for real this time. For four years they brought a barrage of hardcore noise-rap, ferocious performances, and a give-no fucks attitude that pushed the [...]

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BLOOMING POTT

Monday, June 23, 2014

Indie animation mainstay since “My First Crush,” (2007), her plaintive ode to infatuation, Julia Potts has in the last seven years only grown as an artist. Her most recent offering, “The Event,”  places her wry melancholy and signature animal-like creatures into landscapes that merge live-action images of Montauk and hand-drawn animation.  The digitalized special effects [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: DE-BUG

Friday, March 14, 2014

German De:Bug magazine was one of the first titles to offer me work as a photographer, and I spent a few years working quite closely with them; so even though we ended up going different ways eventually, I am sad to learn that after 16 years and 181 issues, the Berlin institution are currently preparing [...]

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APOCALYPSE NOW?

Saturday, February 22, 2014

These apocalyptic appearing press photos of the latest events in the Ukraine were published yesterday by the spanish newspaper El País.
Immediately touched by the anarchic brutality of a real event I started to notice that the images would arouse a certain sense for surreal beauty just at the same time they had a shocking impact [...]

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Monday Music: RIP Efterklang

Monday, January 20, 2014

Sadly, the incredible Efterklang are about to call it quits: “February 26th 2014 we will play one last concert in Sønderborg, Denmark, where we grew up,” they announced on their website last week. “It will be the last concert with Efterklang as you and we know it. We are not sure what happens after this [...]

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OUR WORLD

Friday, December 13, 2013

Today, of course, the Internet is ablaze with Beyoncé announcing her new album with an accompanying set of a whopping 17 videos, since one simply won’t do anymore these days, and certainly not for the Big B – ‘big deal’ we say and turn up the volume of Our World, the brilliant one hour-tribute by [...]

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MONUMENTAL HILLS

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Most people know Hong Kong has one of the densest populations in the world, and they’re literally running out of room,  so much so,  cemeteries are growing into big towering affairs siting on the edge of Hong Kong’s  monumental hills, Manuel Alvarez Diestro shows how real it really is, with thousands of graves stacked one [...]

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LEGENDARY HEARTS

Thursday, November 7, 2013

“You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.” How is this possible when someone you dearly loved for 21 years is gone…? Laurie Anderson made the most powerful and intense dedication of love to her recently deceased husband Lou Reed, by writing an essay. It is a farewell, [...]

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AN ETHNOLOGIC LENS

Friday, September 27, 2013

It all began with a journey to Brasil in 1968, when the photographer Leonore Mau and the author Hubert Fichte started working and travelling together. Mau, who was not only Fichte’s companion, but also his muse, documented African-American rituals and cults. Her ethnologic approach paired with a unique eye for motives, made her to one [...]

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KESSELSKRAMER X MOTTO

Thursday, August 8, 2013

As rematch of the book swop between our friends at Motto and Kesselskramer, the hipster London agency with attached art publishing venture will present their latest issue of their magazine Useful Photography tonight in Kreuzberg. The name already says it all: photography with no artistic but as a practical tool to enhance everyday life, which [...]

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