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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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QUICK DRAW

Thursday, October 24, 2013

You read in doodles the automatic writing from daydreams. That is to be the philosophy behind Akira Horikawa’s 1000Drawing Project. For five years Horikawa’s regimen of drawing out daily impressions, oneiro-ventures, chances encounters have reaped a thousand images of the funhouse delirium. Fantastic, erotic, and sometimes eerie, with blank-eyed humans stacked and arranged [...]

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SELF I E-LOVE

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

If you feel a shame-tinge when sneaking a selfie in the H&M changing room, here’s some validation.  Moving Image Art Fair London is holding a National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, featuring works by 19 new artists from Europe and the States.  As they are all video works, they are a bit more complicated than the average Instagram [...]

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PADDOCK TO PLATE

Saturday, September 28, 2013

It’s spring in the southern hemisphere and today I went on the inaugural ‘Paddock to Plate Tour‘ in conjunction with the 2013 Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. If you find yourself in the garden city of Toowoomba next spring I can highly recommend this tour (and you will even come across pineapples)!

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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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FOUND

Thursday, September 26, 2013

The venerable publishing house of National Geographic is celebrating its 125th anniversary, and have graciously installed a new site to share the best of their infinitely vast archives of photographs documenting our weird and wonderful planet over the last 125 years. Need we say more? Beats any funky design blogs or fashion blurb by light [...]

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TIN CAN TOILET PAPER ROLL

Sunday, September 22, 2013

‘If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world…A mistake. That’s what makes the poetry.’
Miroslav Tichy
The man of bedraggled cameras made out of cardbored tubes, tin cans, toilet paper rolls, etc…

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