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CORAL MAGIC

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Whatever our little minds might think up, you can’t beat nature, of course. Nature will just always win. And just in case one might have forgotten about that, watch Daniel Stoupin’s stupendous time-lapse film, Slow Life, painstakingly assembled from thousands of still life photographs of coral reefs in full bloom. Turn off the sound [...]

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166400 weekends

Friday, March 28, 2014

It’s the weekend, and this 3200 year old tree has seen 166400 saturday nights. Guess this veteran knows to chill. Enjoy the break, even if you are not ‘aus dem selben Holz geschnitzt’.

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CELEBRATING THE SEASONS

Monday, February 17, 2014

As the northern hemisphere welcomes Spring soon, the southern hemisphere celebrates Summer’s end.

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PREHISTORICAL STONE ART MEETS 3-D

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

What drives the science team of the Pioti project to document each millimeter of the around 300.000 stone engravings of Valcamonica in the Italian Alps? Using highly potential 3D laser scanners they suceed in simulating a landscape of the ownknown and yet unsolved secrets behind those rock drawings, which were carved in sandstone around 12.000 [...]

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ANIMAL NOISES

Monday, December 2, 2013

Want a new Flight of the Conchords-esque fix?  From the considerably colder climes of Norway emerge Ylvis, brothers here to teach you the sounds of the forest.

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FUTURE PERFECT

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

It’s a bit late to be hyping this now.  Or perhaps we are just very foresighted.
In any case, Plural Projekt was/is (will be again) a Dresden-based artists collective started by five students from the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: Anna Grützner, Diana Welmeier, Denny Brückner, Patricia Detmering, and Benjamin Hummitzsch.  After a year of planning and [...]

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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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‘ALL WE EVER SEE OF STARS ARE THEIR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS’

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

For those who have not heard of it yet, Prix Pictet is the premier international photography competition focusing on the  environment and sustainability.  Founded in 2008 by Pictet & Cie, it rewards the most outstanding photographers based on the annual theme–one with CHF 100,000 and another with a photo commission (the honor aptly named the Commission). [...]

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EVOLUTION

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Before and after: Tuba Babuna in 2008 and 2012
Some months ago antievolutionist show girls of Adnan Oktar in Turkey were introduced to the world by Amsterdam based artitsts Pınar&Viola in Dazed Digital. What happens when an antievolutionist evolves, and turns into a hybrid being without even recognizing? See, evolution exists! Whilst claiming Darwin was wrong [...]

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FLOWER POWER

Friday, June 28, 2013

Flowers are blossoming all over menswear this, meaning next, summer season, as shows are in full swing right now in Paris. Now flowers is something Belgian designer Dries van Noten knows a thing or two about, so it’s no surprise that he might be one of the few who can actually pull it off. Flowery [...]

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