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BEDTIMES

Saturday, May 24, 2014

In a nod to Randall Island’s history, this year’s Frieze New York Projects was built on theme of leisure and play. While the sprawling fair was a veritable smorgasbord, with established favorites (ex. Yayoi Kusama), the mental (Takeshi Murata’s Melter 3-D), the bizarre (Slavs and Tatar’s Blinky Book), my favorite piece came from these commissioned works: [...]

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Lost Book Found

Monday, May 12, 2014

“I found connections between the street vendor, Benjamin’s ‘flaneur’, and my own work as an observer and collector of ephemeral street life,” Jem Cohen once said about his 1996 film Lost Book Found, a truly mindblowing, poetic Super 8/16mm flick about city life. Got 37 mins? Well, then watch it right now:

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Cilantro + Ginger

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

A simplistic, tasteful debut collection from the young New York based menswear label Cilantro + Ginger, showcases straight-tailored clothes in fine fabrics and unique, monochromatic prints, entwined with Chinese born designer Zhang Qingyun’s approach of simplicity and attention to detail
“The Fall 2014 collection interprets the closet of an unfamiliar neighbour. He has perhaps four shirts in his wardrobe – [...]

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Monday Madness All Around

Monday, March 17, 2014

It’s a monday, and we are all going back to the hamster wheel. Artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley were living and working in their 30-feet-hamster-wheel at Boiler for only 10 days until March 9th. It’s a bit like an architectural remix of Mad World. Have a good start to the week everyone!

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MADAM SICKLINGER

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Minka Sicklinger is a female tattoo artist and illustrator based in NY. Apparently, animals, myths, Hindu and Shaman rituals are influences of her work.
Happy Woman’s Day!

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CLUB DECONSTRUCTIONS

Sunday, January 26, 2014

The perfect night out in London! Harmonic Series presents a special PAN showcase at the Southbank Centre. It’s a celebration of PAN’s new audiovisual direction, and five years creating adventurous electronic music. The line-up includes: A new collaborative piece by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey and legendary sound artist Florian Hecker, the club deconstructions of [...]

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GILDA, ARE YOU DECENT?

Monday, November 18, 2013

It is crucial to choose the right topic while procrastinating. Old movies, especially Rita, Ginger and Fred would be the ones to cure the Sunday/Monday blues with their charm and dances!

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MONO.STUDIO: TSESAY WEBSITE

Friday, November 15, 2013

Today is a good day. As is every day when something one has been working on for a few months is finally seeing the light of day, and so we’re happy and relieved that the new website we developed, in collaboration with programming wizard Christian Frey, for New York fashion label tsesay is online as [...]

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THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL

Friday, October 4, 2013

Conversations with Marina Abramovic, Noah Baumbach, Michelle Williams and mono.kultur interviewee Kim Gordon to just name a few (!) as well as panel discussions on a span of different topics; one about first-person filmmaking with Miranda July (another mono classic)- all this and plenty more at The New Yorker Festival starting today and lasting the weekend. Sigh. oh [...]

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MONO.STUDIO: TSESAY AW 2013 CAMPAIGN

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

We’ve been doing the occasional jobs and commissions in art direction and design and writing and and and over the years, and slowly, slowly one might be tempted to call it a studio in its own right. One of the more exciting projects has been to develop an advertising strategy for the New York fashion [...]

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