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Raise The Roof

Thursday, October 31, 2013

We (only) do interviews over here, but ROOF did poetry back in the seventies (in fact they still do), and thanks to Jacket2 (an archival platform for magazines committed to poetry and poetics) you can get yourself a coffee (or a case of beer), call it a week, and dig in.

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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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IF A TREE FALLS AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bomba Estero | A Take Away Show | Part 1 from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.
To those who live to scour Berlin’s soundscape, teeming with many a diamond in the rough, Petite Planètes will stand as the ultimate lovesong (excuse the cliché) to music’s overlooked, obscure, or near obliterated.  Uniting documentary, music video, and art [...]

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Mazzy Attack

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Everybody (in the know) thought Mazzy Star were history after album #3 in 1996 (Black Session from 1993 here), and now, 17 years later, they’re back with an album called Seasons Of Your Day, and singer Hope Sandoval sounds better than ever, like you can tell right away that they’ve influenced a whole ton of [...]

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NERVE RAG

Monday, September 23, 2013

Though I’m sure many have heard of  (and read from) it, this post goes to Merve Verlag,  mono.kultur’s neighbor during the MISS READ Berlin Art Book Fair.  The quintessential philosopher’s publication since 1970, it has introduced to the intellectually voracious such venerable minds as Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze.  In contrast to the stagnancy that usually pervades academia, [...]

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‘SAY_____’

Friday, September 13, 2013

Since the advent of industrialization, man has belabored the destruction of human identity in the technological sinkhole, enmeshed in metal, wires, and electricity and ever growing to the beat of Moore’s law.  The insistent currency of interchangeable events, status, and messages meted out by social networking sites presently fill the absence of the harder personal [...]

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LET’S GET LOST

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Finally managed to track down the brilliant documentary Let’s Get Lost by fashion photography legend Bruce Weber on jazz legend Chet Baker in his final years, and what a film. If jazz is your cup of tea, then this is for you, and if it is not, it’s for you anyway. Maybe rather surprisingly fashion [...]

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Bangalore Goes Boom

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Almost three dozen DIY ramp builders, pro skateboarders, journalists, and cinematographers from all over the world traveled to Bangalore, India earlier this spring to support the local skate advocacy collective HolyStoked in making true what they’d been dreaming of for the longest time: to build the first free public skatepark for the Republic’s growing skateboard [...]

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IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

At Kulturhuset in Stockholm an extensive exhibition of Imogen Cunningham’s work is displayed all summer until September 8th. Cunningham (1883-1976) explored many techniques, among them beautifully ghostly platinum prints also featured in the exhibition. Cunningham’s modern photography is timeless and has inspired many in her time and after, especially in her way of creating new [...]

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PSYCHEDELIC MARVELS

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

If you thought that psychedelic cover art was a thing of the past (hold on, make that cover art, full stop) – think again, because everything is ripe for a comeback sooner or later these days. Enter Leif Podhajsky, the man and mind behind open-mouthed faux marble effects, mind-boggling colour twistings and all kinds of [...]

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