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Throwback Sunday: Baby Kraftwerk 1970

Today, Kraftwerk’s stage performance may bring to mind retro-SciFi shows and commercial pop perfection, however this debut on German TV captures the experimental starting point of Germany’s most established synth pioneers. With sounds somewhere between the omnipresent E57-Sirens and Steve Reich the audience clearly struggles in confrontation with the new. Apparently, so does the DOP, [...]

FOR YOU, MIKE TEAVEE

For New York Magazine’s annual television issue, Italian illustrator Giacomo Gambineri creates a zany catalogue of the year’s most memorable moments on the tube. A Where’s Waldo? of primetime specials, where everyone is Waldo, the smaller pictures reveal a more depressing portrait of pop culture. Just look, and you’ll find that sex and violence direct the [...]

HOT FUZZ

A jab and nod at the cursed video trope, “Names” plays like a charmed VHS (does anybody use those anymore), kaleidoscopic artifacts coalescing to form BOSCO. If anything is cursed, the collaboration between the Atlanta singer and DJ/producer Treasure Fingers is supremely catchy and will probably take a few hours of your life. The video [...]

DAVID LYNCH: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

In an Australian first and the largest retrospective to date, an exhibition of the art and cinema of David Lynch will be presented at GOMA in March 2015. David Lynch will be in Brisbane to host a range of programs. ‘David Lynch: Between Two Worlds’ draws on all areas of Lynch’s working career to present [...]

JUST BELIEVE THE PFLUMM

Swiss Berlin-based artist Daniel Pflumm was interviewed for Frieze #14, giving good reasons for his antipathy against recent trends concerning the internet.
Although you might be a pro you might find it illuminative to read, because since the artist has been actively dealing with all sorts of digital media since the 90’s he really knows what [...]

FLIPPING OUT

As with many, I sometimes find The Art to be indistinguishable from fashion, design, or decorative art, which is completely fine. However, the trend towards their sugary, whimsical ilk sometimes gives me one too many (hot)flashbacks of semi-reluctant jaunts around Anthropologie and its twee brethren.
When I first saw a feature praising Juan Fontanive, I spotted [...]

TOP OF THE LAKE

As a fan of television crime series’ such as The Killing and The Bridge and the more recent True Detective too, I am now really enjoying the acclaimed 2013 Jane Campion directed, Top of the Lake.  Top of the Lake begins with a mystery – Tui, a 12 year-old girl walks chest deep into the [...]

TRUE DETECTIVE

I came across True Detective when friends were talking about it being the best TV show that they had seen since The Wire.  While I think it is really difficult to compare anything to The Wire, True Detective is good, really good!

CHRIS LILLEY AND JA’MIE ARE BACK!

Ja’mie Private School Girl.
World Premiere Wednesday 23 October, 2013!
Watch an exclusive clip here.

SHRIGLEY ME DIGGLEY

Pringle of Scotland – Animation by David Shrigley from NeutralZurich on Vimeo.
Everyone loves David Shrigley drawings.  At least a lot of people do.  I really like this one (which by complete coincidence can be bought in various forms through mono.konsum).  If you like David Shrigely drawings, you’ll really really like David Shrigley animations; even [...]