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COLOMBIAN POSTSCRIPT

If you are following our Instagram feed, you will have seen that we spent a week in Bogotá for a workshop at the impressive Utadeo university. Now that we’re slowly recovering from our Colombian hangover, it’s time to send a quick thank you towards the design department for inviting us in the first place, to [...]

THE PYGMALION EFFECT

As the holiday season is coming to an end, we are still looking for reasons to stay or even to go back to some of our favorite spots this summer. Cyprus for instance has not only a multilayered history, but also an eclectic contemporary art scene. Part of it is Neoterismoi Toumazou, a former novelty [...]

STAMP COLLECTING, 2015

Who knows how long those lovely little pieces of graphic design called stamps are still going to be around for, so to preserve their legacy for the future, creative director Blair Thomson has started a wonderful Instagram account called Graphilately showcasing the weird and the wonderful from the world of stamp design. Read more over [...]

SUMMER TUNES

Summer, sweet summer – we can’t get enough of it. Neither can our previous cover star Ryan McGinley, who has turned his summer road trips – initially intended over five years to add up to 365 days of summer – into a yearly routine. While the results tend to repeat themselves a little, don’t our [...]

FOOTBALL CULTURE 01

The world cup in Brazil is in full swing (and we’d be lying if we said that we weren’t interested, with the games running in the background more often than not), with Germany in the spotlight once again tonight. In the meantime, our dear friend and photographer Christian Frey has teamed up with journalist Kai [...]

ALBUM MAN

Andrei Tarkovsky’s intense films, though numbering only seven across his almost quarter decade career, have cemented his place as one of cinema’s master craftsmen. Meditative, intimate, and often opaque, the films lack nothing in compelling narrative nor symbolic density.  Those not fond of slower films can still wonder at his meticulous composition, baptized by [...]

FRUITY HOLIDAY

Here’s the first video for Heatsick’s latest release Re-Engineering. The track ‘Mimosa’ in combination with Hanne Lippard’s tropical visuals is truly a weekend starter, and a pleasant contrasting change to the onset of winter..

ALTERNATIVE MAPS

There were times when Angela Merkel had problems with maps, too . Considering that, one should not be harsh on the others. No more comments…

BLOOD PUMPING

Vancouver-based Blood Diamonds‘ ‘Heart’ showers sultry electronic reprieve for these icier Sunday.  Take some time just to listen to that flute.

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

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 [...]