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SILENCE/SOUND

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Evolution of Silence, Matthias Lohscheidt. 2013.
Degeneration of sound to the finer development of listening pleasures.
Might be interesting to read with Luigi Russolo’s Art of Noise.

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Plane Lavatory Self-Portraits, Flamish Style

Monday, June 24, 2013

Nina Katchadourian: ”Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style” from Seat Assignment. 2010 and ongoing.
Update: Hendrik Kerstens seems to follow a similar approach. They should talk.

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FRESH FROM THE OVEN

Friday, June 14, 2013

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

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BERLIN UNDERGROUND

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Sometimes living in a city you take the weirdest things for granted, simply because you are so used to them. For instance, I was always a little baffled that Berlin underground stations seemed slightly different one to another, but then again I never gave it much thought just how different they really are – until [...]

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HELP WANTED ON MARS

Monday, January 14, 2013

Mars One is looking for astronauts. Before you apply, I recommend you read The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody.

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MONTGOMERY MUSIC

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

As an imaginary Fado song for sailors is how our first book artist Robert Montgomery imagined the words for his contribution to the first ever biennial in India – the Kochi Muziris Biennale, which also includes works by two other mono.kultur cover stars, Cyprien Gaillard and Ai Weiwei. Montgomery’s work was installed on the façade [...]

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THIS WILD IDEA

Thursday, December 20, 2012

This year, as any year, really, there has been lots of coverage of that wild beast called the United States of America, place of our fantasies and projections alike for the last century or so. But our fantasies or projections, or Hollywood movies for that matter, don’t necessarily come anywhere close to reality, which is [...]

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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: TOO MUCH

Friday, August 31, 2012

The third issue of Japanese bilingual magazine TOO MUCH focuses on migrant peoples, taking an editorial cue from the 214 million international immigrants in 2011 who, ‘traveled towards a better wage, a better life, or just another life. They saw clear and deep pools in the distance, life sustaining pools, and they  travelled vast distances to [...]

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PAKISTANI TRUCKERS

Monday, August 27, 2012

Painting of the beloved near depictions of animals with blue, pink, gold or more. Truck drivers in Pakistan know how to spice up their long journeys. Here is the Pakistani truck art!

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SYRIAN DRAWINGS

Friday, August 17, 2012

It’s a rare and special thing these days for an illustrator to engage with political subjects, and looking at the amazing George Butler’s drawings from a recent trip to Syria, it makes you wonder why most illustrators even bother with drawing cars and cats when you could actually be doing something, well, amazing. It’s also [...]

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