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BLOOMING POTT

Monday, June 23, 2014

Indie animation mainstay since “My First Crush,” (2007), her plaintive ode to infatuation, Julia Potts has in the last seven years only grown as an artist. Her most recent offering, “The Event,”  places her wry melancholy and signature animal-like creatures into landscapes that merge live-action images of Montauk and hand-drawn animation.  The digitalized special effects [...]

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Safer Communities Together

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Oma Marnie’s Pie Bakery, “Germany’s first Kiwi-style pie bakery”, has just opened its doors: Serving a mean pie & the best flat whites (Five Elephant beans), they also have great ice-cream, plus all kinds of paninis/baguettes and fresh organic breads. If you pay these guys a visit, don’t forget to blow [...]

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ANT HEATER

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

It’s getting quite hot, and mugginess slow cooks the brain. Times like these call for pop-silly-coolness (aka pop-si-cles) to afford our neurons some soothing entertainment. So: if you think you’re hot, check out these fire ants.
With a disclaimer for creature un-friendly behavior and oblivious kitsch.  An Only in America production.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 28: DEBORAH LEVY

Friday, May 9, 2014

Nicely linking up to our truism from two weeks ago (doubt is in the air?), writer Deborah Levy brings it home in the ever glorious White Review.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 27: ROBERTA SMITH

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Art critic heavyweights Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz – coincidentally also a couple in real life – talk about their craft, writing as a form of thinking and the state of the arts, in Interview.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 26: REBECCA SOLNIT

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

I have to admit I am not familiar with the work of US writer Rebecca Solnit – yet – but her interview in the latest issue of The White Review is one of the most engaging I have read in a while.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 25: REI KAWAKUBO

Friday, February 7, 2014

Something I’ve always believed: taste should be mistaken for quality (and vice versa). Comme des Garçons‘ notoriously reticent Rei Kawakubo in conversation with the ubiquitous Hans-Ulrich Obrist in the latest issue of System.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 24: JOHN BALDESSARI

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

I have yet to come across a bad interview with John Baldessari – the guy ‘who paints dots on faces’ – and his latest in Interview with David Salle is no exception… A prime lesson in how to get across a strong point of view in a charming and entertaining way.

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TRUISM OF THE DAY 23: NARCISO RODRIGUEZ

Saturday, October 26, 2013

And isn’t that what we’re all hoping… Fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez (of Michelle Obama fame) in Interview.

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QUICK DRAW

Thursday, October 24, 2013

You read in doodles the automatic writing from daydreams. That is to be the philosophy behind Akira Horikawa’s 1000Drawing Project. For five years Horikawa’s regimen of drawing out daily impressions, oneiro-ventures, chances encounters have reaped a thousand images of the funhouse delirium. Fantastic, erotic, and sometimes eerie, with blank-eyed humans stacked and arranged [...]

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