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‘ALL WE EVER SEE OF STARS ARE THEIR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS’

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

For those who have not heard of it yet, Prix Pictet is the premier international photography competition focusing on the  environment and sustainability.  Founded in 2008 by Pictet & Cie, it rewards the most outstanding photographers based on the annual theme–one with CHF 100,000 and another with a photo commission (the honor aptly named the Commission). [...]

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ENOISMS #01: OBLIQUE STRATEGIES

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

In case you were wondering where the title or the admittedly rather obscure subtitles throughout our new issue with Brian Eno come from, they were all taken from the wonderful project Oblique Strategies by Eno and the artist Peter Schmidt, conceived in 1974 as a simple deck of cards offering simple advice in case of [...]

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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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TRUISM OF THE DAY 20: JOHN GIORNO

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Poetry legend John Giorno’s take on Twitter in the April issue of Interview (where you can also find out about Andy Warhol’s physical endowments, should you be interested…)

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MARMITE

Saturday, May 25, 2013

You can divide the world into those who like and those who don’t like Marmite, or at least the Anglo-Saxon world, since the rest of us are likely not to have heard of Marmite ever before. So for the uninitiated, the BBC’s Good Food section (and I can hear a roar of cynical sneering coming [...]

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THIS IS WATER

Friday, May 10, 2013

Now that the words by one David Foster Wallace have been tragically limited, we treasure each one of them, especially when they talk directly to us and about our lives (which they usually do anyway), as in his 2005 speech to a graduating class at Kenyon College. Prime Wallace with his pitch black humour that [...]

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VONNEGUT WISDOMS

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut, that titan of American literature, would have turned 90 last Sunday, had he not died of head trauma after falling down a flight of stairs five years ago, which seems like peculiarly appropriate death for someone who has dedicated his life to the blackest of satire. So it goes. He left behind not [...]

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DIARY OF ME

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

This post is not for you, or maybe it is, depending on whether you share our editing team’s other half’s passion for a certain R. Kelly, who has been popping up embarrassingly often on these pages recently. But we are not the only ones with this particular weakness, because news just arrived that our colleagues [...]

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MAP OBSESSION

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Our apologies for this one, but we really couldn’t help it… Maps, of course, are wonderful and highly addictive things, and we are sure that Mr David Rumsey is going to agree: having gathered more than 30,000 and counting fine historical examples of cartography in his rather mind-blowing collection. The histomap above is taken from [...]

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SUDDEN POETRY

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Robert Montgomery is a beautiful surprise. Infiltrating public spaces and billboards with unexpected and ambivalent messages that will make you stop in your ways, it is poetry in motion. Find out more here, or even better, if in London, experience it for yourself.
All work by Robert Montgomery

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