They wear their balls as a tie, shit in the sea and throw their house out the window: these are Spanish at the peak of colloquialism. Héloïse Guerrier, who studied Hispanic in Paris and then moved to Spain, decided to explore the origins of outlandish sounding spanish phrases of which there are plenty and put her findings down in the book Con dos huevos (With two balls), underpinned with illustrations by David Sánchez.
“I was struck by the surrealist, almost unsettling side of some idioms, if you take them literally,” says the author.
We are talking about expressions like “tener los cojones de corbata” (to wear your balls as a necktie) or the expression “pollas en vinagre,” (dicks in vinegar) which is one of Guerrier’s favorites.
“It’s true it sounds quite bad, but the truth is, it has nothing to do with male genitals!” she reveals. The “pollas” in question are actually a type of bird also known as “gallineta,” which is pickled in some parts of Spain.
[I shit on the milk]
“No tengo el chichi para farolillos”
But even they ran into the odd expression that was impossible to convey in images, such as “No tengo el chichi para farolillos,” a phrase that was coined by television screenwriters and which roughly means “this is the wrong moment for that,” but literally says “my pussy is not in the mood for Chinese lanterns.”
[To be inside a garlic]
[A fish should fuck you]
The above mentioned expressions and drawings are taken from the book ‘Con dos huevos’ by Héloïse Guerrier and David Sánchez. Mono.kultur does not wish nor intend to offend anyone in any manner.
Did this a game fall from heaven? Fan metamedia at its finest, Maquisard follows on the heels of the infamous Twin Peaks inspired Black Lodge to digitize a thinly-veiled homage to Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Though not as avant-garde as its precursor, Maquisard captures Anderson’s nostalgic charm with a good-old-fashion espionage mystery game. You–You!–in a Zero-esque avatar hunt for clues to find the dastard within the impeccable pastel geometry.
Now that the mother of all streetstyle magazines, i-D, has been swallowed up by the Vice empire for a bright and digital future, it’s only fair enough to cash in on the long legacy of the printed edition with a look back at 35 years’ worth of more than 300 covers featuring that famous wink.
Waiting in line, or queuing if you prefer, used to be a cultural strategy to cope with deficit. In an age of abundance, waiting becomes a monastery-like virtue. But not it’s not only selective minimalism of urban micro-brew knowledge, third wave coffee meticulousness or single speed bike fetishism indicating the less is beautiful consumerism: Please, take a ticket for the monastery of information opulence: The Most Exclusive Website invites visitors to be received in audience one by one. As mono.kultur is always fond of one on one situations, we though you might enjoy this one, too.
Celebrate National Lamington Day on the 21st July with Wonders of the Volcano (aka sisters, Caitlin Greenhalgh and Sarah Ryan) as they launch their new creative enterprise at The Sauce Kitchen, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia! On National Lamington Day, the sisters will launch their business and first product range – locally designed and hand printed Toowoomba-inspired linen tea towels. One of the tea towel designs was inspired and pays tribute to the unlikely Australian icon – the humble lamington! There are various stories about how the lamington was created. However, the sisters like to believe that it was devised by Armand Galland, the French chef to Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland (1896-1901). Galland is said to have had a Tahitian wife – hence his use of coconut. He created the delicious cakes at the governor’s country residence in Toowoomba. What Lord Lamington lovingly referred to as “those bloody, puffy, woolly biscuits”, we now know as the lamington!
Please come July 4, 2015, 3 pm
to Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz, Austria)
To coincide with the final day of Dexter Sinister’s exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz Arena, “At 1:1 Scale.*”, we will inaugurate the 9th issue of Bulletins of The Serving Library, the biannual journal Dexter Sinister’s Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt edit together with artist and writer Angie Keefer.
The event will begin around 3 pm, when the editors kick off an extended introduction to the new issue, on sports. This will be followed by a giant public game of Pong projected on one of KUB Arena’s walls, refereed by curator Eva Birkenstock. Meanwhile, a bar will serve, among other refreshments, Monkey 47 Gin courtesy of German distillery Staehlemuehle, accompanied by a specially-tailored set of Audio Annotations, including musical tracks and an intermittent narrative on “The Sporting Life” compiled by Junior Aspirin Records. The set will last about as long as a soccer match, possibly running into Extra Time.
Last night opened the exhibition Fashion Stories, curated by Wolfgang Tillmans at his Between Bridges space, showcasing a broad range of fashion photography from the 2980s and ’90s. More than that, it is a hommage to street style magazines such as i-D or The Face that proved so influential for generations of image and fashion makers – all stories are displayed as they were originally published, in ‘real’ magazines that you are welcome to browse and handle. So if you ever wondered what The Face really was like, or just want to hold it in your hands one more time, here is a rare chance to have so many influential titles accumulated in one place.
Terre Thaemlitz has commented on the changes to Japan’s controversial Fuueihou law via a statement on her website. The post responds to the “Declaration On the Future Of Japan’s Club Culture”, signed by 40 Japanese DJs on the same day that the 67-year-old law was officially changed by the Japanese government. She argues that it has “no purpose other than to comfort members of those reactionary political forces that have historically suppressed Japan’s club cultures,” and goes so far as to “pledge the future of Japan’s club cultures to the service of conservative social ideals.” She adds that “the larger issue at hand is not simply the ‘right to dance’, but the policing of our bodies and their movements”. The law was passed in 1948 in the post-war years to combat the lawlessness found in most dancing establishments. You can read the piece in full on her website Comatonse.
You can read an in-depth conversation with Thaemlitz on politics within the context of club culture in our current issue!
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