Right before he boards the plane to Europe – visiting Paris and Berlin, Justin sent me his latest photo shoot done with instant film and emulsion transfers using a 4×5 Sinar studio camera and Konica Instant Press. The result is both stunning and brings a vintage erotic feel. Some of them look like paintings, don’t they? The shoot also features
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CityScape is a collection of three collages that depict the most characteristic parts of Copenhagen that almost appear as separate cities within the city. Created by Daim Yoon, Mette Lyckegaard and Marcin Ignac, the trio used the pictures of the city as as a graphical landscape mosaic that represents the feel they have to them. The urban landscape of Copenhagen is flat and homogeneous
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Aurelien and I share the same suspicion and doubt about the fashion industry. We’re also in a love-hate triangle with fashion magazines. The French native from Bordeaux is now based in Barcelona, where he continues his work with mixed media, photography and graphic design. My personal pick from his intriguing portfolio is called Surface – a very personal photographic réflexion on
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Philippe Poupet is an ambitious man. He’s also an installation artist from France who decided to take on Barranquilla, an industries city on the Northern Caribbean coast of Colombia (it’s also where Shakira was born). From a simple exercise, a procedure previously agreed by all, Philippe proposes a group of people, artists and/or students to participate for several successive meetings in
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In a post-VICE era it’s hard to surprise, disgust or even people. Everyone has seen the fuck-ups, the addicts, the pussy the dicks. However, Kevin Amato manages to bring the raw to display, wrapping its dirty in innocence. Amato has worked for nearly a decade as a photographer and is best known for his frequent contributions to international fashion and
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There is one agent provocateur who defined the way magazines will be made for over 2 decades; who restlessly continues doing what he does best – making you uncomfortable and forcing you to think; whom I am lucky enough to be creatively involved with. Matthias’s relentless determination in the quest to free your mind from redundant dogmas and reductive social
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Bela must really hate models. Or human beings, for that matter. In his work, be it editorial or commercial, he uses models solely as mannequins for the items he’s featuring. In a way, this is both an interesting commentary on the industry and a real chance for body parts models to hit it off. Bela Borsodi was born in Vienna
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Now, we have heard about the business cards facebook is sending out in cooperation with moo.com and some of us have even purchased some. However, business cards do seem to be 2000 and late. That’s what inspired Tobias Leingruber from FFFFFAT Lab to turn your online persona into an official ID document. His art project will launch this Friday in
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Emilio Gomariz, the man behind the new media art powerhouse Triangulation Blog, released 2 new video pieces based on the OS X genie effect: Spectrum Horizon & Spectrum Cube. Amazing work, Emilio!
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So I’m arrived back at school this past week and I feel as disconnected as ever. However I am slowly crawling my way out of the social hole I dug for myself by going to Berlin last semester. I needed to get away from it with a distraction… something in the city… Something like Art Hack Day, as brought up
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Have you visited the transmediale website recently? It looks horrible! It’s so 1999. It’s just wrong. It’s simply incompatible. At transmediale 2012 everything will revolve around the theme in/compatible. Incompatibility refers to the condition that arises when things don’t work together – a pervasive phenomenon in the field of technology. Both developers and hackers are always working to improve systems;
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When I came back to Berlin from my well deserved (well if you ask my boss, he’d digress) holidays I instantly got sick. I got sick of the darkness, the sky that seems to be right above me and not miles high and the darkness that settles over the city as early as 15:30 Bulgaria and Sofia in particularly can’t
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