You know this feeling – you receive a friend request on Facebook by a beautiful stranger whom you have a couple of mutual friends with (some of them you have slept with and some of them you want to). Exactly this is how I met Christos Karpalos (26). I don’t really remember who was first to send a friend request,

It’s quite a geeky week on Grateful Grapefruit. And I have to admit that I like it. The next project I want to present to you is called One Hundred and Eight and is an installation by Nils Völker. It is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is

Tolia is actually the nickname for Anatoly Demidov. He is born 1988 in Moscow where he still lives and works on his amazing web art projects. Since there is not really a lot of info on Tolia, I contacted him right before he left for St. Petersburg. Here is what we chatted about: Tell me more about yourself than the

I don’t really like staged photo shoots -but this one is different. Ted Sabarese creates a new environment friendly fashion with his photo work. He shoots people. All kinds of people, but especially relishes working with non-professional models and actors who don’t fit the traditional definition of beauty. His personal and fine art work have won wide, critical acclaim for

Agnes Bolt made analog video versions of 5 of Rafaël Rozendaal’s websites: jello time .com, popcorn painting .com, much better than this .com, to the water .com and color flip .com. And I have proven my point that Grateful Grapefruit can be not just about body culture and focusing on male beauty and fashion. It continues to be a place for nerds and geeks – and I don’t mean

Bad Things That Could Happen is a self explanatory film made up of seven short scenes. Playing with scale and bringing objects to life, the film creates a subverted world where the mundane becomes absurd. THIS IS IT are a collective of illustrators, animators, artists and designers based in London. Although each artist works individually and in a variety of

Second in a roll, here comes a great video by talent from Australia I’ve already presented on Grateful Grapefruit – Kit Webster. Responding to the 2010 Gertrude Projection Festival theme ‘You,Me,Us’, Textavision allows anyone to text a word and have associated images emblazoned across the Gertrude Hotel. Programmers: Abraham Manzanares Chris Plant Björn Schwarzer Music: Nonsense Projection hire and calibration:

I am trying to prove a point here. Grateful Grapefruit and I were accused of being hipsterical and not arty and nerdy anymore. Excuse me?! Fil challenged me to post 5 consecutive entries that are NOT body-related and NOT coming from Berlin, NYC or Tokyo. I said OK and am on my way to prove him wrong. First off is

Sometimes it is good to remain silent after an amazing video work like that. I can only look forward to more from this Audiovisual Design class 2010 at the University for Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. Thanks to designisawhore for the link. Abstract shortmovie by: Fritz Schiffers Merle Düpmeier Lars Hillen Elena Stoljarowa Sounddesign: Fabian Wolf

If I were a girl, I’d definitely have a crush on Sandy Kim. She is furious. Her book Sandy Kim Photography has captured some of the best (mostly fucked up) NYC and SF moments as well as the story of a defloration (or intercourse during some girl’s period) Oh, and BTW she was also picked as Ryan McGinley’s favorite new