The 200th issue of Dazed & Confused is on sale since Thursday 7 July, and the magazine celebrates its 200th publishing milestone by inviting Björk to guest-edit the entire issue and “show us the future”. Dazed editor Rod Stanley meets her at her home in New York to find out all about her remarkable new album and “app suite” Biophilia
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It only took two years for “Make a Scene” to come out, but an album underlined with a multitude of dance singles, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has proven to put out a beat driven album that is not to pass up. A great compilation to a Summer 2011 album set, this former British model and now mother of two, still proves that
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UPDATE: BL33N.com is finally officially open! Yesterday my inbox had only one name in the sender section: Matthias Vriens-McGrath. There was also one single subject: BL33N. We were obsessing about the magazine, the clothes, the artists, the faces representing the idea and the images. It is a dog’s life choosing from the whole collection, so I will make it easy
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Berlin Fashion Week is usually rather dull than interesting and rather boring than thrilling. The runways are flooded with designs and models that don’t really belong there and the crowd consists of people whose opinion about fashion is as important as Anna Wintour’s opinion about nuclear power. However, there are some shows that got me excited so far and designer
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William Fitzsimmons (Jacksonville, Illinois USA) first enchanted me wandering around the streets of Berlin one day when I noticed a giant poster with a beautiful bearded man on it. The image of the man had a vacant look on his face, sort of dream like and soulless at the same time, it was fascinating. Of course this grabbed my attention
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Vanbot (Ester Ideskog – Sweden) debuts their first album after months of inspirational writing from her bike rides throughout the city of Stockholm. Her songs and voice channel a sound that seems to hinder a passion of sadness and breakthrough to electronic beats and synth. Her self-titled album, Vanbot, was released worldwide on iTunes April 2011, after months of promotion
Read MoreHold your breath, this will change your life. Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldbergs do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction – Melvin has an identity. Actually,
Read MoreBad kissers are everywhere. God knows I unfortunately know loads of them. They either try to lick your face like a baset or just stay there with their mouth open and play the dead man. Sean, who has the same slimy problem with disappointing kissers, stumbled upon this amazing new make-out teaching device for couples. It is a witty art project
Read MoreThere are a lot of “before/after” images out there, but these captured my attention so intensely that they almost knocked me out. In the gallery, find a pick of Nicolai Howalt’s Boxer series capturing the expressions of young boxers before and after the fight. Nicolai Howalt was born in Copenhagen and graduated from Denmark’s Photographic Art School Fatamorgana in 1992
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Working on my WOODKID interview for the next issue of HONK! mag, I heard of THE SHOES. The moment I heard their new record, Crack My Bones (2011), I facepalmed myself and started wondering which friend of mine has kept this band hidden from me. The French dynamic duo have been calling on all the friends they’ve met on their
Read MoreYou have to pay closer attention on this one. There are hidden meanings in Kurt von Bley‘s art and if you just look at it and walk by, you wouldn’t see the layers of meanings hidden in the corners and the fine stitching of his artwork. You can see his work exhibited in Tape Modern’s Peep Show in Berlin. RSVP to the
Read MoreSean might be a visual artist, but in fact the medium he always relies on is (his) sensuality. His photographs and videos are always levitating somewhere between sensual eruption, sexual seduction and make you either think about your wicked ways of dating behavior or simply jack off. For Tape Modern’s Peep Show, Sean Johnson presents “Pizza Party” What it is and
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