_after looking at all the images on Nick Harrison’s website you’ll find this message: “thank you for scrolling all the way down here”, nice!
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_the submissions for the 2010 edition of Curvy Book & Exhibition are now open. Curvy presents a selection of female graphic artists and illustrators from around the world.
Aquiles Hadjis a visual hunka-love
Just like that. Aquiles-Hadjis-is-the-shit. This is an unashamed, blatant post of love and imagery about our most recent entry in that narrow category called art we can’t live without. And, to make it even more tempting for our dear readers, a fact of disturbing awesomeness: here’s the only place in the whole wide internets where you can find some of the work that Aquiles is doing currently at Tokyo. Because not only is he an astonishing painter, he’s also the kind of [...]
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_it keeps happening: we choose a photo and after choosing it we find a thousand we like even more. Exhibit number n, the work of Luke Gregory.
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_yes, Marcel Dzama did the illustrations for Guero, but his artwork spans way beyond record covers. Did you know that he often employs root beer base?
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_every now and then we spend hours looking at pretty pretty fonts online. Today [ yes it was one of those days ] we liked Badona by the people of Gravitart. ALSO: did you know about the iKern service?
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_for those of you into music monday’s and stuff, here’s our contribution: Boompa, canadians and into watercolor websites.
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_and on a lighter mood: you can download Abstruse Goose’s book here.>
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_paranoia thursdays: did we post something about Michael Northrup’s amazing photographs? did we? looks like we haven’t… but we’re not so sure.
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_friday and some geek fun: Anatoly Zenkov’s Mouse Path application traces your movements around your computer and by doing so, it shows how complex our day-to-day activity can be; do download ! pc and mac version available!
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_you should check Alexander Apostol’s Residente Pulido series. You should. I mean, it’s Wednesday.
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_on top of this words a detail from the Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy by the folks of Eco-Labs.
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_the weekend is always a good time for freebies, this saturday: Quicksand, a free sans serif typeface by Andrew Paglinawan [ via Typophile ], enjoy!
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_words by Seek and Peak: “I’m Brandon Schaefer, a 25 year old graphic designer. I make things, and am available for freelance and commissions. Please, no crimefighting requests”.
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_something in the way between UFO’s and Szymon Roginski.
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_we’ve never featured a booking agency, but we just felt for the name of this one: Approaching Serpents, hey the even book Eliot Lipp!
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_this is Good William and the Eye of the Dead by Andy Kehoe [ makes us think in some bearded Bowie lurking in a wood ] [ can Bowie grow a beard? ].
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_today we’ve got a bad case of the nerds: we’re effing loving the obssesive Photographic Periodic Table of Elements.
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_looking trough the window, enjoying vodka with some friends and wondering how Sauerbruch Hutton’s building of the Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt is going? this is the last thing we heard about it.
_today, a detail from the painting Blood Oranges and Apple Cores by Max Key.
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_present and correct we like.
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_how is it possible that we spent the whole 2009 without making a single post about Pietari Posti’s work?
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_we thought that Barry Anderson was a sculptor but he’s actually a photographer.
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_where is Gastón Caba? in Asia or in South America?
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_what type are you? video test made by the people of Pentagram, apparently we are Universal [ via Gopher friend Siera ].
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_cutest.ameisenbär.ever! by Stephan Lomp.
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_that thing about following blogs in languages we don’t understand, this week: Janine Viveka does photographs and general linkage.
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_we begin the year with a nod to our beloved [ and snowy ] London: the creative agency Airside is one of our favorites out there.
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_this nice Line_A font (and a couple of other fonts) are available for free at Rodrigo Fuenzalida’s website! Also: Today is Gopher Editor Lope’s Birthday. Be sure to drop him some birthday love.
2009: Noah and The Cramps
Ok people listen up: is December 29h, midnight’s approaching and we haven’t decided yet which song will end up being our last post of 2009. You know how it is: you plan to work all night but then wine uncorks itself, fake moustaches appear [ and piñata hats ] and eventually zig-zag is the new A-to-B; so, in honor of this pleasant dilemma of too much music to share, and too many guests to entertain, the according tic-tac-toe solution: a tie. [...]
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_speaking of residencies, have you heard about Tokyo Wonder Site before?
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_the fellas from hangar.org in Barcelona just released an online magazine featuring their resident artists.
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_for those of you looking for an agent, 2agenten is s nice German agency. They even represent our beloved Mario Wagner [ check out their store! ].
Jimmy Turrell Cuts and Paints
For the Gopher follower [ we love you! ] this won’t come as a surprise: we effing love collage. Tonya Harding + Tokyo + Macrame we like. Velázquez + The Maharishi + Oscar D’Leon we like even more. So, as the year comes to an end, read a short interview with one of our favorite cutandpasters – and a hell of a good artist with paint and brush – Jimmy Turrell
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_tuesday, drooling, Jason Karolak.
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_the posters that Paul Rogers has been doing for the Los Angeles Metro are so nice that they keep getting stolen out of the train cars. Also, check out his “name that movie” series.
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_”your mind, a wild monkey” the website of Ommwriter told us. Oh yeah? well, your mind a bunch of 00101010110111’s, you, dumb website.
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_Pat Pat Robat: thousands upon thousands of little colorful triangles together.
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_the answer to a question we had for months [ and keeping the Dutch theme in this little blackboard ]: the wonderfull Jazz-a-Palooza Festival @ Utrecht artwork is put together by the people at Autobahn studio.
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_for some weird reason we keep callin Karen Mrisk by the name “Fernando”.
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_it’s tuesday and we’re listening to Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins, and by “we” we mean Lope, ‘cuz Michu doesn’t like Jenny Lewis even a little bit.
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_woke up and felt like practicing Portuguese: María Valentina.
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_Carolina Raquel Antich is an Argentinean currently based in Venice, she won the Italian Youth Art Prize in 2005, and exhibited at the 51st Venice Biennale. In recent years she has held solo shows in New York, London, Rome, and Art-U-Room @ Tokyo.
Wondering about Pulp and Ré
Simple fact: every time that we Gophers are not capable of finding something on the Inter-webs the same intense feeling pervades us. We feel like huge, clumsy sea-boats, incapable of capturing the hands of small, marooned people. Or small marooned librarians with PhDs in magazine-making. Or small marooned pastry chefs when we just had three cups of coffee. [...]
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_hey! Print Magazine is following us on Twitter, we just found out today, we looove Print Magazine and especially their index of competitions.
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_as soon as you enter the website you read: we have decided not to die. Bold statements in the Arakawa + Gins website.
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_we had no idea that the people of Lineto were behind the amazing typo, graphic identity and signage of the Köln-Bonn airport in Germany that we visited in April, thanks to Billy Ben for the link!
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_Tohyto is a good old friend, and his work gets more amazing each day. You should check out the Wall of Light visuals he made @ York with the people of Wassergate, go! go!
Swiss Design beyond Müller-Brockmann: Billy Ben
Born in Fribourg and designer from the cradle, Bénédict M. Rohrer [ a.k.a. Billy Ben ] is much more than your average line-drawing, typeface-choosing feller. To this team of Gophers, he’s a character that pops up regularly when we are on the lookout for music: Records, flyers, concert posters, dj booths and booklets recurrently carry his name on their backs, tempting us -free wheelin’ e-mailers- to contact him. This temptation proved too strong and we just went for it with B. It took twelve [...]
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_we want to have a freebies section soon, just like the people of the Subtype Foundry or Font Shop or even Toyota.
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_wood that melts in your mouth, not your hands: Marteen Baas.
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_not everyday you bump into a “wearable textile sculpture”, so kudos to Nadine Byrne for surprising us, even deep into the XXI century.
Toro Y Moi / Omnipresent
Toro y Moi – Causers of This [ Carpark, 2009 ]
It’s time for our wildly speculative affirmation of the week: we’re pretty sure that you, fellow Gopher visitor, have already heard about Toro y Moi. We just can’t help but be sure about it since the internets seem to be brimming with all kinds of Toro y Moi presence these days. You go [...]
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_last night we were remembering a Pipilotti Rist exhibition while stuck in traffic.
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_this is a painting by Jean-Marc Bustamante. [ via Xavier Hufkens ].
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_”and from that moment every time I hear the words funiculi funicula I remember Asako Narahashi“ said Mike over some wine this week.
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_we can’t believe we have forgotten to feature our friends of La Más Bella experimental magazine until today. Sorry Diego & Pepe !
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_finally we know who took this photo: Irina Rozovsky as a part of her series “One to Nothing“.
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_”Ji Lee is a polymath of all sorts of creative pursuits” says a 99 Percent interview, check her work at pleaseenjoy [ be sure to check the New Museum campaign ].
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_with Sunday, some retro-motion: a dollar dreadful.
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_week’s ending and Victor Cobo blatantly asks: do you remember when you loved me?
The Sound of Lucrecia / Congost
The Sound of Lucrecia
Ara from the album Congost [ Pruna Recordings, 2009 ]
A couple of years ago some of us Gophers felt for the voice of Lucrecia Pérez. Lucrecia is a Colombian-born but Barcelona based singer, one of those musicians for whom many a critic have ventured to qualify with clichéd words like “siren” or “mermaid”, attributing her haunting sounds [...]
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_A Little Encouragement by Leah Tinari.
El Diente de Oro
In this enormous world few galleries-cum-shops are loved by the Gopher team as much as El Diente de Oro. The “Diente” is a beautimous project located in Buenos Aires and founded by our longtime friend PIAN, along with musician Coni Cibilis. It is a shop, a gallery, an engine for all sorts of cultural activities and for many a traveller, a place to feel comfortable: it has one chair, one small sofa, one door and one bathroom [ though the bathroom [...]
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_installation by Ulla von Brandenburg [ and drawing, painting, film, video and performance too ].
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_her exhibition at ZingerPresents might be about to end, but we’re sure that Marijn van Kreij is up to something already.
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_Karin Brunnermeier was born in Buchloe [ Germany ], but guess what? she now lives in Berlin.
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_our moratorium on Anita Brunnauer’s website ended today.
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_amazingly, the sculptures that Jessica Fortner builds are even more complex than her illustration work.
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_if you went to NYC recently and attended some undergound-ish concert, chances are that NYC Taper recorded it [ in the image, a set by Blood Warriors ].
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_on top of these words is “Parallel Universe” by Diana Copperwhite [ or is it "Copper White" ? ].
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_the folks at NowNow [ Melbourne ] continue their series on studio visits, this time checking Dylan Martorell’s place.
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_oh come on! How are supposed to become anything BUT an artist if your name is Stephanie Wunderlich ?
Deastro / Tone Adventure #3
Tone Adventure #3 from the album Moondagger by Deastro [ Ghostly International, 2009 ]
Monday afternoon means a new track on the the Gopher website. Meanwhile we’re still into our old favorites and have kept abusing the music we listen to week in, week out, until the calendar marks the end of time. This means, to this [...]
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_we found Jayne Helliwell thanks to the people of Gentle Friendly.
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_ just thinking that it would be so amusing to find a website that draws inspiration / makes fun of the head of Monocle Magazine, and bam! Being Tyler Brûlé.
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_today the Gopher is divided, [ divided ! ] in civil strife: those who like the work of Norwegian artist Kristian Hammerstad and those who… well.
Gentle Friendly / drone the pop way
Gentle Friendly begins as an environmental experiment in instrumental hodgepodge. After a friend rescues a drum-kit and some coffee from “a skip” David and Daniel [ and their drum-kit, their coffee, their friend and two old keyboards ] get together and start making enough noise to make the neighbors complain. Though their baptismal attic is no longer a viable venue, the London duo still makes noise-pop that is everything but neat. Sounds accumulate, loop and come back to bite you in the ass, [...]
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_google a phrase you hear on the street and in most cases some artsy art appears! . This week: “were never married” heard on the subway / photographs by Jackson Eaton.
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_so, the website says: Recovering Lazyholic: Photography & Stuff by Erin Hanson.
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_Grady O’Connor inspired by the novel White Noise.
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_what’s the idea behind the Complete Publications in PDF Format collection ? some of the books don’t even make sense at all.
Mark Weaver we love you very much
A couple of weeks ago we started our annual “things we’re suckers for” list with an [ adorable ] website that looked like an old computer desktop. Today we bring you the second installment of the series: things we’re suckers for 002: collages that incorporate 50’s imagery. The faded colors, mechanical composition, basic geometric shapes and beautiful typefaces keep driving us into drooling countries, and damn, Marker Weaver is a hell of a good cropper and paster fella.[...]
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_special promo Thursdays ! this week: Ryan de la Hoz.
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_Tuesday morning, beginning of September, and some Eduardo Recife.
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_if you ever drop by Cheltenham don’t forget to visit the Meantime Project + Space. On top of this words some work by Freya Gabie [ no link for her because we just can't find anything on the interwebs ].
Interview / warm weather, Campari and Guy Yanai
As August comes to an end, we bring you an artist from beyond the turning leaves of Europe and America. Guy Yanai is a Middle eastern painter, the founder of the well-known project Gallery 33. Our sources reveal that Guy is also a better-than-average tennis player and Campari lover. For you, gentle readers, Guy and a couple of hours of Friday left, enjoy both. Read though.
[ click on the title for full interview ]
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_hahahaahahahaha : Sounds of Silence by Anton Krueger.
Rita Indiana y Los Misterios /
El Blu del Ping Pong by Rita Indiana y Los Misterios
Wednesday. Fourth day of the week. Last night we went dancing merengue. Like with flashing lights and stuff. Rum. No headache thanks. In honor of such rhythms we bring you [ dear audience ] a little jewel from Dominican Republic: Rita Indiana y Los Misterios, a merengue-fóquer ensemble [...]
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_we had no idea that Sanna Annuka was half Finnish and half English, although we did figure out that the Kalevala had some sort of influence in her work.
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_wonder if our dear friend Mario Wagner knows about Mark Wagner and his currency collages.
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_not only do we enjoy how Steve Raura’s website behaves [ all smooth movements and stuff ], but we certainly like his illustration work as well.
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_Mark Silipo from Magic Sweater has a zine well worth a check if you’re into illustration: Teen Vomit [ and yes, we're not that much into the mag name ].
Interview / 18 questions for Mike Cina
- What lessons have you learned from working in design and within the art scene of Minneapolis?
1. I don’t really see myself as a designer.
2. People here really stick to themselves. It is a very Dutch/German town.
3. Minneapolis invented the modern form of advertising.
4. Minneapolis designers are obsessed with the “kitch retro” visual work. I still don’t know why.
[ click on the title for full interview ]
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_ok, ok, we swear is the last time we feature somebody from the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, but truth is that we saw the work of Alec Soth also at the CCCB [ Barcelona ] website. Some saliency syndrome happening around here, sorry folks.
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_since we’re still checking the Stephen Wirtz Gallery from two posts ago, we’ll like to feature some Deborah Oropallo today; also, her book Pomp was just released so you might want to check that too.
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_in Raymond Saunder’s work graffiti meets botanical meets chalk meets blackboard meets stencil, more images at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
“Le Grand Content”: A Clemens Kogler oldie
An old favorite of the Gopher, the Le Grand Content video is something we have bumped into in many different times and places. A document on the omnipresent PowerPoint culture, it reminds us that advertising agencies, sales teams and strategy fellas are always out there, lurking behind sharp corners, trying to categorize us. A good way to introduce video at the Eye Candy section [ since we have featured street art and photography already ] it still [...]
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_we just have the feeling that this is going to be a really short post: drawing by Tilman Faelker.
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_in the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces are distributed by bicycles in the streets to random passers-by, says the website of Papergirl, an art project that takes place once a year in Berlin since 2006.
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_just wondering how many anarchist / zine / activist shops like Irregular Rhythm Asylum are up and running in Tokyo.
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_does anybody know what happened to the Canadian magazine Pyramid Power ? is it still around?
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_if you drop by Morld’s website don’t forget to check the Human’s Favorite Color [ 人間の好みの色 ] project.
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_we know this should be in the Sound part of the website, but what the hell, we’re really enjoying Minger Records music these days.
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_according to her website: Johanna Dery not only illustrates but also makes short films, drawings, prints, little books, and occasionally music & papier-mache creatures; multi-tasking, Rhode Island-style.
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_Rip: a Remix Manifesto is a documentary about copyright and the current generation done by Canadian activist Brett Gaylor. Another example of his position about copyright is the project Open Source Cinema.
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_nothing visual today, just Daniel W. Drazer’s column at Foreign Policy and Tyler Brûlé’s one at the Financial Times. Airport reading you may say.
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_yesterday’s Jared was 21 years old and from Boone, USA. Today some Pekka Niittyvirta, 35, and from Helsinki. That thing about taking photos of people from behind them.
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_if the title is to be taken literally, the guy bending in the photo is a priest. More info at Jared Boger’s website [ can you believe that Boger is just 21 years old ? ].
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_the new week gets us thinking about color and gradient. Fitting our mood - Jordi Ferreiro [ Barça ].
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_thursday night and some Jake Longstreth before going home.
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_the Design Has No Name studio is from Argentina but their clients are spread all around the world.
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_we’re still wondering if the some of the portraits and landscapes by Lane Coder are shot in Polaroid.
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_and now that we’re talking about blogs: Boicozine was a project from Press Publish that we still miss, their new blog -just called Press Publish- is excelent, but has quite a different interface and feeling [ in the image some work by Beci Orpin featured on the PP blog ].
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_we found out about Oum Koulsoum via the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog.
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_John Delk does installations like the one above, but he’s also into video and photographs.
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_things we’re suckers for 001: websites that look like old computer desktops.
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_we had no idea that Adam Scott [ the painter not the golf player ] had showcased his work at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
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_so what is Michael Hall up to?
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_handmade in french is fait à la main, for more info, ask Jean Jullien.
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_apparently, Ryan McGinley knows where the summer goes.
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_two words: Pinoy Biswalstyle.
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_Roger Kelly is from london and you can find his work at the Halles Gallery.
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_last time we checked Richard Hogg he was not into making movies. Now he is. And yes, we still prefer his illustration work.
