September 2011
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“Don’t you know who I think I am?”
– Richard Avedon
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“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches”
– anonymous
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Adrien Merigeau directs a music video for “Cecelia & Her Selfhood” by the band Villagers.
The film charts the development of a young man as he navigates his way through an impressionistic landscape in search of an elusive monster which is intent on destroying his childhood home. Lost and confused for the most part, he nonetheless uncovers the beast; a creature whose origins are both...
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Quayola, a London based artist, has created a new multi-screen video-installation premiering on October 7-9, 2011 at the renowned Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, France’s second museum after the Louvre, as the opening of their 2011-2012 season. Strata #4 is part of his on-going series of films, prints and site-specific installations for the project devised to challenge accepted perceptions of...
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50 People, One Question: Chicago. What is your favorite memory?
A great short film by social media firm Brand Nua where fifty Chicagoans are asked what their favorite memory is. Some wonderfully spontaneous answers from lots of people.
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“Refine your singularities”
– Randall Jarrell
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“I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, “No. I will...”
– Steve Jobs on working with designer Paul Rand on the NeXT logo
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‘Something Specific About Everything’
Wonderful strange and minimalistic series of sculptures by talented German artist Samuel Henne called ‘Something Specific About Everything’.
The objects are made out of everyday stuff, like kitchen-gear, pills, plastic glasses, tape, foam, screws, matches, you name it and it’s there, with every common lousy thing playing an important part in the picture. Great concept, great title, good...
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TOKYO SLO-MODE by alex lee
Japan caught in slow. This is for my hometown.
Music Credit: Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke- …And the World Laughs With You
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Less is More: History in pictograms
Minimal humour and awful truth in a design package? This witty set of typodesign spreads a new light on many historical facts. By always fantastic Agency H-57 (Milan based).
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Oldschool Heroes
Amazing works by Fab Ciraolo, an illustrator based in Santiago, Chile. The project Oldschool Heroes features heroes of our childhood with a certain touch of hipster and oldschool: nice patterns and great outfits. Brilliant!
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Music video for “Wanderland” by Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe. Directed by Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys. Design: Kristof Luyckx & Michèle Vanparys Art Direction: Kristof Luyckx Editing: Stijn Deconinck & Kristof Luyckx Animation: Michèle Vanparys, Michélé De Feudis, Dries Bastiaensen & Kristof Luyckx. kristofluyckx.be
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Welcome to Zero Gravity, where you cannot tell if time sped up or slowed down. Filmed in beautiful burned-blue and yellow HD tones, your breathe catches at the possible freedom.
Video from Infinity List. Great video shot on a GoPro. Produced by Betty Wants In in association with the Melbourne Skydive Centre.
“There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy;...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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The fourth episode in The Scout’s craftsmanship series turns its eye on wood turner and sculptor, Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co.
Here an extract from their site about their first visit to Josh:
“Joshua Vogel’s relationship with wood is nearly symbiotic. As a sculptor he listens to its sounds, knows the story of each piece intimately, and...
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“No self is of itself alone”
– Erwin Schrödinger
“Incalculable are the benefits civilization has brought us, incommensurable the...”
– Malcolm Lowry (epigraph of Perec’s Things)
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Things Everyone Should Know About Time
The past and future are equally real. This isn’t completely accepted, but it should be. Intuitively we think that the “now” is real, while the past is fixed and in the books, and the future hasn’t yet occurred. But physics teaches us something remarkable: every event in the past and future is implicit in the current moment. This is hard to see in our everyday lives, since we’re nowhere close to...
