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Friday, October 31, 2008
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The D’amore Chair design by Russell Grigg
The sexy "D’Amore Chair", also known as "The Naked Chair" by designer Russell Grigg. Check out more great designs @ Chez Banc
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Urban Villa Domus Malles by Metrogramma
Bolzano, Italy // photography Daniel Bellini
Welcome to the 14 apartment residential building "Urban Villa Domus Malles" designed by architects Andrea Boscietti, Alberto Francini and Enzo Fontana from Metrogramma. The price tag is 2,500,000 euro and the residence is located in Bolzano, Italy. The windows used in the Metrogramma’s Domus Malles design are bow windows patented by Metrogramma – Sogeca that fall perfectly into the fractured geometry of this building.
www.metrogramma.com
CLOT :: Original Fake
CLOT :: Original Fake tees // t-shirts features on the front, a Kaws “CLOT” graphic & the CLOT and Original Fake logo on the back // available in black, grey, white/blue and white/red.
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The B Sides
The B Sides // runs November 22, 2008 until March 7th, 2009 // Curator: Edwin Ramoran
This group exhibition explores the dynamic relationship between house music and contemporary art. Artists are working in various media such as installation, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. Participating artists include:
Jaishri Abichandani, Elia Alba, Vincent Bryant, Lorie Caval, April Choitz, Pradeep Dalal, Jerry Gant, Gerard H. Gaskin, Leor Grady, Uraline Septembre Hager, Ryan Joseph, Jayson Keeling, Simone Leigh, Francis Legge, Muema Lombe, Ivan Monforte, Rashaad Newsome, Louis Nieves, Luna Luis Ortiz, John Parris, Carlo Quispe, Jacolby Satterwhite, Ethan Shoshan, Soigné Deluxe, Eugene Tambourine, Rhina Valentín, Zuvuya Collective
artists: Zuvuya Collective, Rhina Valentín, Eugene Tambourine, Soigné Deluxe, Ethan Shoshan, Jacolby Satterwhite, Carlo Quispe, John Parris, Luna Luis Ortiz, Louis Nieves, Rashaad Newsome, Ivan Monforte, Muema Lombe, Francis Legge, Simone Leigh, Jayson Keeling, Howie Keck, Ryan Joseph, Uraline Septembre Hager, Leor Grady, Gerard H. Gaskin, Jerry Gant, Pradeep Dalal, April Choitz, Lorie Caval, Vincent Bryant, Elia Alba, Jaishri Abichandani
opening reception: Saturday, November 22, 2008 // 5:30–8:30pm
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www.aljira.org
The Top 10 Google Android Apps
Rev up your T-Mobile G1 with the best programs, utilities, and games for the new Google Android OS.
imeem:
The G1's media player isn't great. But imeem brings a wide collection of customized, streaming radio stations with a focus on recent popular music to the phone. Music sounds clear, and you can create customized stations around your favorite artists, Pandora-style. imeem also has an extensive social component through its Web site, but you don't have to participate to listen to and discover new music. Conveniently, the player will run in the background when you're in other applications. It works brilliantly over Wi-Fi, well over 3G, and poorly over EDGE.
ShopSavvy
The best of the several comparison-shopping applications on the G1, ShopSavvy lets you take a picture of a bar code on a product box with the phone's camera, and then churns out prices for the product from various retailers along with reviews from online shopping sites. When I tested it at several stores including the FAO Schwarz toy store in New York City, I found that it regularly came up with lower prices than another Android shopping app, CompareEverywhere. It got most of my items correct, though once it did think that a Playmobil toy set was a 50-inch flat-screen TV. ShopSavvy's major weakness is its collection of "local" stores; when I was standing in midtown Manhattan, it told me that the nearest store selling a particular video game was a Wal-Mart in New Jersey. That said, ShopSavvy is a good tool to have when you're shopping in a brick-and-mortar store and you want to compare prices with an online retailer like Amazon.com.
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By Sascha Segan
imeem:
The G1's media player isn't great. But imeem brings a wide collection of customized, streaming radio stations with a focus on recent popular music to the phone. Music sounds clear, and you can create customized stations around your favorite artists, Pandora-style. imeem also has an extensive social component through its Web site, but you don't have to participate to listen to and discover new music. Conveniently, the player will run in the background when you're in other applications. It works brilliantly over Wi-Fi, well over 3G, and poorly over EDGE.
ShopSavvy
The best of the several comparison-shopping applications on the G1, ShopSavvy lets you take a picture of a bar code on a product box with the phone's camera, and then churns out prices for the product from various retailers along with reviews from online shopping sites. When I tested it at several stores including the FAO Schwarz toy store in New York City, I found that it regularly came up with lower prices than another Android shopping app, CompareEverywhere. It got most of my items correct, though once it did think that a Playmobil toy set was a 50-inch flat-screen TV. ShopSavvy's major weakness is its collection of "local" stores; when I was standing in midtown Manhattan, it told me that the nearest store selling a particular video game was a Wal-Mart in New Jersey. That said, ShopSavvy is a good tool to have when you're shopping in a brick-and-mortar store and you want to compare prices with an online retailer like Amazon.com.
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By Sascha Segan
Sunday, October 26, 2008
mm recommends: Public Transit Recordings - Next Stop - Various Artists
As for a great diverse blend, we like the Next Stop compilation out now on Public Transit Recordings. Click here to continue reading.
Next Stop features some diverse sounds from hip hop, broken beat , techno, electronic soul, future beats, electro-funk, and ambient with ill tracks from long-time PTR contributors including Voice, Moonstarr, Arch_Typ and LAL, and slamming new tunes from Karma & Lotus, Think Twice, Tony Ezzy, Incubator, Grahmzilla from Thunderheist, Sarah Linhares, iNSiDEaMiND plus more.
www.ptrmusic.com
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Berenice Abbott // "Pike and Henry Streets, Manhattan" // 1936
October 23, 2008 - January 6, 2009 // Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona // Barcelona, Spain
The MACBA presents Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition which brings together almost 2,000 vintage photos and other documents dated between 1851 and 2008 by some 250 authors, from Lewis Hine to William Klein. The survey or photographic mission came into existence with a specific goal: to build the image of the emerging city in a time of huge but difficult to visualise transformation. It was the writer Prosper Merimée who, in 1851, sponsored the first major photographic campaign in history: the Mission Héliographique, intended to create a public photographic archive of French historical monuments through the work of leading photographers. This mission constitutes the first formalisation of the photographic utopia in modern culture: the construction of a universal archive. Towards the end of 2006, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) adopted the model of the photographic survey, historically promoted through government bodies, and initiated a project based on Barcelona, aiming to offer a diagnosis of today's city and its focuses of transformation for the 21st century. Commissioning photographers from various generations and backgrounds, the Museum set out to investigate the notions of photographic document and city.
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interest) dating from 1851 to 2008 by some 250 authors, including Lewis Hine, Eugène Atget, El Lissitzky, Herbert Bayer, Edward Steichen, Berenice Abbott, August Sander, Weegee, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Agustí Centelles, Xavier Miserachs, Franco Pinna, Allan Sekula, Robert Adams, Martha Rosler and William Klein, to name but a few. Going beyond the presentation of a single, linear narration through the history of photography, the display offers an entire constellation of narratives on the genealogy of the document: the historic photographic missions, the reformist document, the workers' photography movement, exhibitions, advertising, projects based around ethnography and the documentation of cities, and so on. The exhibition is brought to a close by the commission that initiated Universal Archive: the Barcelona 2007 Photographic Mission, which provides sixteen new looks at the city of the future.
In the early 20th century, Eugène Atget built an exhaustive inventory of Old Paris, with over 8,000 negatives; in the decade of the twenties, August Sander made a collective portrait of German society based on hundreds of photographs divided into archetypes; and in 1947 André Malraux dreamed of an "imaginary museum" which would bring together the universal art of all times by means of photographic reproductions. The construction of a universal visual archive has long been the historical mission of photography. This idea of the image as a bargaining chip, comparable to the function of money in capitalism, is the cultural condition of the emergence of the photographic document as a merchandise in common use and, at the same time, its utopian horizon. Does incorporation of the new Photoshop-era digital technologies signal the liquidation of this utopia?
The Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia exhibition investigates notions of the photographic document through the study and restaging of some of the debates sparked by the genre at different moments in history. Though the first photograph in the display dates back to 1851 and the last to 2008, making its historical spectrum is as broad as the very history of photography, the exhibition does not attempt to present an exhaustive and chronological encyclopaedic archive of photography, but rather sets out to trace the possible genealogies of the photographic document and their conflicts. The resulting constellation of narratives offers surprises, tensions and overlaps, aimed at bringing about a rethinking of the role of photography today.
While Universal Archive is presented as a historical exhibition that adopts museum codes ad hoc, it is also a multidisciplinary project of public participation which has received the cooperation of dozens of institutions, as well as that of Catalan civil society as a whole. This involvement is underlined in the MACBA tradition of experimentation and concerns not only the conditions of the Museum in the city, but also the possibilities of a de-territorialised museum, immersed in social dynamics and capable of rewriting the role of the institution as a public space. The display was curated by Jorge Ribalta, with assistance from Margarita Tupitsyn, Vanessa Rocco, Élia Pijollet, Madeleine Bernardin-Zeyen and Jordana Mendelson. The Barcelona 2007 Photographic Mission, which concludes the exhibition, was jointly curated by Ribalta and Joan Roca, director of the Museu d’Història de la Ciutat.
Mounting of the exhibition
The exhibition is mounted throughout two entire levels of the Museum: the second floor, where the display starts, and the first, where it ends. In addition, the ground floor of the MACBA Studies and Documentation Centre (the building adjacent to the Museum) has created a space dedicated to documentation on the Barcelona 2007 Photographic Mission based on publications, audiovisual material and accessible links. The exhibition is sponsored by Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM) and has received the support of Barcelona City Council and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Following its stage in the MACBA, part of the display may be seen in the Museu Colecção Berardo-Arte Moderna e Contemporãnea, in Lisbon (co-producer of the exhibition, along with the MACBA).
Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia brings together almost 2,000 documents, notable among which are the nearly 1,000 vintage photographs and copies, dating from 1851 to the present time. The exhibition seeks to highlight how these images really circulated in their day, so in addition to photographs it features 19th-century albums, magazines, publications, films, screenings of historic exhibitions and documentation material. The display installations also include a reconstruction of the Soviet Pavilion from the Film und Foto exhibition (Stuttgart, 1929), designed by El Lissitzky, as well as the projection of photographs by Pierre Bourdieu, co-produced by the MACBA, Camera Austria and the Fondation Pierre Bourdieu. The works belong to some 130 collections worldwide from such prestigious institutions as the MoMA, Tate Britain, the Musée d’Orsay, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Washington Library of Congress, the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, the Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona, the Museu Nacional d’Història de Catalunya (MNAC), the Architects' Institute of Catalonia (COAC) and the Fundación Foto Colectania
Standing out among the almost 250 authors represented in the exhibition are Lewis Hine, Walter Ballhause, Alexander Rodchenko, Morris Engel, André Kertész, Weegee, Eugène Atget, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Walker Evans, Brassaï, Robert Doisneau, Bill Brandt, Dorothea Lange, El Lissitzky, Dziga Vertov, Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Edward Steichen, August Sander, Franco Pinna, Francesc Català-Roca, Ramon Masats, Oriol Maspons, Joan Colom, Xavier Miserachs, Carlos Pérez Siquier, José Ortiz Echagüe, Margaret Mead, Juan Rulfo, Charles Clifford, Jean Laurent, Robert P. Napper, Charles Marville, Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, William Klein, Bernd andy Hilla Becher, Allan Sekula, Ed Ruscha, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Marcel Broodthaers, Garry Winogrand, Adolf Mas, Josep Brangulí, Pere Català Pic, Agustí Centelles, Margaret Michaelis, Otho Lloyd, Humberto Rivas, Manolo Laguillo and Gilbert Fastenaekens.
The photographers who took part in the Barcelona 2007 Photographic Mission include Ahlam Shibli, Marc Patault, David Goldblatt, Allan Sekula, Patrick Faigenbaum, Sandra Balsells, Jean-Louis Schoellkopf, William Klein, Gilles Saussier, Xavier Ribas, Xavier Basiana, Ana Muller, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lothar Baumgarten and Manolo Laguillo.
The exhibition areas
The exhibition is structured into two large parts. The first traces a historical path through some of the leading general debates on the photographic document in modern times (from 1850 to 1980), divided into four general areas: Policies of the Victim (1907-1943), Public Photographic Spaces (1928-1955), Compared Photography (1923-1965) and Topographies. The Culture of Landscape and Urban Change (1851-1988). The second section takes the city of Barcelona and its historical visual evolution as a specific case study. This second part is also subdivided into two areas: The Photographic Construction of Barcelona in the XXth Century and 2007. Metropolitan images of the New Barcelona.
www.macba.es
Canal Cheong-Jagerroos: The Realm of Solitude
Canal Cheong-Jagerroos // Promenade (2008) // Acrylic, rice paper and mixed media on canvas // 100 x 100 cm
October 23, 2008 - November 9, 2008 // Galleria Bulevardi 7 // Helsinki, Finland
Galleria Bulevardi 7 is pleased to present a solo painting exhibition by Chinese international artist Canal Cheong-Jagerroos, featuring about 40 pieces of her recent works. Born in 1968 in Macau/China into an artistic family, Canal has won international recognition and acclaim for her unique motifs of blending ancient and modern elements together. Canal Cheong-Jagerroos is an artist with roots in Chinese traditional painting and according to the old traditional way she uses ink and rice paper as her primary mediums. Her works are mostly inspired by ancient Chinese philosophies, poems, nature and seasons. In addition the very special cultural experience of having lived in 7 different countries in the last 15 years from Asia to Europe and Africa to Scandinavia permeates her later works.
When looking at Canal’s paintings, one cannot help but feel drawn into the mystical realm where love, joy and freedom meet in harmony. All elements in her paintings, be it the main object or a small detail, are painstakingly worked on with equal devotion. She paints on multiple layers of rice paper with acrylic, ink and Chinese pigment eventually incorporating these together using mixed medium to derive a sense of depth on canvas.
Since 1986, Canal has held numerous solo and selected exhibitions in different countries, namely, Macau, France, Italy, Switzerland, Africa, Germany, Sweden and USA.
www.bulevardi7.com
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Sat. Oct. 25 Fashion Week Closing Party // Spoke Club, Toronto
Mon. Oct. 27 Hilton // Athens, Greece
Sat. Nov. 1 Fashion Cares // Toronto
Fri. Nov. 7 Birthday Celebration w/ Osunlade at Therapy // Phillips Lounge, Montreal
Sat. Nov. 8 Birthday Celebration w/ Osunlade at Therapy // Revival, Toronto
Sun. Nov. 9 Birthday Celebration w/ Marques Wyatt at Deep // Los Angeles
Sat. Nov. 29 Private Party // Athens, Greece
Sat. Dec. 6 Therapy at Pink // San Francisco
Sun. Dec 7 Giant Step at The Mondrian Hotel // Los Angeles
Mon. Dec. 8 Giant Step at The Clift Hotel // San Francisco
Miami Sunset Sessions
Oakley :: Andrew Petterson: hand-crafted artist series frogskins
The Oakley artist series includes a collabo with Frank Kozik, Kaws/Original Fake and Barry McGee. Next up to bat is artist Andrew Petterson on the classic Frogskins.
50 pairs of the Oakley Frogskins have been hand-customized thus creating 50 one of a kind sunglasses. You can look for an early release at selected retailers.
Oooms Studio: Sea-Urchin Chair by Rachel Van Outvorst
If you are into new and creative styles for your living environment like we are then you will want to check out the Sea-Urchin Chair made by Oooms Studio & Dutch designer Rachel van Outvorst.
www.oooms.nl
Mama Tried Studios: tattooed leather
Hand-tattooed leather chair by Mama Tried studios.
Laser-engraved table and a matching pillow (hand tattooed)
www.mama-tried.com
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
CLOT :: Original Fake Tee
On the low, just a little taster of the collabo between CLOT and Original Fake. The tee features the logos of both brands on the back. Released next week.
thnx KAWS good-lookin' on this joint.
Maiden Noir: Nin Truong
Nin Truong, the founder and creative director of Maiden Noir.
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we drink zygo, and stuff happens
starring:
Lauren Felidae // Lindsey Ballerina // Cailey Trouble // Alexandra Boobs // Aisha Hips // Kelly Alien // Samantha Distractions // Alysa Statuesque // Josh Madden Styles // Dana James Facepaint // Abby Ballin Weaves & Nails // Mukai Lights
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Bug & Warrior Queen: Two-pronged attack
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On his new album, London Zoo, Martin- (a.k.a. The Bug)- retooled dubstep and dancehall into something bleak, apocalyptic and jaw-dropping. His gritty, bass-heavy assault on the future is helmed by an all-star squad of MCs, from Flowdan and The Spaceape to his current touring partner, Warrior Queen. Here, The Bug and Warrior Queen talk about their flow both on and offstage—how she's a split personality while The Bug will always remain The Bug.
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On his new album, London Zoo, Martin- (a.k.a. The Bug)- retooled dubstep and dancehall into something bleak, apocalyptic and jaw-dropping. His gritty, bass-heavy assault on the future is helmed by an all-star squad of MCs, from Flowdan and The Spaceape to his current touring partner, Warrior Queen. Here, The Bug and Warrior Queen talk about their flow both on and offstage—how she's a split personality while The Bug will always remain The Bug.
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Greedy Genius: Lupe Fiasco :: Paratrooper
Greedy Genius :: lupe Fiasco collabo thus creating the Paratrooper model // twist of braided and lizard leather and accents it with lime green. Available @ Leaders 1354.
http://leaders1354.com
KILLA RECORDS: DJ K & Mighty Melody
New Mix (192K mp3)
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DJ K - Short but Sweet (podcast 16) - October 2008 // genre: ragga jungle
1. in the new year intro // 2. dj hose - dubstafari // 3. feyder - 18 and over // 4. diamond geezer - girl of my dreams // 5. cabbie - in the black // 6. NW2 - my way // 7. bassface sascha - international sound // 8. drum unit - i’m a hustla // 9. feyder - crazy talk // 10. prodigal son - bang bang bang // 11. ez sniper - let me know
12. feyder - laura
Click here to download this podcast.
www.killarecords.com
Lizee Tessier - 64
I have a confession to make. I'm looking back on what could have been. Someone from my past has kinda come back into my life and I'm not being very cautious. No, I'm speeding right ahead ignoring all the warning signs. I just want to see what happens when I crash into him. Unfortunate thing is, we all know collision is such an ugly sound.
Lizee Tessier - photographer intern - mondomedeusah creative
http://lizeetessier.blogspot.com
Vanity Scribblin's
Well I saw a king drown himself in a creek
Just to tell her...
But when he was gone he had no breath left
To tell her...
Of his undying love, his undying love
Well I heard the queen flung herself from the walls of her castle
But in the midst of her fall
She regretted it all
But it was too late
Her undying grief
Was her own live's thief
Well kings and queens know not about love
They sink like a stone in their majesty
Lizee Tessier - photographer intern, mondomedeusah creative
http://lizeetessier.blogspot.com