December 2011
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2011: A YEAR IN MUSIC
> ORLANDO > MAAR
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SYMETRY > THEMES FOR AN IMAGINARY FILM
Three years in the making, Symmetry - the project that began as a conceptual tangent between Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, & Desire’s more abstract sides - finally sees its release this month…
Over the span of thirty seven tracks, Symmetry embraces the elegance of European noir cut with a lean & violent American razor…
Symmetry is not Pop. Stripped it to its most...
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PENIQUE PRODUCTIONS
> PENIQUE PRODUCTION > barcelona based art collective > interior installations > inflatable color balloons > new identity of public spaces.
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SOFT AS SNOW [BUT WARM INSIDE]
> THE BILINDA BUTCHERS are a dream pop duo from san francisco who take their name from bilinda butcher of my bloody valentine. comprised of multi-instrumentalists michal & adam, the group writes songs that contrast idealistic nostalgia with romantic uncertainty and sorrow.
> HEAR IT! LOVE IT!
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EXPLODED
> LOLA DUPRE is a collage artist and illustrator. her collages are made exclusively by hand with paper, scissors and glue.
> exploded series
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ICONATOMY
> a series of collages by GEORGE CHAMOUN, a swedish jewelry design student at the konstfack university of arts. the project combines several themes and concepts such as ideals, anatomy and hollywood patterns against the factor of time. according to the creator, his intention was not to make comparisons of any sort, but rather to emphasize the structural aspect as well as the existent ...
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MEMORYHOUSE : THE KIDS WERE WRONG
Memoryhouse is the recording project of neo-classical composer Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion from Guelph, Ontario. The name “Memoryhouse” is itself, a tribute to German composer Max Richter’s seminal work and the project was originally a means to escape the paralysis of winter. It mixes ambient loops, breezy samples, aquatic guitars, and burbling synths.
They are finally ready...
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MARIO LEKO
Mario Leko is photographer from Croatia.
This is what he says about his work:
“I rarely think about “meaning” just before making the photo, what i often have in my mind is some sort of a plot, or let’s say imaginary storyboard. But this depends as well, like this lonely figure sitting, facing this blue harbour was more about me being surprised of how silence can be detected on film. As...
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TEARS IN THE TYPING POOL
> TENNIS cover BROADCAST. a beautiful homage.
“Broadcast has been a huge influence in our band from day one. Bassist James Cargill and drummer Steve Perkins create, in our minds, an infinity of space that very few bands can claim. The arrangement of tones and instruments put Trish Keenan’s voice just where it needs to be. Hopefully this homage of ours makes sense as Keenan will be...
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TOUCHING STRANGERS
> happenstance meetings, brief intimate interactions with strangers and the limits of our personal spaces inspired RICHARD RENALDI for his latest photographic project, Touching Strangers.
the concept is simple. get complete strangers to touch and pose. the process is more complicated. what exactly does it mean to ‘touch’? renaldi encourages viewers to think about how we relate physically to...
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MS. PARIGROS
> GABRIJELA PARIGROS : visual artist interested in nature of human destruction, in its causes and its path of development...co-founder of the Museum of Destruction.
> barbie series
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PRIMITIVE DESIRE
VOYAGES EN AMOUR ET EN MUSIQUE.
CAPSULES DE TEMPS.
POUR TOI ET MOI.
the world of johnny jewel.
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I CAN'T HELP IT
> THE MIRACLES CLUB is a performance art and house music group from portland, oregon.
their latest release, i can’t help it, has been described as perfect marriage of ethereal pop and classic house sounds. it’s out on THE WURST MUSIC EVER, first full-length release of the cult new york label, WURST.
> HEAR IT BELOW!
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FIERCENES: you take it out on the dance floor!
return of late 80s/early 90s house sound brought back voguing. beth ditto, junior boys, kim ann foxman, sam sparro, hercules and love affair [but also beyonce and britney] all featured it in their videos.
VOGUING: THE MESSAGE is a nice pre - PARIS IS BURNING mini documentary about the emerging new york ball culture/voguing scene with a lot of footage and some awesome performances and statements...
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RóISíN MURPHY : SIMULATION
Róisín Murphy is taking her time. After her widely praised 2007 album Overpowered she’s finally performing some new tracks and Simulation is the newest of the bunch. It’s a slow building 6 minute disco / deep house affair with lots of groaning and icy vocals. Give it a spin together with 2 other tracks that surfaced this year, Demon Lover and Momma’s Place. They are not released yet so...
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ERLEND LOE : DOPPLER
It has to be said, directly and without reservation: Erlend Loe is wry,uncomplicated, unaffected and has a bittersweet voice that is unlike anyone else’s. His main characters are usually men on the verge of a breakdown, suitably thoughtful people going through a crisis, stumbling anti-heroes looking for meaning in everything. The verbal humor they represent conveys no parroting of fashionable...
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MARK WEAVER
Mark Weaver is a graphic designer & illustrator in the New York City area.
His clients are: The New York Times, WIRED Magazine, Fast Company Magazine, GOOD Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and more.
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KORALLREVEN
It all started on the South Pacific island Samoa some years ago when Marcus was there for a longer vacation and one day, while chillin’ under a coconut tree, got a feeling of how he wanted the pop music of his dreams to be. Spiritual like the local Samoan Catholic church choirs, hypnotic like the breathtaking tropical nature and, overall, a feeling of that you finally had reached to ”the...
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LA NEW WAVE
» WET was an avant-garde LA-based magazine published between 1976 and 1981 and known for its innovative use of graphic art. originally revolving around the idea of “gourmet bathing” over the years the magazine began to reflect a broader expanse of stories, capturing a kind of smart, artsy LA attitude that was emerging at the same time as punk, but had its own distinct...
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TWISTED
» NICOLAS KENNEDY SITTON is creating new twisted versions of reality.
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Little Fluffy Clouds
“Little Fluffy Clouds” is a single released by the English ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in July 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. The Orb also included it on their 1991 double album The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. “Little Fluffy Clouds” was re-released several times with different...
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POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970–1990
» the V&A’s major autumn exhibition [september 2011 - january 2012] is the first in-depth survey of art, design and architecture of the 70s/80s/90s era, examining one of the most controversial phenomena in recent art and design history: postmodernism.
it shows how postmodernism evolved from a provocative architectural movement in the early 1970s and rapidly went on to influence all...
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BUBI CANAL
Bubi Canal is a Spanish visual artist living in New York City. Bubi teleports us to impossible worlds full of emotions and mysterious and intriguing characters. His work combines different types of media and artistic methods including photography, video and sculpture and deals with the recurring themes of human wishes, dreams, magic and love.
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READYMADE
» CHAD WYS is visual conceptual artist, designer and writer. in his readymades series [09 > 10 > 11] he deconstructs and reinvents found objects by distorting them and adding paint.
> melting plates > triptych > paint on found china
“my readymade works frequently deal with the re-contextualization of decorative art objects. by retooling the object and then...
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CINEMA KOMUNISTO
The fascinating and absorbing documentary Cinema Komunisto is a must for film fans and likely to be a popular addition to film festivals who love nothing more than to delve into the history of world cinema. It also offers a fascinating way to look at the history how President Josip Broz Tito helped form and define the post-World War II federal state of Yugoslavia.
“Through the eyes...
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STRETCHING FURNITURE
» furniture by SEBASTIAN BRAJKOVIC
he stretches and contorts the shapes of familiar chair types so they appear blurred in the centre while remaining crisp at the periphery. the classic proportions of each chair seem to be enhanced rather than destroyed by the designers’ intervention. there is a kinetic quality to the works as they appear to be caught in motion between states, like...
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WHIMSICAL
» SAGAKI KEITA recreates famous artworks out of thousands of whimsical characters he creates using pen and his own imagination.
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STAND UP TALL PRODUCTIONS
» SANJA MITROVIC / STAND UP TALL PRODUCTIONS
Sanja Mitrovic is a theatre director, performer and writer, born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia). In 2001 she immigrated to The Netherlands and is now based in Amsterdam. She graduated in Japanese language and literature at University of Belgrade and in contemporary theatre from the the Amsterdamse Hoogschool for the Kunsten. She is a...
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ONE SECOND OF LOVE
» NITE JEWEL will be releasing new lp, one second of love, in march 2012. let’s get ready.
ramona gonzalez’s airy but often distant voice has found new gravitas and charisma…the synth lines have gotten more agile and the bass pops tighter and tighter. the stuttered 80s synth r&b melodies unfold into one another here in ways both giddy and deceivingly ...
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OPIUM HAZE
» with its origins in 1960’s hot rod culture and underground comics, pop surrealism has evolved into a vilified, vital, and exciting art movement. one of the movement’s top artist is NIAGARA DETROIT.
> pieces from the opium series…
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VISAGE MUSIQUE
» VISAGE MUSIQUE is a record label/artist collective from montréal specialized in dark disco and minimal wave. their compilation, volume 1, tagged as disco/noir/italo disco/minimal synth/new wave is amazing and it’s up for free download. it includes new and unreleased songs by gold zebra, brusque twins, femminielli, tony cops and police des moeurs. get it!!
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OFF FRAME
» OFF FRAME festival gathers organizations and authors who focus their work on socially engaged theatrical practice in serbia and the region. festival promotes inclusion in the theatrical work of those who are disempowered in some particular social context.