Trusty news source, smh.com.au, my go-to guide on crystal ball weather predictions and everything else that is totally unimportant, has announced that Ksubi has gone Bankrupti, officially
Although, apparently our Govt is set to bail them out...silk digital prints for everybody!
Barhahaha...distressed jeans, genius Tozer
i downloaded my first marilyn manson album after viewing this clip, it was horrid.
this on the other hand is real smart.
disclaimer: michael moore is a douche.
this on the other hand is real smart.
disclaimer: michael moore is a douche.
proenza schouler
alexander mcqueen knuckleduster clutch
hypercolor
risto bimbiloski cosmic coat
masterpiece backpack
Ital Thai Chinese and Paint
Zuni Halpern (Zurich, Switzerland)
Erik Steinbrecher (Berlin, Switzerland)
Ital Thai Chinese and Paint is a compilation of the first collaborative work by Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher. The booklet shows montages of photographs and paintings. All the photographed advertisings are collected in the streets. The paintings on paper are studio works. Both materials, views of fusion food and plates of abstract designs are melted. These "painted meals" can be considered as ornaments in the urban context of fast gastronomy and catering.
Some months back now two photographers, one graphic designer and little old me got together to discuss the possibilities of publishing a magazine dedicated to the collaboration of independent documentary photography groups. Headed up by the collective MJR, we wanted to see what would happen if in each issue we invited a different photography group to collaborate.
For the photographers, this idea was borne from their current feeling of abandonment by the commercial and professional world of documentary photography. Like so many art and publishing streams, documentary photographers have had a big, sobering bucket of ice-cold water thrown over them in the last couple of years. There's is no longer an industry of international glory boosted by high budgets and open borders, it's literally the opposite. Young photographers are therefore forced to either ignore their passion for visual reportage and story-telling (and perhaps slide on into the glam world of school portrait and debutante ball photography) or choose to stand apart on their own platform.
I acted as Editor and Curator on the project. Nicholas Le Messurier as the Graphic Designer. I called the magazine Make-Do, as after listening their ideas and motivations i could see that this was their way of making-do in these "tough times".
Side note: I also just really liked the active verb construction. I also really like hyphens.
Issue One marries the work of MJR and LUCEO. Once I opened the floodgates for submissions, I knew i had bitten off something delicious. As I mentioned in my previous posts, their folios were utterly mental --i think i said "oh my gawd" and "holy s***!" 121 times when viewing the work for the first time-- these guys have a lot of talent flying betwixt 'em.
But, i ramble and meander. Thursday 21st Jan is the launch party and all photography in the magazine will be in gargantuan form on the walls of 21pcw gallery uptown Manhattan.
Please come if you're in New York.
Drinks (plural) on us.
Here's some press stuff:
About the show:
MJR and Luceo are photography groups determined to Make-Do with an industry in transition. This publication is part of a larger vision to strengthen independent platforms for expression and collaboration. The show will feature a limited edition fine-art print publication distributed to the first 200 attendees. Large-scale reproductions of the publication pages will be displayed on the gallery walls
Editorial by Gillian Tozer:
The role of the documentary photographer has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. No longer emblazoned in funding and dispatched to remote surroundings adjacent to ‘the action’, the photojournalist must now explore their own environment. This exploration of the familiar is perhaps what best aligns the two photography collectives of MJR and LUCEO.
Issue One of Make-Do captures the cultural struggle within America as it embraces a ‘new’ era of change while desperately clinging to that which made it solid. Among the degradation and disarray, there are traditions, habits and memories that call out to be salvaged. What you will witness is a dialogue between the America that was and the America that is now. For those working outside of America the same theme pervades.
This collection documents the youthful and local meanderings of each photographer. While each series is strikingly different to the next, what remains ubiquitous is a sense of stoicism in the face of an inescapable and united collapse. This subject of human resilience is not uncommon to photojournalism, but it is never cumbersome, nor can be disregarded due to the warmth and significance it emanates. These are everyday, fleeting moments, often stumbled upon, now marked in print.
LUCEO:
David Walter Banks, Kendrick Brinson, Matt Eich, Kevin German, Tim Lytvinenko, Daryl Peveto, Matt Slaby
MJR:
Mustafah Abdulaziz, Ying Ang, Matthew Craig, Julius Metoyer, Gareth Phillips, Brandon Thibodeaux
DESIGN:
Nicholas LeMessurier
EDITOR/CURATOR:
Gillian Tozer
CONTACT:
For more info, contact David Walter Banks
email: davidbanks@luceoimages.com
cell: 706.296.3085
Published by Morel Books this book has the french version on the right hand side and the english --perfectly matched-- on the left hand side, i actually don't know how this was translated so accurately.
To top it off, the pages are littered with sketches by Patti Smith and photographs by her friend Robert Mapplethorpe. Which reminds me i need to watch Dream of Life again.
To top it off, the pages are littered with sketches by Patti Smith and photographs by her friend Robert Mapplethorpe. Which reminds me i need to watch Dream of Life again.
apartamento #4
another beautifully collected issue: a rooftop garden in Midtown NYC, potato wallpaper --soon to be seen in my apartment-- Chloe Sevingy's new home, a man his kids and their plants (love that article), PAM HQ Melbourne, Grillo Demo interior pencil drawings and a kinder section for colouring (for me).
another beautifully collected issue: a rooftop garden in Midtown NYC, potato wallpaper --soon to be seen in my apartment-- Chloe Sevingy's new home, a man his kids and their plants (love that article), PAM HQ Melbourne, Grillo Demo interior pencil drawings and a kinder section for colouring (for me).
Obsessed with this magazine: Candy.
The world's first transversal style magazine,celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny
Created by Luis Venegas (who also heads up Fanzine 137 and EY! Magateen) this large format, high-quality, shiny bowl of punch is so exciting. I hope she never fades. Not only are the editorials perfectly playful but the interviews are hilarrrious, intimate and interesting. My favourite interview is with Bianca Exotica, a transvestite high-school teacher from Brazil, who still lives at home. Other highlights include Kim Ann Foxman's leg hair, boys in Rodarte and a Tim Walker shoot (of course) in and amongst London backgardens.
Only 1,000 produced worldwide, good luck finding one, RRP $40 USD
Created by Luis Venegas (who also heads up Fanzine 137 and EY! Magateen) this large format, high-quality, shiny bowl of punch is so exciting. I hope she never fades. Not only are the editorials perfectly playful but the interviews are hilarrrious, intimate and interesting. My favourite interview is with Bianca Exotica, a transvestite high-school teacher from Brazil, who still lives at home. Other highlights include Kim Ann Foxman's leg hair, boys in Rodarte and a Tim Walker shoot (of course) in and amongst London backgardens.
Only 1,000 produced worldwide, good luck finding one, RRP $40 USD
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