Very nice and simple acrylic paintings, based on her own image, by American painter Erin Cone. ‘I emphasize visual impact over narrative context, focusing on the subtle orchestration of my subject within a framework of design. I create a deliberate push-and-pull between near-photorealistic detail and my own vocabulary of visual glitches that challenge that very[...]
Love these pics of perpetual beauty Naomi Campbell by Italian fashion photographer Giampaolo Squra for Hercules magazine. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tweet
Love this modern interpretation of the classic ‘ear chair’ by Copenhagen-based design studio Iskos-Berlin (Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin) for Danish furniture manufacturer Normann Copenhagen. You can buy it here, for only $4,000 USD. Tweet
More works by William Hundley, who’s taking a more absurdist approach for these works. In this series called ‘w/ cheeseburgers’, there’s a skateboard on cheeseburgers, a television-set on cheeseburgers, a chihuahua on cheeseburgers, a painting on cheeseburgers, a stereo on cheeseburgers, a flat-iron on cheeseburgers, and many more things on cheeseburgers. Visit his website for more things[...]
Lovely series of photos by Belgian photographer Heidi Voet, for which she combined images of naked women taken from Chinese magazines with ehhh vegetables. The fresh vegetables visually complete the young bodies, highlighting consumption and each other’s limited preservability. Very nice, just like her other works. _ _ _ Tweet
Loving these new pics of American film actress, fashion designer and former model and it-girl Chloe Sevigny made by Craig McDean for the Febryari issue of Interview Magazine. Inspiration was taken from her new lead role as a transgender in new drama Hit And Miss. Chloe wears Calvin Klein, Celine, Yves Saint Laurent and Maison Martin Margiela. _[...]
In Tokyo-based photographer Hal‘s ‘Flesh Love’ series, Japanese couples are sealed in plastic to create a vacuum-sealed pack of love. The works capture the lovers’ strange and tight plastic bond, in which they are so entwined together they seem to transform into one single being. Awkward but ever so typical Japanese. The works are available as[...]
Laura Marling is a great singer, with a lovely voice and beautiful songs. For her upcoming album A Creature I Don’t Know, Laura invited Studio Juice and illustrator Shynola to create visuals and a website to go with ‘The Beast‘, one of the great songs featured on her new album, with amazing results. I think[...]
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‘Boys-will-be-Girls / Girls-will-be-Boys’ is a new series by the talented Lotte Bruning, a photographer who loves dark and deep shadows, confusion, fragility, pureness, abstract forms, women, flowing lines, minimal, smooth colors, casualness, nonchalance, toning, sexy-ness, alienation, shyness, cinematic scenes, toughness. She has a creative eye and understands the balance of composition, light, posture and details in[...]
Noorderslag always is the first music festival in the Netherlands of the year. The place to be if you want to be up- to-date with what’s going on in the Dutch/European music industry. Business-wise but also upcoming artist wise. Don’t worry, I’m not gonna talk business i’ll just let you know which artists I’ll be[...]
Every Sunday, we present a list of music videos that we like, mostly new ones, in combination with the occasional still relevant classics of the past…. This week there’s videos by Air, Iggy Azalea, Skream, Scissor Sisters feat. Azealia Banks, Youth Lagoon, Woods and Noah Wall. Air: Sonic Armanda Iggy Azalea: My World Skream: Nefariousa Scissor[...]
Enjoy our lovely Filmmuseum this weekend. January 8th they close for good at the beautiful Vondelpark location, before moving to the new futuristic place at the ‘Ij-Oever’. Tonight I can recommend Jules et Jim, the film based on the French novel Henri-Pierre Roché. Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.[...]
Zondag 8 januari en daarna elke eerste zondag van de maand organiseren PUP Amsterdam en Bar 22 een nieuwe avond ‘vol eerste keren’, voor en door creatieven. Er zijn unieke eenmalige exposities van de PUP talenten; fotografen, illustratoren en andere kunstenaars, aangevuld met een programma vol muziek van frisse nieuwe bands, singer songwriters en dj’s.[...]
In samenwerking met PUP Amsterdam, een creatief collectief dat een platform biedt aan de creatieven en artiesten van de toekomst, en daarnaast allerlei andere interessante activiteiten initieert, doen we interviews met talenten die op het punt staan om de wereld te veroveren. In deze derde aflevering: Marloes Duyker! Wat doe je? Ik maak mijn illustraties[...]
Paul Weatherall is the son of a retired brick-maker. He rearranges the alphabet and gets drunk on Wednesdays. You’ll never see him without a hat. ‘drowning inside the gut of a whale’ the greatest killer of youth is not murder, suicide, or disease. the cool evil blade of success is slicing the heads off our[...]
Schrijverscollectief ‘De Jagers‘ viert morgen kerst in Perdu Amsterdam. Nieuwe kerstverhalen, een nieuw kerstlied, er is gluhwein en het volledige arsenaal aan getalenteerde ‘Jagers’ is present… Een mix van jonge getalenteerde schrijvers bestaand uit Ellen Deckwitz, Renske Jonkman, Eva Meijer, Sterre van Rossem, Maurice Seleky, Marjolijn van Heemstra, Jeroen van Rooij, dragen voor uit hun eigen[...]
In samenwerking met PUP Amsterdam, een creatief collectief dat een platform biedt aan de creatieven en artiesten van de toekomst, en daarnaast allerlei andere interessante activiteiten initieert, doen we interviews met talenten die op het punt staan om de wereld te veroveren. In deze derde aflevering: rENs! Wat doen jullie? Wij Renee Mennen & Stefanie van[...]