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  • An implement commonly associated with prisons, a shank is a small, ad hoc knife made using scavenged detritus. Culled from what is at hand, a shank’s fascinating appeal stems from two divergent qualities: it is foreign to most people’s experience, and yet its purpose is immediately apparent. Chen Chen & Kai Williams’ (CC&KW) project, Shanks, utilizes the violent implement as both a wry reformulation of ergonomics and a sardonic riff on the ideological, material, and situational constraints of design. - Sam Korman

    CHEN CHEN & KAI WILLIAMS: SHANKS

    An implement commonly associated with prisons, a shank is a small, ad hoc knife made using scavenged detritus. Culled from what is at hand, a shank’s fascinating appeal stems from two divergent qualities: it is foreign to most people’s experience, and yet its purpose is immediately apparent. Chen Chen & Kai Williams’ (CC&KW) project, Shanks, utilizes the violent implement as both a wry reformulation of ergonomics and a sardonic riff on the ideological, material, and situational constraints of design. – Sam Korman

  • ....bringing to life what John Lyndon described as the “beauty in not being beautiful”.

    Punk: chaos to couture at The Met – “a beautiful ugliness inside”

    ….bringing to life what John Lyndon described as the “beauty in not being beautiful”.

  • RIOT OF PERFUME X STUDIO NERASA

    a film by Robert Nethery featuring Anmari Botha. ROP X is a collaborative series that pairs creative individuals whose projects range from short films to performances and poetry readings. 

  • THE MISSING IRASCIBLE. All images courtesy of Edelman Arts. Exhibition on view until May 11 2013

    THE MISSING IRASCIBLE: FRITZ BULTMAN AT EDELMAN ARTS

    THE MISSING IRASCIBLE. All images courtesy of Edelman Arts. Exhibition on view until May 11 2013

  • Halfway between Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero and Antonioni’s L’Aventura, the characters wander through London, Glastonbury Festival and the South of France, navigating scene politics, bizarre love triangles and artificial paradises.

    Sentimental Education: Alexandra McGuinness’ LOTUS EATERS.

    Halfway between Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero and Antonioni’s L’Aventura, the characters wander through London, Glastonbury Festival and the South of France, navigating scene politics, bizarre love triangles and artificial paradises.

  • “Corrected Slogans is a complicated project,” said editor William S. Smith at Artists Space as he introduced the book. “It attempts to translate—not transcribe—conversations to book format.” This is representative of how Triple Canopy acts as a publisher: translating ideas across platforms.

    TRANSLATING TO PRINT: Corrected Slogans and Invalid Format (Triple Canopy)

    “Corrected Slogans is a complicated project,” said editor William S. Smith at Artists Space as he introduced the book. “It attempts to translate—not transcribe—conversations to book format.” This is representative of how Triple Canopy acts as a publisher: translating ideas across platforms.

  • ISSUE#2 // MAKING OF

        b/w pics from spencer dennis    

  • On your way out, on a small panel, is the promotional line from 1977 that Bowie’s record company RCA used to market Heroes: "There’s old music. There’s new music. And there's David Bowie."

    VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON: DAVID BOWIE IS

    On your way out, on a small panel, is the promotional line from 1977 that Bowie’s record company RCA used to market Heroes: “There’s old music. There’s new music. And there’s David Bowie.”

  • FULLY BOOKED – Ink on Paper

    Photos from the Exhibition of Design & Concepts for New Publications at GESTALTEN, Berlin. Quoted from the book cover of FULLY BOOKED: “Let me state this for the record: The internet is not dead. Digital will not disappear. Print will not kill the web. It’s easy to forget that when physical books were invented, news ...

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