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Kicking a** in the name of independent media.

Pete Dougherty is a more coherent e.e. cummings

Posted on October 19, 2010

Here’s a section of a poem Pete Dougherty wrote when he was 17: “I knew she wasn’t English, Because she spoke it far too well. The grammar was goodly, the verbs as they should be, And the slang was bang … Continue reading →

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Cacophony Society

Posted on October 15, 2010

Stemming from San Francisco’s now-defunct ‘Suicide Club‘, The Cacophony Society is “a randomly gathered network of individuals united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society through subversion, pranks, art, fringe explorations and meaningless madness.” They claim … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Bottle

Posted on October 8, 2010

Made for Diptyque for a limited edition concentrated version of L’Ombre Dans L’eau and Philosykos, these are made out of  Saint Louis Crystal (whatever the hell that is), and will be  packaged in a black laquer box. These new bottles are … Continue reading →

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I Love Alaska

Posted on September 16, 2010

‘I Love Alaska’ — by Dutch directors Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts – is 13 short episodes chronicling the life of AOL user #71139 through her search queries, which were inadvertently released on the internet when AOL mistakenly published the private … Continue reading →

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I Hate Perfume

Posted on September 8, 2010

From our friends over at WorkBook Project Lab’s Radar series comes the newest episode about New York based perfumer Christopher Brosius, from CB I Hate Perfume. Brosius is someone I’ve been following for awhile, since he left Demeter and started … Continue reading →

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New Mexico

Posted on August 22, 2010
Madrid

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15 inches in Detroit

Posted on August 6, 2010

I ‘inchvested’, about a year ago, in Jerry Paffendorf‘s Loveland project in Detroit. I just saw a mockup of my 15 square inches (i’m guesstimating this property at 3 inches wide by 5 inches long), and now I realize I am … Continue reading →

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Film: Circulo Uno

Posted on August 2, 2010

Circulo Uno (or Circle One) Written/directed by César Pesquera. Looks amazing. Check out preview here. (This comes to me, like many things, thanks to AutumnSeventy.)

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Crowdsourced Fundraising Presentation

Posted on August 1, 2010

For those of you who attended Sunday’s Filmmaker Alliance Filmmaker Workshop, as promised here is the powerpoint: Download it by clicking here (will automatically open a window from which you can download a PDF.) Click on the links below to … Continue reading →

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Troika’s Kinetic Sculptures

Posted on July 30, 2010

Eva Rucki and Sebastian Noel’s London based Troika is an art and design practice that most recently made the news with their kinetic* palindrome sculpture- installed in July for the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington. Watch the video here. In 2008, … Continue reading →

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