ESOPUS

Although the virtual version is no where close the printed one, you can read some of the articles and see some of the images,  have a read at the TELEVISION ISSUE .

And then tell me if its interesting, cos I have no time to read it, I  just flicked through it at the Tate's bookshop and wished I could buy it as well as the other books I already had in my hand.

I choose the books, 3 for 2 ...  little pocket books, perfect for before sleeping:

1.-  An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson,  which already at page 9 probes to be hilarious.

2.- The pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt

3.- The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin.

Chad VanGaalen

I just read the downloadable Issue n.1  ICA magazine, it has a couple of interesting interviews. 

One with Ekow Eshun  the ICA's artistic Director in 2009 by Aisha Christison, here is an extract:

'...one of the things that I tend to think about is how

visual artists now occupy the role that philosophers

once had. Artists are some of the few

people left in our society whose job it is to ask

questions. Not particularly to give answers,

but to keep asking questions. In terms of how

that even relates to somewhere like here…

I used to resent any sense of my parents deciding

somehow that I should do this or I should

do that. It’s not the issue. The issue actually is

how you come to a decision about what you

do and about how you decide that’s the right

thing, which doesn’t mean you get it right, but

I think the important thing is how we come to

be individuals and how we come to find the

ways that we can express ourselves as fully or

as freely as possible, I’m not interested in being

told what you should be or what you should

do.The important thing is to be able to have

your place and have your voice in the culture

that we live in. The important thing is to be

able to say what you think.'

And the other one is with Chad VanGaalen, whom now I love even more. Chloë Simos writes rather bitterly about his disinterest on the interview, his evasive answers on his personal life and you can even sense her irritation when he replied he doesn't really listen to music when asked which are his musical inspirations. And  just after she has decided he is just an anti-social hermit, he comes to stage and jokes around with the  audience and gives them more information than she could spoon out with her celebrity like questionnaire. 

'But then I was expecting as much

from a man who is notorious

for spending months locked up

in his studio with nothing but

his instruments and pens for

company. On this subject he is

also brief: ‘I have a home studio.

I have a lot of shit to do… it’s

not like I’m anti-social.’

I disagree.'

But in between the tantrum she game me a beautiful piece of unknown information. In 2009 he released Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz, an instrumental album under the pseudonym Black Mold, and its so much fun to listen to. 

Check him out, he also does the animation work. You can Download for free (with his permission)  two of his songs.

Eleanor Hardwick

again at Dazed digital...
her website?
hell this girl is cheesy... and self obsessed ... don't we love that though?

Hurricane


Pull yourself together


Art of levitation


After Richter, and the over painted photographs, I started looking onto ways of making  distorted and blurry photography. I found the links for the Pinhole camera and got really into researching photographers. By the time I bumped into the work of Eleanor Hardwick I was already planning in doing a pinhole camera photo shoot, the idea of duality in between Victim and Tyrant was already very strong and I was looking for work that had this atmosphere. I was working on the  storyboard for the pinhole in brighton and I found this images very inspiring. 

from Another Fashion Book

from the new Another Fashion Book by another magazine at DAZED digital...

for your porn project alia?

Matteo Bigliard

new graduates from Central Saint Martin’s MA Fashion course at DAZED digital...

Christian Wijnants

at DAZED digital...

rojo-magazine

here