Leading contemporary photographer, Roger Ballen, just shot the video for fellow South Africans, Die Antwoord, and their newest single, “I Fink U Freeky.” Stay tuned for our parents at Upper Playground’s announcement with some news regarding Die Antwoord. But in the meantime, Ballen is a near genius in our book… creepy, interesting, unique.
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Designer Kiel Mead has a New Year’s Resolution down for that high school kid in all of us: the Retainer Necklace. Wear your retainer, or your mom and dad are going to be pissed. Better on the chain than in the mouth, in our book. Gold over brass. (via)
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One of the best Xmas albums of all-time in our book, here are two great selections, with different moods, from the Sufjan Stevens’ Christmas songs album. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas.
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Saw this book on Node Berlin, and based on the cover, it looks brilliant. Here is what it is: “This book by visual artist Marius Engh revolves around Teufelsberg, an artificial hill on the outskirts of Berlin made from rubble after the Second World War. During the Cold War period, the hill was also the site of a major American listening station. The book consists of research material, on-location photographs by the artist, as well as works connected to these images. The photos from the listening station are printed on red coloured paper, a method that was used as a means of copy protection in the time of black and white copy machines.”
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Opening this Friday, December 16, FIFTY24SF Gallery Presents Terri and Gary’s Elastic Reality: Neither God nor Master.
With a rainbow colored mass of second hand self help books, the conceptual consulting practices of T&G are once again infecting the global Art oeuvre. This time T&G are addressing the expanding definition of reality and how we choose to redefine its perimeters in our quest for never ending happiness. With countless self help books being published and distributed (preying upon the vast array of inflated insecurities that they themselves create), T&G felt it was time to hold up a mirror to this masturbatory loop. With the photos of the author’s calculatedly imploring faces, wallpapering the interior of gallery, the sheer mass of these quasi-psychological devices becomes a focal point with their latest installation/performance at Gallery FIFTY24SF. Viewers are encouraged to help themselves to any book they want from the installation, with only one requirement: they must be photographed with the book of their choice. T&G aim to reveal the only valid source of truth in ones life come groom within.
We also hear something about bacon wrapped hot dogs. Something to keep in mind.
Just thinking about thoughtful nice gifts for people, and if you can find Thoughts On Design by Paul Rand, that would be a good stocking stuffer for someone special to you. It ain’t easy to find, but if you do, it is a timeless collection. (via)
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Tonight in Los Angeles, Family Bookstore will have a book launch of the new release, Collage Culture, with readings by Aaron Rose and Mandy Kahn, and opening of installation by the book’s designer, Brian Roettinger.
“Collage Culture points to the 21st century as an era of collage, in which creative works are made by combining elements from the former century. Why have musicians, writers and designers fallen in love with the past, busying themselves with the borrowed, instead of creating their art from scratch?”
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One for the stocking; this is a great new book from Gestalten… Art & Agenda: Politcal Art and Activism. In the vein of the Occupy movements, there has been a great political art movement moving around in street, fine, and new media art. This is the best book we have seen on the subject. What a cover.
This past Monday night, Green Apple Books in San Francisco held a taco and beer party in honor of the release of Haruki Murakami’s new opus, 1Q84. The Citrus Report decided to head out, pre-order our book, and sit for a few hours in the Socialism section with a few Sapporo cans to discuss world issues. And, of course, the 1Q84. —Raymond Brown / The Citrus Report
All photography from Amanda Krampf.
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