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Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt
Posted by Fabio 4 May 2011
Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt is about an America that has all but disappeared, when lucrative business deals were cemented by a handshake and state of the art automobiles were designed on the backs of envelopes. It tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set out to single-handedly break every existing land speed record on his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. read more
Norman Mailer’s Life as Seen Through His Last Home
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Author Norman Mailer expanded his fourth-floor apartment in Brooklyn Heights into a nautical adventureland and filled it with mementos of his life. Now that he and his wife are deceased, his nine children have listed the co-op for sale for $2.5 million. (New York Times)
Danger Beach – Apache
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Music video for the band Danger Beach, taken from Their new album Milky Way, on Dream Damage Records. Directed by Ned Wenlock, and animated by Rodney Selby.
Sweetgrass
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana’s breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed. read more
Monica Cook
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Monica Cook paints beautiful and disturbing portraits of women. Her figures are brilliantly painted, with breathtaking skill; Cook excels in rendering the subtleties of the flesh and details of light, tone and surface. Painted with an eerie intensity, Cook’s figures compel the viewer to study them, often surreptitiously, as there is a strong sense of invading an extremely private moment. read more
Lykke Li – Sadness Is A Blessing
Posted by Fabio 3 May 2011
Sadness Is A Blessing is the new Lykke Li video taken from her acclaimed album Wounded Rhymes. Directed by Tarik Saleh, starring Lykke Li and Stellan Skarsgård.
“Father, I know I Broke Your heart, it was never My intention, all I Ever wanted was to Dance…” _Lykke Li
Matthieu Gafsou
Posted by Fabio 2 May 2011
Photographer Matthieu Gafsou lives and works in Lausanne. After university education (master’s degree in history and film aesthetics, philosophy and literature), he studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey (2006-2008). Since 2006 he has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Clare Kenny
Posted by Fabio 2 May 2011
There are many influences for the work of Clare Kenny from many sources but at the heart of her work are her own experiences throughout her life which have formed her aesthetic language in relation to the objects and the images she creates; the images are predominantly snap shots from the last 10 years; frequently they are interiors and domestic spaces from the places where she has lived they are all part of a story; one which doesn’t end with a reproduction of an image but begins there.
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