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Unfinished Business, Daedalus?

Inspired by interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek have systematically documented numerous identities. They call their series ’Exactitudes’: a contraction of ’exact’ and ’attitude’. By registering their subjects in an identical framework they provide an almost scientific record of people’s attempts to distinguish [...]

Neil Krug

Some of my favourites from Neil Krug’s portfolio. These saccharine images are made using a polaroid land camera and expired film. Immediately after seeing the images I did some research on how I could do the same and how to adapt an oldschool land camera for use with the current 600 polaroid film (that is being discontinued [...]

DAS SUPERPAPER

A while ago I did an interview for the first issue of Das Superpaper – a FREE Sydney based magazine about emerging and contemporary art. It is one of my more candid ones, in it I complain about work, friends, and people in general.
The mags are printed on beautiful raw newsprint and my copies have already aged [...]

bernhard willhelm

Excerpt from a Bernhard Willhelm interview by Tom Littlewood for Vice Magazine Fashion Issue 09

Robert Longo

How Patrick Bateman are these! A series from the 80s called Men In The Cities. His recent series include portraits of Sharks and of cleavage – love it!

Untitled
1982
Charcoal and graphite on paper
96 x 48 inches/238.8 x 121.9 cm

Untitled
1982
Charcoal and graphite on paper
96 x 48 inches/238.8 x 121.9 cm

Untitled
1981
Charcoal and graphite on paper
96 x 60 inches/243.8 [...]

Oleg Kulik’s zoophilia photos seized by police at FIAC

“Christ,” said someone in the crowd. “You don’t see this many cops at a murder scene.”
via Constant Siege

HARD CORE

I was recently interviewed for the I LOVE FAKE Magazine Hardcore issue. Go download the magazine here, which reminds me I should probably scan in and upload more press clippings etc.

Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan
Fluid
150 x 150 cm (height variable)
Strawberries, taxidermied crow, fishing hooks, nylon
Photo credit: Kris Heath
A dead crow falling through a plane of strawberries
http://www.claire-morgan.co.uk/
via Clayton Cubitt’s Blog, Constant Siege

Sverre Malling

Forest, Black Hole, Charcoal on Paper, 57 x 76 cm, 2006
http://www.sverremalling.com/
via Fukt: A Contemporary Drawing Magazine

Dorota Mytych

Hypnotized
2006
Charcoal on Paper
120 cm X 80 cm

Detail

Establishment
2007
Charcoal on Paper
120 cm X 80 cm

Detail
Dorota Mytych is currently showing in the ‘I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing’ exhibition at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Sydney, on till the 24th May 2009. Yayoi Kusama is also showing upstairs – you MUST look at Infinity – Nets OQABT [...]

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