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This weeks Mooks report is about a young lady who’s putting an indelible stamp of innovation on contemporary ideologies. Meet Larita Engelbrecht, a visual artists living and loving in Stellenbosch, who has an obsession that’s currently in excess. Visual excess in overdrive.
A Sendai-based internationally active designer as well as an owner of the interior showroom ‘international‘, Koichiro Kimura opened his second showroom “koichiro kimura aoyama” in Aoyama Tokyo in September 2009.
Usually these kind of Q&A articles need a little introduction to get the ball rolling, but Brooklyn-based musician Paul Holmes evidently is not only an entertaining song-writer, but an entertaining question-answerer as well. His band Paul and the Patients, has been coming along very nicely of late (they played last year’s CMJ Music Marathon twice), buoyed by catchy melodies that often belie their sad lyrical content. Song titles like “Die,” “Desperate Times,” “Hope Is Dead,” and “Burned” may conjure up images of a ‘tortured artist’, but in person, Paul is far from it. Which is probably a good thing because who likes to be around a mopey no-hoper anyway.
By Jessica Hazel Now it’s 2010, the 1990’s are officially vintage… doesn’t that make you feel old? Selfridges has teamed up with Rellik in their first ever retail collaboration to present a selection of original nineties and nineties-inspired products, all up for sale in one neon-coloured corner of the Oxford Street store. Grunge, Britpop, Nearly-There Technology, YBA’s. Grrrl and Girl Power, Supermodels and the rise of the Super-band are the main themes of the collection, which come together in eclectic and authentic harmony.
By Steven Cutts Sat in a beer garden of our local pub, we’re huddled under one giant umbrella after being caught-out in the rain, which had appeared out of nowhere on Christmas Eve. The filters of our cigarettes wet from our rain soaked fingers. You could easily mistake this scene for any typical English beer garden, but instead this is our first Aussie Christmas… three pommes on the far side of the world and it seemed nothing could be more different.
Artist Laura Adel Johnson, is a fine example of an Australian doing it, and doing it well in New York. Being half Perthian and half American, she’s lucky enough to have one foot planted in the sunny land of beers and universal healthcare, and the other in the country of extreme possibilities but every (wo) man for himself/herself. |
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