I asked the subject of this week’s MOOKS Report, to give me three adjectives that describe a photograph? And he gave me two… not because he couldn’t conjure up a third, but because following rules isn’t really his style.
So, aside from being a couple of rad Berlin correspondents for Mooks, we also dabble in a touch of Art Direction and Production – actually, that is predominantly what we do.
Last Friday, we shot our third seasonal shoot for Mooks and we reckon it’s our best so far. Steve Ryan, our delightful photographer and all-round good guy, did a stunning job at capturing some beautiful shots for you all to feast your eyes on for the upcoming winter 2010 range.
Mmm… The task of writing about the festivities in Berlin this week, is indeed a difficult one. We have not been sure as to how to approach the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall in blog format, so here we go with an entirely too brief reflection on what it may mean.
Twenty years ago last Monday, Berliner’s East and West took to the some 140 kilometer cement barrier with pick-axes and joyous liberation, and with every segment chipped away, so to chipped away at the presence of communism within Germany and indeed, greater Europe.
With a career spanning 16 years, including exhibitions in the UK and USA, 36-year-old artist Josh Lord has emerged with some of his finest work to date. Thought provoking and confronting, his latest exhibition entitled: When It Was Yesterday, is both an inspiring collection of urban artwork and a confronting image of the (post) modern world.
The exhibition features 32 new works on display at the FAD Gallery on Corrs Lane, until Nov 15.
To find out more, Lord gave the Mooks Report an insight into his latest work and the inspiration behind it…
Aryan Kaganof is incendiary.
www.kaganof.com www.kaganof.com/kagablog/
His films, poetry and novels are exquisite, candid and shocking….It would be Journo-transgression
to turn this interview into anything else but what it is now. My questions, His answers.
Crude and honest. I’m a big fan of honesty, and so is Aryan, I found out.
Here’s a snippet of my interview with this extraordinary individual whose name is not even Aryan. A friend, an inspiration, a bit of a mystery.
Check it yo
Hosted by +81 Creatives – an editorial team for one of the Japanese creative magazines known as +81 – their first creative event TOKYO GRAPHIC PASSPORT took place over two days from October 11-12, with an aim to offer a place as a communication center for creative minds of the future. For their two main events entitled as Tokyo Visualist Symposium and International Magazine Conference, leading creators and art directors of creative magazines were invited from Paris, Berlin, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, London and Tokyo to fully deliver their creative senses through the conference.
