.. as neatly adressed to the staff members of the Tom Sachs studio and summerized as “Working to Code”.

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This turns out to be one of my favourite blogs for the moment: iconic scenes from movies you might have already seen but rarely in this microscopic arrestment of time –– see an infinite finger-tabbing Inspector Clouseau, the malicious grin of Norman Bates, exploding skylines of L.A. 2019 in Blade Runner. Sublime states of anxiety, melancholy and/or beauty –– all trapped and cached for eternity.

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Ballons, nudity, greyscales but at most –  9 tracks by the Canadian singer/songwriter Abel Tesfay. Already coined as “hipster R&B” or even more “PBR&B” the The Weeknd bumps on dubby beats, soulful vocoder vocals and perhaps some sad moments of the very early Portishead.

Get a free download of the album “House of Balloons” on The Weeknd’s website.

www.the-weeknd.com

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Ward Shelley: Who Invented The Avant Garde, vers. 3

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In his brilliant documentary “Everything is a Remix“ the New York City based film-maker Kirby Ferguson unfolds the history of remixes, readaptations and remakes. Despite all its contemporary non-legal connotations of copyright infringements the reappropriation of what has already been said or thought, written in words, composed in music, images or movies is not a new phenomena due to the fast and easy techniques of a digital lifestyle. On the opposite, there are many examples that artists, amateurs as well as entrepreneurs always have been influenced by the artefacts, works and inventions of their precursors as well as revivals. Culture as such is a creative playground or battlefield of pastiches, copying, sampling, recycling and reinterpretations.

Based on found footage Furguson’s documentary is necessarily itself a form of a remix. A creative remix without doubt performed in a clever and stylish montage of the research material and its essayistic narration. Laid out as a four-part video series, the first part is focused on music whereas the second concentrates on cinema. Part 3 and 4 shall follow in spring and summer this year.

http://www.everythingisaremix.info

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Jive Time Records is a record store in Seattle. In selling, buying or trading vinyl theses guys obvioulsly get in touch with a lot of record covers. Some feature incredible well done artworks, some show odd alterations by their former owners. A collection of the most obscure findings is presented in one of Jive Time’s galleries – coined DEFACE VALUE.

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As we all know – the exchange of data via the net is far less anonymous as generally presumed. That’s why the Berlin artist Aram Bartholl unhooks from the net and plugs USB sticks in walls: discrete data ports like in cold war spy scenes.

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Gothic styles and spooky atmospheres are quite fashionable theses days. Thus said, designer and art director Sam Renwick simply let the clueless models stand in the dark for a Sibling London campaign and received some eerie yet brilliant results.

http://srcp.co.uk/project/index/sibling-london/id/24

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