EARTH DAY – 22 APRIL (IN NEW YORK)

On April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. Earth Day is a day early each year on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness of the Earth’s natural environment. It is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother Earth Day.  If you are in New York, let’s celebrate the Eath Day join the High Line Events. Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, in collaboration with Jessica Higgins and Joshua Selman, restages Make a Salad, an iconic event originally performed in 1962. The artist chops lettuce and other vegetables to the beat of live music, and then produces a giant salad by tossing the ingredients together in a grand gesture.

Look at the full program here

It’s time to mobilize the planet from the ground up to send a message that the Earth won’t wait.

RAPHA & RAEBURN

 

Brothers Graeme and Christopher Raeburn are two of the UK’s leading clothing designers; Graeme is product designer at Rapha, while Christopher heads up his own eponymous label. Rapha & Raeburn marks the latest collaboration between them and the result is a new collection of products all made in England, designed for city cyclists.

The centrepiece of the Rapha & Raeburn collection for Spring Summer 2013 is the Hooded Wind Jacket. Constructed from military parachute canopies, the jackets are made at Cooper & Stollbrand in Manchester, England’s leading outerwear factory.

 http://www.rapha.cc/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

05/19/2013
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: Christopher Brennan

Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her

If questioning would make us wise
No eyes would ever gaze in eyes;
If all our tale were told in speech
No mouths would wander each to each.

Were spirits free from mortal mesh
And love not bound in hearts of flesh
No aching breasts would yearn to meet
And find their ecstasy complete.

For who is there that lives and knows
The secret powers by which he grows?
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?.

Then seek not, sweet, the “If” and “Why”
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.

Author : Olivia Lewit

05/17/2013
Category: / POETRY BENCH

SURF = LIFE

“It’s like the mafia. Once you’re in – your in. There’s no getting out”

Kelly Slater

Author : Vivienne Avidan

05/16/2013
Category: /HANG LOOSE

INTERVIEWING MARTIN USBORNE – AN AMAZING YEAR TO HELP

“This story is a potential mix of genuine compassion and total naivety: a story about one man giving himself one year to save all animals everywhere”, these are the few words that better describe Martin Usborne project.

Martin is a British photographer, living in London, who was always in love with animals, but as many of us never did anything to help them since he decided to take a year off and start helping animals from zero, around the world without any projects just following his instinct.

Well the mission is amazing and is possible to follow Martin in his project throughout his blog www.yeartohelp.com, you will love it.

We reached Martin while he was in India helping dogs, bears, wild life animals and many others and we had the pleasure to hear from him some hints on his “year to help”..

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Author : Mario Alfiero

05/16/2013
Category: / GREEN WAVE

DJ NATURE – RETURN OF THE SAVAGE [GOLF CHANNEL / USA]

DJ Milo aka Nature Boy aka DJ Nature ..

 

 

 

PODCAST

SOUNDCLOUD 

Author : Mark-eno

05/15/2013
Category: /RADICAL:BEAT

ROBYN ELEY: HYPERREALISM

Image from http://www.hillsmithgallery.com.au – Veneration: oil on Belgian linen

“As I move through life, I am confronted by questions of doubt, isolation and anxiety. And for these many questions, painting is my only answer.” – Robin Eley.
Born in London in 1978, Robin Eley and his family moved to Australia when he was just three years old. There Robin spent his childhood until he made the brave move to California in 1997 to study Fine Arts.
Fast-forward to now: Robin is a world-renowned Hyper-realist painter, based in Adelaide, who revels in confusing the senses, and suspending our perceptions of reality.

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Author : Heat Campbell

05/14/2013
Category: /HOW TO STOP A MAD WATCH

FOLLOW ME TO…

It all started in Barcelona in the fall of 2011 when Murad Osmann’s girlfriend had enough of his incessant photo clicking on their vacation. “Nataly was a bit annoyed that I was always taking pictures of everything, so she grabbed my hand and tried to pull me forward,” Osmann said. “That said it didn’t stop me from doing photos while she was pulling me.”

Since then, the Russian producer and photographer and his journalist girlfriend Nataly Zakharova have produced and posted over 40 “Follow Me To” photos to Osmann’s Instagram account. “Equipment doesn’t matter. All that matters is the idea. Equipment is just helping you to achieve it.”
The images show him being pulled by Nataly’s hand through Hong Kong, Berlin, Bali, Venice, London, Singapore…

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Author : Chiara Cremaschi

05/13/2013
Category: /DRAWING WITH LIGHT

BEG BICYCLES

 

Classic bicycles with special attention to details. That’s Beg Bicyles!

These bicycles are not only gorgeous to look at, pure joy to ride and the ultimate in quality, safety and durability, but they are manufactured using the very latest in bicycle technology.

You can join it “plain” or you can choose a lot of beautiful accessories like the huge “Porter’s Crate”.

http://www.begbicycles.com/

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Author : Valentina Matelli

05/12/2013
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: JAMES A.EMANUEL

He dug what she said:
bright jellies, smooth marmalade
spread on warm brown bread.

“Jazz” from drowsy lips
orchids lift to honeybees
floating on long sips.

“Jazz”: quick fingerpops
pancake on a griddle-top
of memories. Stop.

“Jazz”: mysterious
as nutmeg, missing fingers,
gold, Less serious.

“Jazz”: cool bannister.
Don’t need no stair. Ways to climb
when the sax is there.

Author : Olivia Lewit

05/10/2013
Category: / POETRY BENCH

OUR HOME IS AMAZING RESPECT IT

 
Why did I take so long to watch this documentary? Well better later than never..
 
Home is a documentary of Luc Besson on the environment and on the many negative changes created by the human beings in the last few years.
 
The documentary is inspiring, it will leave you breathless for the beauty of the hearth our Home, it will give you sadness clearly showing how we are destroying such a beautiful place, and finally it will give you hope because we humans are still capable of incredible and simple actions that could save our Home from devastation created by us.
 
What it now..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&wide=1
Author : Mario Alfiero

05/09/2013
Category: / GREEN WAVE

TOMORROW’S HARVEST

After several years they’re back..

Boards of Canada / Tomorrow’s Harvest [warp/2013]

enjoy..

 

Author : Mark-eno

05/09/2013
Category: /RADICAL:BEAT

WORDS THROUGH TIME, TIME THROUGH WORDS.

On 8 of May the Artopia Gallery will present the limited edition catalogue Words Through Time, Time Through Words edited by the indipendent HairNoHairBooks editions. The catalogue of the exhibition curated by Federica Tattoli, with works by Martina Della Valle and Sabine Delafon, is a special limited edition with an inedited short story written by Silvia Schirinzi and art direction by Elisa Cambioli.

Conceived as a collection of folded letters, all the copies are numbered.

May 8 2013 h 7-9

ARTOPIA via Lazzaro Papi 2 – MILAN

www.artopiagallery.it/

 

Author : Serena Becagli

05/07/2013
Category: / GENERAL, WORKING CLASS ART HEROES

FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA 013

Untitled, Reggio Emilia, 2013 © Esko Männikkö

In 2006, the Municipality of Reggio Emilia launched the first Fotografia Europea international festival. Photography took centre stage as a privileged tool for reflecting upon the complexity of contemporary living. The starting point is the teaching of Luigi Ghirri: the possibility, through the image, to look at the world as one has never done before.

Every year, photographers have been invited to tackle different topics; for the edition 2013, which will take place in the months of May and June, the chosen theme is Change. Photography and responsibility

All the exhibitions will be shown through Sunday, 16th June:
http://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/fe2013/mostre/
Not to be missed!

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Author : Chiara Cremaschi

05/06/2013
Category: /DRAWING WITH LIGHT

THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA

 

Don’t be mistaken: this is not California, this is Germany! The documentary directed by Marten Persiel explores the vital skaters’ culture in the German Democratic Republic. The East takes a look at the West showing how the skaters’ lives, oppressed and shaped by a repressive system, have their own strength.

The film follows three teenagers from their childhood in the seventies through their rebellion in the eighties, ending in the last summer of their life in the GDR in 1989, when their life changed forever, and follows the protagonists to 2011.

Connecting past and present, the director takes original clips of the “wheel-board-riders” straight out of the East German scene in the ’80s and mixes them with animations. Persiel shoots a documentary which ultimately is a coming of age story, a sort of punk fairy tale about the meaning of friendship, youth rebellion and the desire of freedom turned lifestyle.

www.thisaintcalifornia.de

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Author : Federica Mascagni

05/05/2013
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN

PEONFX

PEONFX which stands for People on Fix is an independent lifestyle company producing cycling inspired apparels, products & accessories.

Founded in 2009 out of passion and love for cycling, PEONFX has since collaborated with many international and local establishments, magazines, street artists and clothing brands such as UrbanVelo,The Killer Gerbil, Kilas, Coolcaps, Sup Clothing, Macaframa, SumVelo, 5th Floor, Pedal Consumption, etc.

Their products are often undersupply however they uphold their niche identity with their high mix low volume production philosophy. All PEONFX products are limited in quantities. Selected numbers are stocked by their partners & friends while 40% of products are sold on our online store.

In their spare time, PEONFX also organizes bike polo, bike film screenings & numerous local & international rides.

 http://www.peonfx.com/

 

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Author : Valentina Matelli

05/05/2013
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW