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ZACHARY ROSE’S PETHEADZ
Some say pets look like their owners, but one Canadian photographer has taken it to a new and creative extreme. In his series, #petheadz, Zachary Rose (@zachdriftwood) takes DSLR portraits of people’s pets and mashes them up with portraits of their owners by cleverly holding the camera in the foreground.
Author : Chiara Cremaschi
The series started as an exercise in creativity with his two roommates but quickly caught on. The project is still on-going with a lengthy wait-list, and Zach is excited to continue meeting people—and pets—around Toronto as he keeps shooting.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.
Author : Valentina MatelliSUGGESTED 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”
Author : Olivia Lewit
I love you now until I die.
For I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.SURF = LIFE
“It’s like the mafia. Once you’re in – your in. There’s no getting out”
Kelly Slater
Author : Vivienne AvidanINTERVIEWING MARTIN USBORNE – AN AMAZING YEAR TO HELP
Author : Mario Alfiero“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”..
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.
Author : Heat Campbell
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.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.”
Author : Chiara Cremaschi
The images show him being pulled by Nataly’s hand through Hong Kong, Berlin, Bali, Venice, London, Singapore…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”.
Author : Valentina MatelliSUGGESTED 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.
Author : Olivia Lewit
Don’t need no stair. Ways to climb
when the sax is there.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=1Author : Mario Alfiero
TOMORROW’S HARVEST
After several years they’re back..
Boards of Canada / Tomorrow’s Harvest [warp/2013]
enjoy..
Author : Mark-enoWORDS 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
Author : Serena BecagliFOTOGRAFIA 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
Author : Chiara Cremaschi
All the exhibitions will be shown through Sunday, 16th June:
http://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/fe2013/mostre/
Not to be missed!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.
Author : Federica Mascagni
