Efdemin. Techno/House/Experimental. From Berlin.

Listen: Bergwein.

Above: Phillip Sollmann (photo by Yasmina Haddad).

“Polyvore is a web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web, to create outfits, interior designs, or any kind of collage.”.

Right: Mon identité, by minaplume; based on Red 2007 by Oleg Dou.

“I don’t speak with economists never it’s a waste of time I will do an exception for you because you seem a bad economist.”.

Concursante (The Contestant, 2007). A movie by Rodrigo Cortes.
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Bombsville Any kind of failure in life. End A word to signify that someone or something is the very best. Player Term for a man who is a gambler by nature, who makes friends easily, and never gives up trying. Rain As in “I think it’s going to rain” indicating that it is time to leave a dull gathering or party.

“Part of Sinatra’s manly and cool presence came from the way he talked.
It not only created a magnetic attraction, but simply sounded damn cool.”.
Talk Like Frank Sinatra. From The Art of Manliness.

Aperture: f/9 Angle of view: 146° Film format: 110 Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec. Demekin*: a fisheye 110 film camera for subminiature photography.

Above: Demekin camera, detail.

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Leon: “Will you smile?” Ninotchka: “Why?” Leon: “Well, just smile.” Ninotchka: “At what?” Leon: “At anything. At the whole ridiculous spectacle of life. At people being so serious, taking themselves pompously, exaggerating their own importance. If you can’t think of anything else to laugh at, you can laugh at you and me.” (From Wikiquote)

I love this woman.
Ninotchka (by Ernst Lubitsch, 1939).

“Sanjhih is a small town on the north coast of Taiwan, near Taipei. In late 70’s, a keeper of a rubber company worked out the prototype of the UFO house using his own factory. However, the company closed down in the energy crisis in 1980. In 1989, a development company bought the unfinished UFO houses. They planned to make it a five stars resort hotel. Almost a year after, they decided to shutdown. Then the buildings was abandoned until now.”.

The abandoned future: Sanjhih. A set on Flickr.

Above: a detail from the cypherone@Taiwan’s photostream.
Work released under a Creative Commons license.

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“The boy was sitting on the bench, with his rucksack beside him, the girl was standing up, she was walking back and forth in front of him saying nothing.

I lifted up the dog which had dragged me there because I had a feeling that something unpleasant was about to happen, something that would make me wish I were elsewhere: the guy seemed subdued and she was furious.

Finally it happened. Slaps, with both hands, all over his head and face.
He didn’t move, he didn’t even defend himself. It looked as if it was all over when the final blow struck, violent, with a smack that obliterated the blackbirds calls.

She then took the rucksack and bike lying on the grass, and she walked off.
At the end of the path, or at the beginning, but it was an end in this case, where the sign was, she got on the bike and started pedalling.”.

(Alessandra Galetta, Cycling in the park is prohibited, 2008)

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“I think I know him… he used to be my neighbor… I think. If it’s him he’s definitely as creepy as he looks.”.

Sexy People. “A Celebration of The Perfect Portrait.”.

Above: Jerry (1974).

“In the 60’s I became very much interested in grid systems and digital systems. In 1965 I saw the first digital typesetters, and the result was horrible. Then I came to the idea to make another system of alphabet. I called it the New Alphabet. This is a six point Garamond from the digitized period. If you have it twice as big the basic idea is still there, but the whole shape changes, and this is what I couldn’t stand for. So I did “Let me do a typeface with only 90 angles and 45 roundings”. I published it, and I said “This is a theory. This is the way of thinking, and typeface designers should design along this line of thinking”. It made me travel all around the world to give lectures on it.”. (Wim Crouwel)

Wim Crouwel: Proposal for a New Alphabet. From Helvetica (2007), by Gary Hustwit.
Above : New Alphabet font, by Matt McInerney, sample.

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