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  • The Album Leaf

    The Album Leaf The Album Leaf.
    Alternative/Indie/Electronica.

    On MySpace, listen: Stand Still (from A Chorus of Storytellers, 2010).

    On PureVolume, listen: The Outer Banks (from In a Safe Place, 2004).

  • Exergian

    Lost by Albert Exergian Kojak by Albert Exergian

    “Created out of a love for posters, modernism and television.”.

    The TV shows poster series by Albert Exergian.

    Also available for sale at Blanka.

  • Grickle

    We Sing The Forest Electric by Grickle “Just north of where I grew up there was an awesome bay on Lake Superior called Batchawana Bay.

    You could walk out for what felt like a mile and the water would still only be up to your knees.
    The water was warm and the sand was perfect.
    I miss that place.”.

    (Graham Annable)

    Grickle. Illustrations and animations by Graham Annable.

    Above: We Sing The Forest Electric, animation, headline.

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  • Trololololololololololo

    “The number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it’s-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please Soviet audiences, who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context.”.

    (Justin E.H. Smith)

    		 Trololololololololololo by Edward Anatolevich Hill

    Trololololololololololo. This should be the new Rick Roll.

    Above: Eduard Khil* singing I’m so glad because I’m finally back home (1976).

    *Referred as: Edward, Eduard, Hill, Hil, Khil, Gil

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  • Bersarin Quartett

    Bersarin Quartett

    “Imaginary fictional filmscores”.

    Bersarin Quartett: the solo project of Thomas Bücker. Electronic/Experimental.
    Debut album re-release on 29th of March 2010.

    Listen: Oktober and St. Petersburg.

    Above: album cover, detail.

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  • Agosto


    August
    is the coldest month of the year
    winter moves six months forward
    and this is not the South Pole
    here is not the South Pole

    August
    The alarm clock breaks the silence
    Someone is on vacation
    and she sounds for hours
    How cold it is

    August
    you look out on a sick heart
    five o’clock in the evening
    and it’s already pitch dark
    winter in August

    The ice
    settles and covers things
    the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead
    How cold it is

    If it is not true that you’re afraid
    it’s not true that you feel alone
    it’s not true that it’s cold
    then why are you trembling in this August?

    August
    is written on your calendar
    maybe you slept six months
    but you’re so tired
    so tired

    August
    is the coldest month of the year
    in the other hemisphere they call it winter
    August

    		Agosto

    Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
    Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.

    *Text in Italian    **Text in French

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  • Ignore Everybody

    Dinosaur, by Hugh MacLeod

    “So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever.
    Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years.”.

    1. Ignore everybody.
    2. The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours.
    28. Power is never given. Power is taken.
    37. When your dreams become reality, they are no longer your dreams.

    Gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”. By Hugh MacLeod.

    Above: Dinosaur (2006), print on paper, © gapingvoid gallery.

  • The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness

    The Girl's Guide to Homelessness “For a long time, I always had at least two jobs, sometimes three.
    Life was good.

    In July of 2008, my corporation had mass layoffs, and I was among them.

    I have never been homeless before, but I plan to face this with humor and dignity.”.

    “As long as you’re alive and healthy and physically/mentally capable of coming up with a plan and executing it, you will be OK.

    There is always another avenue, another option, another choice, another route, another door to pursue if one is closed off to you.”.

    “Take care of yourself. Anything material that you have/had/lost? It can be replaced, or at least reasonably substituted. You cannot be.”.

    (Brianna Karp)

    The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness. A true story. By Brianna Karp.

  • Everything Will Be OK

    Everything Will Be OK, by Don Hertzfeldt “After another two days
    they concluded Bill was not going to die,
    so his mother had all the flowers
    removed from his room.

    She also had to have his casket returned
    at greater expense and inconvenience.

    Bill had to go back to work the following thursday.
    It rained for the entire bus ride.”.

    Everything Will Be OK. A short film by Don Hertzfeldt.

    First chapter of a three part story.
    With the second part, I am so proud of you, it’s now available on DVD on Bitter Films.

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  • Stephane Halleux

    Marriachi Brothers “I am always fascinated by robotics, its benefits and its contradictions. Who has never dreamed of owning a robot for make all the dirty work?”.
    “But what is the border?
    How far the robot is there to serve man?

    That is what I want to make: caricatures of robots that have exceeded this border, all bathed in a fanciful vision of the future.”.

    (Stéphane Halleux, translated from le blog Art & Déco)

    		Bee Bird

    Stéphane Halleux, sculptor.

    Top, left: Marriachi brothers.
    Bottom, right: Bee Bird.

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