Material to read and recycle
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imomus"Have you met KAREN yet? She's pretty ordinary.
"KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity. KAREN MAGAZINE serves up a delightful dish of the everyday, gently observed and presented as something quite unique. A glossy magazine without the gloss.... In KAREN magazine fashion is a T-shirt about the emotional world of the potato and beauty is goose pimples on the beach. There's a coalman and a butcher and Roger with his bad feet."
The ordinary is the new special! Roger with his bad feet is the new David Beckham! Or so suggests Bored of the Beckhams? Inside alternative lifestyle magazine Karen. Meanwhile, "cataloging multidisciplinary, below-the-radar contemporary art practice, PAPERBACK Magazine is a lovely and manageable alternative to institutionalized art periodicals," it says here. "This issue is designed with images in the front half and corresponding text in the back. It gives the reader an opportunity to experience a visual narrative separately from interviews and analysis. Pull outs, fold outs, and inserts. Based in London, printed in Eindhoven, NL."
Museum Paper comes from Malmo in Sweden. It "gives invited artists, photographers and creatives from alternative artscenes space to show their work alongside short interviews. With a background as a fanzine, Museum Paper wants to combine its D.I.Y. ethics and aesthetics with the high quality printing of the traditional art magazine. Museum Paper is curated, designed and produced by Museum Studio in Malmö, Sweden. Two issues are published per year." They blog here, and you can buy it online here.
According to Architecture D'Aujourd'hui, "each European produces about 3.5 tonnes of waste per year. Despite all efforts to manage this waste, the quantity of rubbish continues to grow with household consumption levels. Since the turn of the new century, EU member states have declared their wish to decouple the two curves, currently fatally linked: the upward curve of economic growth and the upward curve of rubbish production. Now the European Commission is financing a study with an ambitious title: The End of Waste. This title doesn't do justice to the length of the route we still have to travel, but let's ask a preliminary question: What is waste? The term designates the elimination of substances nobody claims ownership over. Burnt or buried, these substances are, in principle, asked to disappear. In reality, they pollute the air and contaminate the soil.... If not just buildings but also their construction materials were conceived with the idea of a first, second and third use, the materials and the energy initially invested would be better used. By associating itself better with recycling systems, the architectural world can provide proof that environmental and economic requirements are compatible."
But I know you're burning to say that if Architecture D'Aujourd'hui is not printed on recycled paper, we must burn it and buy FHM instead! And also burn its editors, for they are hypocrites, who will, in the remaining course of their lifetimes (if they are not burned) each produce 349389859389 tonnes of waste! Down with all momentum towards the ethical, if it is not 100% pure, fresh and new! No, wait, if it is not 100% recycled and re-used!
Now, to calm you down after your tantrum about purity, here are some "guerilla gardens" in Kreuzberg, already showing signs of spring thanks to global warming!
And here are some splendid lists of issues of interest to Cabinet Magazine and Stanley Lieber:
And here, pictured yesterday at a Kreuzberg bubblesale, is your curator, a man whose birthday is today:
Be gentle in your use of him -- you may want to recycle his basic materials at some point.
"KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity. KAREN MAGAZINE serves up a delightful dish of the everyday, gently observed and presented as something quite unique. A glossy magazine without the gloss.... In KAREN magazine fashion is a T-shirt about the emotional world of the potato and beauty is goose pimples on the beach. There's a coalman and a butcher and Roger with his bad feet."
The ordinary is the new special! Roger with his bad feet is the new David Beckham! Or so suggests Bored of the Beckhams? Inside alternative lifestyle magazine Karen. Meanwhile, "cataloging multidisciplinary, below-the-radar contemporary art practice, PAPERBACK Magazine is a lovely and manageable alternative to institutionalized art periodicals," it says here. "This issue is designed with images in the front half and corresponding text in the back. It gives the reader an opportunity to experience a visual narrative separately from interviews and analysis. Pull outs, fold outs, and inserts. Based in London, printed in Eindhoven, NL."
Museum Paper comes from Malmo in Sweden. It "gives invited artists, photographers and creatives from alternative artscenes space to show their work alongside short interviews. With a background as a fanzine, Museum Paper wants to combine its D.I.Y. ethics and aesthetics with the high quality printing of the traditional art magazine. Museum Paper is curated, designed and produced by Museum Studio in Malmö, Sweden. Two issues are published per year." They blog here, and you can buy it online here.
According to Architecture D'Aujourd'hui, "each European produces about 3.5 tonnes of waste per year. Despite all efforts to manage this waste, the quantity of rubbish continues to grow with household consumption levels. Since the turn of the new century, EU member states have declared their wish to decouple the two curves, currently fatally linked: the upward curve of economic growth and the upward curve of rubbish production. Now the European Commission is financing a study with an ambitious title: The End of Waste. This title doesn't do justice to the length of the route we still have to travel, but let's ask a preliminary question: What is waste? The term designates the elimination of substances nobody claims ownership over. Burnt or buried, these substances are, in principle, asked to disappear. In reality, they pollute the air and contaminate the soil.... If not just buildings but also their construction materials were conceived with the idea of a first, second and third use, the materials and the energy initially invested would be better used. By associating itself better with recycling systems, the architectural world can provide proof that environmental and economic requirements are compatible."
But I know you're burning to say that if Architecture D'Aujourd'hui is not printed on recycled paper, we must burn it and buy FHM instead! And also burn its editors, for they are hypocrites, who will, in the remaining course of their lifetimes (if they are not burned) each produce 349389859389 tonnes of waste! Down with all momentum towards the ethical, if it is not 100% pure, fresh and new! No, wait, if it is not 100% recycled and re-used!
Now, to calm you down after your tantrum about purity, here are some "guerilla gardens" in Kreuzberg, already showing signs of spring thanks to global warming!
And here are some splendid lists of issues of interest to Cabinet Magazine and Stanley Lieber:
And here, pictured yesterday at a Kreuzberg bubblesale, is your curator, a man whose birthday is today:
Be gentle in your use of him -- you may want to recycle his basic materials at some point.
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Date: 2008-02-11 08:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 08:29 pm (UTC)Hopefully that was worth a laugh and not "oh, that crap again"
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Date: 2008-02-11 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 09:02 pm (UTC)Hippy Buffday (Louis MacNeice Pow Pow Pow)
Date: 2008-02-11 09:03 pm (UTC)All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Their knickers are made of crepe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python,
Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with head of bison.
John MacDonald found a corpse, put it under the sofa,
Waited till it came to life and hit it with a poker,
Sold its eyes for souvenirs, sold its blood for whiskey,
Kept its bones for dumbbells to use when he was fifty.
It's no go the Yogi-man, it's no go Blavatsky,
All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi.
Annie MacDougall went to milk, caught her foot in the heather,
Woke to hear a dance record playing of Old Vienna.
It's no go your maidenheads, it's no go your culture,
All we want is a Dunlop tire and the devil mend the puncture.
The Laird o' Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober,
Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.
Mrs. Carmichael had her fifth, looked at the job with repulsion,
Said to the midwife "Take it away; I'm through with overproduction."
It's no go the gossip column, it's no go the Ceilidh,
All we want is a mother's help and a sugar-stick for the baby.
Willie Murray cut his thumb, couldn't count the damage,
Took the hide of an Ayrshire cow and used it for a bandage.
His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish,
Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish.
It's no go the Herring Board, it's no go the Bible,
All we want is a packet of fags when our hands are idle.
It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums,
It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.
It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet;
Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit.
The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall forever,
But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 09:36 pm (UTC)I baked you a cake but then I eated it... sorry.
and you smell like one too!
all the best
Date: 2008-02-11 10:15 pm (UTC)your the best thing in my life right now
the high light of my day
under standing the high brow has never been so much fun
i wish you a thousand gentle butterfly kisses
x
(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 10:10 pm (UTC)black
market
organs
(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-11 11:47 pm (UTC)Happy birthday! May you live in interesting times.
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Date: 2008-02-12 12:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 02:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 03:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 03:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 11:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 03:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-02-12 08:30 pm (UTC)Angels start to cry
Date: 2008-02-13 02:21 am (UTC)