More from the Ellen Appel collection
Katrien De Blauwer collects, re-reads and re-uses photographic images in a new way. Saving them from destruction and including them in a new narration that combines intimacy and anonymity.
Zinkplaat is an Afrikaans pop-rock-blues-fusion bandfrom South Africa. The name Zinkplaat is the Afrikaans word for corrugated metal. This, their fourth album comes shrink-wrapped with ascratch-off ink layer on the front and back, as well as a guitar pickto scratch the ink off with. The album’s name ‘Mooi Besoedeling’ translates to ‘Beautiful Polution’. We believe this is a very good, functional solution to the fact that a simplistic clean cd cover designs tands out most from all the clutter on a store shelf, yet is very boring once bought. However one wants to read the album as a concept, people seem to love the scratch-off part…
Felice Casorati’s female nudes (c. 1930s) were known as shocking in their time due to their unusual perspective. Whereas most female nudes seem to dehumanize the female body by making it a subdued object of the male gaze, here Casorati’s nudes are disinterested in their observer, often seen occupied with other tasks like reading, reclining, or just generally “looking away.” The unusual use of color also aids in turning the female subject into a sickly/earthly figure whose existence is not hypersexualized but instead becomes a source of uneasiness or intriguing activity.
For their single Blue Ice, Swedish band The Shout Out Louds sent fans a kit for making a record out of ice. Pour water into a silicon mold, freeze it, then play the record.
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Photographs of Mirrors on Easels that Look Like Paintings in the Desert by Daniel Kukla
This is honestly my favourite series of photographs.