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the last living rose

documentary photographer ‘séamus murphy’ has directed the first video for pj harvey’s new album, they will be released one for one during the coming month…

in her own words as told to ‘pitchfork’: …he will also be making a film that will be coming out later this year. He’s a photojournalist whose work I came across from an exhibition of his work in Afghanistan over the past 10 years. He’s mostly a freelance photojournalist who works in conflict zones and doesn’t particularly work with people like myself…

m / 13-01-2011 14:57 - tags: , ,  

mind the lads #6

for those of you who were around (and those who weren’t) when we first organised ‘mind the gap’ back in october 1996, you may remember that the first (and by far the best, so far) edition featured the rat-pack of british designers from that period: ‘tomato’, ‘fuel’, my old hero ‘peter saville’, ‘the designers republic’, ‘north’ and ‘me company’, we sold all 800 tickets for the afternoon (@ legendary venue ‘paradiso’) in record time & the event still gets mentioned regularly by those who managed to get a seat in the packed hall…

…to continue reading the full article, see here in ‘me stuff’

m / 12-01-2011 09:23 - tags: , ,  

the clock clock

simply genius… (via christian borstlap)

m / 12-01-2011 09:11 - tags: ,  

plastic fantastic

some pretty unusual plastic footwear from italian architect and designer ‘gaetano pesce’ for australian shoe company melissa, they can be trimmed down to various shapes at a later stage by the owner

(via ‘IdN’)

m / 12-01-2011 08:22 - tags: , ,  

ali barber and the fourty haircuts

london-based photographer richard nicholson spends his time (in his own words) …working for magazines, shooting personal projects, and doing nothing…

for example this project documenting the clients of ‘ali’s barber shop’ in london… more info can be read in the following article east-end cuts

m / 11-01-2011 13:24 - tags: , ,