some really dubious ‘art’ from norwegian-danish photographer nina maria kleivan whose images (shown here) portray her daughter dressed as amongst others ‘idi amin’ and ‘adolf h’ (the article is dutch only), wow… now that is bad taste (tip via mister ‘de waal’)
an interesting piece on the future of the poster by michael johnson
…whilst the art of the poster still lives on in Holland and France, it seems that the poster in the UK barely stumbles along in student portfolios, gripped by hidden hands, usually showing a limited edition print of something inane like a cat drawing or a piece of geometric type. There?s very rarely a message, or a piece of genuine communication, if I?m honest…
some advance copies of my two latest children’s books ‘amsterdamse dingen’ and the english translation unsurprisingly entitled ‘amsterdam things’ arrived in the post today, looking good… the sixth title ‘transport things’ is also in production and should be launched within a few months…
i actually went through one of the other books ‘indoor things’ with my own 16 month old daughter yesterday and she approves… thanks darling
last night i attended a talk and book signing session by mister shoe who was smart enough to use nalden’s video interview to do the talking for him… the book is definitely worth buying and niels actually had a few very inspiring things to say, great work and he just gets better…
