Tomorrow night, Wednesday August 26th, X marks the Bokship will be launching LET – a series of ___lets for experimental writing – with a reading by their current poet-in-residence Nick Santos-Pedro. X Marks the Bokship is at 210/3 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9NQ, London and the event is from 6.30-9pm. 7242 I treasure your typos, it means you are [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Insound 10 featuring Mike Perry
August 24, 2009 – 3:03 pm
Last year Insound collaborated with artist Jason Munn (aka The Small Stakes) to produce Insound 20, an award-winning collection of stylish merch for 20 current indie favorites. This year, the online retailer sought Mike Perry, author and illustrator of the design books Hand Job and Over and Over, to reinterpret designs for 10 seminal bands [...]
Naomi Sims 1948 – 2009: The world’s first black supermodel
August 24, 2009 – 7:00 am
Models like Adrienne Fidelin, Dorothea Towles Church and Donyale Luna may have paved the way, but Halston called her the first black supermodel. She posed with Andy Warhol for an iconic cover of Interview in 1972 and was the first female model of African descent featured on the covers of Ladies Home Journal in November [...]
Eight decades in Shoreditch and Hoxton
August 21, 2009 – 3:48 am
I recently made a vow to never again discuss with anyone how East London has changed: to never again comment on yuppies on Broadway Market, bars and clubs spreading further up Kingsland Road, condos in Hackney Wick, or make a snide remark about the throngs in London Fields on a sunny weekend afternoon. Hoxton, an [...]
Katrina del Mar at Gene Frankel Theater
August 19, 2009 – 3:20 pm
The lovely and talented Katrina del Mar, like myself an alum of Nan Goldin Studio, is best known for her work as a photographer (including as a contributor to Issue #3 of Dossier). She’s also an experimental filmmaker, and she’ll be screening several of those projects next Thursday, August 27 at the Gene Frankel Theater at [...]
The World in Isotype
August 19, 2009 – 7:23 am
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz collaborated on Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education). Isotype is a system of pictograms meant to communicate information concerning the economy, politics, and society by using simple images. Many of the 4,000 signs designed by Arntz can be seen at the Gerd [...]
Trauma House
August 18, 2009 – 8:02 am
Thanks to Dan from the inimitable Chip Web for spreading the word on Trauma House‘s remixes. At the moment they have seven videos up on their youtube channel, the highlights of which are the above Clipse and Kanye remix, produced by Brutal Science, and the one of Jay-Z’s “Blue Magic“. Trauma House is made up [...]
