While indulging in one of my random-hyperlink-clicking sessions this morning, I came across this videoclip of the Red Army Choir performing The Song of the Volga Boatmen. Since I own one album of the Choir performing in Paris in 1968, and house a childish fascination of Slav pop culture and aesthetics, my interest quickly turned [...]
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Updates at nofoundproject
August 26, 2009 – 10:46 am
There are many updates over at nofoundproject, the photography blog from Paris curated by Emeric Glayse. New photographers featured include Peter Zachary Voelker and Rasha Kahil, whose series Poses was featured in Dossier last month. The above image is from Todd Fisher’s contribution.
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 [...]
