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SAGMEISTER in BERLIN

Sagmeister currently exhibits many of his works in Berlin. Went to the opening of his show - if u are in Berlin make sure you make it down there (13. Stock des Lichtturmes Oberbaum City (Rotherstraße 11, Friedrichshain). Over 80 of his whicked pieces are exhibited.... one a little note which reads:

To do list before I die:

1.) Sex with two women 2.) Find a cool Girlfriend 3.) Visit mum more often in Austria 4.) Build a house in Sri Lanka

For the opening of a Talk at the  Detroit Art Academy he got written into his body with razorblades... I say full commitment to design...

Download one of his works the call for entries posters to the Adobe Design Contest 2003.

Stefan Sagmeister: Style + Fart = Language

An interview with Stefan Sagmeister about what he hates (and likes) about design. Apparently he likes cheese, and hates it when people call his answerphone but don't leave messages.  I saw Stefan at the IDN Fresh conference a last year.  He was the highlight of the show.  This years highlight was the account director from Mother.  How come they always put the highlight of the IDN conferences on first, and then you hang around for the rest and it's so disappointing?

A Poem (my first so\\\off)

    If  I was in London
I'd ensure I was intending to attend
A man who once sang             to me
             "fluid? oh, that's the tops"
   
His name you enquire?
                        Robyn Hitchcock.

P.S. I'd probably book my tickets first.

Art is the new Porn

Anyone who doesn't believe me probably wouldn't be here in the first place.  But if you're one of those niggly bastards who demand proof, look no further than Elyse Butler's winning portfolio of photographs from a porn shoot.  Or how about Trevor Brown's paintings?  He's got a new site - Li'l Miss Sticky Kiss.  There is always an exception to any rule of course (except for never cross the road with your eyes closed), whereby Porn is the new Art.  Terry Richardson, take a NSFW bow.

Other Cities - Amea Amaau

by Benjamin Rosenbaum

Amea Amaau -- or Double-A, or Dub, or Dub-Bub, or DB, or Popstop, as it is also sometimes called -- is a new and gleaming city in a matrix of six hundred and forty-three thousand cities exactly like it, somewhere in the terribly exciting part of the world. The citizens of Popstop -- but there are no citizens, for everyone who slept in Amea Amaau tonight will be moving on in the morning. They will roll out of silver water beds, vacuum the night's spit and eye goo and wrinkles from their faces with the handheld vacuums considerately installed in every wall, leave the dwelling they arbitrarily chose for last night, embracing and saluting the companions they arbitrarily chose for last night; and they will go to the chute drop and each hop into a chute, any chute at all, to be swept off to do one of the very exciting things there are to do in the world, perhaps (just perhaps) in Double-A itself, but more likely in Fairlanes, or Kingdom X, or Paunax, or Olam Chadash, or Gopferdelli, or Sang Froid, or Triple-B or Marley or Snackpack. And before she hops down the chute, perhaps one of them will pause, looking at the rotating silver statue of Amea Amaau's namesake waving a mechanical good-bye at the top of the chute drop station. Perhaps she will stop and wonder about Amea Amaau for a moment -- before she plunges on into the chute, ready for adventure, ready for anything.

Originally published at Strange Horizons painting by Ralph Berko

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<insert joke about fellatio here>

Igloos

What's there not to like about Igloos?  OK, apart from the cold?  And the limited space?  And the lack of broadband or toilet facilities?  Hey, they are just like hotels in Italy!  If you want to see some real Igloos, check out The Snow Show. They have some Igloos there made by Tadao Ando, Anish Kapoor (his is red, not sure how, but at least it's not yellow) and your friend and mine, Yoko Ono.

Verona

Y'know when you do a google search on one of your friend's names, and then you find out that they are doing something cool?  But they never told you?  Happened to me just now.  Me old cobber Dan Lambert is in a band called Verona in Wellington and there's even pictures to prove it.  Not to be confused with Verona cafe on K' Rd in Auckland (if anyone wants to know why New Zealanders are all pissheads look no further than the prices on their wine list -  NZ $20 for a bottle of wine??)

Freitag Bags

Make yourself a freitag bag online - a neat new flash interface lets you design your own bag.

Eleanor Rigby

OK, on with my review beret again... This one's gonna be short though.

I Likey.


If you want to read an actual review (I thought mine was pretty spot on, but up to you) then you could munch on this.