JR was in LA (and so was Banksy)

via The Dirst Floor and Complex

An Island

An Island is an unconventional music performance film and an abstract documentary about a band and an island. The running time is 50 minutes.

An Island will premiere February 1st 2011 around the world through what the band and director call Private-Public Screenings. Anyone can host a Private-Public Screening and the rules are very simple. The screening needs to be public, have a minimum capacity of 5 people and free entrance.

Private-Public Screenings will run from February 1st to March 31st 2011.

www.efterklang.net – www.vincentmoon.com

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Anyone can host a Private-Public Screening and the rules are very simple. The screening needs to be public and have a minimum capacity of 5 people and free entrance. Private-Public Screenings can take place in people's homes, at cafés, in libraries – actually anywhere – and they will run from February 1st to March 31st 2011. You can see photos from past Private-Public Screenings here and you can read more about them at Host a Screening

Official Screenings are hosted by venues, cinemas, festivals or other players in the cultural and entertainment world. They can be free, they can have an entrance fee, or they can be part of film festivals or concerts. Most often they are bigger events with bigger screens and sound systems.

Read more here, see more here and there.

via La Blogothèque

Prententious Yuppie

via Yvan Rodic

In Print We Trust: Egoïste Magazine

N°16 out on April 20th and available in selected book stores.

Egoïste was first published in 1977. Contributors have included Françoise Sagan, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Jean Paul Sartre, Serge Gainsbourg, Hubert de Givenchy, Yves St Laurent, Simone Veil, Chet Baker, Salman Rushdie, David Lynch...

Previous edition (2006) weighed 3Kg for 290 oversized b&w pages.

Nicole Wisniak is the editor, consultant art director, advertising director, production controller and distributor. All ads are created specifically for the magazine.

Read a 1996 Egoïste review here and a current NY Times review here.

Nudes & Still Lifes

Source: Bill Durgin via Saatchi Online

Generationals - Trust

WeekEnd Intermezzo

via Paper Fortress

Shame On Us

Hard-headed students of realpolitik like to think that only they see the world as it truly is, and that those who pursue human rights and democracy have their heads in the clouds. In their world, the Middle East was not ready for democracy, Arabs not interested in human rights, and the strongmen the only bulwark between the region and Islamic revolution. Yet after the wave of secular uprisings, it is the cynics who seem out of touch, and the idealists have turned out to be the realists.

Source: The Economist; read more here and there.

BR1

Source: Fatcap; check more BR1 here and there.

Princess Hijab

via PressEurop; read the full story here.

Hedi Sliman's American Dream

Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade is published by JRP Ringier in March jrp-ringier.com; Feb 26 – Mar 26 California Dreamin, Galerie Almine Rech, 19 Rue Saintonge 75003 Paris; Feb 25 – Mar 26 ‘Fragments Americana', Galerie Almine Rech, 20 Rue de l’Abbaye Abdijstraat, Brussels.

via Dazed Digital.

Something cool is coming to New York.

or how a startup named Hipster got 10K signups in two days without revealing what it does.



via TechCrunch.

Pack Your Suitcases

Learn how here.

WeekEnd Intermezzo

Waste Land

More Waste Land here.