Sunday, 25 March 2012

The Generation Gap

How similar are parent and child? German photographer Frauke Theilking's photo project called "Generation" observes the similarities and differences between generations. Each photo pairs a parent and child, either a mother/daughter or father/son combo, side by side. Devoid of an elaborate background, Theilking's photos focus the viewer's attention on the subjects, who themselves aren't wearing any distracting clothing.
Looking at the two figures, there are apparent (no pun intended) likenesses and gaps. For a lot of the images, it feels like looking at a split-screen of the same person at different stages in their life.
Pinar @'My Modern Met'

NO ONE is born with hatred or intolerance!!!

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The Statue of Ferlinghetti

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FBI Turns Back On 2,750 Of The 3,000 GPS Devices It Turned Off For Lack Of A Warrant

♪♫ Grinderman/U.N.K.L.E - Hyper Worm Tamer

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Ian McEwan: The originality of the species

Nick Lowe @ Noise11

Nick Lowe dropped by for an extensive chat about his long and storied career, as well as discussing his latest album The Old Magic.
Then, he pulled out the guitar to play his latest single ‘Sensitive Man’, the iconic ‘(What’s So Funny ‘Bout’) Peace, Love and Understanding?’, and new song ‘Somebody Cares For Me’ that he wrote with Geraint Watkins.
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'Time of My Life' - Dartmouth Idol Finals (2011)

Featuring Jim Yong Kim

College President Is Obama’s Pick for World Bank Chief

(Thanx Sander!)

Emptyset Mix 2012

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Russell Haswell - Ant Colony Featuring Eurofighter Typhoon F2 Flyby
Bruce Gilbert - Oblivio Agitatum
Front 242 - This World Must Be Destroyed
Emptyset - Medium
Andy Stott - We Stay Together
Miles - Flawed
Mika Vainio - It's a Muthang
Emptyset - Monad
Powell - 09
Mark Fell & Peter Rehberg - Zikir
Jeff Mills - Rich
Byetone - Opal
Ancient Methods - Third Method
Heiroglyphic Being - 2 Bath in the Black Sun
Ancient Methods - Second Method
Sleeparchive - Ronan Point
Vainio, Vaisanen, Vega - Incredible Criminals
Emptyset - Function (Roly Porter remix)
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♫ Happy Birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!!! ♪

Let's rattle the windowpanes with a “Viva Ferlinghetti!!” and a “Viva City Lights!!” Our message to the boss: http://wp.me/p2bH9v-ga
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Retouching a Classic: ‘Less Américains’

Of course, as the title suggests, Less Américains does away with the “Americans” in Frank’s photographs so all that remains, for example, of the Hoboken City Fathers are a line of hats and some political bunting hanging on a two-by-four. And what has been spared in the most famous of all New Orleans street car picture which so perfectly expressed the implied race hierarchy of Jim Crow in the United States? A few vague, unidentifiable shapes that sit within the frame like mismatched puzzle pieces. To quote Jack Kerouac, who wrote an introduction to the American edition of Frank’s book, “The humour, the sadness, the EVERYTHING-ness and American-ness of these pictures (!)” linger like a ghost in these secondary elements.
Less Américains includes an introduction by the artist Elisabeth Tonnard that takes the form of a concrete poetry version of Kerouac’s prose. Tonnard’s approach was to systematically white-out the individual letters A.M.E.R.I.C.A.I.N.S. from Kerouac’s text, leaving an incomprehensible soup of vowels and consonants. His “…basketa pittykats…” becomes the even more cryptic “…B k t p tty-k t …”