Another thing we see — Nº2

Cheap to make, easy to wear and hard to ignore, graphic t-shirts are among the hardest working items for cult brands and retailers.

(And on the other side of this universe is Louis Vuitton’s latest offering, the next level of printed shirts in their S/S16 collection)

In our eyes Danny Fox is one of the more exciting names who has arrived in the London art scene in recent years. The artist with the appearance of an outlaw biker is an autodidact who found his interest in painting somewhere in his mid teens, inspired by the work of Alfred Wallis, who like Fox lived in St. Ives. Over the years he created a style which is unpolished and uncompromising, showing elements of early Modernist art, the graffiti aesthetic and a color palette that reminds of African art. Both the figurative, symbolic and decorative elements are slapped with great speed onto the canvas as if they were a sheet of flash tattoos (as immortalized on the artist’s own skin for instance). Fox’s figures represent boxers, horses, cowboys, snakes, fruit, transsexuals, strippers or patterns reminiscent of ancient Greek decoration, with everything blending together perfectly in the artist’s fascinating raw narratives, rooting directly from Fox’s own memory or personal history.

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An interesting view on things happening now.

“The main contradiction today is between the possibility of free, abundant goods and information; and a system of monopolies, banks and governments trying to keep things private, scarce and commercial. Everything comes down to the struggle between the network and the hierarchy: between old forms of society moulded around capitalism and new forms of society that prefigure what comes next.”

— Paul Mason on The Guardian

A bike hike… for the sake of it.

This bodybuilder injects himself with a potentially lethal synthol to grow monster muscles, and he’s not the only one who’s doing it…

Fantastic Man marks its 10th anniversary with the publication of a book: 70 Men of Great Style and Substance.

Oblique strategies is a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt used to break deadlocks in creative situations.
Each card contains a (sometimes cryptic) remark that can help you resolve a creative dilemma.
Whenever you’re stuck you draw a card and ponder how it applies to your situation. You may draw as many cards as you wish.
This website is an online version of the deck, containing many cards from the printed editions.

Thank you …,martijn for sharing.

This week a new inspirational project was launched by Rapha. After the brand was one of the original backers of Rouleur magazine back in 2006, it now introduces an all new cycling magazine on its own named Mondial.
Mondial aims to expand the idea of what road cycling is and what the beautiful sport can be. It will feature incisive longform writing and elegant photography which is one of the fortes of Rapha in the first place. In Mondial you will find familiar cycling topics given a fresh new treatment, while a cycling viewpoint is brought to wider cultural subjects, thus broadening the sport’s reference points.

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