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Christian Dior Haute Couture SS11 show

smoking kills

in 'cigarette ash landscape', an installation by chinese photographer and artist yang yongliang,
black and white photographs are collaged and piled to mimic cigarette ash.

the tip of a huge cigarette sculpture hung vertically in the installation space is revealed upon closer view
to consist of cut and layered images of city skylines. below, a pile of ash, composed of small rectangular image cutouts, sits upon a length of fake grass scattered with artificial flowers. 

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beautiful

AGNES OBEL - PHILHARMONICS CD

Anyone who heard the recent Riverside 10" EP from Danish-born Agnes Obel will know exactly what sort of spectral loveliness to expect from the singer-songwriter's full-length. Philharmonics is a delicately poised affair that certainly doesn't over-do it in terms of the arrangements; pieces such as 'Beast', 'Just So' and 'Close Watch' manage to sound haunting and intimate without having to build-up the instrumentation too much. In all these cases, light piano or harp backdrops provide the perfect context for Obel's multitracked vocals to really shine, although some well-placed strings and percussion flesh out the album's gloomier corners, as on the ghostly title track and the waltzing 'Avenue'. Good stuff.



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simple yet effective

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happy new year

When was the last time you used a CD? Now think when was the last time you even saw a floppy disk. What do those things hold, 1mb?

Well Nick found a much better use for these obsolete technological items, he paints over them. The portraits he creates are incredibly compelling, even without the use of disks you can imagine the work is already amazing, but by making use of the disks (especially with the making of the eyes with the disk’s center piece) Nick has added a whole new dimension to the works.