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On Repeat: Zebra Katz, LESS IS MOOR

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Sep 9, 2020
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Updated: Nov 3, 2021

With such a hint to Mies van der Rohe, I could not avoid to mention it.

A perfect mix of hip hop, drum ‘n’ bass and electronic, sometimes slow, sometimes not... C’est de la bombe!

#Music #onrepeat #lazypost #ZebraKatz #album

Blah blah blah on commuting

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Sep 8, 2020
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After months I haven’t been to the office, this is how it felt on my morning commute. It was so good to be out, ride and make up and dress up a bit for work.

Bob Willoughby, Audrey Hepburn on the set of My Fair Lady, 1963

However, the reality was more this, especially on the way back home (damned you scooters and other electric bikes!) :

HuskMitNavn, Fastest Bike in Town, 2020

The commute has inspired artists of course (what doesn’t!) and one of my favourite photographer for it would be the talented Kazuo Sumida. In his series A Story in the NYC Subway (1995), he magnifies this unique world where all categories of people (the 9 to 5 worker, the beggars, the students going to parties…) are mixing, rubbing shoulders to each other. Each picture is perfectly framed, with a strong black and white contrast, and focusing not on the hellish situation it can be but on the human side of it. People are smiling, they are kissing, holding each other… It is beautifully done and looking at it, I would almost miss taking the tube.

Kazuo Sumida, West 28th Street, 1995

Kazuo Sumida, 9 Train, 1995

Kazuo Sumida, B Train, 1995

#Photography #commute #subway #NewYork #HuskMitNavn #blackandwhite #train #BobWilloughby #KazuoSumida #bike #tube #blahblahblah

Karine Laval, Quarantine, 2020

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Sep 7, 2020
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As I finish my quarantine this week, I take this opportunity to share the new series of Karine Laval inspired by the same self-isolation.

Similar to her Heterotopia series made from 2014, she continues to create dream-like portraits of nature, that we presume here, with the title given, must be her own garden in a city. Always full of colour, it is vibrant and visually very captivating. These are the opposite of boring still-lifes or plain landscapes: her flowers, ferns, and other plants are in their element and thanks to a clever angle and light manipulation, it is almost like they seem to participate at a fashion shoot, tinted with an LSD prism.

Love it!

More Info and pictures copyright: https://www.karinelaval.com/ and S oco Gallery, Charlotte, USA