They exist already some time, and threegirls love them. Cutevil Yo-landi, her hypertalented lover Ninja (Waddy Jones, remember Max Normal) and DJ Hi-Tek of die Antwoord are South African’s best white trash.
Pixels…
… and skaters
… extra
+ the new band of Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio). Rocks!
Today I stumbled upon this intriguing painting ‘American Gothic’ by Grant Wood (1891-1942), depicting the rural American Midwest (some say it is a parody, some say it is a homage).
It made me jollily singing the whole Ginger Ale catalogue again, since one of their albums seems to be inspired on Wood’s work.
Ginger Ale is a fantastic Parisian band who pulled over some time ago, which is most deplorable. Listen to them while biking on a tandem with your love on a very bright day.
As a tribute, Gini made a drawing a few years ago.
Suzy (fan) and Gini Rose (drawing)
(just reading Raymond Carver’s whatwetalkaboutwhenwetalkaboutlove, ‘Why don’t you dance’ is one of the short stories)
What a gem! William Onyeabor is a funk musician from Nigeria. He studied cinematography in Russia for many years, returning to Nigeria in the mid-70s to start his own Wilfilms music label and a music and film production studio. He recorded a number of hit songs in Nigeria during the 70s, the biggest of which was “Atomic Bomb” in 1978. His songs are often heavily rhythmic and synthesized, occasionally epic in scope, with lyrics decrying war sung by both Onyeabor himself and female backing vocalists. In recent years a number of his songs have appeared on various compilations, most often his biggest hit “Better Change Your Mind”, through labels such as Luaka Bop. His albums have long since gone out of print, prompting high prices from collectors on eBay.
William has now been crowned a High Chief in Enugu, where he lives today as a successful businessman working on government contracts and running his own flour mill..
(Sources: Last FM and Wikipedia)
The Dead Weather.. New Jack White Stripe project. One of the best intro’s I have ever seen. And what follows is so simple but strong. He’s a master.
And Charlotte Gainsbourg’s fruitful encounter with Beck.. (I love Charlotte! She’s cool+sweet)
Matias! Aguayo! Rollin rollin rollerskater.
Ooooooo (Flaming Lips, I can be a frog)
Bat for lashes sublimely whispers and howls Daniel’s name
A delirious version of New York by Cat Power
The Klaxons with the hypnotic Isle of Her
And to end in beauty, the new collective ‘Monsters of folk’ unites giants like Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), M. Ward and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes). Very suave.
In these average times, full of mediocre products, mediocre media and mediocre mediocrity, there are still lights in the dark. These lights push their fields forward, by inventing a new way of thinking, doing and presenting. By being bold and inventive, rising all hopes for humanity again. And NO, I’m not exaggerating, the world would be double doomed without these people.
Well then. The first light in the dark is ‘Logicomix‘. This graphic novel tells the quest for the true face of mathematics, which sounds boring but isn’t since the quest is conducted by the overwhelming charming English professor Bertrand Russell. As a philosopher, logicus, and notorious pacifist, he uses logic to try to save mathematics, and humanity. His adventure is portrayed as if the fate of the world depends on it, a long and intense journey during which Russell must battle his inner demons to achieve the task.
His most famous contribution to the logic field is known as Russell’s paradox: imagine there is a town with one barber, and where the law states that everyone who doesn’t shave himself is shaved by the barber. Who shaves the barber? If he doesn’t shave himself he shaves himself, and if he shaves himself he doesn’t shave himself. We are led into a contradiction. It may seem funny (and it is), but its effect on the philosophy of mathematics was devastating. Contradiction is a fatal bullet wound for any logical system, and it seemed to kill off hope for a watertight foundation for mathematics. With his next book, the Principia Mathematica, Russell tried to repair the damage he had inflicted on his own dream. This book is probably the most impenetrable one ever written by a winner of the Nobel prize for literature. In it, he and the co-author Alfred North Whitehead, famously take 362 pages to prove 1 + 1 = 2. Yes, Logicomix also deals with the border between logic and madness.
What I like about ‘Logicomix’, is that the authors tell the story with humour and a lightness of touch that pokes fun at the philosophers and mathematicians involved, but never trivialises the philosophy or the mathematics. The novel is both tongue-in-cheek and profound. Also smart is the fact that the authors let Russell interact with figures he never met, but whose ideas influenced his theories. The novel is loaded with these and other mental interactions. A nice autumn present for anyone who has ever been passionate about something.
And the second light, speaks for itself.
VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli – Sound Design
‘Onwards’, by Illustrator James Jarvis and visual artists collective Shynola. Music by Canadian band Caribou. Created for the swoosh brand.
Audacity of huge! Simian Mobile Disco! Super traaaack!
* Paolo Nutini
* Whitest Boy
* Ellen Allien – hope she brings Apparat
* Micachu & the shapes
* Ye vet
* Houray Fever Ray
We are Gini Rose, Julia and Suzy. We draw, take pictures, film, and write (in English or Dutch) about everything we are intrigued by. We are never bored. Our hobby is to search for that kind of reality which may be elusive until the right kind of imagination falls upon it. We like to go outside. We also like to party. Want to know more? About is your button. Or click here to read our mighty mission statement. This page is our magazine, or a cabinet of views, viewpoints and new work. Here you'll find the RSS feed to stay updated. For an overview of our portfolio, take a dive into the deepsea..
