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Nini Baseema

Nini is a self-proclaimed Social Media Whore, living and working in Germany. Her main profession lies in the conventional corporate media world, but she's certainly come around, having worked for several online music mags, with a number of photographers, and for record labels such as the iconic LA-based Southern Lord Records.

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Doppelgänger portraits of complete strangers

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By Nini Baseema in New Photography on Tuesday 1 January 2013

At first sight, Canadian photographer François Brunelle’s pictures appear like conventional family portraits. But it’s all the more astonishing that the people you see on his photos don’t even know each other.

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Free Download: Ainslie Wills’s Lemon Japan

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By Nini Baseema in New Music on Thursday 27 December 2012

There is hardly a record so desperately awaited by me as the debut album of Melbourne talent, Ainslie Wills. With the outtake, Fighting Kind, she literally blew me away earlier this year. Her latest single, Lemon Japan, has the same evergreen quality. She offers it as a free download to her newsletter subscribers. The full [...]

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Somber imageworlds of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 25 December 2012

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are a creative couple who have been in the art world for nearly a decade creating unique images by combining photography, collage, painting, sculpture, and performance elements. The use of color and movement in their works almost always appears in an abstract way; proportions and space are oftenwise twisted depending on their image composition. I am a particular fan of their recent ‘gray dawn’ series.

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Beautiful collage art by Laurindo Feliciano

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Thursday 22 November 2012

Laurindo Feliciano is a Brazillian collage artist currently residing in Paris. Inspired by his own collection of vintage books, magazines, postcards and letters, he has created an impressive amount of beautiful works in the last ten years. All of his collages and posters share a certain nostalgic flair and a great passion for surrealism.

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Move On: the first interactive road movie

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By Nini Baseema in Video on Monday 12 November 2012

Move On is a currently released road movie starring Danish superstar and former 007 villian, Mads Mikkelsen. Shot and put together by director Asgar Leth, the project is quite unique as it was inspired and filmed in collaboration with movie fans from all over Europe.

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Fleet of Unfulfilled Election Promises

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 6 November 2012

With the American election currently dominating the media, I often find myself wondering: How much of what citizens of democracies are promised today will be kept by the winning parties tomorrow? And do we ever sanction that enough as voters? The installation “Fleet of unfulfilled election promises” deals with the very subject rather creatively. The electoral programs of the current government in Madrid were folded and turned into an “enlightened” fleet of small paper boats only to be flushed down the street during a ritual cleaning: once the installation was completed the wet and now unreadable, paper boats were picked up and deposited into paper recycling containers.

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Lost Street Art of London: a Lomo series by Gavin Hammond

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Thursday 18 October 2012

Graffiti and street art have always been transient forms of self-expression. Deemed by many to be mere acts of vandalism, the artists’ work generally exists only for a very short period of time (unless we’re talking Banksy, Bambi or Roa), before being washed away in the next public clean-up.

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New illustrations by Japanese artist Mozneko

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By Nini Baseema in New Illustration on Thursday 18 October 2012

Mozneko is an illustrator from Sapporo-shi, in Japan. All of his works are pretty cute and seem to be inspired by innocent drawings of children. If I had a fairytale book to illustrate, I’d want him to do the job.

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Ratatat: Old School Ska Punk by UK’s The Skints

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By Nini Baseema in New Music on Wednesday 17 October 2012

Ok, seat belts fastened? Here come The Skints from the UK. Old School Ska Punk meets East London Reggae: a safe way to get any party started, if you ask me.

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New tumblr: posters and art found on Berlin streets

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By Nini Baseema in Cool Websites on Wednesday 17 October 2012

Posters of Berlin is a tumblr showcasing posters and art found in the streets of the German capital. Some of the featured works are commercial, others are just meant to make the viewer hesitate and think. All of them provide a great visual footprint of the unique cultural scene of one of my favourite cities.

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The Heidelberg Project: 3D graffiti by Tyree Guyton

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 16 October 2012

The Heidelberg Project was started in 1986 by Tyree Guyton. He decorated the houses in his neighborhood using paint and salvaged objects from the street, thereby turning a once-threatened area into a tourist sensation. With the Heidelberg Project, the Detroit-based artist has drawn attention to the plight of his home city’s forgotten neighborhoods. He calls his art 3D Graffiti, or Guerilla architecture. His vision was to transform the two block area in Detroit where his work is to be seen into a state of the art Cutural Village. I say, mission accomplished.

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Lego reenactment of the Stratos jump

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By Nini Baseema in Video on Monday 15 October 2012

For those of you who have missed the extraordinary Stratos Jump by Felix Baumgartner on Sunday, here’s a little recap of it. All done in Lego.

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USB Typewriters for your computer and iPad

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By Nini Baseema in Tech on Thursday 20 September 2012

For those of you who are tired of using stereotypical computer keyboards, here’s the latest gadget from vintage design heaven. These antique typewriters have been modified to work as a fully functional USB Keyboard for PC, Mac and iPad. I don’t know about their usability, but they sure look sexy to me.

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The Cassette-To-iPod Converter

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By Nini Baseema in Tech on Tuesday 11 September 2012

Ok, now that’s a device I have been waiting for. All my eighties mixtapes that I couldn’t bring myself to throw away were not saved in vain. This new awesome casette to iPod converter makes it possible to safe what’s not available as CD or MP3 these days. Great idea! What took them so long?

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Portraits of music heroes made from CDs

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 14 August 2012

We like music. We like collages. We like recylcling art. And we love the recent PIRACY Exhibition by Italian Mirco Pagano. He throws a bunch of CDs on the floor and arranges them so that the images of legendary music heroes appear. Awesome!

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