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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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1929 silent documentary film by director Dziga Vertov

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By Nini Baseema in New Film on Tuesday 28 February 2012

Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film that I find quite inspiring. It was created by Russian director Dziga Vertov. It features scenes of urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. What’s not typical for a silent movie of that time is that it contains neither story, nor specific [...]

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Snow drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 28 February 2012

The past few weeks I have been really looking forward to the spring season. But these snow drawings by Sonja Hinrichsen definitely made me change my mind. Snow, please. Lots of it!

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The seven deadly sins by Christian Montenegro

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By Nini Baseema in New Illustration on Thursday 16 February 2012

The ‘seven deadly sins’ is a classical topic for an artist, it seems. As a fan of the Renaissance, I tend to prefer the traditional interpretation. However, Christian Montenegro, an illustrator from Buenos Aires, has come up with an interesting modernist version.

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Love Locks for Valentine’s Day

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By Nini Baseema in Video on Wednesday 15 February 2012

Are you looking for a romantic way of showing your sweetheart that you care about her or him for Valentine’s Day? Why not get a love lock? Love Locks appear in a few places around the world, and this is a short film about the locks on Ponte Milvio, one of the oldest bridges in [...]

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Envelope Drawings by Mark Powell

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By Nini Baseema in New Illustration on Friday 10 February 2012

Mark Powell from London uses a standard big biro pen to draw amazing portraits of elderly people on the backs of old envelopes. His works are as evocative as his canvas is unusual. Regardless, the results of his creative efforts are amazing.

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Hockern: the new German sport of Extreme Sitting

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By Nini Baseema in New Trends on Tuesday 31 January 2012

Breakdance and skateboarding are from yesteryear: Hockern is the new trend sport on the streets these days. The origins of Hockern can be traced back to the German coast city of Kiel, where people with too much time on their hands and not much interest in breaking their bones invented a few tricks that have [...]

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Typewriter art by Keira Rathbone

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Monday 30 January 2012

Keira Rathbone is a London-based artist with a particular prediliction for typewriters. She enjoys traveling the world, collecting different typerwiters, and ‘typing pictures’ of people and places along the way. The result is as unique as it is marvelous.

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Curious every day items by Nancy Fouts

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Wednesday 25 January 2012

Nancy Fouts has made it her goal to combine every day items in an evocative way. Somehow her creations seem to blend in and only at second glance you realize what’s strange about them. I am a particular big fan of her purse with teeth and the sewing machine record player.

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Haunting underwater photography by Neil Craver

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By Nini Baseema in New Photography on Wednesday 25 January 2012

Whether it be underwater photographs or macroscopic pictures of insects running over a human’s face, Neil Craver, aka Photon Organon, always manages to give his works a haunting feel. The talented photographer from North Carolina originally started out as an abstract painter and figurative sculptor.

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Mike James Kirkland: Hang On In There

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By Nini Baseema in New Music on Monday 23 January 2012

Do you know the feeling you get when you listen to a song for the first time and your heart swells immediately and all you can think is that you have just encountered something timelessly beautiful?

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Dice sculptures by Tony Cragg

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 3 January 2012

Tony Cragg is an artist from the UK. He uses all kinds of materials to create unique, organic sculptures. His dice sculptures are particularly fascinating.

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Portraits Made From A Single Pen Stroke

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 6 December 2011

Chan Hween Chong, an art director based in Germany, has redrawn some of the world’s most famous portraits. What’s special about it, though, is that he managed to do so with a black marker drawing one giant outward spiral. An amazing accomplishment, especially considering the fact that one single error means that the entire portrait [...]

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Giant temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice

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By Nini Baseema in New Art on Tuesday 6 December 2011

Jim Denevan makes temporary drawings on sand, earth and ice that are eventually erased by waves and weather. It reminds me a bit on the mandalas that buddhist monks draw in the sand and which are also erased. There is something eternally touching about beauty and transience.

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Buy the outfits featured on Nerd Boyfriend

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By Nini Baseema in Cool Websites on Tuesday 6 December 2011

Dear nerds, this is the website you’ve been waiting for. Nerdboyfriend, and as of a few days ago, Nerdgirlfriend, too, have thoroughly researched images of nerds from all around the world (vintage and new) and connect them with links to existing shops where you can buy the clothes worn in the photos. The result: a most impressive collection of hilarious outfits and their sources.

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Ambivalence of capitalist criticism shot on a lomo

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By Nini Baseema in New Photography on Tuesday 6 December 2011

One of the most pronounced political topics in the past few months has been the economic crisis, and with it, the rising of a new capitalist criticism movement. A photo that highlights the subject perfectly is this shot taken by Gavin Hammond, a lomo photographer from London.

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