Ollie Ink: fashion skulls on large canvases

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By Ollie Searle in New Art on Saturday 26 January 2013

I love fashion illustration and see it as an art form in its own right. If I was to put a label on it, it would be Fashion Art. My latest work blends fashion and skulls on large canvases using grey, white and black acrylic paint.

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The confronting video and photography work of Roger Ballen

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By Gonzalo Benard in Video on Wednesday 23 January 2013

Roger Ballen is an American geologist, living in South Africa, who is very much on top of the photography world. He directed the stunning video for Die Antwood’s I Fink U Freaky, amongst other notable achievements. Yes, he’s a true master.

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Dusk: a short film by Erwin Olaf

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By Gonzalo Benard in Video on Monday 21 January 2013

It’s been two years since Erwin Olaf presented us with this clever and magnificent short. I still keep going there once in a while. It’s brilliant and wise.

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Tabu: a new short film by Miguel Gomes

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By Gonzalo Benard in New Film on Saturday 19 January 2013

A dramatic love story has to be clever enough to still give you smiles. Tabu has it – photography like no other with a magnificent story that makes you want to walk along the river looking for crocodiles. This was a winner of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival: the FIPRESCI Jury Prize and Alfred Baeur [...]

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Sad Song: the new music video for the band Madrid

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By Stefan Fahler in New Music on Wednesday 21 November 2012

This is the first clip from Madrid, the new project of Adriano Cintra of Fame and Marina Vello of Bonde de Role. I have been looking forward to it since one of their earlier collaborations on a cover version of Freak le Boom Boom by Gretchen kept ringing in my ears for a long time. [...]

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Underwater photography by Kanoa Zimmerman

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By Samantha Dalrymple in New Photography on Tuesday 17 April 2012

These amazing series of black and white underwater photographs by world traveler and photographer Kanoa Zimmerman are breathtakingly beautiful. It is an inspiring series for divers and photographers alike.

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Black and White and Sex: a new Australian movie

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By Aaron Cameron in New Film on Sunday 18 March 2012

Eight actresses, one woman, and whole lot of sex. Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she exposes the man interviewing her. 

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Black and white portraits by Carmen Ortiz

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By CO in New Illustration on Wednesday 3 August 2011

Carmen Ortiz is a self-taught illustrator from Spain with a huge talent to feel and express faces of human soul. Her hand-drawing technique, using only black and white, makes her style unique and recognizable. She can distil a personality and tell a life story with just one image.

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Street photography by Leanne Carter

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By Leanne Carter in New Photography on Saturday 30 July 2011

Life is full of these magical moments with unique characters which can often can be lost because it belonged to a space in time which is quicker than an eye but luckily isn’t quicker than a camera. It’s fascinating to be able to capture these moments and bare witness to them, especially when the world around you talks so grey, as if there is no magic or uniqueness.

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Campa

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By Zolton in New Art on Friday 18 July 2008

Yes! Take me here, to this wonderful place where big headed people listen to Gnarls Barkley through sleek looking, kick-ass headphones. Sigh. If only ‘photo realism’ was a place down the road.

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Ken Garduno

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By Casper Johansson in New Illustration on Friday 28 March 2008

Ken Garduno creates wonderfully humorous illustrations using acrylic, ink, and wash. He is part of a group exhibition at West Hollywood’s Carmichael Gallery called Witnessed From Afar which opens on April 26. Garduno’s pieces are ‘generally composed in black and white, occasionally infused with vivid backgrounds of yellow or pink or his signature hint of orange and green’.

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Dan McCarthy

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By Zolton in New Art on Monday 11 February 2008

I got a tip from Deanne Cheuk that Massachusetts-based artist Dan McCarthy was creating some pretty hot prints and illustrations, and indeed he is. His work stimulates and then lulls my every sense to the point where if I look at them long enough and then close my eyes, just for one short minute, I feel transported to a place where stars are stars and clean air is something that fills you inside and outside but is not bottled in magic water. Only I then I wake up again in Brooklyn, slightly disorientated, to the sound of a raging car alarm.

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