Hello Buddy! is a book by Ben Rayner. About Dogs. That's all there is in the book, 40 pages of lovely dogs, printed as a bound A5 book with a lovely dust jacket. Here are some buddies from the book. If you'd like more info or wholesale price please email benrayner@gmail.com or check his website www.benrayner.com
my girlfriend once skipped school with her mates to go and stand outside what they thought was Damons house which was round the corner from where they grew up. All was good, they stood, speculated and sang songs outside his house. They weren't completely sure it was his home but found a cassette on the floor which had 'The Fall' on it so between them came to the conclusion that it must be Damons abode as cool tapes are scattered on his porch. All was swell until the rudegirl leader of their rival gang snitched when saw they weren't in P.E and parental and education punishment ensued.
so with news of a return of Blur and in recognition of bog standard comprehensive secondary school days and the memories that go with them here's Blur along time ago talking about tommorrow.
For the new ICA exhibition, 'Dispersion' 7 artists including Turner Prize winner for 2009 Mark Leckey, show work which explores the role of money, desire and power in an image saturated culture. But there's more than just images to glance over.
Download Seth Price Dispersion, 8-4 9-5 10-6 11-7, 8 hours (literally a full working days worth) of dance music or watch Leckey's live lecture- slash- performance on the history of television in relation to 'long tail economics', and pretend like you know what that is, cos I know that I don't.
http://www.ica.org.uk/Dispersion+17449.twl
'Untold Beauty' is an exhibition the Topshop Gallery space till the December 13th by British Iranian photographer Sara Shamsavari. But Shamsavari's 'Portraits From The Street ' are not your run of the mill fashion straight ups that are ubiquitous on every fashion blog today. The pics capture the essence of real london street life north south east and west, taken by a photographer who clearly loves her city and its inhabitants. Brave the Topshop Christmas Rush and Check them out for yourself.
http://www.iconiqueimages.net/
Hockey and Korean Air Crashes. Gladwell is the missing link.
Malcolm Gladwell is back with another soon to be cult book. In 'Outliers; The Story of Success' the chief demystifier, has got a bone to pick with Genius, 'What I came to realize in writing Outliers, though, is that we've been far too focused on the individual—on describing the characteristics and habits and personality traits of those who get furthest ahead in the world. And that's the problem, because in order to understand the outlier I think you have to look around them—at their culture and community and family and generation.' According to his research, most high flyers 10,000 hours of practise or in graspable terms 10 years hard graft till they achieve greatness they are recognised for.
Ok, so this seems kind of obvious, right? Nurture over nature? 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration and all that? Sure. But with Gladwell's flow and his knack of unpicking social phenomenon through drawing in a vast array of referents and anecdotes, I can bet it will be a worth a read. Korean Air-crashes, quiz show champions, canadian hockey players, atomic scientists- How many other books can say they span this distance? 'My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is.' Here, here, Malc. For that I'm adding 'Outliers' to my christmas list.
Back II Life Buddies DanFodio and Oroma Elewa have a new venture that looks amazing. This is what they say about it.
"Pop'Africana is a collaborative effort which aims to re-intrduce and re-define all aspects of "Art Africano". Not only will the magazine aim to re-educate the globe on African ideas of style and individualism it also aims to serve as a robust, visual guide for understanding the "Africano pshyce" from an all inclusive perspective. Pop'Africana sets the standard for iconic style and individualism and we are steering to the limits of the stars, so jump aboard! Show some love to the premier issue by PopAfricana.com"
check it out!
Goldie
Head of the Family
To see more pics go here... www.flickr.com/photos/nefatron/
Frazier now
Tonight More 4 screens new doc 'Thriller in Manila', the story of Mohamed Ali's legendary fight with Joe Frazier.According to the folks at Sheff DocFest where it was debuted earlier this year it 'Blows apart the Ali Myth, darker sides of his character are drawn into the light to cast a shadow over what the fight meants to sporting history and a country bearing social change'
Tonight More 4, 10pm
Oh No
Forget about Dostoevsky, Beckett, Dickens or even that long list of Nobel prize winners for literature because Swiss from So Solid crew has entered the written word world with an enigmatically entitled book called 'Spot the Difference".
Surrounded by puzzle and trivia books in Amazons list of books parents have been caught off guard when discovering the puzzle book they thought they bought for little Sebastian and Chloe is actually a self help guide to navigating through inner city life as a youngster. Parents became suspicious when their kids Au Pairs started noticing the children talking about the merits of community involvement, arguing about explicit content in urban music and what colour Audi TT they want.
Back II Life blogger Mo has knocked out another big video to sit along side his swelling back catalogue. Big up Agatha the Scorpion for performing on the day and Jane at the pet shop in Plymouth who sent him in the post at short notice in time for the shoot.
If you proper like zines you'll like Handmade and Bound. The Annual London Artists Bookfair isn't happening this year, but the good peeps at Handmade and Bound are stepping up to the gap in the market, hosting a book and zine fair at the Aloysius Social Club tomorrow. Zines, afterall, are the original blogs!
This Saturday 8 November 2008 ,St Aloysius Social Club, Phoenix Road, London NW1 (nearest tube Euston). 12-6pm. Free entry.
http://www.handmadeandbound.com
Silverspoon Attire Spring/Smmer 09
"...structured and tailored garments that can go from the Sofa to the Hottest Restaurant or from a Downtown Club to Killer House Party and back again, without ever looking out of place."
Silverspoon Attire is London based design duo Damian and Avigail who produce amazing luxury street wear for men and woman made from the highest quality materials. They also feature on The Back II Life DVD Mixtape coming out soon with Damian breaking the brand down for us and the design philosophy for last seasons 'Trump' jacket which was a Leather puffa without the puff, lined with cashmere. According to Damian It was designed with us Brits and our ways in mind to combat taking up two seats on the tube in the winter when your wearing a heavy coat. How english is that? That's some polite steez. And I've just checked their Spring Summer 09 line for men and woman that looks just as smart and UK-centric which is inspired by The Talented Mr Ripley featuring these two really good looking suede jackets.
check out the entire line and the 'Trump" (possibly one of the best jackets ever!) at www.silverspoonattire.com
Khos Oomadin Be Tehran
Rough translation: "Growing up in Iran is tough with plenty of things to be sad about but all is not lost. Look! I made a video with my friends, which was fun and I bought this hat that looks kinda like a New Era one and my best mate managed to buy an oversized shirt that says Phila which is as close as it gets to saying Fila. I also managed to get a chain and a shiny watch, war torn bling is so hot right now."
Photos by Nefatron
Maybe a couple of suitors for the ladies featured in "Advanced Style 1". Here we have have the UK city version of Cocoon where our olds strut around London town like they invented flossin' constantly macking on spinsters and widows in between horse races at Ladbrokes and chats on the bench in the park. This is as close as your going to get to a style hero.
Big up my UK style forefathers, staying fly till they die.
Weirdo Dave
Free Collective
'Fuck this Life' a zine straight outta the NY Bowery made by Weirdo Dave, apparently the ultimate ‘zine about aggression, escape and attitude'.Its chockablock full of cut outs and cut ups. Below,'Protest is Beautiful' is the work of the UK's Free collective old skool arty agit prop-pers who like (long) one liners. Pick your motto for the week people.
http://www.freee.org.uk/
Lee Scratch Perry Pum Pum
Gangstas & Thugs trailer
Florida yoot Michael Alfinez got sent down this week for taking advantage of his grans frail mental state. Now we've all played tricks on dementia victims, playing along with their wacky thoughts and theories but Alfinez took it to the next level.
He already runs a free DVD magazine called Gangsters & Thugs (only in America) that features gangsters & thugs being gangsters & thugs in varying gangster & thug situations. Check the trailer above it's pretty imaginative. So ghetto Broomfield decided to get his gran in on the act (which i thought was nice) dressing her in all-out homie attire and putting a Glock in her hand and making her say stuff straight out of the naughty G's handbook. The authorities didn't take kindly to Alfinez's efforts to bond with his gran and locked him up while his gran got off scott free even after issuing threats and profanities in a ski mask whilst brandishing a weapon, apparently she appeared disorientated in the subsequent video.
Anyways, now every time i see an old person acting up I'm suspicious that there is some grandchild manipulating them from behind the scenes. Is someone fucking with Lee Scratch Perry? Does he have an evil grandchild? or can old people be fun without a puppet master?
photo by Nefatron
The Cut Poster by Will Kay
photo by Nefatron
As well as co-founding a cult zine, running Hardcore Is More Than Music (an inspirational arts organisation that works with London yoots) and forming/editing The Cut Newspaper (the noughties Press Gang personified made by a group of 13-21 year olds) and being an instrumental figure in the Back 2 Life blog & mixtape (out soon!) this busy beauty still has time to take some sick pics and look pretty whilst doing it.
Monday night saw The Cut launch it's latest output at The ICA. A poster Zine featuring artwork from Will Kay and some snappy journalism from The Cuts young team as part of the Nought to Sixty exibition which was capped by a performance by Skitz and Tempa T. All of a sudden the ICA got good and a little lively with Skitz dropping bottles of beer off the ICA's Pall Mall roof. Who knew art could be fun. More news from The Cut, Hardcore Is More Than Music and the almighty Nefatron coming soon.
www.hardcoreismorethanmusic.com
www.thecutnewspaper.com
www.ica.org.uk
www.flickr.com/nefatron
For your viewing pleasure here's a short film called 'Meal 6'by Luc Rioche who you can check more of on the Back 2 Life mixtape out soon.
