According to the German Newspaper the Spiegel The EU’s trademarks authority has permitted a German firm to brew beer and produce clothing under the name “Fucking Hell”. The trademark is named after the Austrian village Fucking and the German term for pale lager, hell.
LayFlat Magazines look nice. Thinking about getting my hands on one.
Lay Flat 02: Meta
104 pages, perfect bound
7.75 x 10 in. / 19.7 x 25.4 cm.
Published February 2010
Edition of 2,000
from LayFlat: Lay Flat 02: Meta brings together a selection of contemporary artists whose photographs are conceptually engaged with the history, conventions and materiality of the medium itself. Photographs by Claudia Angelmaier, Semâ Bekirovic, Charles Benton, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Talia Chetrit, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, Jessica Eaton, Roe Ethridge, Sam Falls, Stephen Gill, Daniel Gordon, David Haxton, Matt Keegan, Elad Lassry, Katja Mater, Laurel Nakadate, Lisa Oppenheim, Torbjørn Rødland, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, Useful Photography, Charlie White, Ann Woo and Mark Wyse are accompanied by the textual contributions of Adam Bell (Co-editor, The Education of a Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Publisher/Editor, Aperture Foundation), Alex Klein (Editor, Words Without Pictures), artists Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Arthur Ou, as well a conversation between Lyle Rexer (Author, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography) and James Welling, an artist who is seminal to this dialogue.
They’ll also be raffling off a copy of Nadine’s book “Formal Additive Programs” and her latest endeavor, “Topics”, a box set of 36 small prints. Also, the first 20 people to walk in the door get a free show poster.
THE YOUTUBE ASSEMBLY FEATURING JESSE MCLEAN Tuesday / March 30 / 2010 @The Nightingale
8:00 – 10:00pm
$7 suggested donation
Calling all twihards, twerds and twitubers!
Thematically based around fan culture, this screening will take a look at both fans and fan-created videos. Through our own cloudy voyeuristic lens, we will explore what it means to admire, to emulate and to obsess.
The YouTube Assembly consists of screening web-based video for a live and participating audience. Each event features a guest host presenting a collection of YouTube clips that elaborate on a project or theme in which they have some expertise or interest. In the spirit of the popular YouTube interface, audience members are encouraged to comment on the videos they watch, except out loud and in real time with no anonymity. After the presentation the host then invites audience members to share their own clips. Like karaoke or an open mic, the YouTube Assembly creates a situation in which people take turns entertaining each other, thus bypassing the arguably isolating aspect of online networks like YouTube and encourage real, face-to-face interaction.
The YTA is sponsored by Homeroom Chicago and is hosted by the Nightingale.
Move out of the way, security patterns! Map Envelope allows you to print a map of your location on the inside of an envelope, (well, a piece of paper that you turn into an envelope), using Google Map geocodes. Created by Teevio with inspiration from Beste Miray. Now if they could only include a tracker so you know where your mail ends up… #chicagopost
The PenJet project is a collaboration of Rietveld Academie students Jaan Evart, Julian Hagen and Daniël Maarleveld. The project has originated from the workshop “Uncommon Usage” given by Jürg and Urs Lehni. During the workshop we experimented with the movement of print heads.
In general the new possibilities of every new technique influence the design process. This is the case for new alternatives of a printer. Therefore we decided to continue the project after workshop. Every brand of the printers has its own manner of movement and characteristic rhythm. The Penjet shows the handwriting of the machine, some fine and straight, others more messy. The quality settings of the printer (presentation/normal/300X300 dpi/150X150dpi etc.) influence the way the lines are drawn. The final result has both - the imperfections of handwriting as the preciseness of a machine. Every page is unique.
