David Dubois. French designer. Collaborated with Bless on many projects.

Great art direction work from event10.

Toga.

Akii Make-up.

Anders Edström. Swedish photographer who is responsible for a lot of the Purple / Martin Margiela sensibility.

Galerie Nuke (also a magazine) from France.

Henry Roy. Wonderful photographer.

Guava.

Longan.

Rambutan.

Okra.

Ugli.

Kumquat.

Enokitake.

Interesting aesthetic from Danish artist Christina Malbek.

Grauzone – Eisbær. (YouTube)

Iris Loeffler. Wonderful designer.

http://www.sparwasserhq.de/

The International Necronautical Society is a semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes of the early 20th century. It replays, not without parody, the politically-inflected structures of these avant-gardes, with their manifestoes, committees, splinter groups and purges. At the same time the INS makes use of these structures to generate artistic projects that explore the relations between death and representation. The representation of physical death, as in obituaries and memorials, is only a starting point for the INS’s exploration of the ways that all representations inhabit a zone of conceptual death. Death, that is, is viewed by the INS as “a cipher for the outer limit of description, for the point at which the code breaks down” (Verhagen 2004).

Video as urban condition.

Duino Castle. Where Rainer Maria Rilke wrote his Duino Elegies.

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning “New Slovenian Art”), aka NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. NSK’s name, being German, is compatible with a theme in NSK works: the complicated relationship Slovenes have had with Germans. The name of NSK’s music wing, Laibach, is also the German name of the Slovene capital Ljubljana, creating controversy through evoking memories of the Nazi occupation of Slovenia during the Second World War.

The beautiful innocence of Fernando Pessoa:

If, After I Die

If, after I die, they should want to write my biography,
There’s nothing simpler.
I’ve just two dates – of my birth, and of my death.
In between the one thing and the other all the days are
mine.

I am easy to describe.
I lived like mad.
I loved things without any sentimentality.
I never had a desire I could not fulfil, because
I never went blind.
Even hearing was to me never more than an
accompaniment of seeing.
I understood that things are real and all different from
each other;
I understood it with the eyes, never with thinking.
To understand it with thinking would be to find them
all equal.

One day I felt sleepy like a child.
I closed my eyes and slept.
And by the way, I was only Nature poet.

Read this, and then see a Bresson film, and you will maybe learn to have used your eyes.

Foam photo museum in Amsterdam.

Antimonide.

Art Director Management. Tons of great art directors represented.

Daniel Riera.

Fly 16×9. More beauty than the eye can take.

The indescribable Helen Levitt.

Mixte magazine.

Hercules magazine.

Some Required. Best photo blog in the world is no understatement. The sensibility is stunning.

Interbook has some amazing art catalogues.

Little More. Japanese publisher with some incredible publications:

More on Naoki Ishikawa here.

Cosmic Galerie in Paris. Amazing list of artists: Miltos Manetas, Annika Larsson, Mat Collishaw, etc.

Jean Seberg. When she killed herself, so did her husband and son.

Blog about fashion photography.

Union Gallery. Represents Jeppe Hein, Thomas Ruff, and others.

Rufus Corporation. Some interesting things from these guys. Above is a production photo from The Rape of the Sabine Women.

Brigitte Bardot – Moi je joue (YouTube)

Lovely.

Sofia Coppola directs Dior commercial. Nice feel and color treatment.