July 2016 - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Link List #56 Selfie-inspector gadget technology, an island fit for Simon & Garfunkel and eco-friendly French roads

Piecing together a Link List is a selective process, made possible with the help of our friends who shed light...

Making art out of leftovers with Filipino performance artist Pepe Dayaw

The project began in 2012 in Madrid, after finishing his Master of International Performance Research in Amsterdam and London. According...

London Architecture

Simon Astridge: Homes for the everyday experience

“It feels like 95% of my job can be convincing people of that 5% idea.” Beautiful ideas are at the...

Oslo

For Everything Elevated, Contrast is Key

Still, with an acclaimed and growing practice that splits its time between New York and Oslo, it’s getting harder for...

Mickaël Martins Afonso and Caroline Escaffre-Faure Challenge the Urban Status Quo through Design

City tours guide guests through the courtyards of hotels, rich in character throughout Montpellier, France, during the Festival des Architectures Vives....

London Film

For the Love of Magazines: Jeremy Leslie Reviews Film Magazine 'Shelf Heroes'

And indeed it can be tough, though the excitement and adrenaline associated with the act can help you through it....

Art Community

Pablo Bronstein Draws upon Early Modern Period Tropes to Reflect on the Brexit through Performance and Installation Art

The piece included 12 dancers, performing three at a time, blending together movements from the highly expressive trends of ’80s...

Le Brassus

Night Vision: Dan Holdsworth’s luminous scenes expose the peripheries of nature

Born to a scientist father and ceramicist mother, the British artist has been no stranger to unions of technology and...

Community

The Zhongshuge Bookstore Realizes the Futuristic Aesthetic of the ‘60s

The bookstore, which opened in April of this year, veers far away from the usual dusty department-store-meets-mundane-cafe aesthetic. Instead, it’s...

Patrick Bergsma’s Picturesque Microcosms Edge Upon the Dystopian

As enchanting as the intricate elements might seem, they often come together in a post-apocalyptical manner. The burned down dwellings and...

Berlin

The Science of Sleep

That’s almost seven million breaths, 3.2 billion blinks, 15,000 sneezes in a lifetime, and about a third of our life...

The Bouroullec Brothers Memorialize Zaha Hadid Through a Floral Design Installation

The installation was neither placed in their home country of France, nor Zaha Hadid’s nations of origin, Iraq and Britain,...

Portugal's Site Specific Arquitectura Reinvents a Warehouse as a Chapel

The rejuvenation of the space kept in mind an acknowledge to the past through the illustrative adornments of the colonial...

New York City

New York Designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew Melds Practicality and Play

Curved ceramic plates, completed while still a student at the Design Academy Eindhoven; the inventive InsideOut glasses designed for German...

Community

Project Pressure is the First Crowd-Sourced Glacier Guide

The open source digital platform grimly titled, MELT, uses the frontier of hauntingly beautiful photography to engage with as large...

Link List

Link List #55: Fabrications in design, the roots of Peruvian music, and the politics of Japan’s pastel-haired Kei men

For this edition we’ve sought high and low to uncover the hidden gems strung throughout the web. First to be...

Community

Fucking Young! Magazine Dedicates an Issue to the Beloved Outsider

The eighth edition of the brazenly confident and over-the-top Fucking Young! magazine casts a spotlight on individuals who have harnessed...

Lisbon Art

How individual creative projects shape Lisbon’s community and cultural scene: Part II

The second part of our urban journey introduces us to two street artists who treat the city’s surfaces as their...

Community

Matthew Stone Retexturizes Human Form and Flesh Through Digital Painting

Splashes of pastel paint give form to impeccably-finished human figures in “Healing with Wounds”. On the artist’s page, viewers are...

Sochi Travel

Surfers of Sochi: Battling Adversity on Russia’s Black Sea Coast

For Mikhail, there’s no place quite like the cold waters of Sochi, the former Olympic city on Russia’s Black Sea...