I adore this yummy calendar from Lovecat! Photos by Jacob DeKat.

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Read the full article in KARIN + RAOUL magazine ‘TASTE‘ issue. Get your print copy and digital download here: www.karinandraoul.com/blog/magazine

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Illustrator from Brussels, Belgium – Raphaël Vicenzi… <3<3<3

To see more of Raphaël’s work, click on: MY DEAD PONY

xoxo Karin

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I would have given anything to find myself at Marina Abramovic‘s party at Sundance in honor of the documentary “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present.”  She asked that all guests wear white lab coats and noise canceling headphones while not speaking for an hour. Pretty wild isn’t it?

Abramovic is known for making waves in bold and unexpected ways. I was one of the thousands who stood in line at the MOMA this past spring, hoping for a chance to sit across from her. Abramovic gave her full attention to each person and stared at them for as long as they wished in complete silence. It was a magnificent sight and it left me with a deeper understanding of what it is to be fully seen by another human…you know without all of those other distractions we all seem to be so fond of.

Reading about her party online, I understand that Abramovic left some attendees quite unsettled while others very appreciative of having a chance to connect with another in an unusual yet so simple way. I found myself thinking about Abramovic last week as I joined  a group of headphone wearing music lovers for a night out on the town. Behold….The Amazing Silent Disco - a roaming dance party where everyone was listening to the same DJ music.

We took to the streets, the subways and the bars, all the while dancing and grinning ear to ear. We got many stares everywhere we went as most people had no idea what was going on. All they could see is us dancing to….nothing? It was a fun way to share a special moment alone yet together. I wonder if Abramovic would approve.

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K+R women’s signature Tee’s coming soon at our K+R store…

xoxo Karin

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More than just a camera, the C300* and C300 PL* cameras mark the beginning of a whole new system for the motion picture industry. Form factor, ergonomics, image processing and lenses – re-imagined to tailor the experience of shooting to the needs of professional cinematography crews

Very curious indeed.

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Italian-born artist, Angelo Musco, has been living and working in NYC since 1997. His art practice has been focused on performance art, photography, and video work, often combining the various media in one organic project. His photo shoots, which are the foundation of his photographic work and may involve a few dozens to a couple of hundred people, have become more and more ambitious in scale and complexity, and are often held in private and public spaces, becoming a performance in their own right. Musco’s investigation into the power of aggregations found in nature such as sperm during egg fertilization, an ant colony, beehive or a school of fish has fueled his most recent works.

Musco’s upcoming project, featuring the Parthenogenesis Film Sequence, is presented in conjunction with choreography by Stefanie Batten Bland and is inspired by Musco’s 11 films. The first phase of the Parthenogenesis project, a stunning and ethereal human installation which consisted of an enormous white dress with a circular base 30-feet in diameter, held up by 11 statuesque women covered in white make-up, white wigs, and even white contact lenses, took place for the first time as part of the VIP events of the prestigious Armory Show in New York City in March 2005. It was then re-presented in Miami in December 2006 during the Art Basel Miami Beach fair.

The current project consists of a video installation featuring 11 films Musco shot in 11 locations selected from places that relate to the artist’s life, and are all situated on the 41st parallel: amongst them are Naples, Musco’s birth-city; New York City, his adopted home; as well as nine others such as Baku, Azerbaijan; Madrid, Spain; Beijing, China; and Istanbul, Turkey. Each film captures the intense image of a very pregnant woman desperately running with a sweat streaked face, holding her belly as she urgently tries to post-pone the delivery of her baby. The film sequence has proven to be one of the most fulfilling and challenging projects for the artist, and marks final stage of an 8-year quest. It has enabled him to circumnavigate the globe, channel the energies and emotions of these unique locations, and create a multi-dimensional experience within a global discourse for the author and the audience alike.

The conclusive phase of the Parthenogenesis Trilogy will be a two-part project scheduled to take place in March 2012, concurrently with the Armory Show. The first part consisting of an exhibition of Musco’s 11 films at the Italian Cultural Institute, the second featuring Batten Bland’s choreography which will be showcased at the renowned Alvin Ailey Center in mid-town Manhattan. Bland’s choreography will bring Musco’s films into 3-dimensional reality. Through speed changes, sounds, human and fabric manipulation the images seen on film will transcend the screen and enter the real world.

For more information about the projects you may contact Ombretta Agró at: ombretta@ombrettaagro.com or at 212-433 0878.

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Isaac Salazar makes this crazy pieces of “Book Origami”. “I see my work as a way to display a meaningful piece of art onto a book that would otherwise sit on a shelf and collect dust; it’s also my way of recycling a book that might otherwise end up in a landfill.  The words or symbols I use are drawn from anything that invokes inspiration or encouragement, such as “Read”, “Dream” and the Recycle symbol.  If my work also makes people look at a book and even art in a new light then the piece has done its job“

http://www.recyclart.org/2011/01/book-origami/

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