Today, I met Daniel Rhatigan at the St Bride Library DIY Design conference. While he was talking to Jackson about the Risograph, I couldn’t miss his silkscreeny tatoo and that brought us to discuss about his really nice typeface Sodachrome, which remind me somehow of Pierre Di Scullio’s Minimum in its bicolor version.

Sodachrome – initial ideas
The sodabudi ethos is the celebration of quirks and imperfections that are part of hand-crafted production. We wanted to develop a typeface that would benefit from these surprises, especially with the inprecise nature of screenprinting.
We liked the idea of creating a new chromatic typeface – consisting of two coloured shapes overprinting to create a complete character. This developed into overlaying two separate quirky shapes to create the illusion of a sans serif in the middle and a chunky serif on the outside.

Overcoming gravity, in your films that also means destroying the barriers between fact and fiction. You have often used spoken of ecstatic truth.

That is nothing but a bare concept. But in both feature and documentary films it is possible to have moments when you turn your back on the purely factual. Because fact does not constitute truth per se. Generally facts have nothing lighting them up inside. I always say that truth, a certain deeper layer of truth, can only be reached by stylisation and staging and invention.

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A recent interview with the president of the jury at this year’s Berlinale Mr Werner Herzog himself.

http://www.signandsight.com/features/1993.html

The gorgeous Mrs Lydia Lunch talking about the last song of her set yesterday with Big Sexy Noise in Bern

Lydia Lunch for Sang Bleu from Maria Trofimova on Vimeo.

I am a long-time (life-time?) fan of Lydia Lunch’s work, it is like a powerful shot of inspiration, strength and confidence.
In every form of expression she uses – music, spoken word, film, photography, writing, etc.– all is pure honesty and passion.
(http://www.lydia-lunch.org/)

So having her performing in Geneva (with Philippe Petit at electron festival) was a wonderful opportunity to finally meet her in person.

It’s the boys of clap.ch doing their interview, i was just filming.
(Sorry about the abrupt beginning of the video, the question was basically- is she feminist..)

An icon, a mirror, a witch, a sex symbol, a killer, a voice for all the loners, a poet of marginality… however you eventually manage to define Lydia Lunch, she already escaped somewhere else (and Sang Bleu can only relate to this very well).

Daito Manabe’S Face Visualizer

Electric face stimulation based on music and sounds events.

Lead Encapsulation

This image has been taken by Hugo Campos – I wrote a bit about it here.

body as a living (pain) map; this project leaves traces on your body when you physically enter encrypted and/or private network by walking in the street.

The Galaxy Poncho is an augmented poncho especially made for the 2004 Burning Man festival with a couple of LEDs inside.

Phillips Design examined tattoos, piercing, implants and delivered this simulation of an electric tatoos.

* It’s never easy to contribute to an already well formed blog. I’ve been thinking for quite some time now and after discussing with Maxime about it, here is my attempt to give you a few glimpses of what took my attention lately regarding body and technology. This is a few selected bits from our browsing archive R-Echos, discover more.

Marc Jacobs recipe for the Spring 2009 collection was a splash of jungle chic and two tea spoons of Parisian bliss.This springs collection will definitely give you something to look at ,your eyes will be tantalized with non-stop color and texture.

Jewelry designer and aspiring tattoo artist Jade Jagger practices “the best form of bespoke art” with close friend and tattoo artist Neil Ahern owner of Inkadelic Tattooing.