1. more of Ada

    May 9, 2009
    by Maxime Buechi
    SB people, art, inspiration, making SB, photography, travelling

    Some time after the event of the CD, and after a small correspondence I also received a series of beautiful photos from the same author. Here is a selection—still melancholic and mysterious.
    New York 1995-2008 & San Francisco based band The Oh Sees chilling in Bremen, Germany.

  2. el gavacho

    May 8, 2009
    by Maxime Buechi
    SB people, body modification, inspiration, photography, tattoo

    i just received a link to this beautiful work.

    cheers gavacho!

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  3. the black heart—Ada Bligaard Soby

    by Maxime Buechi
    SB people, art, cinema/video, inspiration

    One day I received a mysterious package with nothing inside but a CD with “the black heart” hand-written on it and a little note saying that it had been sent upon recommendation of Diane Pernet, and the signature of the writer: Ada Bligaard Soby. I watched the movie and was completely captivated. It was a mixture of things that made it captivating, from the anachronistic grain of the images to the abstract narration, all this adding to the unusual context.
    I owe this event to Diane, I wish to thank Her. And thank you Ada for providing the world with more dark beauty.



    Ada Bligaard Soby left her native Denmark a month after her 20th birthday to study filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She got a French boyfriend and was inspired to photograph him all of the time while shooting random Super 8 films of her life. The first film that she shot and edited was a piece on Black Heart’s subject, Marina, and her wedding in the Hamptons.

    Around two years ago Ada discovered that everyone she knew in NYC was getting a divorce. It made her sad and she decided to make a film about what happens when you get a divorce. The background: Marina and Ada worked together as waitresses at Pravda where Marina’s future husband worked as well. As a wedding present Ada gave them a film of their wedding. Ada was 21 at the time. The film was made between 2007-08, Ada went to NYC to shoot and back to Denmark to edit with a very young and inexperienced but devoted editor who turned out to be a true master. The film was made while Ada was finishing a three-year program at the underground Copenhagen based film collective called Super 16. The result: “An investigation of what happens when love fails. When you loose something, yet learn from it.” Said Ada.

    Diane

  4. fuzi UV TPK in lausanne

    for the first time I got to see a real piece by my friend FUZI UV TPK
    probably my favourite one, BTW

    cheers Jeannot

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  5. MORE OF LAURENT

    May 5, 2009
    by Maxime Buechi
    art, inspiration, online feature, photography, tattoo

    (also see “first lines“)

    I just can’t get enough.
    I just can’t get enough.


    dominique

    mathieu

  6. more of knotan

    “This guy went to the tattoo artist and told him that he wanted bad weather on his arm!”

    Thank you Knotan. (Is that your name for real mate?!)

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  7. for the sake of a matter

    May 2, 2009
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    USA, discussion, extreme, fetish, inspiration, performance, this and that, traditional art

    This is a found looped film stock of Croda employees in the late 40s showing off the strength of pure gelatin: How fascinating !

    Ice Cream War from Ross Dalziel on Vimeo.