something for your birthday
publisher: PATRICK FREY

For lovers of independent publishing. No Layout is a platform for viewing fashion and art publications online without using apps etc. Archive dates back to 1915 and has amazing potential for research and reference. As found on the equally inspiring Manystuff blog.

My friend and Novembre contributor Scott Bourne’s and my friend and tattoo artist Michael aka M’ink aka Jack Sparrow’s (tattooed by Dan Sinnes) new ones.

Visiting your hometown for the weekend might be grim but has its advantages, charity shop bargains being just one of them. 1988 copy of 2001 A Space Odyssey in perfect condition for £1.99. Sweet.

These days, SB contributor Stéphane Montavon has been tinkering with the web. A collection of his delightful works, including his contribution to SB lll&lV, now lies THERE.

This adage of the traditional bohemian artist has become the first commandment for freelancers everywhere in today’s economy. Addicted to deadlines, we’re supposed to imagine burnout lurking around the corner, as we’re working ourselves to the bone.

Today, December 9, as we just finished Novembre Issue 2 (out in January, so get ready) I’m savouring the pleasures of exhaustion and thinking: the corner is not a straight angle. It’s a round one. A neverending one, that you can endlessly follow, never reaching any horizon. Time is never up, countdown never hits zero and this is it. This is how it must be, it could have been different but it’s not, no drama.

Yet the constant state of exhaustion that we’re in can be used as a way to produce new spaces. Overspending and exhaustion are not only moments in the cyclical patterns of capitalism’s reproduction and regeneration anymore. They are spaces of latencies, of levitation. Why not consider the potentials of that peculiar production? Nothing can be burnt anymore, anyway. We’ve already reached the state of ashes, soft and volatile. No spell to break. We’re not too drunk to fuck, we’re simply drunk all the time and fucking all the time. Let’s forget about the horizon and actualise latencies, as they can too be faster, better and stronger.

Let’s keep working oursevles to the bone, let’s reveal ashes beyond fire, and life beyond blood.

Above, “SUNSET, I love the horizon”, 2008, by Andro Wekua. (published by Le Magasin)

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