1. FORDE BOOKS GENEVA

    February 3, 2012
    by Reba Maybury
    europe, photography, shopping, writing/litterature

    Forde Books : Edition Patrick Frey
    Opening on 09.02.2012, 6pm

    After Motto and Florence Loewy, and in parallel to the exhibition programme, Forde invites Edition Patrick Frey (Zurich) to conceive a temporary bookshop. Artists books, first publications (Fuzi, Ma ligne, HuberHuber, Universen), rare books (J.F. Schnyder, Zuger- Baarerstrasse; Annelise Coste, Non; Karen Kilimnik, Paintings) or out of print (Walter Pfeiffer, Das Auge, die Gedanken, unentwegt wandernd; Fischli & Weiss, Airports; Piotr Uklanski, The Nazis), and best-sellers (Lurker Grand, Hot Love; Onorato/Krebs, The Great Unreal; Christian Schwager, Falsche Chalets), about fifty books are available at Forde from February 9th.
    During the opening, Mirjam Fischer and Andreas Koller will present the work of Edition Patrick Frey.
    Hot Dogs & cocktails.

    Forde Books : wed.-sat. / 2-7pm
    More information here.

  2. color tattoo book

    June 26, 2011
    by Maxime Buchi
    art, body modification, illustration, report, shopping, tattoo, USA

    Yesterday we attended to the launch of Colour Tattoos @ Sacred Tattoo gallery, NY

  3. Yr Ghst

    January 9, 2011
    by Adrian Wilson
    SB people, shopping, this and that


  4. desirability

    December 6, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi
    art, book review, inspiration, photography, portrait, shopping

    like this book bought at LN-CC

  5. shangri-la

    24 hours in london featuring (randomly)

    —the russian criminal tattoos exhibition (good, but… God, haven’t we had enough of this yet??)
    —an unexpected procedure at take off
    —”a” book at ln-cc
    —Liam Sparkes tattooing Nathini’s palm (do you dig these fluo tones my iphone seems to find in anyone’s or anything’s appearance?)
    —and Becca’s deer tattooed by Liam too
    —JSR’s new Rick Owens shoes staring at me this morning <3

  6. CAUSE AND AFFECTION II

    November 14, 2010
    by Jason Farrer
    design, fashion, graphic design, heroes, reality, shopping, this and that, USA

    Where the hell have I been? Oddly, I don’t actually make it into stores very often but I did make it to the book fair at PS1 last Sunday where I discovered that ACT UP and Opening Ceremony have teamed up for a worthwhile fundraiser. The drive has been in effect since June and there are still buttons and t-shirts available for 2 and 50 US dollars respectively including this Opening Ceremony exclusive featuring “the four questions”. Read the fine print…

    ”

    do you resent people with aids?

    do you trust hiv-negatives?

    have you given up hope for a cure?

    when was the last time you cried?

    ”

    Big Shout OUT to the legendary Larry Kramer for instigating one bad ass pack back in ’87 and props to Brigette Nicole for initiating the re connect and stackin’ chips for the soldiers.

    ACT UP meets at the LGBT Center every 1st and 3rd Monday of every month. 208 West 13th street – NYC.

    RIP Steve Michael.

    See HERE and HERE.

  7. DesignMarketo

    October 18, 2010
    by Maxime Buchi
    design, graphic design, inspiration, making SB, reality, SB people, shopping

    Our friends Jerôme Rigaud (who also is the webmaster of this very site and an once flatmate of mine) and Alex Bettler recently launched a website called “design Marketo“.

    DesignMarketo is a platform diffusing up-and-coming designers’ small and limited productions.
    We also organise events where you can pop by and see the real thing – last one was in Milano: FoodMarketo and London Design Festival.

    DesignMarketo seems to be a pretty advanced proposition in the new deal of global retail. Alongside other conceptual online retail resources such as LN-CC, we find here the proof of the inability of the traditional trade system to adapt to the fast-pace evolution of artistic (in a general sense) practices.

    For now, propositions mainly stick to design and applied art, but it is no high-risk bet to say that it will probably shortly be applied to fine arts. Time will tell.

    Design Marketo also carries Sang Bleu