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Christmas Melancholia 2013
1. Snow White in Appalachia / David Sylvian
2. Just a Blip / Arthur Russell
3. Cry the Clock Said / Gary Numan
4. An Avalanche of Stars / Devastations
5. Deep Skanner / La Bambola Del Dr Caligari
6. Requiem for the Static King Part 2 / A Winged Victory For The Sullen
7. Viimeinen Monni (The Last Catfish) / Ø
8. Tonight Was a Disaster / Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
9. Silver Rings / Majical Cloudz
10. Wheels / Dirty Three
11. Now You're Taken / Mogwai
12. Westward Bound / Mark Hollis
Here's a short interview I recently did with Andrei Kaigorodov about my project The Sartorialtwist
Who is Harry Woodrow?
I am an artist and creative director from London
Where did this idea come from?
Mostly because I wanted to inject some much needed chaos into streetstyle blogs, which were something that had originally been fascinating windows into local styles and subcultures, but I felt had unwittingly succeeded in killing those things that they were celebrating. I say this as I think that in a lot of ways the internet with its instant and incessant recording and broadcasting has created a virtual global homogeny in 'streetstyle' — go to any city in the (developed) world and you get exactly the same tribes as you do in any other city in the world, there's much less local incubation of ideas and an true underground has become impossible. Saying all that, I'm sure this will change as we humans learn to deal with this new world we've created, and it will get interesting again in ways that I can't even imagine.
What's the response to the project?
Bred to be Boring again
This morning I was thinking about my earlier article Bred to be Boring, and realised that the important word I'd failed to use was expression. Maybe our current period's prevailing style of graphic design so enthralled by content to be devoid of personality could be described as post-expressionism?
Read more...Meta Memphis
As everyone's been banging on about Ettore Sottsass and Memphis, I thought I should show some long-neglected furniture pieces that my dad Bill Woodrow — plus other artists including Franz West, Alighiero Boetti, Sol Lewitt, Mimmo Paladino and Lawrence Weiner — created for the Memphis company in 1991, the Meta Memphis Collezione 1991.
In the catalogue's introduction, Marco De Michelis describes the artists' temporary role as designers:
"[they] seem to deal with this topic by following two basic lines of thought: on the one hand, a return to memory and tradition looking for the archetypal figures of home life and, on the other hand, a conceptual handling of objects by using unusual materials and functional combinations. An attribute of this is that such attitudes are perfectly interchangeable and complementary".
Bill Woodrow — Ellen I, 1991 |
Bill Woodrow — Ellen I, 1991 |
Bill Woodrow — Harry, 1991 |
Bill Woodrow — Ellen III, 1991 |
Bill Woodrow — Ellen II, 1991 |
Bill Woodrow — Ellen II, 1991 |
Bill Woodrow — Pauline, 1991 |
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Bred to be Boring
Be your own guide
A sad day indeed. RIP Jason — you helped me through some bad times, I wish I could have helped you through yours.
Read more...The Systematic Eradication of Surprise and its Detrimental Effect on the Level of Joy and Wonder in the World