…off the press. Kudos to Sun, Zen and Hannah.

Opening december 15th: 7up, a selection of the Royal Academy of Arts 2007 graduates, seven artists handpicked by museum director Wim van Krimpen.

With work by

Lilian Kreutzberger / Paintings & drawings
Wieteke Heldens / Installations
Rosa Boekhorst / Drawings
Niels Broszat / Paintings
Isabella Rozendaal / Photography
Helgi Kristinsson / Sound installation
Sooreh Hera / Photography

Exhibition at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Stadhouderslaan 41 / Den Haag
Opening exhibition / Saturday Dec 15th ‘07 / entry with invitation only
Exhibition Dec 16 ‘07 - Feb 3 ‘08 / Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 17:00

Also, the book launch of Isabella Rozendaal’s “On Loving Animals” published by Veenman publishers.

Flickr page of Vitra Catalogue by Cornel Windlin.

New Hansel from Basel look book/calendar, by our 3 friends Sun (Design), Zen (Photography) and Hannah. Hansel from Basel is a hosiery company created in Los Angeles by Hannah Byun and represented by Opening Ceremony.

The new 032c has arrived, available through Textfield Publishing and Distribution. Wolfgang Tillmans, Cecil Balmond, Juergen Teller, Rem Koolhaus and Idea Magazine. Please contact for ordering details.

“Cecil Balmond is a structural engineer, author, and man of ideas; he is deputy chairman at the global design and engineering firm ARUP, and director of its think-tank, the Advanced Geometry unit. Architects Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, and Toyo Ito, among others, are indebted to his groundbreaking structural work. Both Cecil Balmond and artist Wolfgang Tillmans have dismantled the very architecture of their genres – Balmond’s genre being architecture itself, and Tillmans’ being the representational genres of portraiture and still life. A dismantling pictured and reformulated in an image essay, in which Tillmans distills an early 21st century office life so liberated by innovation that it is uninhibited by its cubicles.”

Thomas Demand, Yellowcake at 303 Gallery November 3 — December 22 2007.

“The title Yellowcake refers to the technical term denoting a concentrated form of uranium which, when enriched, may be used to make nuclear weapons. This word was recently on the public’s mind as the fulcrum that President George W. Bush used in his 2003 State of the Union Address when he stated: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of Uranium in Africa”. The evidence for this accusation was a paper trail purportedly stolen from the Embassy of the Republic of Niger, in Rome, and then given to both the British MI6 and American CIA by SISMI — Italian intelligence counterpart. The documents were an apparent contract of sale for hundreds of tons of ‘yellowcake’ by Niger to the Iraqi authorities. As the events making up this story unraveled, it became clear that the ‘evidence’ and information passed along by SISMI were obvious forgeries.”

Updates at Michael Wells Photography, including The New New South and Scorched Earth.

Giasco Bertoli is an Italian Photographer living in Paris. I met him through Miltos Manetas, who you can see in the photo above. Giasco’s site is still under construction but you can take a look already, i really love his photos, especially the tennis courts.

Wyne Veen is a Dutch photographer like no other and she just launched her very own website.

Photograph of my best friend Mario, taken by Michael.

Maurice Scheltens is a still-life photographer from Amsterdam who just launched a new website. I especially like the vitra museum series he did.

Gary Leonard, 1992

There has been very little dialog about the 1992 Los Angeles Riots/Uprising. This photograph shows what looks to be some early-morning opportunity looting at a Thrifty Drug Store in Lincoln Heights, though I don’t remember looting extending that far north. My middle school (John Burroughs on Wilshire) was closed for several days, our school was about 30% African American, 30% Korean, 30% Latino and 10% White. It was especially awkward to watch some students come to class with duffel bags filled with things looted while others wept because their families business had been looted/burned. I remember there being very little dialog afterwards, except for the kind of courtesy grieving that has become synonymous with events like Hurricane Katrina. Anyway, I’m rambling.

Impossible view of Downtown Los Angeles

I love looking at Historical photographs of Los Angeles, been spending time lately browsing the Los Angeles Public Library Catalog.

Los Angeles Latino Street Gang Placas, circa 1950—1985. Also check out Gusmano Cesaretti’s work. So…um, Gangster.

JJ Stratford, World Famous Photo Reporter’s, World Famous Blog. Dude, check out the Eddie Furlong snaps, no joke.

Once again, Jacob Holdt’s still very important Book, American Pictures, recently republished by Steidl, under the title United States 1970–1975 with excellent reproductions, but (unfortunately) without the original accompanying texts.

Markus Dressen: Printed Matter.

Anthropométries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings, 1960.

New issue of Fairy Tale, Picture Book.