_it only says: nate paints.
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_”Ji Lee is a polymath of all sorts of creative pursuits” says a 99 Percent interview, check her work at pleaseenjoy [ be sure to check the New Museum campaign ].
Gonduras: Critters, and Self Exposure
Gonduras Jitomirsky is a self-taught photographer, illustrator and all ’round artist living and working in Tel Aviv. We befriended him on a website and were captivated by his critters, but know little about him except the amazing self-description he posted on his website, which we reproduce in whole. Also check out his blog, his other blog, his other-other blog, his flickr and maybe follow him on twitter. Geez.
I drink [...]
Music / Candy Claws Sweeten the Deal
This one time I went Scuba Diving. I was thirteen, and and I felt like an idiot with all the gear and the flippers and the mask on top of the awkwardness of being thirteen. That is, until I got in the water and floated and there was silence and tons of little, shiny fish were swimming around me and I never wanted to leave. Listening to the Candy Claws is like going in the water was that one time. Ryan and Kay [...]
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_The folks at Methane Studios make incredible posters.
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_with Sunday, some retro-motion: a dollar dreadful.
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_About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. This website works to create web patterns for the colorblind.
Interview / Stephen Ledwidge makes us blush
Receiving and reading submissions is probably one of my most favoritest things to do. Usually, I put them in a neat little reading stack (on my e-mail inbox, of course) and go through them one by one, in order of arrival. Except, that is, in the case of Stephen Ledwidge, whose email shot out right at me as I was about to close my browser. It would be too easy to say it was Irish luck, but I thought “eh, why not.” Along [...]
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_week’s ending and Victor Cobo blatantly asks: do you remember when you loved me?
The Sound of Lucrecia / Congost
The Sound of Lucrecia
Ara from the album Congost [ Pruna Recordings, 2009 ]
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A couple of years ago some of us Gophers felt for the voice of Lucrecia Pérez. Lucrecia is a Colombian-born but Barcelona based singer, one of those musicians for whom many a critic have ventured to qualify with clichéd words like “siren” or “mermaid”, attributing her haunting sounds to the pull of mythology and not just the earthly result of Lucrecia’s [...]
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_Upon seeing Ty Wilkins’ work, we realized Kansas is no longer just Dorothy’s home.
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_My Cardboard Life: Web Comics made out of cardboard, courtesy of Phillipa Rice.
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_A Little Encouragement by Leah Tinari.
El Diente de Oro
In this enormous world few galleries-cum-shops are loved by the Gopher team as much as El Diente de Oro. The “Diente” is a beautimous project located in Buenos Aires and founded by our longtime friend PIAN, along with musician Coni Cibilis. It is a shop, a gallery, an engine for all sorts of cultural activities and for many a traveller, a place to feel comfortable: it has one chair, one small sofa, one door and one bathroom [ though the bathroom [...]
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_installation by Ulla von Brandenburg [ and drawing, painting, film, video and performance too ].
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_We love Cody Hudson and his Struggle Inc.
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_her exhibition at ZingerPresents might be about to end, but we’re sure that Marijn van Kreij is up to something already.
In search of Emmanuel Polanco
Like many of our posts, we owe this internet-find to our incredible clumsiness. We search, we fail and in failing find something radically more exciting. Emmanuel Polanco is an illustrator who works in France, whose work we recognize from Philosophie Magazine, of all places. We came upon his page on Computerlove, got really excited and began a frenzied search for Mr. Polanco’s homepage, formerly emmanuelpolanco.net which is now defunct.
We are still posting some of his fabulous work, [...]
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_VADS just digitized the Design Council’s slide collection. Nerdgasm much?
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_Karin Brunnermeier was born in Buchloe [ Germany ], but guess what? she now lives in Berlin.
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_“I can Read” is a picture blog with a simple concept: posting images with words in them. Kind of like PostSecret, but without all the guilt.
Ulises Hadjis is irresistible
Ulises Hadjis
Lunes (nuuro remix) - Remixes 2009
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Ulises Hadjis is a great personal friend of the Gopher editors. A maracucho with Greek roots, he is one of those singer-songwriters who make you forget all about how you hate singer-songwriters. No random medieval instruments, no hipster haircuts, no creepy angling at the lah-deez, just pretty mellow music. Last year Ulises launched his first album “Presente” for which his brother and Gopher illustrator Aquiles (this [...]
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_our moratorium on Anita Brunnauer‘s website ended today.
Interview / Shane Lavalette Talks Shop
Shane Lavalette is a Photographer. He lives in Massachussets, shoots everywhere else, often waking at the ugly, hairy and sleepy side of dawn to capture space in convoluted places (this makes him a hero in our lazy eyes. I mean… lazy selves eyes… um…) and tells us the Ninja Turtles camera was his first piece of photographic equipment. He is also the young and gifted editor of the art-photography magazine “Lay Flat.” The magazine includes loose photo prints in [...]
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_ Mauro Gatti’s website exclaims “Welcome, Stranger. While you are in my territory, no boring thoughts will fill your head.” We believe him.
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_amazingly, the sculptures that Jessica Fortner builds are even more complex than her illustration work.
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_Kim Sooja is a Korean-born installation/performance/video/everything-else artist living in New York City. Check out her work here.
On Politics: The Left in Latin America
Kyra Choucroun is one of the founders of The Gopher Illustrated and a political fiend (try and stop her, we dare you!) Her interests range from International Political Economy to Development and Conflict resolution. Fresh out of a Masters from the London School of Economics, K-fresh is hard at work at an internship in the UK. A native of Venezuela and a dweller of everywhere else, Kyra has spent most of her life explaining away the intricacies and misunderstandings of international politics to… well… everyone. [...]
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_All we know about George Myers is that he is a freelance illustrator and that he’s somewhere in the UK.
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_This grid-bubblegum dream is from the Melbourne Series by Shiau-Peng Chen.
Panther Touches our Sounds
Love is Sold (Lips and Ribs remix) Entropy, 2009
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One may be inclined to do some horrible things when it rains. For me, these “horrible things” take shape in waxing nostalgic about the recent and not-so-recent past. Unearthing photographs, looking at old por… traits, you know, pigtails and lollipops and – I mean, I’ve heard this happens to friends of friends.
This particularly rainy afternoon led to some file cleanup and [...]
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_if you went to NYC recently and attended some undergound-ish concert, chances are that NYC Taper recorded it [ in the image, a set by Blood Warriors ].
