hello, it's me » inspiration http://joannelam.com/hello Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:00:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 billions http://joannelam.com/hello/2011/12/19/billions/ http://joannelam.com/hello/2011/12/19/billions/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:58:28 +0000 jo& http://joannelam.com/hello/?p=1922

hong kong by ward roberts

What is at issue is how an image of Hong Kong’s architecture and urban space is used to support a narrative that implicity attributes the colony’s success to the smooth combination of British administration and Chinese entrepreneurship. Such a narrative also mobilizes ethnic and psychologistic assumptions that cannot bear scrutiny: the dogma that Hong Kong people are by nature hardworking, that they have a high tolerance for crowded living conditions by genetic design, that they will do anything for money. Peeping out from under this narrative is a master discourse that, seeing only its own mirror reflections, inscribes the primacy of the economic everywhere in the most literal-minded fashion. This is a discourse that elsewhere I have called decadent. This discourse manages to make a complex space disappear into a one-dimensional image, structured on a facile binarism. Such a binarism not only tends to domesticate differences and restabilize change; it also avoids the spatial issues, to give us only a copulation of clichés.

Ackbar Abbas

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the mixtape club session 26

 

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i will be co-curating the mixtape club’s pirate radio session tomorrow (may 1). the live broadcast starts at 4 pm EST and we will be on air until 8 pm – hope you’ll join us!

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hannah waldron

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d. yee has this uncanny ability to depict the human condition, at once fragile and steadfast, through his cinematically influenced photography.

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“I fly very low on the radar,” says Hamm. “Mark Twain said it: ‘I’d rather say nothing and be thought an idiot than open my mouth and remove all doubt.’ Another Missouri boy, Mark Twain. The petulant, shitty movie-star mentality – that  burns out pretty quick.”

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from the beautiful archives of mr. & mrs. mahler, founders of ostkreuz

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what is your best personality trait?

loyalty and perceptiveness.

what is your worst personality trait?

reservedness.

what have you marched in the streets for/against?

to get to goosens, the great bakery in antwerp, for their currant bread.

if you could live out one fantasy, what would it be?

that creativity is embraced as much in adolescents as it is in children.

excerpt from hint mag
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graphite illustrations by will duty

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these images are from olafur eliasson’s solo exhibition held earlier this year at the 21st century museum of modern art in kanazawa. the museum space was filled with fog and lit by florescent tubes; the viewers were to walk through the space and explore it.

ps. new ten minutes!

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