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My new blog is up, re-up your links and re-route to PBLKS.com
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Please excuse this interruption in programming, The Publics will return with a new site in early February. IN THE MEANTIME, check the PBLKS tumblr for a fresh dose, daily.
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Eek-A-Mouse: Triple Love
Dert Floyd: Untitled (from the west-side of the moon beattape)
Scotty Coats & Wes the Mes: Double Fisted (Prins Thomas Disko Miks)
Drums of Death: Dodfucksupanescorttune
The election of Vancouver’s first Gen-X mayor comes at an auspicious moment, as the luxury condos that have come to define our skyline are now knee-deep in a great tide of misery that’s spilling in through the peace arch. While Hawaii’n-punch profiteers like Gordon Campbell seek to reassure us that we’re all snowflakes, the creeping proliferation of for-sale signs and the deserted holes of aborted mega-developments are harder to ignore than a pregnant ex-girlfriend.
Classic pre-riots Cube with production from Boogiemen, samples courtesy of BB-King, James Brown, Parliament and The Five Stairsteps.
Documentary about men who have made life partners out of sex dolls. Amazing collection of ultimate weirdos.
If you haven’t seen any of the Dirty Handz films, this is a good place to start. A massive underground success, the films document various high-profile graffiti crews throughout Western Europe.
From the Dirty Handz Productions site:
The other specifically European aspect of the graffiti scene is the voyage. Thanks to the InterRail pass in particular, international exchange among the communities of passionate train writers occur frequently. This allows them to benefit from the concentration and and exceptional diversity of the different urban, regional and national transportation networks, with the hope of being able to collect rolling trophies.
Re-designed my tumblr today…oh boy, when the new pblks.com site gets up the internet is going to be in for some serious business!
When I’m not eating neon chickenwings in Koreatown, drinking americanos on Main, or having a pint in Gastown, I can generally be found lounging in one of the countless pho spots in Vancouver’s discreet and relatively unknown Vietnamtown district. Here are some snaps of the neighbourhood I took a while back.
Now that all the fanfare surrounding this article has all but died down, I think it’s apt to discuss one of the reasons why it was able to gain such a crazy amount of momentum – the cover. Of course I’m completely biased but I think this is one of the freshest images to hit the stands in recent memory. Designed by Brazilian graphic artist Pedro Inoue, the cover’s stark aesthetic instantly distinguishes it from the surrounding design-puke of your average magazine rack, while the portrait communicates an unnerving, but attractive blankness. The man responsible for this vision of the hipster-christ is German photographer Olaf Blecker, master portraitist and pioneer of the “raw” approach. He did a great interview with The F-Stop in which he states:
There is no general message. I work as an amplifier. Often I will not know much about the person I am shooting. I have a photographer friend who does a lot of research, but I think, ‘Why should I read anything?’ I have antennas. I feel it anyway. They just have to sit there. I think everybody has these antennas. In German you would say, menschdenken, which is the knowledge of man. Some people say I’m a little bit beastly. Not evil. I think evil is too much. Some people say I’m not nice to people. I don’t want to be nice. I was told that everyone was talking about who they would want to be photographed by at my agency in New York. One person instantly said, ‘Not by Olaf Blecker’. I think that’s quite funny. I don’t take it personally. Many people don’t like themselves in my images. I admit, I wouldn’t like to see myself like that. It’s not beautiful. I am good at making people more intense, but I’m not good into making them look beautiful. It’s not my goal to make people as beautiful as possible.
Some examples of his work after the jump…
