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Tommmy

4th season advertising image for Rescue Me

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‘Ruin porn’ – The cliché of abandoned Detroit

Photo op/visual metaphor/music video locale/nude model hangout: Detroit’s Michigan Central Station

The state of journalism in the US is a mess; what sells is often put ahead of the real news. Money (desire for/lack of) drives the system. If I want good international reporting, I tend to stick with the BBC. Domestically, it’s more fluff than not.

Here’s Vice magazine’s take on journalists descending on abandoned buildings in Detroit because they’re really good photo ops. Really.

Found via Twitter.com/okayokay

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Pictures of Chernobyl’s lost city

Music: Lustmord’s Immersion

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster left behind radiation, death and an abandoned city.

This video gives more explicit detail . . .

Another photo essay by George Borman here.

Videos originally posted as part of a bulletin on MySpace by d++

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Big city

Low Rise by Peter Root

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Next generation autobahns

The work of Hubert Blanz.

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Jamie Oliver: Great chef, beautiful magazine

‘Jamie Oliver made it possible for me to cook a decent meal in under an hour.’
– mehallo

My wife got me hooked on Jamie Oliver when he was known as The Naked Chef. Which was one of the dumbest monikers ever created for marketing purposes. He wasn’t naked, and to this day I’m still not sure why he was called that. His recipes are quick, easy and often come out looking like the photos.

Today he’s been quietly building a food empire over in the UK – akin to what Martha Stewart has done, without all the nasty stuff that is her extended personality (I seem to have the habit of running into people who’ve met and/or worked with her and, wow, the stories I’ve heard). (And I will say I do miss her paint line at K-Mart. Great palettes.) [Read more →]

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2Edged Magazine: The sex issue

From Greece: 2Edged Magazine issue 5 was released this week. 284 pages of graphic design, motion graphics, photography, animation, art and music.

Download your free copy here.

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T Magazine rocks

I was almost a journalist. And love good newspaper design; and a few years back, got to adapt newspaper design to a magazine format. Dream gig for me.

The New York Times Magazine is a visual delight and I’d say sets the standard for what a weekly newspaper magazine can aspire to (Parade, are you listening?). At one of the schools where I teach, the library has a subscription and a nice stack of back issues. They also subscribe to the stylish spin off, T Magazine.

Yesterday, T Magazine posted the best of their 2009 covers on their daily blog. And the day before, they posted the best of 2008.

And their 5th Anniversary issue has just dropped. 5 different covers – by Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, Francesco Vezzoli, Jeff Koons and the Starn brothers – plus work by Karl Largerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Stefano Pilati, Alber Elbaz, Miuccia Prada and Nicolas Ghesquière, the latter 5 doing a makeover of actress Carey Mulligan.