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Law of Desire
Photography by Greg Gex
Styling by Pandora Lennard
Model: Tanya Dziahileva @ Marilyn Agency
God's own country
Photography by Stevie Mada
Styling by Pandora Lennard
Model: Mila Krasnoiarova @ Silent Models NY
Twin Set
Photography by Jermaine Francis
Styling by Tim-Clifton Green
Model: Cara Delevingne @ Storm Model Management
Kim's World
Photography by Viktor Vauthier
Styling by Pandora Lennard
Model: Kim Noorda @ VIVA London
Duochrome
Photography by Pierre Even
Styling by Lilly Marthe Ebener
Models: Monika Sawicka and Tomek Szczukiecki @ Nathalie
Country Life
Photography by Manuela Pavesi
Styling by Manuela Pavesi and Caroline Prada
Model: Carolina Bianchi Prada
New Knitwear
Photography by Pani Paul
Styling by Isabelle Sayer
Models: Camilla @ Models 1, Vanessa, Sam and Evangeline @ Storm Model Management, Caroline M @ IMG London, Hildie @ Premier Model Management
Tender is the Ghost
Olaf Unverzart
Presentation
Shit London
Uslu Airlines Lands in the UK Market
Learning Language in the World's Newest Nation
Visualising Your Way Through Text
Reddress: A Finnish fashion story
The Original Rubber Baron Rides Again
The Cymbals
St. Vincent
Slime
Zola Jesus
Fair Ohs
Inc.
Manuel Göttsching
Word Play
The Art of Subtitling
The Wire
How Bandwidth rebuilt the World
The Monolinguist
How Not Learning a Foreign Language Saved my Life
Speaking in Tongues
Why Do News Channels Choose English to State their National Differences
Sissel Tolaas
The Science of Grotesque
Code Breakers
Can Google Translate Teach Us to Talk to Each Other?
How Newness Enters the World
Postmodern Space, Postcolonial Times and the Trials of Cultural Translation
MARQUES' ALMEIDA denim confections
The Designer Who's Giving the Young People of Ivory Coast the Needle
ASGHAR FARHADI on Iranian Film
ANNE PASTERNAK on art and the global market
DANIEL SALOMON on Esperanto, the art form
SERGEI “SERP” on Necrorealism and life between Russia and Paris
Tate Modern's director, CHRIS DERCON, on his global reach
FELIPE OLIVEIRA BAPTISTA on directing two fashion brands
acclaimed war correspondent, JANINE DI GIOVANNI, on conflict zones and trauma
composer STEVE REICH on his latest work 9/11
MICHAEL PETRY on bringing people to the art
BO NINGEN on noise and unforgettable performances
Editor's Letter

| Wednesday 14 December, 2011 |

Because London

Let it snow let it snow; White Stuff from Because Magazine

| Friday 09 December, 2011 |

Walking down Miami Art Basel VIP opening is like walking down Times Square: the visual assault of fluorescent lights, butox injected people and monumental works of art is dazzling. Artists are like brands carefully packaged in the more than 250 “white boxes” representing them. With works of art, eccentric collectors can flaunt their endless appetite for the unique and the exclusive, which only their pockets can afford. As occupy protesters shouted in the streets they are the 1%. At Miami Basel, art is a status economy with glamour being its main currency. Duchamp claimed that art is dead. Here at Miami Basel art is money, and the only golden rule is that he who has the gold makes the rules.

Film and Copy Barbara Anastacio

Sound: Archive footage from BBC Interview with Marcel Duchamp,

conducted by Joan Bakewell in June 5, 1968

| Tuesday 29 November, 2011 |

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Marshall Mcluhan Full lecture: The medium is the message - 1977

| Saturday 26 November, 2011 |

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Serge Gainsbourg’s classic ‘Histoire de Melody Nelson’ is getting a long overdue re-release. The 1971 concept album financed off the back of 1969’s erotic 4 minute tribute to the desperation of love, Je T’aime Moi Non Plus. Gainsbourg used the capital accumulated of the back of that single’s shock value (it was banned in numerous countries) to finance what would become his most complete work.

Essentially formed around two interlocking and overlapping musical themes than run across it’s brief 30 minute run time, primarily Jean Claude Vannier’s orchestral strings that riff across a series of motifs, and free-form improvised guitar work of Alan Parker. All over dubbed with Gainsbourgh trademark laconic vocals, telling the tale of his infatuation and seduction of the teenage Melody Nelson. It’s seedy and beautiful in the way only Gainsbourg manages.

It’s also a hugely influential record, as seen by the amount of time’s its been recalibrated and reperformed with everyone from Beck to Sean Lennon to Mike Patton. Put on your finest polo neck, crack out the Pastis and Gitanes, and relax to two of Histoire’s finest tracks, ‘Ballade De Melody Nelson’ and ‘L’Hotel Particulier’.

| Friday 25 November, 2011 |

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Hubble (Susie) Bubble, Toil and Trouble!

Stunning Susie Bubble is our pin up for the week

| Monday 21 November, 2011 |

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Moanday Monday

| Tuesday 15 November, 2011 |

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“Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian.” These words, placed in a newspaper advert, instigated the project which would become Self Made, a feature-length artists’ film by Gillian Wearing, which plays today at the BFI.

Wearing is one of the artists designated alongside names such as Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and the Chapman Brothers, and others, as the Young British Artists. Awarded The Turner Prize in 1997, Wearing has been one of the most industrious, successful and respected of the group. Since the mid-1990s, since her first advertisement in Time Out asking for people to “Confess all on video. Don’t worry, you will be in disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian.”, Wearing has sensitively built a collection of films made of encouraging strangers to publicly admit their most personal of thoughts and actions.

Self Made is Wearing’s debut feature film, in which the artist encouraged seven people to explore an aspect of their personality that they would usually keep private. Through Method Actingworkshops, the seven participants created their own cinematic situations, at once intimate and imaginative and suddenly very real and very public, this hybrid of drama and documentary. Each participant explores extreme directions, from feeling unloved to acts of severe violence. As viewers we are made to feel curious and voyeuristic, but just like glancing upon the pages of an open diary, it is endlessly fascinating.

| Friday 11 November, 2011 |

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Sunshine on a cloudy day from Becauselondon.com

| Friday 11 November, 2011 |

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Red eye treatment for Tank’s Caroline Issa

| Saturday 05 November, 2011 |

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Do you enjoy the swarming, coddling wave of claustrophobia? It’s the feeling that best describes listening to the new HTRK album ‘Work (Work Work)’. It’s mix of codeine-slow beats, dark abstract vocals and rolling synth arpeggios leads you round in circles, it’s an album made up of increasingly unsettling moments of deja vu in an unescapable maze.

After Tragedy struck the band last year when founding member Scott Stewart committed suicide, leaving the two remaining members to carry on, so you can understand the correlative increase in darkness. HTRK’s debut album, 2009’s ‘Marry Me Tonight’ was hardly easy listening, but it firmly placed itself within a framework of industrial doomed-shoegaze, where the misery of music can have, say, a therapeutic quality, and with it’s stylisation, dealt with.

But with Work (Work Work) there appears to be little psychoanalytical working out of problems, more an unrelating motion in no direction what so ever, there is little propulsive will to reach any kind of emotional denouement or understanding. None of this is criticism however, life rarely reaches the sort of penultimate chapter tying-up-of-loose-ends you get in art, and HTRK’s new record is all the better for not pandering to it.

The Language Issue

Fronting

Features

Radio TANK

Fashion

Talk

Law of Desire

God's own country

Twin Set

Kim's World

Duochrome

Country Life

New Knitwear

Tender is the Ghost

Olaf Unverzart

Presentation

Shit London

Uslu Airlines Lands in the UK Market

Learning Language in the World's Newest Nation

Visualising Your Way Through Text

Reddress: A Finnish fashion story

The Original Rubber Baron Rides Again

The Cymbals

St. Vincent

Slime

Zola Jesus

Fair Ohs

Inc.

Manuel Göttsching

Word Play

The Wire

The Monolinguist

Speaking in Tongues

Sissel Tolaas

Code Breakers

How Newness Enters the World

MARQUES' ALMEIDA denim confections

The Designer Who's Giving the Young People of Ivory Coast the Needle

ASGHAR FARHADI on Iranian Film

ANNE PASTERNAK on art and the global market

DANIEL SALOMON on Esperanto, the art form

SERGEI “SERP” on Necrorealism and life between Russia and Paris

Tate Modern's director, CHRIS DERCON, on his global reach

FELIPE OLIVEIRA BAPTISTA on directing two fashion brands

acclaimed war correspondent, JANINE DI GIOVANNI, on conflict zones and trauma

composer STEVE REICH on his latest work 9/11

MICHAEL PETRY on bringing people to the art

BO NINGEN on noise and unforgettable performances

Editor's Letter