Yes, we love love this new fashion magazine from Berlin. Check out this new independant magazine, undertitled “my printed blog” but not a blog that became a magazine, not at all, the blog reference is more about the logic that will lead each issue of the magazine. I Love You #2 is a collection of images, fashion shoots, quotes and articles about a determined theme. See more pictures and/or order your copy for only 5 Euro here.
Another new release just arrived: “Die Nacht #6″ – this amazing fanzine about photography from Trier. This time with photography by Taryn Simon and her fascinating series “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” and “The Innocents; an interview with the regisseur Wenzel Storch (”Reise ins Glück”); portfolios of Max Ruf and Daniel Stolle (Illustration), photography by Ixone Sádaba; “Der Mensch stinkt, solange er lebt” – the exam of swiss photographer Maya Rochat; an interview with fashion and reportage photographer Frank Horabt - and some of his fashion pictures from the 50th to 80th. See more pictures from inside and get your copy (only 1000) for 5 Euro here.
The lovely nature fanzine from Berlin Balkon & Garten just released its new issue #35: “Purpur”. Featuring the very best of purple flowers and plants, photography and stories from and with Arvid Boecker, Sara Bouchard, Christoph Braun, Harri Brill, Gerd Brunzema, Erika + Helmut Buttke, Elisabeth Eberle, Eva Engler, Iris Hartwig, Wolf Klein, Kai von Kröcher, Leslie Kuo, Jörn Lauterbach, Andreas Praetsch, Jaana Prüss, s-agitterre, Gianna Schade, Ina Schilling, Claudia Stierle, Johanna L. Wange, Cornelia Weber, Katja Windau, Michael Zander and Rita Zepf. As always there are only 150 hand-sewn, numbered copies - so better be quick and order your copy here.
Hans Aarsman, Claudie de Cleen, Julian Germain, Erik Kessels, Hans van der Meer just collected and edited a new number of Useful Photography: Photography is especially useful when it is aimed at helping the unskilled take better photographs. Useful Photography #009 examines the world of photography manuals and celebrates the pictures used to help us understand our cameras, take better pictures and identify our disastrous mistakes. In this digital age, where mistakes in photography can be rectified in an instant, Useful Photography thought it high time to dedicate an issue to the photography manual; with images sourced from the days when manual also meant the type of camera you were operating. Every manner of what can go wrong, and how to correct it, is explored. Yet, aside from telling us how to correct the double-exposed, the poorly lit, the out of focus or the red of eye, the series within also allows us to see that mistakes – as defined by these helpful brochures – have a rare, never to be repeated beauty all of their own. Learn all about photography, or how dangerous pigeons look in extreme close up in the latest Useful Photography #009. See more pictures and order your copy for 25 Euro here.
New crazy stuff from the UK: GOOD VS EVIL is a comic/illustration/art magazine focused on horror and the weirdest art out there. “GOOD VS EVIL has no ego, no backers, no nothing - just an interest in alternative art.” You have to see it: More pictures, a video and you can buy your copy (of only 150) here.
Just arrived: Worn Fashion Journal, an alternative to the mainstream fashion magazine. Instead of concentrating on trends and pushing products, it explores the concepts and ideas of clothing and explores fashion from a cultural, historical, political, personal and practical point of view. The spring/Summer issue Worn #8 features a lot of footwear! Articles about sneakerheads, Vivier & Belle du Jour, John Fluevog talks about life, design, and the joy of being authentic, illustrated and absolutely incomplete but utterly delightful glossary of shoes; The Art and Sole Project; interview with shoe collectors and the curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, Elizabeth Semmelhack, discusses sex, power, and status in the evolution of elevation. And: “Everything I Know About Fashion (I Learned From My Mother)”; “This Shit Ain’t Free” - Bella B. steps out with a high-end pedicure; “Material Girl” - When it comes to our relationship with leather, we’ve been faking it for a long time and Well Heeled - Esmé engages in boot repair espionage. Get all details and order your copy for only 7 Euro immediately here.
Low, a great underground art magazine from Germany, just released their new issue: There are features about Polish poster art, the American rock poster artist Emek, the Chilean painter Victor Castillo, the Texan poster and sausage making design company Decoder Ring Design Concern, the lowbrow art gallery of Merry Karnowsky in Berlin, Urban Knitting by Magda Sayeg from the Knitta Please Collective and art toy creations by rock poster artists like Frank Kozik and Tara McPherson. Also inside the mag are “Canvas Stories” from Diederick Kraaijeveld (The Netherland), James Jean (USA), Andrea Offermann (Germany) and Mateo (USA/Germany). And the exclusive cover artwork is by American artist Dan Grzeca. See more pictures, all details and order your copy for only 6,30 Euro immediately here.
Typographische Gesellschaft München just released a new magazine, with this unpronounceable name: “Escehaeriefte“. The magazine “places lettering as nourishment and as a world project into debate. It’s art work as well as cultural object. It takes the liberty to query alphabetism and turns alphabetism inside out. Along the borders of the alphabetical world we are searching for sound-fonts, art-lettering and body-type. We are strolling between magazines and writers, we dare the balancing act between the Scriptures and basic lettering. And last but not least, we make the attempt to relieve wellknown objects from lettering. Lettering is global, analog, digital, cyrillic, arabic, chinese, carved in stone, goffered, unreadable, ambivalent, quite accurate and incredibly flexible, and of course very erotic.” More details and/or order your copy immediately here.
The fourth issue of the experimental film fanzine Screenshots consists of 36 pages of fighting scenes in watercolor. Based on films of various eras and genres (from La Strada to The Bourne Supremacy), this series of drawings coalesces into one continuous book-length/five-decade-long fighting scene. The zine’s drawings of man-on-man fighting are based on film frames from The Wild One (Laslo Benedek, 1953) with Marlon Brando as a motorcycle gang leader, Fellini’s La Strada (with Anthony Quinn as the Great Zampano, 1954), East of Eden (with James Dean, by Elia Kazan, 1954), the spaghetti western Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966), the headbanger mockumentary Fubar (Michael Dowse, 2002), and the slick action movie The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004). More details, more pictures and order your copy of Screenshots #4 for 12 Euro here.
Our favorite culture/nature magazine Balkon & Garten just released its 34th issue: “Cemetry In August” (Friedhof im August). Graf Tati contributed a song and video. Some stills plays the background for the images of this issue here. The others contributors are: Bettina Allamoda, Sibylle Blaumann, Harri Brill, Gerd Brunzema, Erika + Helmut Buttke, Eva Engler, Marko Förstel, Sylee Gore, Heidi Gruber, Simone Gülde, Wolf Klein, Kai von Kröcher, Calin Kruse, Leslie Kuo, Jörn Lauterbach, Andreas Praetsch, S-agitterre, Gianna Schade, Martina Schmid, Jo Spittler, Cornelia Weber, Rita Zepf + 8 extra pages: Heinz Knobloch. Order your urban balcony (again only 150 numbered copies) for only 5 Euro here.
