LESSANDRO REYNIERS @ ELITE.

DAVID VARCOE @ ELITE.

"CANNOT YOU SEE, CANNOT ALL YOU LECTURERS SEE, THAT IT IS WE THAT ARE DYING, AND THAT DOWN HERE THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY LIVES IS THE MACHINE?  WE CREATED THE MACHINE, TO DO OUR WILL, BUT WE CANNOT MAKE IT DO OUR WILL NOW...THE MACHINE DEVELOPS - BUT NOT ON OUR LINES.  THE MACHINE PROCEEDS - BUT NOT TO OUR GOAL.  WE ONLY EXIST AS THE BLOOD CORPUSCLES THAT COURSE THROUGH ITS ARTERIES, AND IF IT COULD WORK WITHOUT US, IT WOULD LET US DIE."

- E.M. FORSTER, THE MACHINE STOPS (1928).

VIVIFYING THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED IN AN EXCELLENT ESSAY I READ LAST MONTH - VILÉM FLUSSER'S 'TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHY'.  MORE ON THAT LATER.

BURBERRY BEIJING APR '11 /

"CHINA IS SET TO BECOME BURBERRY'S BIGGEST SINGLE MARKET IN JUST FIVE YEARS AT ITS CURRENT RATE OF GROWTH - WHICH IS ALREADY THE COMPANY'S FASTEST...LUXURY BRANDS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SEDUCE CHINA WITH PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT...BY LAUNCHING EXCLUSIVE MODELS, PRODUCTS AND OCCASIONALLY EVEN ENTIRE RANGES FOR THE MARKET."

- ROBB YOUNG, 'CHINA FIRST: COAXING OR KOWTOWING?'

"...BUT WHO CARES HOW THINGS PASS, PROVIDED THEY PASS.  ALL THOSE LIPS THAT HAD KISSED ME, THOSE HEARTS THAT HAD LOVED ME (IT IS WITH THE HEART ONE LOVES, IS IT NOT, OR AM I CONFUSING IT WITH SOMETHING ELSE?), THOSE HANDS THAT HAD PLAYED WITH MINE AND THOSE MINDS THAT HAD ALMOST MADE THEIR OWN OF ME!  HUMANS ARE TRULY STRANGE."

- SAMUEL BECKETT, FIRST LOVE.

PORTISHEAD / MACHINE GUN.

THERE IS NO OTHER PLACE.  NO ONE ELSE I FACE.

GO-SEE DAY - 

NICK RIBACK  /  NEVS

MISCHEL ELLERN  /  NEVS

GO-SEE DAY - 

 BASTIAAN NINABER  /  FM

WALLPAPER MAY '11.

GO-SEE DAY - 

HELGE GJERSTAD  /  FM

LEEBO FREEMAN  /  NEVS

JANETA STAMP / VIVA

CELIN ROD LARSEN  /  STORM

VICK S  /  STORM

FAITHLESS / BLUEGRASS.

ROOM FOR ONE.

ROOM FOR ONE.

RESIST ALL SELF-ACTUALIZATION THAT IS NOT ON YOUR OWN TERMS.

"EACH WORD SEEMED TO ME AN UNNECESSARY STAIN ON SILENCE AND NOTHINGNESS."

- SAMUEL BECKETT