fashion and art friday :: wooster collective

ROMA in Buenos Aires



ROA at the Zaragoza Urban Art Festival in Spain



Alexander Korzen Robinson

woo·ster (noun)
A street in the Soho section of New York City
col·lec·tive (noun)
Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a number of people acting as a group: a collective decision.
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world.

photographic thursdays :: camille vivier

Camille Vivier
Bird Production

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whimsical wednesday :: make something

Make Something
Karyn
Toronto's first sew by the hour workspace.
1340 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6K 1L4
(416) 534 5305
makesomething@theworkroom.ca

body movement tuesday :: empire of ecstasy

Empire of Ecstasy
Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935
Karl Toepfer
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California

Empire of Ecstasy offers an interpretation of the explosion
in German body culture between nudism and nude dancing,
gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism,
and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs.
Karl Toepfer presented a dynamic subject as a vital and historically unique construction of modern identity.

The modern body, radiating freedom and power, appeared to Weimar artists
and intelligentsia to be the source of a transgressive energy,
as well as the sign and manifestation of powerful, mysterious
inner conditions. Toepfer shows how this view of the modern body
sought to extend the aesthetic experience beyond the boundaries imposed by rationalized life and to transcend these limits in search of ecstasy.
With the help of much unpublished or forgotten archival material
(including many little known photographs), he investigates the process
of constructing an empire of appropriate impulses toward ecstasy.

Karl Toepfer presents the work of such well known figures as Rudolf Laban,
Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer, along with lesser known
but equally fascinating body culture practitioners.

oddities and magikal monday :: morbid anatomy

Morbid Anatomy
Joanna Ebenstein
surveying the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture
Visit Morbid Anatomy in Brooklyn, New York,
at The Morbid Anatomy Library, a research library and private collection
available to the interested public. The library makes available
a collection of books, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts
relating to medical museums, anatomical art, collectors and collecting,
cabinets of curiosity, the history of medicine, death and mortality,
memorial practice, art and natural history, arcane media,
and other topics explored on this blog.

photographic thursday :: lina scheynius

AnOther Magazine
fashion by Cathy Edwards








Lina Scheynius
"I started this website just over 2,5 years ago.
I was not a photographer and I didn't really understand
what effect it would have on my life,
or on my inbox for that matter.
To begin with - not much happened. Every occasional email
I got made me very excited and I answered them all. But, as time
went on there were more and more of them. I started feeling
slightly pressured to answer every single one of them,
until one day not too long ago when i decided to give up.
That decision has kind of left me feeling extremely rude though.
I've also noticed that a lot of the questions kept coming back
so I came up with the idea to make an FAQ page.
This way if I do not have time to answer your email or interview,
you can hopefully still find the answers here. Let's try!"