If there is one photographer’s work I can fully relate to it’s Lee Materazzi’s. The San Francisco based photographer depicts the chaos, clutter and mental constipation that’s slowly absorbing our lives. Lee’s visual research of people’s obsession with the objects they own; the responsibilities they come with; and how easy we become faceless in the struggle of posession is
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There’s nothing better than a room full of horny nerds. Maybe only a stadium full of horny nerds. Grateful Grapefruit is going to take on Social Media Week Berlin next Monday with only one goal in mind – fill the room with the creme de la creme of local and foreign horny nerds and admirers. With the title #2QT2BSTR8 [too
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Building a strong connection between printed matter and online publication is what I am aiming for with the Printed Matters section on Grateful Grapefruit. A lot different, but with the same DNA of an idea, artist Alma Alloro intertwines digital and analog in her work. Further Abstract is a series of drawings converted to a GIF animation and then converted back
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Justin messaged me yesterday on GChat, letting me know that he’s shooting a bearded guy. Knowing me too well, he surely got my attention. I said I want the images asap and here it is – a first look at Justin Violini’s shoot with Levi visiting from Oklahoma. Grateful Grapefruit has the exclusive on the first images from the shoot
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Christophe Lemaire collaborates with BEANPOLE for Autumn/Winter 12, creating Novö, a collection inspired by the designer’s love of European New Wave, NOVÖ, music movement of the Eighties and is a modern reworking of the brand’s identity. The word “Novö” was invented by French rock critic and writer Yves Adrien in 1978 in his cult novel: “NOVO-VISION”. He anticipated the revolution of
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Browsing through my Tumblr feed has recently turned to a rather dull and boring routine trying to bring some excitement over to Grateful Grapefruit’s Facebook page Since the lines of decency that Facebook draws are pretty thick and I am refraining myself from showing you the creme de la creme (sometimes literally) Furthermore, I think you don’t need to see a hard
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Summer just arrived in Berlin and yet it has to step down for fall and the lurking winter. That’s at least the feeling you get when you flip through the September editions of the most powerful fashion reads on the planet. An undisputed favorite this season is Tim Walker’s “Dame of Thrones” from this month’s W. Featuring Kristen McMenamy as a Joan-of-Arc
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The fascination with bees has been a driving force for numerous modern day scientists, researchers as well as many past civilizations. Aganetha Dyck’s current research is based on interspecies communication between humans and honeybees to understand the delicate and fragile nature that exists between these two species. Working in a collaborative process with the insects, she creates sculptural and visual representations
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James Clar is a media artist whose work is a fusion of technology, popular culture and exciting visuals. His work explores the limitations of various communication mediums and its effect on the individual and society. Focusing on the visual arts, his work often controls and manipulates light – the common intersection of all visual mediums. While his early work dealt
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Ever since I quit working as an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent at Darik Radio I’ve also been more or less avoiding politics as much as possible. I replaced reports on politicians with art features and election campaigns with posh press trips and came to realize that I’ve just been trying to avoid the inevitable. I came to that realization more than
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Diana Scherer has a methodical approach to her work, comparable with scientific precision and childish curiosity that makes looking at her photographs both an aesthetic and learning experience. Scherer, born in Lauingen/Germany, studied fine art and photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Since 2003 she lives and works in Amsterdam. With Nurture Studies, Diana Scherer presents an archive of flowers she has grown
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Maybe nothing else will make Bulgaria famous. Ever. Except Azis. DIS had an interview with him and here is what they wrote and asked him: When Vasil Trayanov Boyanov appeared on the Bulgarian pop-radar a decade ago, he rechristened himself Azis. His transgressive image radicalized and scandalized the Bulgarian media. The Chalga industry, which up till then had been dominated
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