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AIR MASSIVE
GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA STYLE WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
CONSUMING CULTURE, SPITTIN' HYPE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...
1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus"
(Island)
Favorite Kicks ...
Adidas "Adi Color Winner"
-- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.
Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
(Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!
Overheard...
Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:
"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"
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MASSIVE
Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X
Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP
Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine
Resources Directory [Beta]:
TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.
Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.
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September 09, 2004
Visionaire Debuts First Inkless Mag! Contents "Printed" with a Laser-Cutter! (What the #%!$?)
Yeah, and speaking of Visionaire, the cutting edge art publishing collective has just put out issue 43 of their magazine. But the issue is the first--maybe the first magazine anywhere--in which the traditional printing process has been totally eschewed in favor of a new technique in which the entire magazine's contents have been "etched" or cut into the pages by a laser-burning process.
Not that using a laser to print anything is in itself new--the technology was pioneered in the 1960's and personal, commercial desktop laser printers came into their own in the 80's and reached mass popularity in the 90's. (Still, Gutenberg, the German who invented the moveable-type printing press in the 15th century, would've been impressed by any inkless printing process.)
Even though so much has changed in printing and publishing just in the last twenty years with the advent of computers, electronic pre-press, desktop laser-printers and more sophisticated printing techniques, for commercial publications the process still has mostly always relied on the physics of applying ink or chemically-treated liquid substances to paper (or to some surface). Laser etching, however, cuts away by burning into the paper/surface. It's a technique and technology that's on a whole other level beyond the desktop laser printer.
Aside from the technological innovation, where Visionaire really scores is in its approach to contents and design. The magazine has been published three or four times annually since its launch in the spring of 1991. It was conceived as a "multi-format album" devoted to fashion and art, with each issue of the magazine set to a theme and published as a limited edition with a small print run. Only 1,500 copies of the latest issue will be printed. The theme of Visionaire No. 43 is "Dreams."
The contributors to each issue--writers, photographers, designers and other creatives--are often among the elite in their respective fields. "Dreams" features contributions from the likes of artists Robert Longo and Mario Sorrenti (see graphic above), legendary couture creator Karl Lagerfeld and photographer Bruce Weber.
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Visionaire
Posted by at September 9, 2004 09:28 PM
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