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Boglio’s Poetic Black and White Inspirations

Laurène Boglio is originally from Annecy, France, and she studied at Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg.  She currently lives in London, where she is the Creative Director for Little White Lies magazine and also a freelance Illustrator.  She told me that she makes  gifs as ‘a diary of things that happen in my life’.  She also says she makes them only when it feels right, sometimes waking up in the middle of the night and writing them down, adding to the long list of gifs that she still intends on creating.  I look forward to seeing more of her elegant little black and white visual  poems as she does.

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Fireworks, Greg Krehel

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The Unvierse next door, Jack Bool

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The Bakemono Zukushi “Monster” Scroll, 18th-19th century

These wonderful images featured here are from a Japanese painted scroll known as the Bakemono zukushi. The artist and date is unknown, though its thought to hail from the Edo-period, sometime from the 18th or 19th century. Across it’s length are depicted a ghoulish array of “yokai” from Japanese folklore. In his The Book of Yokai, Michael Dylan Foster describes a yokai as:

a weird or mysterious creature, a monster or fantastic being, a spirit or a sprite … creatures of the borderlands, living on the edge of town, or in the mountains between villages, or in the eddies of a river running between two rice fields. They often appear at twilight, that gray time when the familiar seems strange and faces become indistinguishable. They haunt bridges and tunnels, entranceways and thresholds. They lurk at crossroads.

The class of yokai characterised by an ability to shapeshift, and that featured in this scroll, is the bakemono (or obake), a word literally meaning “changing thing” or “thing that changes”. The founding father of minzokugaku (Japanese folklore studies), Yanagita Kuno (1875–1962), drew a distinction between yurei (ghosts) and bakemono: the former haunt people and are associated with the depth of night, whereas the latter haunt places and are seen by the dim light of dusk or dawn.

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Photo essay: worried that Brazil’s love motels would fall foul of Olympic development, Dutch duo Vera van de Sandt and Jur Oster visited the pay-by-the-hour rooms to capture the moods of these intimate spaces.

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Photo essay: why do some people hate the architecture of Flaine? To find out, photographer Alastair Philip Wiper travelled to the Marcel Breuer-designed Modernist ski resort in the French Alps often referred to as “phlegm”.

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Put the needle on the record

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Georgina Vinsun (British, b. 1983, based Biddulph Moor, Staffordshire, England) - 1: Mildred from Fast Soul series, 2009, Oil, Enamel on Canvas  2: Chloe from Quiet Sky series, 2013-2014, Oil on Canvas  3: Leila from Precipitation series, 2008, Oil, Oil Pastels, Pencil on Canvas 4: Lisbeth, 2008, Oil, Pastels, Household Paint on Canvas

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arrangement in skintones II | selected ~ chad wys