new orleans LOUISIANA

werner HERZOG’s bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans is full of debauchery, iguanas, lucky crack pipes, and a maniacally hilarious nicholas cage. nothing is more fun than cage’s dementedly cracked lieutenant who is quickly burying himself deeper into a depraved state. he is on the case of a multiple homicide when his hooker girlfriend played by eva mendes adds to his woes by getting him on the hook for $50k owed to some gangsters. HERZOG and cage are both one of a kind characters and likewise this debased procedural stands alone. “do fish have dreams?”

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london ENGLAND

merete RASMUSSEN: my work is hand built in coiling technique. stoneware is my chosen material for its qualities – i like to challenge the material and my own skills by building complicated shapes; fragile in the building, drying and firing process which upon firing attain the strength to be handled and positioned without support.

i work with abstract sculptural form. i am interested in the idea of one continuous surface, with one connected edge or line running through the whole form. clear, clean shapes; soft smooth curves in contrast to sharp edges; concave and convex surfaces; the discovery and strength of an inner/negative space – these are all form expressions that appeal to me and results in my continuous exploration and expression in many different variations.

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istanbul TURKEY

suckerPUNCH:describe your project:

zeynep bb. HARUNOGLU : we are an istanbul based design company, developing projects and manufacturing products in collaboration with graphic artists and illustrators. pag playing cards is our latest project. the idea is creating a brand of good designed collectible playing cards as an alternative interpretation to the traditional decks. this is as an ongoing project where a new deck will be designed every six months by various graphic artists and illustrators worldwide.

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bucharest ROMANIA

suckerPUNCH:describe your project:

yuliyan m. MIKOV: …during walk along lipscani , ( a fable about the old merchants of the past centuries) my eyes are taken by huge piles of garbage where as if on a throne, stood empty plastic bottles. and then i saw the ghosts of the past, creeping out of their deformed mouths, rising slowly just like the ghost of the magic lamp. but they were many, the same number as the empty bottles, wearing clouds with their semitransparent bodies, as if embracing each other and rising towards the heavens. when the night attracts affection with her darkness, the ghosts shaking in the cold atmosphere gather closer to each other, lying in cluster and folding themselves, beginning to exchange ideas, furtively communicating in order to escape the fear of the normality, the habits, and the fear of becoming animals, casted in form, driven by reflexes.

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columbus OHIO

will foster’s guinea worms have an amazing 2-lp compilation out from columbus discount records. culled from the cdrs the guinea worms recorded over the last decade, this collection spills over with juicy cuts. plenty of loud tunes packed with catchy wordplay such as the scorcher “haymaker,” the meandering “come here baby,” the hilarious “accidental space tourist“and the lurching “maggot therapy.” as will foster sings “do the right thing. do the frank lloyd wright thing”

brooklyn NEW YORK

registration begins 04.19.10

submissions due 08.16.10

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

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new york NEW YORK

honoring the best and the brightest for their contributions in the field of interior design, the interior design department at fit/suny is proud to announce this year’s honorees of the 2010 lawrence israel prize… LTL architects!
ltl… lewis.tsurumaki.lewis is an award-winning partnership founded in 1997 by paul LEWIS, marc TSURUMAKI and david j. LEWIS here in our beloved new york city.
we look forward to ltl’s lawrence j. israel prize lecture, titled “opportunistic play,” to be given on friday april 16th 2010 at 6:00 in the katie murphy auditorium of the fashion institute of technology. entry will be through the d building on the northwest corner of seventh avenue and 27 street. no reservations required, admission is free and open to the public.

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toronto CANADA

since 2004, toronto-based photographer eamon MAC MAHON has spent up to three months of each year working in the wilderness of northwestern canada and alaska.  these slow journeys via bush plane have allowed him to intimately photograph remote landlocked communities, and the vast areas of uninhabited land surrounding them.  his work has appeared in various publications including the walrus, national geographic, w and new york magazine, as well as exhibition spaces such as the power plant, the detroit institute of the arts, the griffin museum of photography in boston and higher pictures nyc. mac mahon’s photographs, on display for contact, 2008 at pearson international airport, were described as  “magnificent and mysterious” by kate taylor for the globe and mail.

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san diego CALIFORNIA

lecture by kivi SOTAMAA
woodbury san diego
15 april – 6:30pm

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london ENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

metagardens : monstruosa (monster in spanish) is an extraterrestrial visitor, a predatory creature whose primary goal is to propagate its own species. to achieve this it uses the sophisticated biomorphology of carnivorous plants as living hosts. it colonises them, implanting its own offspring inside their tissues before erupting into a more powerful biomachine.

at the moment it remains dormant waiting for the perfect conditions in which to infiltrate and replicate itself across our environment.

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