How do you keep in touch with your friends? In these modern days, most of you would probably mention various platforms of connection such as social media and instant messaging applications. But the question is, do you really connect? Is it you who really interact with them or is it a construction of yourself according to what you want people to see?
takes you to rethink the shifted meaning of connection and intimacy between people who have been degraded by social networks. In this highly demanding society, we humans learn to adapt and present a favorable persona though social network without realizing the fact that it only makes us lonelier.
This video will give you eye-pleasing graphic and thoughtful information of connection created by social networks through the Internet and technology. In four short minutes, will make you evaluate yourself and your use of social networks.
Street Fashion photographer, Bill Cunningham once said, “We’re in the age of cookie-cutter sameness.” However, it doesn’t just apply to how people dress now, it has also befallen on books. To be precise, e-books.
“The death of print” is probably a statement that we heard one too many times. But is it really dead? For much of the e-books out there, the interaction between the content and user still relies heavily on how one would interact to a physical book – especially through the way one flips a page. Why the nostalgic adherence to print if it is already a thing of the past?
demonstrates how print can still be relevant and far from being out of touch in this digital era. , Creative Director for Penguin Books, said, “The most interesting thing of is it’s promoting books that are really creative, as a priority.” It is a collection of books and other printed products that showcases the creativity of print, be it in material, techniques or workmanship.
The book is divided into five parts, namely: The Storytellers, The Showmaster, The Teacher, The Businessman and The Collector.
Though print is nowhere near its death, , Book Cover Designer acknowledged that books “have to work harder to justify their physical presence. And then there’s the e-book, the hybrid. We’re at a point where anything is possible. And we haven’t reached the answer yet. We haven’t found the ultimate e-book. It’s just all there to explore.” So until then, books are here to stay.
Check out ’s website for more interesting books.
One of the best parts of being a musician is probably performing overseas and having various crowds listen to your tunes. Adding to that, performing overseas also let you experience, explore places, people, and many other things. Living and breathing music as a band for over a decade, wants to share the experience and exploration with their fans as they recently finished their second European tour last June. The story will be told in their tour journal in a form of 40-page magazine filled with pictures and stories about their trip to .
If you are interested in their story, you should come to this Friday (26/7) as they will be releasing 500 copies of the journal on the spot. Your Friday night will also be accompanied by 90 minutes of the band’s clap-along music and retro disco beats. As the event is free of charge, you would not want to come late or you’ll miss the 300 seats capacity. We’ll see you there!
Life on the street is wildly unpredictable. There is no telling on what will happen next in a place filled with real people, real moment. As such, it has become one of much beloved playgrounds for photographers who pursue visceral rush.
Directed by photographer Cheryl Dunn, is documentary that features well-known street photographers prowling for good shots in America’s most iconic city – New York City.
says photographer Bruce Davidson, which basically sum up the entire film. Viewer will be genuinely surprised at the length these photographers would go for a photo. Some welcome with warm smiles while others spew profanities and even resorted to violence when the photographers zoomed in too close, pun intended, into their comfort zone.
Everybody Street showcases the spirit and the art of street photography. For these photographers one expression definitely rings true, that the risk not taken is more dangerous than the risk taken.
Though the distribution of the film hasn’t been confirmed, interested readers can learn more about the film and watch the trailer at the film’s website.
Metal is a genre of music that for the most part is overshadowed, in every part of the world, by the top 40s and “mainstream music.” Metal has always had a huge following in Indonesia, a country that’s not usually associated with such sounds. That may have to change with the rise of undeniable talents from Jakarta such as and .
Their sounds are different but they do share some common grounds with their heavy drums and ominous aggressive guitar riffs. AVHATH’s sound is a blend of “black metal and crust/d‐beat hardcore,” while HAUL is more a “neo‐crust grinding death metal” band.
The two bands will be releasing a joint LP with 100 limited 7-inch vinyl copies pressed on “amethyst purple vinyl with black haze” on August 1st, 2013. Each copy comes with a digital download code for and digital copy. The limited vinyl will be packed in sleeves exclusively designed by Jakarta-based illustrator, Anggarez Adhitya. Don’t miss out on something that you sure will regret not getting your hands on!
Below is the tracklist for the two‐way split :
SIDE A:
Per Aspera Ad Astra / AVHATH
Raised By Wolves / AVHATH
SIDE B:
Surja / HAUL
Purnama / HAUL
AVHATH/HAUL is now available for streaming and pre-order via www.avhath.bandcamp.com or direct pre-order to
I suppose it’s keeping up with the times, is a more sophisticated and an increasingly user friendly website. This digital venture is still secondary to Kinfolk's print issues. Though it will allow subscribers to opt for the $60 package which includes online access, the prints of current and past issues alongside extra contents only available online. Compared to the $40 fee just for hard copies, it seems to be the better deal, especially when now; readers can access the content from their laptops, smartphones and portable tablets. Kinfolk Digital also offers web-exclusive contents and City Guide, which are a brilliant addition. Kinfolk’s City Guide will be able to help you go about a town curated by the kind people at Kinfolk, providing great suggestions of destinations in various cites. And you can access this information anywhere when you subscribe for the digital option will allow you to carry one less item in your belongings.
