Basic photographic technique is sufficient to capture the beauty and strength of a subject. That’s what photographer Christoph Morlinghaus says when asked about his work with churches and sacred spaces he takes photos of. Does that make me oldschool when I believe that even with student level technology you can make award-winning pictures if your mind had already taken them and the photos are just secondary renderings? Taking it two steps forward, does it mean that newschool is predestined to forget even when all technology is literally at their fingertips and in their pants? Being a herald for neckbreaking speed for the last decade (and then some) it’s sort of strange to nod at all that. Just ponder but a minute on that. There is one thing that keeps the world as it is, one thing that acts better than any universal glue ever invented: and that’s laziness. If you’re lazy, you’ll never open the front door and venture out and see what’s there you’ve never touched or never could because there was no effort to reach anywhere. Oh. Yes. Churches and how they look Photoshopped, but they’re not. Go fathom. (muuuz.com via @honeymooncroon)

Set in the distant future, Connected is a story about survival and greed with a post apocalyptic wasteland as its backdrop. Survivors of an unknown disaster shuffle through a desolate landscape, as it quickly becomes clear that not everybody has the strength to survive. (via quietearth.us) The movie is accessible only via ov43.com, it’s not yet on video sharing sites. For more info, check the Connected Facebook group.

2010 is the year of revivals, I tell you. The angriest of the digital hardcore prophets, Atari Teenage Riot is back for a kick in the face – there’s a one-off show going down on the 12th of May in Electric Ballroom – and this time they have a fourth member. New Yorker MC CX Kidtronik (having previously worked with Nine Inch Nails and Saul Williams) is on stage with the raw energy chaos was made out of and they’ve already recorded a new single called Activate. (Electronicbeats reports there’s a free remix of Digital Hardcore by dubstephead The Builder.) Below is the Soundcloud embed for Activate. (And, umh, we’ve found something called the 21 sauces of inspiration for Alec Empire?)

According to Alec Empire’s website, Atari Teenage Riot have several tour dates lined up for Europe this summer. NME reports that on May 17, they’ll release the new single “Reactivate” on their own Digital Hardcore label. It may very well have some screaming on it. (via pitchfork)

ZERO HISTORY, William Gibson’s tenth novel arrives on the 7th of September, as advertised in the Putnam Fall 2010 catalogue. As a matter of fact, happy 62th birthday. (via zerohistory blog)

Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own. . . .


When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry’s face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn’t pay the rent, and right now she’s a journalist in need of a job. The last person she wants to work for is Hubertus Bigend, twisted genius of global marketing; but there’s no way to tell an entity like Bigend that you want nothing more to do with him. That simply brings you more firmly to his attention.


Milgrim is clean, drug-free for the frst time in a decade. It took eight months in a clinic in Basel. Fifteen complete changes of his blood. Bigend paid for all that. Milgrim’s idiomatic Russian is superb, and he notices things. Meanwhile no one notices Milgrim. That makes him worth every penny, though it cost Bigend more than his cartel-grade custom-armored truck.


The culture of the military has trickled down to the street–Bigend knows that, and he’ll fnd a way to take a cut. What surprises him though is that someone else seems to be on top of that situation in a way that Bigend associates only with himself. Bigend loves staring into the abyss of the global market; he’s just not used to it staring back.

Before getting on to the bandwagon of wetting our eyes diligently about how oldschool film franchises make a comeback: Robert Rodriguez and Hungarian film director Antal Nimrod team up on making a strong name out of the Predator race again. Check the trailer, the whole world is turning on its head in July with Laurence Fishburne narrating our cosmic incapabilities.