February 2012
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Chris Fritton, "Why We Lose Our Hands"
I found what turned out to be a poem called “Why We Lose Our Hands” on the bottom row of a shelf in the back of a Brooklyn comic shop. The poem came in the form of a small, handmade book; several sheets of thick white paper folded in half and sewn together with red thread that ran along the bound edge. “Why We Lose Our Hands” was composed entirely of QR codes. Gabe, the owner, didn’t remember...
January 2012
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Blonde on Blonde on Blonde: An Exclusive Interview...
The following is a list of things I have in common with Lady Gaga:
We are both white Italian women.
We are (currently) blonde.
We were raised Catholic by upwardly mobile parents.
We both attended East Coast art schools We both love Alexander McQueen and Alexander Skarsgård.
We both take our clothes off for money and call it art.
For these reasons, Cluster Mag sent me to cover the fray...
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December 2011
6 posts
WatchWhile many contemporary theorists despise narrative as an architectural strategy, the theatrics of architecture are undeniable. Film enables architecture to express its counterpart, time. In this animated video by New York’s John Szot Studio and produced by Brooklyn Digital Foundry we get to see this counterpart. The ephemeral nature of urban development constantly reminds us that re-use and...
WatchLooking back on our first month online. Some great stuff!
Cluster Commission: Zoe Alexander Fisher: Instruments for Mediating Intimacy
Maybe it’s just us, but you might want to start the video at the drop exactly 17 seconds into this baby right here. Pure magic.
November 2011
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WatchSun Araw’s Cameron Stallones and M. Geddes Gendras are Duppy Guns Productions, a reggae riddim magic covent the two formed on the side while recording a collab with Roots gods, The Congos in Jamaica. This track with DAYONE, a Portmore local singer and fisherman, marks their first 12” DPY001. Listening to “Multiply” is no doubt the closest you’ll ever get knowing what...
New visions of streetwear at LN-CC
Hello my name is Madge of Honor. I am a performer and writer in Boston, MA. I love boldly contoured cheeks, buttoning the top button, and giving major body in Levis legging cut jeans. I do not love wine colored lipstick, flip flops, or employing racist tropes to sell clothes. I am still unsure about stilettos. I’m here to talk fashion, which to me is a conversation about what’s on trend,...
Google's Eye - Jenny Odell
The impulse towards collection and aggregation is near-universal; it’s the driving force behind museums and micro-blogging habits alike. In cataloging the stuff around us, we invent standards of measure and thus exert power over the pandemonium of a wildly un-curated world.
San Fransico-based graphic artist Jenny Odell knows this impulse well. But her images exploit the god’s-eye-view...
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cmd: Kari Altmann →
We <3 cmd & Kari Altmann
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HAZING - in conversation with http://karialtmann.com/
Documentation from Core Samples: Blackmoth.info Body Piercings, 2011
We talked previously about an emphasis on Tumblr in dialogue surrounding your work — would you say there’s a frustration in repeating yourself in…
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Sincerest Tumblr Yet?
Jared Boger, a Baltimore-based artist, carefully curates his tumblr, which is a conglomeration of photos he takes, screenshots of conversations he has, and bits of appealing internet detritus. Like most tumblrs, it might not be more than the sum of its parts. Actually, it’s exactly the sum of its parts. Whether or not each upload is particularly compelling, after scrolling down page after...
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ЛУЧ
It’s not a new idea that the constant accessibility of the internet has, while opening up vast stores of information, actually begun to limit users’ creative potential. Numerous studies have shown that the multiplication of media and information sources available to internet junkies is fracturing their attention and making it harder to focus on any one particular task. Creative work...
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HEBLANK - Flowers&You
New release from one of our homies over at the French label, Full Fridge. Heblank’s new two track drop is too damn smooth.
1. HEBLANK - Hydrangea (FRIDG005) by Fullfridge Music
2. HEBLANK - Lantana (FRIDG005) by Fullfridge Music
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WD Photos
Most people take pictures all the time; I am not interested in most pictures that most people take. As an exception, I’m usually interested in pictures that have me or my friends in them. William Davis’ photo blog fulfills this requirement, but I think I would love his pictures regardless. Will is a graphic designer living in Berlin - recent projects can be seen on his website -...
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October 2011
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LAUNCH!
You know, there’s something to be said for regular, fast, easy-to-read content that doesn’t ask for a half hour to read, or come with thirty hyper links, or take a week to draft. At Cluster Mag, we strive to bring you only original and exclusive art, criticism and music. However, we spend an unhealthy amount of our lives on the internet and find so much stuff we want to show you, and...