HELLO KITSUNÉ
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fun to listen!
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August 24, 2006
HELLO LUCY
HELLO CHARLES
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Charles Fréger graduate from the Beaux Arts in Rouen, since then he's been busy taking clichés of social groups.
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HELLO ZHANG
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Was a while since i hadn't seen some work from Zhang Zhuan...
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HELLO MAX
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Max Streicher makes Bubbles et volatile sculptures.
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August 23, 2006
HELLO BALLARD
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Choose a prolific author and check the evolution of book covers. Rad!
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HELLO COVERS 3
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We really really like icons.
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HELLO COVERS 2
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We really like icons.
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HELLO COVERS
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We like icons.
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HELLO STEPHANIE
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We love her work and her eye. Stephanie Lacombe is a human who takes pictures.
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S.Lacombe,
Salle de l'Opéra Garnier
30 November 1999, Paris, France
S.Lacombe,
La Grande Borne
Jean-François Junior a un mois, il est dans les bras de sa maman.
01 May 2001, Grigny, Essonne (91), France
S.Lacombe,
Serie Sans Titre
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HELLO MICHEL
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Michel Bouvet designed the poster for the 2006 Rencontres d'Arles. The president of the jury was famous French photographer Raymond Depardon.
HELLO KODAK
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Rencontres d'Arles. A must see Festival. This is a series of photgraphers from the 2004 edition of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie.
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© Gilles Coulon,
Tendance Floue, Nationale 0,
Epouvantail Pres de Kuurtola, Finlande,
© Meyer,
Tendance Floue, Nationale 0,
Douar et Dahame, Clandestins Port de Patra, Grece
© Ihei Kimura,
Paris 1954-55 Kimura Naoko
© L.P.Polhuis,
Archive, "Box 2-120. 10 January,
Harm 2 years / Hanneke / Mom / Dad & Grandma with birthday cake. 1964-10"
© Rinko Kawauchi,
Séries ‘Utatane’
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HELLO NOAM
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Designer-Filmaker Noam Toran gives a very interesting interview about his hybrid practice back at WeMakeMoneyNotArt.
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HELLO OISHI
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Akinori Oishi we like!
Try his video game done for an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
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Opniyama is addictive
HELLO MURNAU
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Here you can enjoy links to German Impressionists Movies. Merci Nick for the link!
HELLO SIGGI
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Siggi is brilliant! (thanks Jordan Rosenfeld for the link!)
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Decorative Illustrations
HELLO POIL
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beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup de poil
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LeMoustacheChampion
HELLO COMEBACK
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comeback, comeback not....
HELLO TAKASHI
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Takashi did it again! Another book of photos at Nieves Bookstore!
HELLO BAYER
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Herbert Bayer on the right and an unkown (?) on the left
Watch out for th return, revival, re-adaptation, re-interpretation, re-appropriation or simply copy of this modernist/constructivist way of doing...
HELLO FISCHERSPOONER
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You could listen to Fischerspooner's 'Odyssey'...
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Odyssey
HELLO MIMESIS
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Demand the Impossible!
(posters 1968 by the Atelier Populaire/ Chemical Brothers 'Push the Button' cover / Saul Bass movie poster 'Advise and Consent', Kickers' ad campaign)
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Art for a Change
Mai 68 Posters
The Chemical Brothers
August 22, 2006
HELLO LUDWIG & CORBU
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Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (1885-1967) was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe. Hilberseimer fled Germany in 1938 for Chicago to work for Mies, and became director of Chicago's city planning office.
Adrian Forty is Professor at The Bartlett, University College London, on the 17th February 2006 he lectured at the RCA (The City Without Qualities) and argued for the existence of an architecture without 'markers'."Landmark architecture has been talked about a lot recently - and has been reacted against too. But what would a city without 'landmarks' be like? One strand of late nineteenth and early twentieth century thinking about cities - explored in this talk - argued that what made a city habitable for a modern person was precisely its lack of distinctive features. Does this 'city without qualities' have a future?". Perhaps the city as a grid...(merci Archizoom)
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Hilberseimer, The Vertical City (1924)
Hilberseimer, The Vertical City, perspective view E-W (1924)
Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin, city planning, Paris (1925-27)
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, La Cité-Refuge, Paris (1930)
Archizoom, No Stop City, (1968)
Julien Penven, Jean-Claude Le Bail, Front de Seine, Hotel Nikko, Paris (1976)
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Modernism and the Postmodernist Subject, The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer (K. Michael Hays, MIT press, 1992)
Towards a New Architecture (Le Corbusier)
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-Cité� de Refuge, 12 rue Cantagruel 75013 Paris
-Le Front de Seine, 75015 Paris
HELLO FUTURAMA
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Feartown, Ideal Cities of Uncertain Futures....
The empty piazza and linear perspectives of Mussolini's 1938-42 project: E.U.R. or Esposizione Universale di Roma (Universal Exhibition Rome). A series of cold and perfectly ideal blocks of buildings which were certainly inspired by de Chirico's paintings of claustrophobic/surrealistic architectures.
One of the most iconic building of E.U.R. was the Colosseo Quadrato or Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana (Palace of the Italian Civilisation), build by fascist architect Marcello Piacentini, the 216 arks facade was supposed to remind Romans of the perfection of their past and future and praise the fascist ideal of the Duce. A rational approach to idealism.
Ideal cities always puzzle me. I feel like looking at kids playing with lego bricks. The human is totally absent as if no one really cared in the end about who was going to inhabit those spaces. You can find an echo of this in two fantastic French movies: Playtime by Jacques Tati (the modern version of the futurist city) and Paul Grimault's Le Roi et l'Oiseau (the surrealist intemporal and poetic version of trapping cities). And if you read French do get your hands on Les Cités Obscures, a series of comic books by Francois Schuitten and Benoit Peeters, super inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
Don't you just love it when designers make you realize that almost everything is a reference to something?
In the same vein altough more weirdly linked is the Babylonian and utopic vision of a future where cities would mix influences and pose for an universal vision of the megapolis. The need to compete with the general subconscious of perfect cities as a way to re-embrace the classical past and its grandiloquent architecturhomage to Gods. Perfect cities, Ideal Futuropolis would flirt with Retro-Futurism and Goggie architecture while the Nagasaki and Hiroshima chocs would make way to a darker vision of the city of tomorrow. Vladimir Tatlin and his Monument to the Third International, later Albert Speer and his vision of a perfect Nazi Berlin, Ozamu Tetzuka and his retro futurist version of Metropolis and finally Richard Buckminster Fuller's post futuristic geodesic ensemble, all of those are ricochets bouncing on the surface of our dream of the perfetta città.
Perfection and Perversion of tomorrow...
"For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option of becoming enduringly successful."
—Buckminster Fuller, 1980.
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Mario Chiattone (1891-1957)
Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916)
Le Roi et l'Oiseau (1979)
Tetzuka's Metropolis (1949)
Rintaro's Metropolis (2002)
Lang's Metropolis (1928)
Playtime (1967)
Montparnasse Station (1914)
Les Cités Obscures (1992)
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
HELLO PLAY
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Rick Valicenti likes to play with others and we like to watch...
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Gina Vieceli
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Andrea Tinnes
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HELLO HARMONY
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Harmony Korine, a beautiful loser...
HELLO BECK
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Black Tambourine is an amazing video! No to mention that Beck's album is wooza!
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HELLO OTHERS
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Swiss Travel Posters, any resemblance with the Legowelt vid might be wanted...
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Hiver En Suisse, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Erich Hermes
Palace Hotel, St. Moritz, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm
Swiss Airways, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm
Switzerland, Winter Vacation, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Herbert Matter
Chamonix, Ete-Hiver, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Henry Rohm
St. Moritz, Ski, Giclee Print, 46 x 61 cm, Carl Moos
Glarnerland & Walensee, lithograph poster archived on Linen, 40" x 25 1/8", Herbert Matter
Silvaplana, Art Print, 51 x 71 cm, Johannes Handschin
Swiss Travel Poster Engelberg
Beautifully archived on linen. 39 3/4" x 25 3/8" stone lithograph in the style of H. Matter.
artist unknown. Printed in Switzerland by A. Trub & co.
HELLO GOUDY
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Typeculture has a fab silent video of Mr Goudy!
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HELLO ORIGINALS
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Coincidently enough the motion graphic agency Lobo did a music vid a few years ago for Legowelt (Disco Rout), an obvious homage to Swiss Travel Posters and Designers like H. Matter, H. Bayer and others....
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Matter vs Lobo
(Herbert Matter, Pontresina Engadin. 1935)
Bayer vs Lobo
(Herbert Bayer, Le Pont Transbordeur Marseille, 1928)
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HELLO HEROES
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Remember back in the early 90s when the Nikepark campaign re-interpretated the 20s-30s Russian/Fascist posters of the Proletarian Hero? Seems Team Discovery is doing it too in the 2Ks...
August 21, 2006
HELLO HENRIK
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Henrik Plenge Jakobsen we love!
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The Cocktail Twins, 2000
Color photograph 35 x 50 cm
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Circus Portikus 2003
Exhibition: Portikus, Frankfurt Am Main.
installation view. Mixed Media.
©Photo: Helmuth Günzel
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HELLO STUDIOSMACK
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nice video back at Studio Smack, makes you realize how visible type is finally...
August 11, 2006
HELLO USELESS
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Conrad and Adrien are the happy founders of USELESS! Issue 3 is out now!
Best Wishes and great successes!
"USELESS is a tabloid-sized magazine on newsprint. Based in New York with an office in London, we feature interviews with artists, actors, designers and people we believe are working on interesting projects from Manhattan to Paris and internationally. We are an art magazine with a fashion/film/music twist."
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August 06, 2006
HELLO BATIA
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Down Jacket / 2003 / Newspaper photograph combined with portraits taken from paintings by Holbein ('Womansportret', 1523/24 and 'Prins Eduard of Wales', 1539).
Batia Suter is amazing.
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HELLO TIFFANY
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a nice update for mademoiselle Tiff!
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August 05, 2006
HELLO MICKE
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Micke is another super talented touche-à-tout!
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HELLO BRICE
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Brice Domingues is appointed guest editor for RefGrafika. Welcome!
HELLO MIB
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Matthew Irvine Brown invents objects, gotta love his inspiration to create those narrative-interactive objects...
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Breath Control Car, Product design for beginner musicians.
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PSP/RCA, Concept furniture for PlayStation Portable.
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HELLO ADAM
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The subtle illustrations of Monsieur Adam Simpson!
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HELLO BALTAZAR
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Baltazar Torres at MAM/Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art (Salzburg-Vienna)
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HELLO ELAINE
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The return of the return of the return of the deer. It's becoming such a clichesque motif these days that i was starting to get fed up with it. Elaine Bradford takes an interesting twist and, god-of-the-deer bless, my love for that animal is back on track...
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HELLO ADI
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Adi Nes photographs at gallery Prez-Delavallade.
Something seriously kitsch in those pictures as if the real subject wasn't as obvious as you would think. The one where an Israeli soldier (The Soldiers series, 1999-2000) is climbing up a stick somehow made me think of the Iwo Jima photograph (Joe Rosenthal, 1945), don't ask why, all this erectionvictory stuff maybe...
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HELLO MATTHEW
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Matthew Haigh makes you go wow.
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HELLO HARALD
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Witty body of work from Harald Peter Ström
*Thanks to Brice for the link.
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HELLO KAREN
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The amazing work of WT's alumnus Karen van de Kraats
*Thanks to Brice for the link.
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HELLO RBG6
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Very interesting work from Swedes superstars!
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HELLO LUARVIK
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Luarvik is "The only die-hard avantgarde group of new postrock generation leading from Estonia"
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HELLO DAVID
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Love the work of David Rule.
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HELLO iLOG
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"The Log1k and iLog are instruments built from logs. ...The Log1k is a log with a gearbox motor that spins wooden disks to produce rhythmic noises, complete with "touch-sensitive switches" -- wait, as opposed to non touch-sensitive switches? Don't forget the flat panel display. (It's a blank opaque flat panel that lights up, in other words. But it is flat.) The iLog is a new portable version with the same wooden toggle switches. The iLog records samples, but much of the sounds have to do with "the bare sound of electricity."
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HELLO CYPRIEN
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Cyprien Gaillard revisits the Dutch engravings of the xvi and xviith centuries, bringing romantic violence to them...
(Belief in the Age of Disbelief, a book project, parodic pastiches of Dutch etchings, text by Payam Sharifi)
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HELLO SERGIO
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Sergio Belinchon photographer of lost paradises...
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HELLO NILS
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Super Natural, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, 2005
Nils Nova's photographs and drawings have something real-magical to them.
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HELLO CHRISTOS
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Christos Lialios is an talented and clever designer from Athens. Especially love his TAIP series.
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HELLO FLORENCE
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an ex member of the collective RADI, visiting tutor at the écal and ironic designer.
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*thanks to Brice for the link.
HELLO FABRICS
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"The fashion label ®____fabrics interseason
was created by Wally Salner and Johannes Schweiger in 1998.
____fabrics interseason positions itself and its work within an international network of electronic music, fine arts and design. The conceptual working method reflects in extensive research to societal phenomena such as the rise of new poverty or a state of all-inclusive passivity. The idea is taken further including social and culturally constructed conventions of clothing and their identifying character e.g. the mourning dress or clothing standards as seen from a political feminist perspective. Furthermore ____fabrics interseason widens its notion of fashion and design with the in-house record label ego vacuum rec. and the electronic soundtrack releases as well as with conceptional projects and participations in exhibitions within the context of the arts."
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HELLO GEOFFREY&ROMAIN
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Touching Surface
Série réalisée pour le magazine
Form N°203, juillet/août 2005.