That one day with the girl. Walking in the park, sipping sangria. “You made me forget myself, I thought I was someone else, someone good”. Lou Reed wrote the most moving self-confession of all time. He called it Perfect Day.
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Harry Prenger
Disappearing for an hour with Billie Eilish: looking back at Happier Than Ever
If you listen carefully you can hear it. How the colors slowly but surely fade away. Gone from the days that were once so happy and carefree.
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Familiar and unsettling: the photography of William Eggleston
William Eggleston’s best photographs make it seem like something is about to happen at any moment. Or that we just missed something, the event just happened. Colors dominate, just like the warm glow that falls over it.
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Goats Head Soup has been a delightful and slightly frayed classic by The Rolling Stones for fifty years now
Especially during 2023 there will undoubtedly be a lot of looking back. Most often the focus will be on fifty years ago as fifty is a nice round number that offers clarity and immediately invokes a sense of jubilee. Damn, that tricky past always seems to be more self-aware than the uncertain present. If there is one rock band whose past has grown to immense proportions, it is The Rolling Stones.
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Ed Templeton, painter, photographer and world skateboarding champion: “The most important thing is to capture the emotion”
The imagination of Ed Templeton goes in all directions. Paintings, drawings, photographs and when necessary, even texts accompanying his paintings, drawings and photographs. With his Leica camera around his shoulder, he travels from city to beach, photographing young and old: city nomads, fringe figures, but mainly young people, kids.
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Einstürzende Neubauten and the sound of a collapsing society
Einstürzende Neubauten remains intimately connected to Berlin, where it all began for the band around 1980. Since then, the city has been omnipresent in the unique and comprehensive body of work created by the Germans. The history of the metropolis fits Neubauten perfectly: a tale of demolition and reconstruction. Lead singer and lyricist Blixa Bargeld grew up in Berlin and still resides there.
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