Hasta La Ideas

In the age of ubiquitous information, The Thing Quarterly brings back the element of surprise with a subscriber-powered publication kept under lock and key until delivery. Edited by Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, The Thing is “a periodical in the form of an everyday object,” inviting artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creative types to come up with visual work that incorporates text.

Recently unveiled, writer and radio producer Starlee Kine designed issue 10, featuring an onion cutting board with “Crying Instructions” literally burned onto it. An included locker poster of TV character McNulty from “The Wire” mid-weep plays off the theme.

Kine will host a cooking demonstration for The Thing on 15 May 2010 at NYC’s Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, where she’ll demonstrate the proper methods for cutting an onion in addition to a reading and signing. The event will also include David Lipsky, David Rees and Arthur Jones. Half of all proceeds from copies of The Thing (and 100% from food and drinks) sold will benefit Housing Works, a non-profit offering shelter, medical assistance and other social programs to people with HIV and AIDS.

Kine’s issue also sells as an individual issue for $60 and will sell from Printed Matter in New York, the Mattress Factory Museum Shop in Pittsburgh, The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco, and online from The Thing. A yearly subscription runs $200, and will include Kine’s issue as well as future work by artist Chris Johanson, clothing collective Doo.ri, curator Matthew Higgs, and (you heard it here first) actor
James Franco.

Quelques photographies par l’artiste Nejat Talas, basé actuellement à Istanbul. Il travaille pour le milieu de la publicité et de la mode. Il joue énormément avec les retouches, et s’amuse à détourner ses images avec malice. Plus de visuels de son travail dans la suite.

Previously on Fubiz

• Pencil vs Camera
• Tata Vislevskaya
• Benoit Pelletier

West siiide! A rendering of the new home of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

The countdown is on to the Lincoln Center debut of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, which will take place September 9 to 16 in Damrosch Park. IMG today unveiled plans for the relocated event, which will feature enhancements to the tents, the ability to stage additional presentations, and access to major transportation routes. Come September, showgoers and designers will find a less chaotic lobby, modified runway theaters and modular designer spaces that support advanced production capabilities, as well as new decor, increased venue/runway sizes, and seating enhancements. In addition to the usual three runway venues (The Theatre, The Stage, and The Studio will replace Bryant Park’s Tent, Promenade, and Salon, respectively) a new fourth presentation space will host designer presentations, industry forums, and press conferences. An expanded web presence is also in the works. All of the improvements won’t translate into increased venue costs for designers, which IMG says will remain the same as in previous seasons. Mercedes-Benz has renewed an agreement to remain the event’s title sponsor for the next three years, but one Fashion Week staple won’t be making the move uptown. Fern Mallis is stepping down from her post as senior vice president of IMG to start her own consulting firm, WWD reports. “It’s something I have been thinking about for a while,” said Mallis, who joined IMG in 2001. “When we were planning the move to Lincoln Center, it felt like closure. It’s time for a new adventure.”

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