2007. A new year and an official start for Anothercompany.

A year full of possibilities.
To make the common uncommon.
To wonder, love & inspire.

It will be a beautiful new year!

Best MovieTaxidermia

Best BookWorldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century

Best Magazine032c

Best SiteVVORK

Best PersonYou

My top track: Such Great Heights – The Postal Service.

My top artist: Ray LaMontagne

My most popular picture. my lovely book shelve.

My most visited place: …,staat

My top search month and day. (thanks to Google trends)

It was a beautiful year! Thank you all!
x
Joachim

Beautiful work by Pierre Vanni

A new thoughtpack Influx Interviews: interviews with Julia Fullerton-Batten, Mads Hagstrom, Karl Carter and much more!

Frank van der Salm

Markus Vater

Peter Vos

Knotan

Bernard Faucon

Ian Baguskas Photography

André Kruysen at Muhka. And more by André Kruysen

Another t-shirt magazine.

It’s never been a better time to be an artist or a fan…

- Wired Magazine, August 2006

Talent Speaks is a web discussion that explores how advancements in electronic networking and digital technologies are quickly creating opportunities that will empower independent artists to achieve success through self promotion. As the Internet continues to evolve with far-reaching networking tools, artists now have an unrestricted ability to promote themselves to the global audience. New Media methods are creating a New System that allows artists (musicians, designers, photographers, writers, etc) to deal directly with consumers, bypassing the traditional hurdles of an outdated art and entertainment industry. As a result, scores of independent creatives will benefit both professionally and financially, to achieve success through their networking efforts and the support of their fans.

This is the diary of todays most inspiring man in style and fashion; Hedi Slimane

Breathtaking photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto

“One New York night in 1980, during another of my internal question-and-answer sessions, I asked myself, “Can someone today view a scene just as primitive man might have?” The images that came to mind were of Mount Fuji and the Nachi Waterfall in ages past. A hundred thousand or a million years ago would Mount Fuji have looked so very different than it does today? I pictured two great mountains; one, today’s Mount Fuji, and the other, Mount Hakone in the days before its summit collapsed, creating the Ashinoko crater lake. When hiking up from the foothills of Hakone, one would see a second freestanding peak as tall as Mount Fuji. Two rivals in height—what a magnificent sight that must have been! Unfortunately, the topography has changed. Although the land is forever changing its form, the sea, I thought, is immutable. Thus began my travels back through time to the ancient seas of the world.” Hiroshi Sugimoto

Submit a little video clip of yourself telling one thing that will be ‘big’ in the next 12 months. Could be anything, but probably the first thing that springs to mind.

PSFK on YouTube

Davide DiMichele at Paul Kopeikin Gallery

A nice portfolo by Zamir Antonio & Antoine Choussat

Beautiful colliers by Miss Bibi!

Uncanny crocheted likenesses of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Ahmadinejad and George W. Bush.

At Moss

Some Monday morning inspiration:

Zion
Blanka
Therewhere
Elefant Art
Raffi Simonian
William Hall
My first online portfolio

…For a long time, the library was able to capture the emotions of stunned visitors. Some emotions remained stuck to the grilles in front of the books, or trickled away down the gaps in the parquet flooring, where they groaned and wished the whole day long whenever visitors glided over them wearing their felt slippers. More oohs and aahs that emanated from the stream of visitors hid in the ornate lettering in old-fashioned script used for the first letter of every page. Soon after, though (that is to say, 200 years ago), such books were all taken up, and there was space for the virginal oohs and aahs only in the printed matter. However, more and more visitors came, and the room became increasingly full. The unseen back rows of books swallowed emotions…

Soul warmer by Gerda Steiner Y Jörg Lenzinger

Radar presents the 10 most dangerous play things of all time. Last month, Target recalled 10 of its Kool Toyz-brand play sets, citing hazards like “lead paint,” “sharp points,” and “puncture wound potential.” The toys, which included plastic aircraft carriers, dinosaurs, and tanks, all appeared harmless enough. But according to the killjoys at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, children—at least those prone to eating plastic objects as big as their head—were at serious risk. A week later, Mattel recalled 4.4 million Polly Pocket dolls and accessories because kids were swallowing the toy’s magnets. The Associated Press reported, “If more than one magnet is swallowed, they can attach to each other and cause intestinal perforation, infection or blockage.” Three children required surgery.

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Beautiful works by Milo Keller

All across Beirut you can find walls covered with bullets holes. Reminders of past violence, conflict and war. Moving through the city they are an all too familiar backdrop for any urban scene. This proposal that I called ‘bullet lights’ is reversing the meaning and experience of the ‘bullet hole wallpaper’ at diverse locations in the city. Introducing unexpected poetic moments of beauty. Beauty, ambivalently mixed with the physical testimonies of violence. The project doesn’t want to make a point it just invites people to look at things differently. Seeing things from more than one perspective is the starting point for empathy.

Acknowledgments to BLDGBLOG & Subtropia
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