Every day, for the next 100 days, Vivienne Westwood and Lee Jeans will publish one image of active resistance online. Active Resistance is a project of positive thoughts, active changes, speaking up and being heard. And you can be part of thatli. The images will be selected from your submissions.
As Vivienne Westwood has put it together: “It is not enough to follow world politics, see films and read the prize-winning best seller. This is superficial, you need to go deep in order to understand who you are, what the world is and how things could be better. This involves culture which can only be acquired by self-education: human beings should mirror the world.”
100 days of resistance will start the 8th of september at Lee’s W1 store in London. At the close of 100 days, the 100 chosen images will become a part of a London exhibition, dedicated to the project. Visit www.ar100days.com for more information on how to participate.

This week Gallery Gabriel Rolt will open an exhibition with some beautiful new paintings, watercolors and three dimensional works by the British artist James Aldridge called Unnatural Order. ‘James Aldridge takes on themes of nature, landscape and mortality in works that are simultaneously beautiful and disturbing, fascinating and repulsive. Aldridge’s work is inspired by his immediate environment, the forests of Småland in Southern Sweden and the music he listens to – extreme Heavy Metal.’ Love it already! Visit Gallery Gabriel Rolt between 4-9-2010 and 16-10-2010 at the Elandsgracht 34, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Again a really inspiring find by Walter Manning/Old Chum: The work of Betty Goodwin (1923 – 2008). ‘Attracted by the materiality of found objects and sites, Goodwin made visible their histories and innate characteristics.’
‘The soft-ground technique adopted by Betty Goodwin creates the illusion of three-dimensionality in these prints of everyday work apparel… Through the physical lack of object and body, the prints act as traces both of individuals and of memories suspended in time and place.’
Isn’t it beautiful how the fabrics are coming to life, like x-rays, like dried flowers pressed into paper. Love it!

The Dutch gallery Kap Pur will host an exhibition with works from Jarik Jongman. Impressive oil paintings are made upon- and inspired by new and found photographs from lost and abandoned places, empty motel rooms with mysterious lights, all in a beautiful dark color pallet.
Jarik Jongman studied at the Art Academy in Arnhem, the Netherlands and is on the longlist for the nomination of the British Threadneedle Prize.
Phenomena by Jarik Jongman, 4 september  – 23 october 2010, Galerie Kap Pur, Korvelseweg 151, 5025JD Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Last wednesday Cipher launched a new initiative: 10 artists with different styles and backgrounds have been asked to produce 10 tracks lasting 10 minutes; to realize the CIPHER MIXTAPE ‘Big City, Bright Lights’. The tape is inspired by Hong Kong, by Hong Kong-based artists (including DJ Miss Yellow, The Good Fellas, DJ Ceet, Drafus, DJ Taku, AKW, Sushi Robot, Dirty Boneyard, Yao and DJ Enso). Together with the mixtape photographer Laurent Segretier has contributed a visual storyboard to ‘Big City, Bright Lights’.
See the other images and listen to the mixtape here >

This is a call to anyone that did not get a chance to visit ‘The Conspirators’, an exhibition by Gallery Gabriel Rolt of recent paintings by British artist Dawn Mellor. The works are all based on film stills and show portraits of actresses like Kathy Bates, Charlotte Rampling and Audrey Hepburn in movie roles. The image shows a portrait of Natalie Portman that we fell in love with when we visited the show. More info here.

Started today, the Zuiderzee Museum is presenting two new projects at the Salone del Mobile in Milan by Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk. Shown above ‘The Poor Man’s Gold’ by Joost van Bleiswijk, was inspired on the voyages of the Dutch East India Company. Both projects will be on show at Lambrate Ventura zone.

Picture by Frank Tielemans

New York based artist Eric White just finished a 16 food wide reinterpretation of Bruegel’s Massacre of the Innocents. On view since yesterday at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY, together with work by Nicola Verlato and Fulvio Di Piazza.
Above: Massacre of the Innocents (detail) oil on canvas, 2010 by Eric White at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20th Street 9th Floor, New York NY 10010 — April 10 / May 8, 2010

If you’re in Amsterdam be sure you’ll visit Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex between april 10 and june 15 were Andrew Moore will show 15 of his large scale photographs of abandoned places and collapsing infrastructure.

“Colour is the first thing that imbeds itself in the viewer. It sets the emotional key to the picture. It creates a unifying overall mood – and I establish that right through the beginning.” — Andrew Moore
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Last week Bas shared this fantastic work with me and just wanted to share it with the rest of the world. Anna Atkins (16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871), the English botanist and photographer, is considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images and the first female photographer as well. We really love these (photo)graphic pages taken from “Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions”…

‘IkebanaMedulla’ by Benjamin Graindorge is the result of shi six-months residence at the villa Kujoyama where he transformed his line sketches into a real vase.
“When I began designing the IkebanaMedulla vases two things were foremost in my mind. The first was practical – design a vase that would be inhabited even when there were no flowers in it. The second was to think out a project whose form would bring together complete calm with a wild – almost animal – tension. I’m exploring the idea of natural savagery, and the IkebanaMedulla vases are my first attempt at a resolution.” — Benjamin Graindorge
From 24 to 28 March 2010 the ‘IkebanaMedulla’ vase will be represented by YMER&MALTA gallery at the Pavillon des Arts et du Design 2010. Find more information at Duende

Not new, but definitely note worthy: Three years ago the French artist Julien Berthier create this piece of art. An abandoned 6.5 metre yacht cut in half to create a permanent wrecked ship to ’sail’ the world. ‘The image, and metaphor of the sinking ship is an iconic one – it signifies death, lost hope and sinking dreams. Berthier’s Love-Love freezes those sentiments permanently both celebrating and overturning them.’ (More about Love Love on Allsopp Contemporary) And be sure you’ll check his fine little pen drawings as well!

My favorite artist Adam Stennett made a new painting for the exhibition curated by Marc Straus which opened yesterday at Ana Cristea, 521 W 26th Street, NYC. Above his new work Soothing Syrup with two Poppies… Other artists in the exhibition are Marc Bijl, Zsolt Bodoni, Michael Brown, Joe Diebes, Tim Eitel, Daniel Pitin, Serban Savu, Andrew Sendor and Richard Wathen.

Designboom shared this beautiful project by london based designer Tithi Kutchamuch and frequent collaborator Nutre Arayavanish. ‘The Housemates’ is a collection of 6 unrare hidden lives in our house, caterpillar, ant, spider, fly, fruit fly, cockroach, inspired by collectors of rare insects and can be worn as brooches. Available here >

Not new, but happy AnOther/Loves shared it again. We very much love this art project by Konstantin Grcic. Package is a stack of 2000 Din A4 sheets of plain white paper wrapped in pink craft paper with this quote by Charles Eames printed on the face of the package.

“What you do really with paper can never quite come up to with what the paper offers. It’s something about that broken package, in the way carton is torn, sort of invites you to come in. There’s something about taking out that first sheet, that sort of changes that thing.” — Charles Eames, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1971.

Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, former editors at the design magazine I.D. started the online publication Sight Unseen focusing on people and creativity.
They’ve already shared some very interesting views behind-the-scenes at design studios and factories as well as some nice book reviews and ‘city guides’ by creatives. As they can say it best ‘Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.’
A ‘must subscribe’ blog full of inspiration. And hopefully Sight Unseen and Anothersomething will collaborate somehow somewhere in a near future. To be continued…

After a long time living and working in the US Peter Schuyff moved back to the Netherlands and is now exhibiting his work at Gallery Gabriel Rolt. Passing by quite often I was attacked by these hand carved baseball bats. These two contrary emotions both in one work of art – the aggressive icon of the bat hand carved into something extremely fragile – is absolutely stunning! Definitely worth a visit >

Lovely new work (video and paper) by my favorite artist Adam Stennet at Schuebbe Projects in Düsseldorf.

Now showing in Berlin at Jiri Svestka, ‘Relics of the Afterfuture’ by Ioana Nemes. Beautiful works decorated with traditional motives with traditional techniques from historical objects from different parts of Romania, brought back in a new light and in a new story… ‘What we have is no longer history but rather the fragments of such, cut off and fashioned to serve the new politics of information and development. The Afterfuture is a reference to a chronology that starts where this future ends and stops at the beginning of a new primitivism.’

New treasures in the new Blend nr 45 featuring Marijn Akkermans, the Gentleman’s Cap by Rapha, our favorite new danish label Libertine-Libertine and the Le Labo candle Petit Grain 21. Enjoy Blend (dutch) here > and the treasures here >