WHO
CASEY McKINLEY
WHERE
MISSOURI, USA
WEB
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A LIFE CYCLE IS MOMENTOUS REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT.
AN EXCLUSIVE NEW ILLUSTRATION FROM CASEY McKINLEY.
WHO
B. FLEISCHMANN
WHERE
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
WEB
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B. FLEISCHMANN PRESENTS A NEW MUSIC VIDEO FROM
HIS RECENTLY RELEASED ALBUM, 'STOP MAKING FANS'.
LISTEN TO IT IN FULL ON SPOTIFY.
WHO
IRYNA BABENKO
WHERE
KHARKIV, UKRAINE
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BOLD, STRIKING, INTIMATE. WE LOVED
IRYNA BABENKO’S PHOTOGRAPHY THE
MOMENT WESAW IT WHILE IN UKRAINE
AND KNEW WE HADTO SHARE HER WORK
WITH OTHERS.
THE LINE BETWEEN ARTIST
AND DICTATOR IS THIN.
IS DEMOCRACY REALLY
ATTAINABLE AS PART OF
ARTISTIC ENDEAVOR?
BUT IS ART IN FACT WITHIN
A DICTATOR'S SPECTRUM
OF UNDERSTANDING?
IT'S A CONFUSING MATTER.
ALL WE CAN SAY IS THAT
ARMS AND SLEEPERS IS
MOST, CERTAINLY NOT LED
BY A DICTATOR...
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WE ASKED YOU IN MAG01 TO SHARE WITH
US YOUR DESKTOP WALLPAPER IMAGE AND
THE STORY BEHIND IT. WE RECEIVED THIS
FROM IRYNA BABENKO, A DEEPLY MOVING
PHOTOGRAPH, STORY, AND MEMORY.
"I took this picture during a theatrical performance
called «ДПЮ». ДПЮ is a Ukrainian abbreviation for pre-conscription training. When I was at school it was taught to boys aged 14-16, while girls including me had tactical medicine training instead. This performance included professional actors who were accompanied by two soldiers fresh from the front, one of them a DJ before the war. They told horrible stories about things that happen on a daily basis in Donbas (region where Donetsk and Luhansk are located): how squads are given two-and-a-half rifles (okay, three but one of them was not working) and have no other equipment to complete their mission. How they have to get their guns in battle. How one of them (military nickname: Glum) had to steal a helmet from a dead enemy soldier to cover his head and how later he was taken captive by his own side and mistaken for an enemy soldier. Professional actors supported these two injured souls and directed the flow of the performance. It was heartbreaking, but people needed to hear these stories. Two questions were asked: what is patriotism and when will this war end. There were no answers. The actress in this shot climbed a school desk to tell a poem by Robert Rozhdestvensky called 'Ballad of a Small Man'. I had a camera with an expired film roll in it and this was the result I got."
​
BALLAD OF A SMALL MAN
by Robert Rozhdestvensky
On the Earth
ruthlessly small
there lived a man who was small.
He had a job that was small,
and he owned a very small bag.
​
He received a salary that was small…
And one day –
one beautiful morning –
a war knocked on his window,
a war that seemed
small…
​
He was given a gun that was small,
he was given boots that were small,
he was given a small helmet,
and a small—for his size—overcoat.
​
And when he fell,
in an ugly and wrong way,
with his mouth skewed
by a battle cry,
on the whole Earth
there was not enough marble
to carve this guy
in life-size!
WHO
PLANTRAE
WHERE
PORTLAND (OR), USA
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PLANTRAE PRESENTS A BEAUTIFUL NEW MUSIC VIDEO THAT WILL PERHAPS INSPIRE YOU TO VENTURE OUTSIDE AND GET LOST, EVEN IF FOR JUST A BRIEF MOMENT.
WITH OUR NEW 8.IGHT SERIES,
A GUEST ARTIST OFFERS 8 HAND PICKED SAMPLES WHICH YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND USE TO CREATE YOUR OWN SONG. ONCE FINISHED, YOU CAN SEND US THE SONG AND WE WILL FEATURE IT IN THE FUTURE DXFXWXU MAG EDITIONS.
RULES:
YOU MUST USE AT LEAST 1 SAMPLE
PROVIDED IN THE LINK
SEND HERE: hello@sunglitters.com
WHO
G PETERSO
WHERE
THE WRITING DESK
DXFXWXU
GOOD COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY TO LIFE. G PETERSO IS THE KEY TO GOOD COMMUNICATION.
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN TRANSMISSION FROM G PETERSO.
SUN GLITTERS LIVE IN UKRAINE, 2018
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AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW FROM OUR MAG01 ISSUE, SUN GLITTERS WAS RECENTLY ON TOUR IN UKRAINE ALONG WITH ARMS AND SLEEPERS. HERE'S A LITTLE GLIMPSE INTO THAT JOURNEY. FILMED IN KHARKIV.
WHO
LI HUI
WHERE
SHANGHAI, CHINA
WEB
OFFICIAL