Take A Peek Inside Voo Store's New Brutal Store Design in Berlin

Now in its 10th year, Voo Store has decided on an in-house redesign of its Kreuzberg concept store. Maintaining the charm of the former locksmith studio, Voo Store eschews well-known architecture firms, deciding instead to pare down its re-design process using local small businesses, designers, and artists in transforming its store space. In light of recent global events, Voo Store aims to go back to basics and focus its energy into collaboration with local projects, local brands, artists, and institutions in order to foster a greater sense of community. Voo Store wants to first establish itself as a Berlin fashion and cultural presence through these collaborative efforts before realizing long-term goals of expanding into additional physical locations in Berlin. We hope the next ten years sees the organic growth of Voo Store with a concerted focus on community, creativity and collaboration. Visit them here: Oranienstraße 24, 10999 Berlin, Germany. photographs by Thomas Meyer

Your Heartbreak Lives Here: A New Book of Photography by Kendall Waldman

Photographer Kendall Waldman is selling a small book of images of life in American pandemia and giving all proceeds to The Modest Needs Foundation. This is, of course, a ubiquitous model in this strange time of ours, when any artist with a functioning combination of heart and brain is trying to reconcile the impulse to work and the impulse to help. If you have the means, I encourage you to buy every item that every artist on the whole of the internet is selling to raise money for a good cause. But, if you must be discerning, if you’d like to contribute to an organization that seems to truly understand this unique societal moment and own an art object that does too, I recommend Waldman’s project. 

Simply put, these photographs capture the popular experience of life under COVID-19 lockdown so accurately and efficiently, it hurts a little. I don’t mean that the book offers a representative variety of storiesβ€”this isn’t reportageβ€”but that it quietly articulates exactly what these months have felt like. It’s a formal study of an informal tone. Flipping through its pages some years from now just might be the easiest way to access the 2020 sense memories we’ll surely be storing in our marrow for decades to come. text by Gideon Jacobs

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Watch Cerimonia By Radical Italian Architecture Utopians Superstudio

"Cerimonia" is the third chapter in the "Atti Fondamentali" (Fundamental Acts), a series of five stories each dedicated to a primary act in human life: Life, Education, Ceremony, Love, Death. The five stories, conceived as a sort of philosophical and anthropological reconstruction of architecture, first appeared, as texts, images and storyboard, on the pages of "Casabella" magazine in 1972 and 1973.

Read The Seventh Chapter Of Brad Phillips' & Gideon Jacobs' Serial Novella →

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Chapter 1 

I’ll write the first chapter, but please know that I am very wary of being someone who takes charge of group projects, someone who breaks the silence after the teacher asks for a volunteer to captain the science olympiad team with an earnest β€œI’ll do it,” or even worse, an β€œI’ll do it” of feigned reluctance. I was never that guy in school. No way I wanted to do that much work. But I also didn’t want to be associated with any projects that I considered poorly executed, so unless my β€œI’ll do it” volunteer was smart, I tended to give so little effort that I could not, in any scholastic court of law, be considered a bonafide collaborator. Click here to read more.

Read Our Interview With Papooz On The Occasion Of Their New Video Release

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The Parisian duo Papooz became well known in France thanks to their summer 2016 melody Ann Wants To Dance with its sensually whimsical music video directed by artist Soko. They released their second album, Night Sketches in 2019, which encapsulates the essence of France’s warm summer nights: sipping white wine after spending the whole day being sun-kissed on the beaches of Cap Ferret (where Papooz recorded their first album), or enjoying the freshness of an ice-cold drink on a terrace with friends after suffocating in the streets of Paris all day.

This year’s summer plan might not be as sandy and salty as we’d once imagined, but we can only hope for more sexy new tracks and clips like Papooz’s latest sumptuous release. Straight from the garden of Eden, this forbidden fruit was directed by Victoria Lafaurie & Hector Albouker β€œin the year of Covid-19” and features goddess-like Klara Kristin, who made her film debut in Gaspard Noe’s Love. Papooz’s Armand Penicaut and Ulysse Cottin quarantined with their musical crew at La Ferme Records to prepare the new album, yet to be announced. I sat down with Papooz a couple months ago, before their show at the Moroccan Lounge in Los Angeles, before the world went into quarantine.

Read the full interview and β€˜The Garden’ here.

Read The Sixth Chapter Of Brad Phillips' & Gideon Jacobs' Serial Novella

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Dear Ms. Jacobs,

If you’re reading this letter it means your son is dead, along with a much older man named Brad Phillips he was working with on some obscure writing project - a project which I think tested their endurance for suffering, a test they seemed to have failed. Typically, when you receive a letter like this, it will say, β€˜If you’re reading this I AM dead,” and comes from a loved one in the form of a suicide note, or it comes from a friend or family member who is being stalked by the American Intelligence Apparatus (see Danny Casolaro). I wish for your sake your son had it together enough to write an β€˜If you’re reading this’ (Dear John becomes Dear Mom) letter himself, but please try not to judge him too harshly β€” only now am I beginning to understand the amount of pressure he and his friend Mr. Phillips were under to β€” as they described it  somewhat pretentiously β€” β€˜revolutionize contemporary literature’. Attached is a letter Mr. Phillips wrote to your son Gideon. Perhaps more letters will be unearthed. I wish you the very best and am sorry for your loss.

-Detective Leslie Morris

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Read The Fifth Chapter Of Gideon Jacobs and Brad Phillips Serial Novella "Cheaters" →

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Dear Ms. Jacobs,

Below, see a transcription of one of many handwritten letters Gideon sent Brad in the days leading up to what the two writers were flippantly referring to as their β€œgroundbreaking innovation for the murder-suey industry.” It seems they weren’t exactly following the rules of their exquisite-corpse serial novella, and were secretly corresponding behind their editors’ backs the whole time. I hope these words give you some insight into their mental states during this period, and that some insight affords you some solace. 

-Detective Leslie Morris

P.S. For the record, we’re still figuring out who did the murdering and who did the suey-ing. It’s…complicated. 

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Cecile Believe Releases New EP "Made In Heaven" With Photographs by Zoe Chait

β€œWe might be tangled in our thoughts, fractured and fragmented, constricted by channels...but if we follow one of the threads for long enough we eventually touch something and connect,” is how artist Zoe Chait describes the concept for these photos made on the occasion of Cecile Believe’s new EP β€œMade In Heaven,” available to stream here. β€œMade in Heaven” is her first release since working with Sophie on her Grammy nominated album. photographs by Zoe Chait

Pornhub launches Scrubhub To Encourage Handwashing And Collect Donations

Pornhub, the premier online destination for adult entertainment, in partnership with creative duo Ani Acopian and Suzy Shinn, today announced the launch of Scrubhub, a collection of satirical videos made by everyday people as well as select Pornhub models -- including Pornhub Brand Ambassador Asa Akira, Angela White, Austin Wolf and others. The site focuses on the mundane yet very necessary task of handwashing through the lens of humor and entertainment. In addition to comical videos under the guise of typical Pornhub genres, Scrubhub will host live takeovers twice daily at 12 p.m. PST and 6 p.m. PST, featuring a range of personalities, from musicians to comedians and beyond. Donations will be collected via Scrubhub for two charitable organizations born out of COVID-19; Invisible Hands, which is a volunteer-based program that delivers groceries and supplies to the elderly, disabled and immunocompromised in the New York area, and Frontline Foods, who donate healthy meals to hospital clinicians in Los Angeles by partnering with local restaurants who have been devastated by the pandemic. Pornhub will be making an initial donation in support of these initiatives as well. Click here to visit.

Read the Fourth Chapter of Brad Phillips' & Gideon Jacobs' Serial Novella →

Over the next year, Brad Phillips and Gideon Jacobs are writing a 12-chapter "serial novella" for Autre. It will be written Exquisite Corpse style β€” they will alternate who writes each month's chapter, and won’t have access to the previous chapter until it has been published. Brad and Gideon have not discussed plot, structure, format, themes, characters, etc, and promise not to do so even once the project is underway. The idea is to react to each other's work, and hope the final Frankensteinian product is something that deserves to exist. If the authors like what they've made when it's done, the editors might publish it as a "zine." Installments will go up on the 15th of every month. Click here to read Chapter 4.