Link round-up - 10 March 2015

This edition of round up has been sitting in my draft for over two weeks now! Some great finds from the inter webs:

• London, I love you but you're breaking my heart. Living here comes with a price tag. An interesting billboard campaign called 'London is Changing' has been launched to share stories of people choosing to leave the city.
• I always wondered why Electric Circus never came back as a Nuit Blanche installation (I don't know if this happened since I haven't attended in ages), but this article on the Canadian institution is worth reading (and the clips will make you smile).
• 64 Marxists against each other competing for the title of 'Champion.'
• Stephen Hendee, Baltimore-based artist and professor at my alma-mater MICA, recently had an exhibition at The Silbert Art Gallery. Really love his stuff, and these pictures make me hope he gets invited to produce an exhibition in London soon!
• You can also download the catalogue for Void on his website
• London really is all about private, private, private. Ian Martin's article for The Guardian is a great read (lots of references relevant to UK/London so some parts might get confusing)

Link round-up - 5 February 2015

First link round-up of 2015:

• New York celebrates the work of designer Paul Rand. Wish I had the chance to see this one, particularly since I really adore the Museum of the City of New York. NYC people, don't miss this exhibition.
• The Evening Standard (you know the paper everyone picks up after work in London), can sometimes produce some interesting opinion pieces. Read this one in newsprint (gasp!) on a bus ride home and found myself nodding in agreement and laughing. Obviously there are some holes, but it's quite accurate.
• The Last Relevant Blogger: I felt a great sadness while reading this. Hipster Runoff, although I wasn't a religious follower of his blog, was definitely my generation (particularly those of us who blogged (or still blog - dinosaurs!). After reading this, I started thinking back at how the internet has changed throughout time (having worked in it as a blogger and within the marketing/advertising realm). I hope to have a decent blog post to share soon. Or it might stay in drafts, who knows.
• While in Paris in December, I had the chance to visit the Kitsuné Café and the shop. Absolutely insane to think of how far these guys have come since releasing albums with then unknown 'indie' musicians. The shop is way overpriced, and I went mostly for nostalgia and novelty purposes I guess. Paper Mag's feature discusses their beginnings in an article from August.
• Another one of those articles where I was reading it and nodding in approval. At times, the writer pushes the writing where it's like "what?" but otherwise, absolutely spot on. Although I believe Homer Simpson said it first when he said (paraphrased here) there's nothing I hate more than rich people with Kickstarter campaigns.

Link round-up - 13 November

• Swingsites for Singles: Fascinating article about a format of housing that thrived during the 1960s.
• American Psycho Reimagined: A very interesting experiment by two RISD students who emailed the text of Bret Easton Ellis' book back and forth via gmail, and annotated the book with the ads that google generated.

Been enjoying Facebook's "Save for later" option. Here are some picks collected from friends:

• The History of the Great British Weekender: I've never been to one, but after reading this, I'm intrigued. Great piece on the UK dance scene.
• This is Color: Facts and history on colours
• Classical antiquities in colour: There was a point in time when I wondered why there was no colour. But then someone mentioned it to me years ago and I started viewing things completely differently in museums. Funny how we choose to ignore this fact because they look 'uglier'!

Link round-up - 23 October

This link round up has been stuck here since the 8th of October. Added some new stuff and decided it's time to post it!

• Clever advertising campaign from Sweden
• I know it's hard to really 'sum things up' through lists, and they often overlook a lot of important people. Unfortunately, this one is just plain ridiculous, because I don't think it actually knows what it wants to say. It claims women who are changing business, and then women who are changing the face of the Arab world...right, through cookie shops.
• It was particularly strange on my commute this morning, to see Londoners reading about my hometown of Ottawa. A great piece in Rabble on the situation.
• Although New York City is not nearly as confusing to navigate as London, it seems the city is taking a page out of London's book. New Yorkers, thanks to the people at Pentagram led by former Vignelli and associates employee Michael Bierut, are finally discovering the genius of Massimo Vignelli's 1960s designs for the subway. I do think the London ones are great, but a more TfL like aesthetic would be awesome.
• A major and necessary resource was launched by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art - The Mathaf Encyclopaedia of Modern Art and the Arab World. This long term project is still in beta, and I'm looking forward to its official launch!

Link round-up - 21 September 2014

I have been writing this round-up for what seems like forever, mainly because I have just never sat down and finished adding all the links! So I added a few more and think that settles it for this week.

• What is ISIS a product of? Ziad Majed breaks down the root causes behind the rise of this extreme group.
• How Okwui Enwezor Changed the Art World - a great look into Okwui's trajectory, but I can't help but think the descriptions are a bit...
• Why Jeremy Laing quit fashion - for now - One of Canada's most talented designers has, unfortunately, called it quits.
• Aga Khan Museum opens in Toronto - North America's first home of Islamic art. Not in a prime and accessible location however.
• Will Self: The awful cult of the talentless hipster has taken over - Relevant critique to what is currently just an overload of silly crap being applauded over and over.
• How Not to Offend a Canadian - Some things are spot on with this but, what about French Canadians? And the Quebecois? Many differences there.

Link round-up: 21 August 2014

A collection of interesting links from around the internet:

• A look at the transformation of the music industry. Whereas the GIF is going way too quick for anyone to actually read the graph, they do offer separate links to each year. 
• Why contemporary art is exclusionary. A very interesting discussion on how contemporary art is becoming more exclusionary. I would also argue that it is becoming commercialised in a very different way: it's becoming a larger interest in the mainstream (Marina/Jay-Z as one)
• To kill or not to kill comments...that is the question. A friend once said "before the internet, did Trolls write letters to the editor everyday?" Comments are useful, but can also be violent and awful.
• Rebel Architecture. A new six-part series coming soon to Al-Jazeera (link leads to trailer and some information on the series). Lots of interest recently around "activist architecture", "architecture without architects", and being "against" a certain form of architecture.

Link round up: 30 July 2014

A collection of interesting links from around the internet:

1. Brilliant campaign here. I've heard from someone that Istanbul (I've never been) has a great culture of feeding stray animals
2. A prehistory of the electronic music festival - Not so long ago, EDM festivals were not common.
3. Cities and ambition - quite dated but an interesting read. Would be particularly interesting to read something that isn't so centred around North American and European cities though 
4. Fashion Logos - some history of five of Another Mag's favourite fashion logos

Links I've shared on Twitter

If you’re not following me on Twitter (@theyuppie), here’s what you missed in shared links:

• Secretly, I want to interview Gaddafi, this is a perfect example why


• "So by uttering FAIL, you’ve only marked yourself as an internet luddite who’s behind the times" best comment from this


• First the Simpsons in Harper’s Bazaar and now Paris Fashion Week, Disney style in Elle Espana  


• Le tour du monde en 80 secondes


• Tom Tom and Darth Vader


• Serio-Comic Maps of International Tensions

And these were shared on Tumblr but worth another reminder:

• So it’s here, the yuppie’s big announcement! Read on


• My coverage of painter @sundusah exhibit WARCHESTRA for @fenmag


• What happens when the yuppie encounters a Philipino receptionist and an Eastern European dental assistant?


• The yuppie’s facebook experiment