While trawling the interwebs when I couldn’t sleep the other day I discovered a cool Russian/Ukrainian blog post with pictures of graffiti found in Pripyat.
Quite a haunting place, and it is made even more so by some of the graffiti that has appeared there. Thanks to Alex Cheban for the pictures.
Alex Cheban’s Pripyat blog post
One of my failures (according to Karin) as a legend in my own lifetime is that I rarely throw away empty toilet rolls. Sadly Karin wasn’t around during my first year at Uni when I made a whole installation out of toilet rolls in our shared bathroom (pure genius, even if I do say so myself!), so I thought that she didn’t appreciate the finer points of toilet roll art.
I was wrong!
Over the last few days at home the toilet rolls have been developing faces (and obvious personalities)…
This is great! Now I do not have to throw any away ever again and there is always a chance I can sell them all to the Tate Modern in the future!
Easter ’11 at Tyresö, a set on Flickr.
Karin and I had a great Easter weekend in Tyresö at Karin’s family summer house. Summer is definitely on it’s way 
Much to the amusement of many of my friends I only (for some reason) really listen to asian music. Mainly Japanese, but also some Korean and Chinese artists. There is something really interesting about exploring the music of a culture that is both similar and alien in so many ways.
Today I discovered a new Japanese artist: Rurutia.
Rurutia is a female singer-songwriter who plays music that I would describe as everything from trance-like, etheral and in places “anime ballad-y” (you know, the songs that play at the end of all your favourite anime shows ). Like many Japanese artists the western obsession with the 90 second perfect pop song is lost on Rurutia - you’ll be lucky to get change from 4 minutes with most of her tracks.
It’s hard for me to compare this to western music because I just don’t listen to enough western music so I’m not going to even try . Most of my time spent listening to music is while working and as work-music Rurutia works for me, even though she does not make the kind of music I usually listen to.
…and thats good enough for me to suggest you give her a listen. Obligatory Spotify links:
Suggested Listening:
I just discovered Coilhouse, a print magazine and blog, via an io9 post. I must remember to buy some back issues later in the week as judging from the content on their blog it seems like the kind of thing I would enjoy. According to the io9 article Coilhouse launched with the tag line “a love letter to alternative culture” and I can definitely see that. Both content and style wise Coilhouse, at least on first glance, seems to hit the mark.
