JUNE / JULY 2011

THE GENIUS OF PACO RABANNE

FROM MARQUEES TO MILK DUDS: A Conversation with Filmmaker Yohan Forbes

Yohan Forbes is a filmmaker based in the U.K., best-known for his 2009 film “Project One,” a skateboard journey across the architectural landscape of London, a film that would go on to win “Best Film” at the BFI Future Film Festival, be inducted into the national archives, headline a collection of transport films in...
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SEE A PIN DROP: The Pinhole Photography of Robert Mann

With its venerable origins dating back to the earliest days of photography as we know it, the pinhole camera is a storied if not somewhat antiquated device. But in the hands of a master, its former glory is once again rekindled, and photographer Robert Mann is just that. He was generous enough to share...
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PICNIC KIT: An Urban Photographic Project by Sebastian Friedman

Jakarta is a city that doesn’t let one breath. Cars, motorcycles, noise, chaos, mess, dirt, smells, poverty, wealth, luxury, markets, malls and more malls, people, pollution – all mixed in a shaker. The Picnic Kit project is a result of photographer Sebastian Friedman observing and feeling the beat of the city. Completed during a...
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JETMAN

Photos by Andre Bernet This past May, Yves Rossy, a.k.a Jetman, became the first human to fly over the Grand Canyon in a jetpack. And shortly thereafter, GUTIFRE! became the first online arts and culture magazine with a childhood obsession with jetpacks to interview him. We caught up with Jetman at his home-base, the...
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PETER BJORN AND JOHN: The GUTFIRE! Interview

The simple authority of the number three is undeniable. Three points make a plane, three musketeers make a terrific candy bar – novel too, we’ve heard – and three Swedes, simply, authoritatively, make some of the most deeply personal, deeply danceable music on the popular map. After the global success of albums Writer’s Block...
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LUBOSLAV HAČEK: A Self-Assembly Short by Peter Adolphsen

Peter Adolphsen is a Danish writer whose acclaimed novels include Machine and Brummstein. His “Fourteen Small Stories” appears in the anthology Best European Fiction 2011. “Luboslav Haček” is a piece from his debut Small Stories collection. Author’s website: www.peteradolphsen.dk *** Luboslav Haček 1. On 31 August 1924, Luboslav Haček, animal trainer in a circus...
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