Paper Kills Trees

Ryan McGinley

2010-01-18T10:45:00.000-08:00

Via It's Nice That
And www.ryanmcginley.com

Grizzly Bear

2010-01-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

Ready, Able

DANMARK - ARGENTINA: 15 - 1

2010-01-18T10:39:00.000-08:00

Via TTC Gallery

SINA NAJAFI interviewed at ARTKRUSH

2010-01-06T19:02:00.000-08:00

Paul Laster interviews Sina Najafi, editor-in-chief of Cabinet , about the magazine and its books, artists' editions, curated shows, events, and multidimensional website.

AK: Can you tell us about Cabinet's history and format?

SN: The nonprofit that publishes Cabinet was founded in 1999 by artist Brian Conley and myself, and the first issue appeared in December 2000. The magazine has remained pretty much consistent since. Some of our regular columns have changed, but we've more or less had a similar mix of interviews, artist projects, and essays by artists, writers, and academics. There's a catchall section, a set of columns, the occasional audio CD, and a themed section. Past themes have ranged from the concrete, such as "Animals" or "Horticulture," to abstract notions with a long lineage in philosophy, such as "Evil" or "Chance," to topics that ought to have a sociology but don't — for example, "the Enemy," where there is no such thing as Enemy Studies and no one great book that examines how we've thought about the enemy historically.

AK: What is Cabinet's mission?

SN: Cabinet was founded around three distinct missions, which we hope resonate productively against each other. First, we wanted to have a magazine that reflected how artists thought about the world around them and had the same diverse subjects that you might find on the bookshelves of artists today. That's why a history of urban warfare is as likely to appear in our pages as a history of the doughnut; we call ourselves an "art and culture" magazine, but we try to operate with as expansive a definition of those words as possible. The exuberance that artists bring to their work is something we wanted to have in the magazine, and we're not afraid of having the serious next to the humorous or even the absurd, even though some people imagine this means that the serious is not being taken seriously — we obviously disagree! Another characteristic of this approach is that it is less concerned with judging what is good or bad or with policing the boundary between in or out; rather, it's about trying to better understand the ambient culture. Our gambit is that this better understanding is always "critical" in that it helps reveal the contingencies behind the world as it exists today and that knowing things could have been different is crucial for believing that things can be changed for the better.

ERIKA KNODEL @ SAMMLUNG LUETZOW

2010-01-06T08:45:00.000-08:00

Raya Martini's INDEPENDENCIA

2010-01-04T09:02:00.000-08:00

Via The Auteurs' "Movie Posters of the Year" post.

I am a person You are a seahorse

2010-01-04T08:58:00.000-08:00

Katie Scott's FLICKR Illustrations

But Does It FLOAT?

2009-12-18T16:54:00.000-08:00

"Acoustic listening devices developed for the Dutch army as part of air defense
systems research between World Wars 1 and 2," according to Butdoesitfloat.com.

DR. JUNG having eaten THE FEET of his wife

2009-12-18T16:27:00.000-08:00

I've posted photos of my collages here.

Pardon the blur.

Film UNTER den LINDEN

2009-12-18T15:26:00.000-08:00

HUS

2009-12-18T14:51:00.000-08:00

An exhibition by TELEFON TIL CHEFEN

Emil Alsbo - Simon Højbo - Magnus Clausen

The exhibition "HUS"("HOUSE" in english) at Helsingør libary will be showing individual works of art by TTC in form of collage and photos. The project is a research of identity and space, that will focus on social structures, rituals and values that is related to the way we live today, this is both in a historical perspective and with focus on the factors that will shape tomorrows way of living.

Under what circumstances exist the phenomenon "to live" and why do we choose the space we surround ourself with?The exhibition will run until the 9th of May.

BROOKLYN, abermals

2009-12-18T14:34:00.000-08:00

A Book on the DDR found in an abandoned Iraqi Embassy in Berlin

2009-12-18T12:33:00.000-08:00

2009-12-18T12:22:00.000-08:00

Brooklyn

2009-12-18T12:17:00.000-08:00

Panayiotis for Arthur

2009-04-13T20:56:00.000-07:00

Find a new page the 13th of next month here.

2009-04-13T09:54:00.001-07:00

KARAKTERKARAOKE

2009-04-13T09:54:00.000-07:00

KARAKTERKARAOKE

2009-04-11T22:19:00.000-07:00

FROM russia, WITH love

2009-04-03T05:25:00.000-07:00

O Б L A C O's photostream

PICTOPIA: ART EXHIBIT IN PREGNANT OYSTER WITH MONSTER BUMPER CARS

2009-04-01T23:17:00.000-07:00

2009-04-01T22:51:00.000-07:00

2009-04-01T22:45:00.000-07:00

2009-04-01T22:41:00.000-07:00

2009-04-01T22:33:00.000-07:00

MIRCEA'S PHOTOS!

2009-04-01T22:27:00.000-07:00

uland k of http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulandkrzyz/

2009-03-29T00:05:00.000-07:00

CARVED beneath MY neck

2009-03-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

Drawings by Brett Manning.

CHEWINFLOORDROBE CHOW POP POW WOW

2009-03-17T09:19:00.000-07:00

a unique something, stolen, from the blog of EMANUELE SFERRUZZA MOSZKOWICZ

2009-03-07T09:32:00.001-08:00

EVAN MEISTER

2009-03-04T03:17:00.000-08:00

Find him here.

NARWHALZ OF SOUND

2009-03-04T02:46:00.000-08:00

A picture posted on the FLOATING WORLD COMICS blog in '07.

CARDBOARD SHADOW PUPPETS

2009-03-03T02:37:00.000-08:00

PAULIINA MÄKELÄ's contribution to the GlömpX-exhibition is inspired by shadow theater and will look something like this:

GLöMP #10

2009-03-03T02:29:00.000-08:00

is out! There are only 1,000 copies of the 1kg, hardcover, 10th anniversary edition, so if you can't get your hands on a copy, head on over to one of the 12 exhibitions about 3-D comic narratives that GLöMP will be hosting across Europe in the next year!

BRUXELLES' NEW CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER

2009-02-24T04:21:00.000-08:00

ART DE RUE DE BRUXELLES

2009-02-24T04:09:00.000-08:00

THE DOCTOR IS IN VINYL (BRUXELLES SHOP)

2009-02-24T04:06:00.000-08:00

UZI REPTOID

2009-02-24T03:58:00.000-08:00

The beginning of a new comic
by SEAN ÄABERG.

MORE BILLBOARDS SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS

2009-02-18T05:32:00.001-08:00

billboard by ANDY REMENTER

OMG TO MUCH

2009-02-18T04:44:00.000-08:00

by MI RU KI T U SK O on FLICKR
( doet gij dan ook zo van die tags enzo?)
(uaaaaaaa multicolor wild monsters!!!!!!! )

two galleries, THREE ARTISTS, and a whole lot of free wine

2009-02-13T01:55:00.000-08:00

Okay, more than three artists were on display at the CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) and Galerie Catherine Bastide's art openings Thursday night. But I only have pictures of Alexandra Dementieva's "Alien Space," an igloo of balloons you have to walk through to experience:

and the following from the GCB:

the second of which is by Jacques André and reminds me of flea-market shopping for CAN records in Berlin:

This is all in Bruxelles, by the way. I'll be living here for the next few weeks before heading over to Luxembourg to help prepare and attend COLOPHON 2009. See you there?

RUJOLOKA

2009-02-08T15:10:00.000-08:00

RUJOLOKA is Finnish artist JANNE MARTOLA'S cut-and-paste magazine. JANNE also contributeD to ADIOS, ME AND KONSTA'S full-color MAG.

NEVER say NEVERLAND

2009-02-08T11:36:00.001-08:00

TREE PUKE BEAR'S creator Jes Ha Ka, IS GLAD she doesn't have BUTTHOLE NIPPLES. So am I.

LE DERNIER VENDREDI in PORTLAND

2009-02-08T10:29:00.000-08:00

Here Comes a BIG Black Cloud @ Backspace

the WHITE party in NE (to which I wore all black)

BETWEEN THE SHEETS

2009-02-06T14:20:00.000-08:00

Of Frenchman Denis Carrier's Moleskine:

He also has a website called

Where you can find drawings like this:

MMMtastyCAKEYyum

2009-02-04T14:14:00.000-08:00

German-born, London-based artist CAKE's new website is a sugar-high topped in sprinkles. She graciously let me interview her for Paper Kills Trees. We talked about Yuletide and plastic pump-guns and Berlin and other things that you'll just have to wait to read about.

!!!RAINBOW EJACULATE!!!

2009-01-30T05:16:00.000-08:00

PKT contributor Sish-Tick's album art for DJ RAINBOW EJACULATION'S record, out on COCK ROCK DISCO, threatens to lunge from the paper and pummel you into Care-a-lot. According to BABOO MCFOO'S Flickr site, the DJ looks like this:

STEPH NEARY IS MY FRIEND ON MYSPACE.

2009-01-26T19:50:00.000-08:00

Her art sometimes looks like this. She likes trading, so hit her up here or here! YEA!

MY LOVE FOR YOU IS A STAMPEDE OF HORSES

2009-01-20T15:50:00.000-08:00

but my love for this q + a/art photo blog is a flock of urban stags.
(Top, "The Four Horsemen," by Kyle Ranson. Below that, "Urban Stag," by Suzy Q and the Owls.")

SIN FANG BOUS

2009-01-16T11:01:00.000-08:00

Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir animated Sin Fang Bous' new "Clangour and Flutes" video.(Top picture via myspace.com/sinfangbous, bottom via Morr Music.)

CHOPchopCHOPchopCHOP

2009-01-14T16:51:00.000-08:00

JIM CADDY

2009-01-14T01:44:00.000-08:00

via Photobucket

GRAND DESSIN

2009-01-12T12:03:00.000-08:00

A few new works-in-progress from PKT2 contributor NOéMI BARSOLLE, who says she fears "vomit, spiders, big dogs, freaks of nature, all kind of diseases, and especially just before falling asleep, I'm scared that my eyes get out my face."

EXPLODE INTO COLORS

2009-01-11T19:35:00.000-08:00

Pictures from last night's Explode Into Colors show @ Portland's Dekum Manor.

PKT2 CONTRIBUTOR SADDO'S NEW

2009-01-11T17:05:00.000-08:00

hand-drawn t-shirts!

JOSHUA LONGO'S

2009-01-11T16:31:00.000-08:00

Dictat on Etiquette.

2009-01-09T13:38:00.000-08:00

WHAT MICHAEL DeFORGE OWES TO PICKLED EGGS.
(Thanks, Vice.)

STEVEN SEAGAL'S ENCHANTED LAMP AND OTHER STORIES

2009-01-08T03:44:00.000-08:00

Timo Vaittinen and Me and Konsta doused a central Helsinki department store window in 10 meters of florescent paint, then dressed like Klan members dipped in radioactive neon.

THE STEDELIJK WALL

2009-01-08T03:28:00.000-08:00

Every two months seven artists transform the 150 meters of fence wrapped around the construction site of Amsterdam's Stedeljik Museum into eye candy, like this.

MASOMASO

2009-01-03T19:57:00.001-08:00

MasoMaso's Blog

FUTURE ARTISTS

2009-01-03T12:56:00.000-08:00

NINE STUDENTS (pár fotek, z podařené výstavky v brně.
tito:martin froulík,barbora tichá,jan výtiska,matěj blahovec,
tereza krainová,pavel pernický,pavel dvořák,jana koutníková,
pavla malinová) OF THREE STUDIOS FROM THE Faculty
of Fine Arts Ostrava exhibit together in Faculty of Fine Arts
Brno. (Thanks, artycok and pavla malinová.)

I'LL BE HERE

2008-12-31T09:52:00.000-08:00

周依

2008-12-28T21:46:00.000-08:00

From 周依's Flickr

FROHE WEIHNACHTEN

2008-12-24T05:51:00.000-08:00

From my living room to yours.

ANNA SAILAMAA'S OLLAAN NäTISTI

2008-12-23T19:50:00.000-08:00

At Huuda Huuda.

ICHWILLKUNST

2008-12-23T14:55:00.000-08:00

2008-12-23T14:35:00.000-08:00

ALLES MUSS RAUS

2008-12-22T19:29:00.000-08:00

Anna Hellsgård and Meeloo Gfeller run
Bongout, a graphic design studio/gallery
/silkscreen workshop/artist book and gig
poster publishing house in Berlin (whew!).
Can't make it to Faust's Metropolis?
Snatch a fix of the "Alles muss raus"
exhibition at their blog.

(Photo of Christian “Meeloo” Gfeller's
work: Napoleon, 2008 NOT, 2008 It is hard
to be an politician, 2008 Selbstbeweih-
räucherung, 2008 Grün, 2008 Perception
is reality, 2008 Cendrillon, 2008 Oil on
canvas, silkscreen, mixed media each 50
x 70 cm)

RIKKE VILLADSEN

2008-12-20T11:57:00.000-08:00

Makes art like this. In Denmark.

2008-12-18T08:32:00.000-08:00

The palpitating remains of Gregory Jacobsen seem to writhe off the canvas and crawl into your gut, settling in a pink pile of degredation that slowly eats away at your intestines like parasites aimed for the heart.

LEFT BANK BOOKS

2008-12-16T13:49:00.000-08:00

Paper Kills Trees can now be found at Left Bank Books, Seattle's preeminent collectively owned and operated shop for all things hand-stapled. The Pike Street store is small but bursting with Slingshots, radical buttons, locally screen-printed t-shirts, and books on everything from anarchism and art to religion and science fiction.

KAUGUMMI

2008-12-16T11:19:00.000-08:00

Kaugummi is part collective drawing magazine and part art book/zine publishing house in Rennes, France. Above is issue 2. Below, 3.

NIEVES

2008-12-13T20:18:00.000-08:00

Zurich-based indie publishing house Nieves offers zines and artbooks by the likes of Frederic Magazine founder Frédéric Fleury (top, from "Obnivorious"), Beni Bischof (above), The Royal Art Lodge co-founder Marcel Dzama (below), and fellow Canadian Beau LaBute (bottom).

NAZI KNIFE

2008-12-13T20:08:00.000-08:00

Nazi Knife #4 is 112 color-
spewing A5 pages compiled in
France by Jonas Delaborde and
Hendrik Hegray.
Their hearts are cold.

KUTIKUTI

2008-12-13T19:56:00.000-08:00

"KUTI is a free full colour comic
newspaper that is published quarterly
and distributed in Finland by Kutikuti
and our friends. Our aim is to provide
a publication format for new free form
graphic literature and art. Kuti is bi-
langual, in Finnish with English
translation. Along with comics we
sometimes include articles about authors,
publications and phenomenons that we like."

SOME DAYS FEEL LIKE THIS

2008-12-13T14:13:00.000-08:00

YOU DECIDE

2008-12-13T14:10:00.000-08:00

IN LIEU of SLEEP

2008-12-13T13:54:00.000-08:00

PaPer KILLs tReeS

2008-12-13T12:43:00.000-08:00

After 11 months in Berlin, I managed to
illustrate the first week. It looks like this:

And comes as part of Paper Kills Trees, a full-color
cut-and-paste-and-penned zine that I wrap in grocery store ads,
like this:

and sell in stores like this:

in these cities: Prague, Copenhagen, Berlin, Hamburg, Warsaw,
Milwaukee, Portland, and Seattle.

Want a copy? Like to trade? Then send me an email
and we can work something out!