[tuesday, january 8, 2008] happy new year! so we're a bit late; what else is new?! but really: have a bittersweet, insanely sexy, outrageously wealthy and tastefully (or quite the opposite) seductive 2008! we love you! we really love you! okay, now we got the formalities over and done with, let's talk business. we've got a lot to tell so stay focused. first of all we've added CARL CRAIG and PETER HOOK (you know, the bass player plus brains and muscles of joy division and new order) to our rooster. thank you katja (who just happens to have a brilliant photo book on ian curtis out; myspace.com/fotoreportage23) for helping us with the peter shoot. and yes, we're still working on those photos! you know what we're like: not the fastest guys in the world, unfortunately. moving on to our next announcement: the ridiculously good-looking photo magazine XAOC (which apparently means chaos in serbian though they're better organized than we are) is running a 32 page feature on angels & ghosts in their next issue. the good news is you can scroll through the magazine for free at mag.xaocphoto.com. the even better news is the feature contains previously unpublished photos of laurent garnier, kenny larkin, detroit grand pubahs, motor, modeselektor and dr. lektroluv. we must have been really drunk when we authorized this but hey: think of it as a late christmas present. now for the really, really bad news: the issue (02) isn't out yet so you'll have to wait a few more days. in the meantime: download 01 - it's great! finally, this weekend six of our photos will be shown at the eurosonic music festival in groningen (the netherlands) as part of the international photography contest POPVIEW. you can pay them (and us) a visit at de oosterpoort (de-oosterpoort.nl) from thursday january 10 onwards. the photographs will remain there till january 31 (after which they'll be shipped to amsterdam where you will be able to see them from february 6 till march 2 at the gallery of de melkweg). oh, and before we forget, we've added a new photograph to our pics section. everyone say hi to mister JIMMY EDGAR please. take care, matt & johnny [other blog entries]
for those who’ve only just discovered ourspace ... a small introduction! on a cold, cold night in january 2007 matt mogadishu (aka wouter van vaerenbergh) and johnny rome (aka ben van alboom) embarked on a mission. the plan was to start compiling black & white photographs of electronic music artists for a book – to be published in the future. that plan hasn’t changed. but what started out as a see-what-happens-endeavour quickly turned into a right-let’s-cancel-our-holiday-plans-and-get-a-move-on-it kinda-thing. eleven months and two myspaces later we have already shot over one hundred and seventy musicians – stretching all six continents (not counting antarctica for obvious reasons) and several electronic genres. our objective has remained the same: in a highly digital world where every artist on any given club night gets photographed by hundreds of mobile phones with built-in cameras, we want to take them out of the clubs and place them in front of a vintage celluloid nikon camera - give them the same treatment as those jazz legends (who incidentally also started out in dark and sweaty clubs, infusing the world with sounds no-one had ever heard of). we'll probably continue working on the project for the remainder of 2007/8, posting a couple of new photographs on ourspace every once in a while to keep you up-to-date and give you a chance to tell us how we’re doing. then, once the book is finished, you’ll be the first to know! soon, matt & johnny
when possible – sometimes we’re just too busy running around and putting
up lights – we try to take some photographs of what we do. just to give
you an idea. also, it adds a little color to ourspace. :)
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