fette

Sometimes I write in French.
I live in Berlin, and sometimes in Los Angeles. I run fette's gallery.
I also edit The Flog, and flit on Twitter at times.

When I look out the window I see leaves flying off.
Nov 08
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El Ten Eleven, Chino, 2008. From the (fabulous) album These Promises Are Being Videotaped.

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» "The fear was that this thing in the center of Europe, if it were allowed to become unified, was going to be a cancer once again and lead to Act III of the great European tragedy," said Robert E. Hunter, a senior adviser at the RAND Corporation and an ambassador to NATO under President Bill Clinton. Instead, Mr. Hunter said, "the German problem, which emerged with the unifying of Germany beginning in the 1860s, is one of the few problems in modern history that has been solved."

Nicholas Kulish, With Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade, for The New York Times, November 8, 2009. Via.

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‘The Wall’ 1962

US Government ‘hearts and minds’ film on the first year of the Berlin Wall, including footage of escapes, successful and failed. Via zehnuhr. claytoncubitt.

Nov 07
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Top, photograph by Greg White. Via. Bottom, photograph by Delaney Allen. Via.

Top, photograph by Greg White. Via. Bottom, photograph by Delaney Allen. Via.

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» There is a similarity between painting and filming. There is no similarity between painting and photography. Photography is something that happens within a moment and painting and film are what happens outside of a moment. In a film you actually make a move, you approach the imagery, as you do in painting.

Luc Tuymans in conversation with Katarzyna Bojarska, 2008.

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Top, Luc Tuymans, Die Zeit (Time) [detail, part 4/4], 1988, oil on cardboard. Via. Bottom, photograph by Aoi Kotsuhiroi, from the series Body Ornaments, 2009 . Via. See large. — All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - T.E. Lawrence. Via.

Top, Luc Tuymans, Die Zeit (Time) [detail, part 4/4], 1988, oil on cardboard. Via. Bottom, photograph by Aoi Kotsuhiroi, from the series Body Ornaments, 2009 . Via. See large.

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

- T.E. Lawrence. Via.

Nov 05
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Top, detail shot by Olivier Zahm of Paul McCarthy’s installation White Snow on view at Hauser & Wirth in New York until December 24, 2009. Via. More. Bottom, photography by Margaret Durow, 2009. Via.

Top, detail shot by Olivier Zahm of Paul McCarthy’s installation White Snow on view at Hauser & Wirth in New York until December 24, 2009. Via. More. Bottom, photography by Margaret Durow, 2009. Via.

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Heeseop Yoon, The Met, 2008, Layered Mylar, 10 x 9 inches. Via weatherwax.

Heeseop Yoon, The Met, 2008, Layered Mylar, 10 x 9 inches. Via weatherwax.

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Tomoo Gokita, Pink Elephants, 2007, Gouache on canvas, 21 x 18 inches. More. — How long have i been in this stormso overwhelmed by the ocean’s shapeless formwaters getting harder to treadwith these waves crashing over my head I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, We Choose Faces, 2006.

Tomoo Gokita, Pink Elephants, 2007, Gouache on canvas, 21 x 18 inches. More.

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How long have i been in this storm
so overwhelmed by the ocean’s shapeless form
waters getting harder to tread
with these waves crashing over my head

I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, We Choose Faces, 2006.

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Left, photograph by David Armstrong for Dazed and Confused, November 2009. Via. Right, photograph by Levi van Veluw, from the series Veneer II, 2009. See also.

Left, photograph by David Armstrong for Dazed and Confused, November 2009. Via. Right, photograph by Levi van Veluw, from the series Veneer II, 2009. See also.

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“ Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. And the protections that we have for religion — we protect religion. And talk about a lifestyle choice — that is absolutely a choice… It’s a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to have to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights as someone else.
— Jon Stewart
Nov 04
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Toky Castellanos, from the series Against Nature, 2009, Cyanotype printed on polished cotton, ed. of 5, 8 x 10 inches. Via refinedboredom. The photographs will be exhibited at The Space on November 13 & 14, 2009 from 11 am to 9pm. (1639 Las Palmas Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028)

Toky Castellanos, from the series Against Nature, 2009, Cyanotype printed on polished cotton, ed. of 5, 8 x 10 inches. Via refinedboredom.

The photographs will be exhibited at The Space on November 13 & 14, 2009 from 11 am to 9pm. (1639 Las Palmas Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028)

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Fette, Le lavage du perroquet, Los Angeles, November 2009.

Fette, Le lavage du perroquet, Los Angeles, November 2009.