STARDUST

My dedication goes to the sternenstaub-inspiration i found in those strong photographs, merging genuine beauty with the quintessence of visual matter.

Beyond words, thoughts or tributes: Bruno Staub

© pictures: Bruno Staub

SICK SUNDAYS

Yer it's sunday and some of you wasteoids might have been going through pretty tough partying experience this week-end...

Let's welcome the flashback with some random pictures of sickness:

A tribute says enjoy your happy sunday delirium.

© pictures by heyokay.

WASHED OUT

NON-RANDOMNESS

Visual cohesion, crude, sore and subliminal rock, non-iconic bloody virginity and fragileness embodied in every single picture.

My most sincere tribute to the beauty captured by Alba Yruela

© pictures: Alba Yruela

MOVE, COCO

Gabrielle Chasnel, the must catholic orphan, the singing mademoiselle de cabaret, nicknamed after her missing pussycat, mistress of Balsan, secret love of Capel, french empire, sartorial elegance icon and everlasting shelter of the most creative german queen.

I happened to visit the travelling exhibition "Culture Chanel" today, and I definitely take all comfort in writing this: That uninspiring, absolutely droughty event did not do any bit of justice to the eternal Coco Chanel. Now I don't know if this is the due way to exhibit a legend, but the MOCA Shanghai failed on every possible level to pay tribute to one of the greatest fashion influence of the century. An exhibition deadpan as the stuff they dare to call baguette in this town.

Sorry, no tribute to that one.

© pictures: Nellie Walther

KAZOKU

In 1993 Yurie Nagashima photographed herself and her family naked - and received the Parco award for that series. Paradoxically the lack of clothing and the off-limits represented in her pictures were not the most provocative issues but... Ok, I am too baked to go deeper into obscene conversations this week. Give me a break, it's the chinese holidays. (Yurie would have wanted the post written that way.)

A tribute to the family

© pictures by Yurie Nagashima

SATURDAY LOVE AND PINE NUTS

Incomparable nights in Shanghai, and that every week-end. Here's the recipe:

Get some ilegally imported western food at the Guacamole-Lady's (be careful with the fake pine nuts though), invite your crazy friends from NZ, Chile and Singapore for dinner and spontaneously organise an under-water-love-lying-on-the-dancefloor-party in a chinese appartment situated in front of a hospital.

After you have danced and swom like a retarded maniac on the floor, hug and touch eachother like you just popped love-pills. At that moment I actually really thought that we just have opened the most galactic club in town. Those nights will always exist in my memory as an emblem of enjoying yourself and your friends to the extent that is humanly possible.

A tribute to Shanghai nights with Carlotta, Natalia, Bastian, Sam, Kenny - and the best song to describe that feeling:

KIWI AT FIRST SIGHT

I love him. Both because of his stunning work and because he's sharing my bubbly passion.

He's got the eye, the arrogance and the talent. A tribute to an outstanding fashion/docu-photographer from New Zealand, because he made me discover the real thing:

Sam Croskery

© pictures by Sam Croskery

HOLGASMIC

Analog cult goes digital.

No more waiting for your pictures to be developped, no more friction, no more gelatin silver? Why not!

The concept makes sence as soon as you take a look at the amazing minimalistic design of the digital Holga D. Black plastic, 80s shapes, a more then distinguisable "aaah-there-it-is-button" which is free to move on the left side for easy lefthanded shutter release - all in one a facile delicacy designed by indian art-guru Saitkas Biswas. Shukria.

A tribute to digital simplicity:

© pictures by Saitkas Biswas

2011, THE YEAR OF COLD QUESADILLAS

A tribute says: Have a happy new one.

Hallucinists from Wiley Wiggins on Vimeo.

EYES IN THE NAKED CITY

Someone has to bring them back into the daylight: Weegee's pictures of criminals, jazz birds and lovers caught in the naked nights of New York City.

If there is a higher spirit out there giving a photographer the opportunity to catch a precise moment, Weegee must have been drinking prohibited whisky with this guy. He always knew when and where; always the first to arrive at a bloody murder scene, a fire, arrest or rescue event...

"When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track."

A tribute to Usher Fellig.

© pictures: Weegee

LA VIE EST UNE BLAGUE

Indeed. And if I had 11 111 111,11 YUAN on my bank account I would be a fashion victim for good... question MArk.

What can I tell you about the new ELEVEN winter collection? Rock, rehab, lethargic, pfffff no? Casting Jagger and Stymest for the new campagne however was an abusive idea to cure their image... and as you might know, I am into all kind of violations. So please: Don't follow my lead.

Live is a joke, joke is a tribute. This one goes out to ELEVEN PARIS:

© pictures: Eleven Paris

GO AND REHASH MASTERPIECES. PLEASE.

...and this one deserves a cordial tribute. One of those brilliant refreshing cocadisco-remixes you won't get out of your mind... Or like I use to call it: A summer-smog song - liberally disbursed by Beach House and Toro y Moi, merci les gars.

ANACHRONISTIC.

...running out of patience, time and energy. can tell a lot about those enthralling activities in order to get that bitch you call visa, but in the end everything catches on.

i finally arrived in shanghai. with that old smile on my face revealing how much i missed that city. so here's a photographic tribute to shanghai 2010, anachronistic, contrasty, inspiring and inscrutable - now more then ever.

© pictures: Nellie Walther