FvF Mixtape #108: 36minutes

The boys behind 36minutes invite other DJs and friends to create 36 minute-long mixtapes, they’re passionate about fostering the mixtape culture and sharing music with friends—things that we at FvF are all for as well. They’re always keeping an ear to the ground in the music scene, and have an intuitive sense for what makes

FvF Mixtape #110: SassyBlack

The Seattle-based producer, singer, DJ and actress is comfortable in states of flux, moving effortlessly between genres and mediums. Classically trained as a jazz singer but with a deep seated love for R&B, she creates an entirely unique blend of soul, jazz, funk, house and electronic music. A natural entertainer, she’s also starred in HBO’s

Katharina Grosse Blasts an Abandoned House with Fuchsia Paint in Rememberance

Klaus Biesenbach, the chief curator of MoMa commissioned the piece entitled Rockaway! which developed into a statement on the relationship between the forces of nature and mankind. Katharina’s installation at Fort Tilden is part of MoMA’s PS1 program which provides funding to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. With the trees, sand and home all covered

Working at the intersection of art and research, Sarah Newman explores how technology can teach us more about what it means to be human

Florida-born artist Sarah Newman grew up in a household that de-emphasized technology. “We didn’t have video games, cable television, or anything like that,” she says. Instead encouraged by her parents to go outside to play, and to make up her own games using her imagination, Newman became extremely inventive from a young age. “I went

Dudu von Thielmann

In midst of the centre of Buenos Aires, high above the infinite tree line that serves as the organic lungs of the city, lives the publisher and art collector Dudu von Thielmann. This German lady has connected her two apartments with a small adjoining door through the balcony. The sun shines softly onto the many

Norm Architects' Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen on stripping back design to its bare essentials

His design philosophy is one now synonymous with the region, based on taking existing architectural norms and stripping these down to the most essential elements. In 2008, along with Kasper Rønn, he founded Copenhagen’s Norm Architects, a studio that, despite its name, has an output that intersects the creative fields. Anything from residential properties in

FvF Mixtape #158: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

“Opera is beauty. We could all use a little more beauty right now.” “It’s important in all professions to have leaders that represent the society we are in.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (@nezetseguin) on Nov 20, 2019 at 12:50pm PST Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a Canadian classical music conductor.

Link List #14

According to Salon, Silicon Valley and the “sharing economy” will destroy our jobs. Surf legend Kelly Slater is giving us health tips on The Inertia. The New Yorker’s Ian Parker investigates how Sir Jonathan Ive has shaped Apple. Berlin’s subway network is vast – and Medium’s Ramzi Rizk has photographed the signs of each and every station.

Living in San Francisco: Innovation True to Heritage

San Francisco is a Californian hub with a European soul, a cultural mash-up characterized by heavy fog and free love, hippies, hipsters, and steep hills lined with brightly painted Victorian homes. The city is surrounded by open water on three sides; the Golden Gate Bridge- an Art Deco beacon in bold International Orange–stretches across the

Florian Jöckel

In 2011 he started, as a self-professed couch potato and a new non-smoker, in Frankfurt’s traditional bike race on the first of May. Because he felt uncomfortable not only in the colorful shirts, but also with the club culture of cycling, he unceremoniously founded his own cycling team. Today it includes approximately 150 members. The base