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One Small Seed Magazine Issue #30 dig.05 in collaboration with PUMA

giu — Tue, 12 May 2015 09:10:46 +0000

Welcome to our 30th issue of one small seed magazine in collaboration with PUMA!!!

30 is a big number. Most of us actually feel grown up for the first time at 30. The age where you finally understand who you are and what you want in life. Hence the content choice for this issue titled “Originality Through Details”.

The world is turning fast and often we ask ourselves, ‘how much must we follow technology or how far must we remain true to our heart and our passion(s). In this edition, we made a great selection of highly talented people from Modena, New York and Berlin to Hong Kong and back who, in our view, are individuals mastering the balance of craftsmenship, detail, passion and an occasional touch of technology, in a perfect manner. ‘It’s not about the amount of tools you have, but how you use them […] how you create with your heart,’ says Riccardo Moretti from LegoLoop. Indeed. If we look at Paolo Nutini, who has millions of views on YouTube and played with the Rolling Stones, but does not even know his password for his Twitter account. In our interview, Nutini tells us: ‘It’s all about the music, man.’ And he is right.

Then we found you a little gem francais, who, and believe me on this one, will go places as a street artist. Levalet, who brings the streets of Paris alive, also strongly believes that people should be able to create with their hands. In 1962, a new literary art magazine was published by poet and activist Ed Sanders in the Lower East Side of New York. Andy Warhol (full pdf can be downloaded on the inside), and lots of other iconic names, was a guest contributor for this ‘zine called “Fuck You” / A Magazine of the Arts.

So yes, let’s say ‘Fuck you! ’Fuck you to too much technology taking over our lives… our freedom.

LET’S START TO CREATE AGAIN.

FOUNDER / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GIUSEPPE RUSSO

ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE ISSUE #30 DIG.05 IN COLLABORATION WITH PUMA

giu — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 11:25:24 +0000

Welcome to our 30th issue of one small seed magazine in collaboration with PUMA!!!

So yes, let’s say ‘Fuck you! ’Fuck you to too much technology taking over our lives… our freedom.

LET’S START TO CREATE AGAIN.

FOUNDER / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GIUSEPPE RUSSO

Jacrot’s musing cities

one small seed — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:34:15 +0000

: © Christophe Jacrot

Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur – that of ’a person who walks the city in order to experience it.’ Frenchman Christophe Jacrot is one such chap. He scours cityscapes looking for the finest moments that a city can offer an observer and captures these timeless moments with astounding photographic skill.

He continuously plunges into New York, Paris, London, or Hong Kong to photograph and bring to light the hidden, fleeting moments of the everyday in their full poetic density and romantic charisma – which he only does in rain or snow (lumas.com).

Jacrot endeavours only in the wettest or stormiest weather to seize the full atmospheric effect of a city or rain or snow-sleeted street. ‘In my opinion, there are two ways of capturing the world for a photographer; on the one hand grasping its horror, and on the other sublimating it. I have chosen the second. More specifically, I like the way rain, snow and ‘bad weather’ awakens a feeling of romantic fiction within me (climatic excesses are another topic)’(christophejacrot.com)

Jacrot’s most recent work titled Hong Kong in the Rain was done in the busy metropolis of Hong Kong. He has the special talent to capture a city’s unique ambiance, as these cities moods and impressions are all different he depicts that expertly. There is a clear difference between eclectic cluttered streets of Hong Kong in contrast with the chic framed Paris. Though Jacrot depicts these cities unto their own there is still a unity in his concept and work, giving it a distinct flow of continuity and diversity. Jacrot romanticizes these moments of pouring rain, people huddled under umbrellas, women in elegant heels glistening almost ornament-like on the wet asphalt.

The play on light and reflection is core to his work, creating an underlying sense of warmth. Fleeting instants, these images flow like impressions – streams of consciousness created pictorially. ‘I see these elements as a fabulous ground for photography, an under-used visual universe with a strong evocative power, and with a richness of subtle lights. This universe escapes most of us, since we are too occupied getting undercover.

Man becomes a ghostly silhouette wandering and obeying the hazards of rain or of snow.

My approach is deliberately pictorial and emotional. (christophejacrot.com)

Haunting and almost cinematic, Christophe Jacrot takes cities’ moody characteristics and giving its people a hazy, dreamlike aesthetic.

Words : Bianca Budricks

Source: christophejacrot.com, uk.lumas.com,