The Absurdity of Celebration – A Lament on the Power of Cliche
The blank page stares at you like a painful relationship you’ve fucked up once too often, motionless, emotionless, somewhat mystifying, and as always without any actual results, confession, or reparation. In these trying, the most, trying of times, time and his endless chimes bring the worst of the worst ideas into one’s head. Cliche Part […]
“RANT BY MARIA” – OPEN YOUR AI’s – by Maria Van Der Velde
Oh hello! Welcome to the arts of today, the air’s thick with the fumes of spray paint, a farts’ worth of pretension, and now, the influence of digital nightmares. Artificial Intelligence has crashed this party, (or shall I say, ‘soundscape listening party’), stirring up all sorts of drama among the crowd who thought Rick Owens […]
Noa Raviv: “Design is about providing solutions, and the move toward art allows me to create more problems.”
The argument for design providing solutions and art creating more problems is one I’ve never pondered nevermind dealt with in an interview situation. With Israeli designer-artist Noa Raviv, I was provided with such a chance to discuss, as pretentious as it may sound. Design by default seems to me to answer questions that at worst, […]
Rebecca Lucy Taylor: “I had no fucking self-esteem at all and that was what was wrong in my life.”
Felten Ink recently had the pleasure, the privilege of speaking with Rebecca Lucy Taylor, the former Slow Club musician and now ‘front’ for her own solo project, Self Esteem. Her first record as Self Esteem, ‘Compliments, Please’, was released in 2018 and now Taylor is back and gaining more huge and rightly deserved applause for […]