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Lomography Contest: Will Snap For Stuff!

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:33:30 +0000

So you love pictures and taking them. Well, we here at POSTRmagazine do so too, which is why we are working together with the nice folks at Lomography: in order to share our mutual passion for depictive storytelling with two separate audiences who might turn out to have more in common than they might think.

How are we planning to do this?
By handing out free Lomography cameras (Lubitel 166+ and Diana F+) to stir up both your sense of art and your predatory personal gain at the same time!

Sounds cruel and harsh? Wait until you read POSTRmagazine #5: The Art Issue, in which we question the image of contemporary art as being free of economic interest and market manipulation, and paint a Portrait Of The Artist As One Clever Bastard. In the meanwhile, feel free to feed your own starving artist by participating in our Will Snap For Stuff-contest!

How to enter?
Go to the Lomography photo archive, choose 1 photo out of the Lubitel 166+ or Diana F+ gallery that depicts what Art is or should be according to you and complement it with 1 photo you took yourself dealing with that same subject.
Remember: a single picture equals a million words. This means that we won’t read beyond the photo you send us. So don’t try to explain what’s in it, we speak picture.

What can you win?

First Prize: Lubitel 166+

Second & Third Prize: Diana F +

Send your two photos to competition@postrmagazine.com. Deadline for the competition is April 4, 2010.
We look forward to seeing your stories.

As no Photo Upload is required on the Lomography website for this competition, you might want to soft sign in with your twitter account.

POSTRmagazine #5: The Art Issue – Out March 5

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:04:19 +0000

We’re back with a new issue of the most critical and least considerate magazine you’ll ever get for free. This time around, we are going to give the artworld a nice old kick in the shins. Why? Because it’s a naughty little world that has gotten completely out of hand and it needs some long-overdue discipline. Yes, you could say that art is like the thermostat of our mental evolution. If you do say that, then you also have to concede the fact that right now, its gauge is pointing at ‘decadent, incestuous game of greed that has forced actual creative expressions into a secondary role’. Art seems to be more about money than ever. Maybe that is because we’ve never had this many filthy rich retards with no sense of humanity before.

We are no experts in the field. Oh excuse us, we are no connoisseurs when it comes to art. I think that’s probably best as well, since I have no intention of becoming one of those people who thinks that it’s ok to spend millions upon millions on paintings they’ll never look at again. I’d rather be uneducated and blind than knowingly take part in what has probably become the most expensive bottled fart ever. We hope that you do not agree with us and decide to counter our intensive investigative efforts with furious emails and deathtreaths about how we are complete savages who shouldn’t be talking about stuff they don’t understand, especially your favourite artist. You will enforce the already calculated correctness of our arguments.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

The POSTR-staff

POSTRmagazine available in Berlin

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:46:51 +0000

POSTRmagazine went to Bread and Butter Berlin to make sure people had something interesting to read and to party with the good people from Supremebeing who provided a supreme ad for our Money issue.
While we were there we found some good locations for ourr magazine so as of now you can find POSTRmagazine at these select locations in Berlin:

Wood Wood store. Rochstr. 4, 10178 Berlin.

Apartment, Memhardstr. 8, 10178 Berlin.

Vans store. Alte Schönhauser Str. 48, 10119 Berlin Mitte.

Adidas store. Münzstr. 13-15, 10178, Berlin.

Sweet Lemon reviews POSTRmagazine

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:51:01 +0000

The communication agency Sweet Lemon, based in Brussels, did a nice review of POSTRmagazine on their blog. So get over there and while you’re at it read the other articles as well. Interesting stuff there.

Read the full review here.

None Dollar Bill handout Brussels

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:20:48 +0000

A quick impression of our None Dollar Bill handout we did in Brussels on December 7th. To our own surprise it were the people with shiny suits and ties who liked our action and choice of weapon the most.

Santigold Rides a Horse

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:07:53 +0000

We’re not going to beat about the bush here: this post has no relevance whatsoever if you insist on comparing it with the rest of our editorial content. However, it does feature nobody other than beautiful singer Santigold learning how to play polo. Like, the actual polo that you play on a horse, with a stick and a ball that looks like it can knock your brain clean out of your skull if it hits you at full force. No, there is no profound motivation that will put all of this in a deeper perspective. Santigold is a ravishingly talented woman and we want to see her ride a horse and hit a ball with a stick.

Enjoy!

You can check out more movies on the Vodaphone 360 website.

POSTRmagazine’s None Dollar Bill handout

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:25:26 +0000

If you want to be absolutely sure that you can tell your future grandchildren that you were once an accomplice in a devious money counterfeiting scheme, you’ll want to join the POSTRmagazine staff at one of our upcoming None Dollar Bill-handouts where we will be – duh- handing out our custom POSTRmagazine None Dollar Bills.

A None Dollar Bill, you ask? Well, in the midst of the heated debates and brainstorm sessions we went through during the making of our latest issue (POSTRmagazine #4: The Money Issue), we were confronted with the implicit contradiction in making a magazine about money and handing it out for free. So we went ahead and converted our legally obtained knowhow on money counterfeiting into reality, mainly to attack today’s economical debauchery and, more transcendentally, to question the true relevance of conventional money.

POSTRmagazine’s witty promotional scam – which might yield our editorial asses some mainstream coverage and/or two decades in one of Belgium’s medieval jails – will officially start next Saturday, December 5. Find us in Ghent sprinkling our None Dollar Bills into the emaciated purses and gutted wallets of loyal readers and Saturday afternoon shoppers alike. Come pick up your free money from 2PM on the Veerleplein near the Gravensteen stronghold, the place where money counterfeiters were hanged, drawn and quartered or cooked alive during the Middle Ages. At 3PM, we’ll head to the city’s financial district called the Kouter, where we might just convert some of our supernumerary bills into a portfolio of equally valuable Citibank shares.

Next Monday (December 7) from 9am, we will be hitting the area around the National Bank of Belgium, where most of the €50 bills are printed and the headquarters of the anti-money counterfeiting service of the federal police is settled. At 11.30, we will start distributing bankrolls in front of La Bourse on the Anspach Boulevard. So be there, because we are pretty sure you can’t remember the last time you spent counterfeit money and got away with it. Also, if the police decide to counter our rational arguments and humanitarian motives with their superior baton’s logic, we can use all the amateur footage we can get. So if making it onto the threat list of the Belgian State Security Service is your mainspring, come take this giant step forward with us. And don’t forget to always feel, look and tilt.

POSTRmagazine #4: the Money issue – Out Now

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00:29 +0000

We’re back like an uncaring bailiff collecting an outstanding debt. During the past three months we submerged ourselves into the smelly, murky depths of humanity’s financial waters to finally resurface with the murdered truth between our claws. We’re still scrubbing off the stink that clings to our filth-stained minds, but as always, our unrelenting efforts have yielded a reward that justifies the valiant and bloody crusade that precedes its discovery: truth and understanding.

You can reap this moral reward without having to undertake the same painstaking excursion into the shady twilight of stocks & bonds by picking up a free copy of POSTRmagazine #4: The Money Issue at one of our distribution points. Be sure to bring a None Dollar Bill with which you can pay for the most free magazine that came at the highest cost!

Respectfully yours,

The POSTRmagazine staff

A One Night Stand with Naldisney

Robbert — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:48:35 +0000

Nalden is a busy guy who’s into a lot of different stuff, so we’re not going to slight the man by just calling him a blogger. His superseding of the online realm is evinced once again with ‘One Night Stand’, an event organised by Nalden where people will be exchanging ideas, thoughts and art for one night. Maybe you’ll even be able to get your hands on a free magazine or two! Where to be, what to bring and what not to wear? Find out what the deal is in this video where Naldisney himself does the talking.

You can check out more movies on the Vodaphone 360 website.

Yes, this post is obviously an advertorial for Vice and Vodaphone’s new telecom-thingamajig, but it’s also obvious that Nalden’s ‘One Night Stand’ is a cool concept and as thus deserves our attention. If you don’t like it, save us the ‘iron discipline’ routine and start your own damn free magazine.