Bassam Allam, Munich, Germany.

… the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

L.M.

Eleven Minutes, a fashion Film for Sandra Mansour, written and directed by Mounia Akl.

Shot in Lebanon.

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

L.M.

Aida Hajdarević, Belgrade, Serbia.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

B.M.

Cosmo (Bienoise Remix) + Christian Löffler (Parra for Cuva remix) + Stargate + Sin Tiempo.

By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. No, no, no: it’s just a little thought, I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they’ll take root. I don’t know, you try. You do what you can, kill youself.

B.H.

Garmonique, Moscow, Russia.

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the characters whom you met.
This singularity is like the dominant note of every moment of existence; in each moment of life, the life principle itself is unique. The artist therefore tries to grasp that principle and make it incarnate, new each time; and each time he hopes, though in vain, to achieve an exhaustive image of the Truth of human existence.
The quality of beauty is in the truth of life.

A.T.