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TOP BILLIN

Finnish DJ/production/remix outfit Top Billin gathers everyone from Bounty Killer to Holy Ghost! and Jesse Rose together, for what's likely to become our ultimate party soundtrack of 2008. The trio, which consists of Fiskars, Sir Nenis, and Flipperi, are self-proclaimed makers of fun-loving music and have proven this again and again with their performances alongside Justice and Tittsworth, remixes for the likes of Trouble & Bass, and support from Diplo, Sinden, A-Trak, and dozens of others. Check out their new EP, just released on their own Top Billin Music imprint.


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ICEPICK

In Icepick (Gingko Press; hardcover, $29.95), Icelandic graphic designer Thordis Claessen surveys her homeland's vibrant street art and finds it invigorating and inspiring. Covering a wide range of themes and subject matters–from Icelandic icons to shagging sheep, from Sigur Rós' stencilism to trumpet-playing tortoises, from blunt demands for world peace to wishes for a dramatic death (rather than a slow, painful one from tuberculosis)–Icepick is at its most powerful and compelling when transcending graffiti's overt New York influence and finding currency in a particularly Scandinavian brand of freakish folk art. (Check Surkula's simultaneously ugly/beautiful swan-armed goblins and skeletal dark-eyed women with fish bones in their bellies for starters.) But for Claessen, a well-placed sticker or a simple chalk-drawn slogan (such as "It's cold and hard to live in the Icelandic nature alone") is equally worthy of documenting as a painstakingly rendered piece. Look at the streets in a different way, urges the designer. "Graffiti and street art is an uncensored art form that hits you on the street corner and generally has a short lifespan," says Claessen. "Sometimes it really speaks to us. Sometimes it even gives us a great laugh."
Text by David Hemingway

JinJonJim

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JinJonJim Art Collective

Monday, 31 March 2008

"Crab Jackson along with two friends, Jeremy Kennedy and Shane Edge, recently formed the JinJonJim Art Collective. All three artists are based in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana (go Hoosiers!) and have been showing their work all over, both independently and collectively. It’s clear all three are talented, but what we love most about JinJonJim is its DIY attitude, rooted in the simple love of art and its transformative powers. This pencil, marker, and acrylic on paper piece by Jackson is titled Take the Bait, but the image itself really says it all. So, take the bait and give www.jinjonjim.com the old once over."

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