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THE BLOW UP ISSUE 01

From the Press Release:  The BlowUp Media
is pleased to announce the launch of its long-awaited print magazine, href="http://www.theblowup.com">The Blow Up. Based in New York City and
print by Germany’s Art Berlin Verlag, The Blow Up is an anomaly in the world of
style publications - it is intellectual, international, and inimitably poignant.
The Blow Up bridges the gap between daring imagery and serious content with
provocative fashion editorials, work by daring young artists, and critical
essays on art, music, and politics.

The Blow Up grew out of its
online affiliate, theblowup.com-a website
three years in the making that today boasts an international readership of
800,000. Theblowup.com has been praised by such publications as Artforum, V,
Tokion, Dazed and Confused, and Surface.  It was nominated for an International
Design Award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in 2002. Karin Nelson
of Fashion Wire Daily writes that The Blow Up is a “decidedly fluff-free
[magazine] that explores ideas and aesthetics others couldn’t even imagine.”
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Among the ideas and aesthetics featured in The Blow Up Issue 01 are new
works by Olafur Eliasson, KT Auleta, Tony Law, Philip Sherburne, and other
influential contributors from around the world. The issue is loosely inspired by
nature and the new romantic movement. Australian writer, Jason Evans, explores
the shift toward natural imperfection in fashion photography and French Vogue.
Painter Brady Dollarhide’s work seduces the viewer with colorful hues of dawn
and dusk, letting its metaphors of birth, failure, conflict and pursuit unravel
slowly.  London’s SHOWstudio offers a series of still images from its video
works, and Paris’ Metamoderne collective provides a gothic image for the
cover.