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The opening will feature an open bar provided by Grolsch, music from Billy the Kkid, and an artist’s reception for Ultrasonic International III.


About Issue X:
For Issue X, Beautiful/Decay is proud to include a dynamic range of features that loosely address the nature of representation and the ways in which it is replicated, manipulated and transmorphed through the artistic process.

Scott Anderson conflates a dissonant line-up of images derived from his personal vocabulary, whether dream catchers, lunar landscapes or beer bottles, to create science-fiction style landscapes at once familiar and foreign. Mala Iqbal also imagines alien vistas- that cleverly investigate the nature of representation and painting through her unique blend of magic, kitsch and a knack for the unexpected.

Michael Swaney chooses to narrate idiosyncratic, boyish-charmed scenes that reference both childhood nostalgia and adult irony, Jeff Whetstone captures uncanny photographs of graffiti-marked caves. The natural scenes, layered with human scribblings, document the phenomena of anonymous marking and the act of creating itself, referencing everything from the Paleolithic cave paintings of Lascaux, to ribald rants on bathroom stall walls. His re-cast panoramas of disorienting rocks are brought back into the realm of the familiar through banal human traces.

Barnaby Whitfield’s feverishly playful pastel distortions both attract and repulse with their candy-colored depictions of subtly grotesque figures. Beautiful/Decay will also interview duo design team Oh Yeah Studio, who gracefully merge pencil-sketch representational drawings with abstract computer modeled concepts, and explore Oliver Hibert’s hyper-colored images.

As usual, Beautiful/Decay will also feature a stellar line up of recent show reviews, from Los Angeles to New York and in between.]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-09-03T13:37:28Z <![CDATA[B/D or DIE t-shirt]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/2277621/ Click on image below to shop!

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100% cotton, ultra soft custom body t- shirt. Artist: Sentimental Soy Cheese Artist Bio: Sentimental Soy Cheese is the collective moniker of 2 former regular human beings whose true identities may never be known. Their peculiar pseudonym came about due to a very emotional period of time when, after being lost in the wilderness for several days and having nothing but unusually large amounts of soy cheese as sustenance, the two finally found their way back to civilization where it was discovered they had been missing for several weeks. Over the next few months, both experienced an intense desire for the soy cheese which had presumably saved their lives, as well as regular shared lucid dreams, which revealed what had actually happened to the pair during those ardent lost days. Those events have never been publicly discussed and are shrouded in mystery, however what is known is that soon after, the two underwent a radical transformation and Sentimental Soy Cheese was formed. They then quickly took the design universe by storm with their unique take on the signs and symbols of society and have been virtually unstoppable ever since.]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-04-29T16:57:47Z <![CDATA[Mystery T-Shirt Grab Bag!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/2235761/ Click on image below to shop!

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Beautiful/Decay presents the ultimate t-shirt grab-bag promotion at a bargain basement prices! For the standard $24.95 price of a single shirt, you will instead receive THREE randomly selected shirts, pulled from any of the artist-based designs and brands featured on our website, including the ever-popular Beautiful/Decay artist's series apparel line. That's like $8 a shirt. Of course, at a cut-rate price like this, all sales are final and non-returnable. You might receive two of the same shirt, but quit talking about your feelings and do some living. Get rad, use your mind, eat pizza, and take a gamble on the grab bag.]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-04-22T14:17:00Z <![CDATA[New Rockett shirts added to online shop!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/2164911/ Click on the Shirts below to shop!

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]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-04-09T17:52:00Z <![CDATA[Magazine Rack that Rocks!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/1946551/ Beautiful/Decay Presents Furni Signature Magazine Rack

Beautiful/Decay recently teamed up with Montreal based design company Furni to create a collaborative, custom-built, hand-made magazine rack. The front features a CNC routered Beautiful/Decay scripted logo on white acrylic. The body of the rack is crafted out of multi layered hand-stained Russian plywood frame—referencing the cross section of a skateboard. This showcase piece allows you to neatly stack and display 6-10 of your favorite magazines in portrait format. This contemporary, stream-lined design is both elegant and clean- a must-have addition to your home.

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]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-03-06T11:33:00Z <![CDATA[Beautiful/Decay Presents Furni Signature Magazine Rack!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/1942571/ Beautiful/Decay recently teamed up with Montreal based design company Furni to create a collaborative, custom-built, hand-made magazine rack. The front features a CNC routered Beautiful/Decay scripted logo on white acrylic. The body of the rack is crafted out of multi layered hand-stained Russian plywood frame—referencing the cross section of a skateboard. This showcase piece allows you to neatly stack and display 6-10 of your favorite magazines in portrait format. This contemporary, stream-lined design is both elegant and clean- a must-have addition to your home.

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]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-03-05T14:51:00Z <![CDATA[Beautiful/Decay Releases Women’s Apparel Line!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/1908831/ Due to popular request, B/D has finally released two of our favorite Artist's Series Apparel designs on custom cut and sew, fitted shirts for girls.  Pictured above is Aya Kato + Beautiful/Decay's ethereal design "Frog Prince," which images a regal and contemplative figure embracing an odalisque-like young woman, whose hair transforms into flowing, curving river-like rivulets and geometric lily pad designs. The second design, "Kaguya" depicts a delicate, elf/sprite woman surrounded in floating cloud masses of pitch-black hair. Beautiful detail of stunning green eyes, giving the figure both a dreamy and slightly surreal appearance. Look out for more B/D women's designs in the near future.

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]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-02-28T13:34:00Z <![CDATA[Beautiful/Decay Releases Women’s Apparel Line!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/1908171/ Due to popular request, B/D has finally released two of our favorite Artist's Series Apparel designs on custom cut and sew, fitted shirts for girls.  Pictured above is Aya Kato + Beautiful/Decay's ethereal design "Frog Prince," which images a regal and contemplative figure embracing an odalisque-like young woman, whose hair transforms into flowing, curving river-like rivulets and geometric lily pad designs. The second design, "Kaguya" depicts a delicate, elf/sprite woman surrounded in floating cloud masses of pitch-black hair. Beautiful detail of stunning green eyes, giving the figure both a dreamy and slightly surreal appearance. Look out for more B/D women's designs in the near future.

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]]> Buzznet beautifuldecaymagazine 2008-02-28T11:23:00Z <![CDATA[Beautiful/Decay Releases Women’s Apparel Line!]]> http://beautifuldecaymagazine.buzznet.com/user/journal/1902281/ Due to popular request, B/D has finally released two of our favorite Artist's Series Apparel designs on custom cut and sew, fitted shirts for girls.  Pictured above is Aya Kato + Beautiful/Decay's ethereal design "Frog Prince," which images a regal and contemplative figure embracing an odalisque-like young woman, whose hair transforms into flowing, curving river-like rivulets and geometric lily pad designs. The second design, "Kaguya" depicts a delicate, elf/sprite woman surrounded in floating cloud masses of pitch-black hair. Beautiful detail of stunning green eyes, giving the figure both a dreamy and slightly surreal appearance. Look out for more B/D women's designs in the near future.

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