Surface and Symbol

The writings of Houellebecq and Miyazawa are each incredible in their own way. The former glides effortlessly from philosophical exegesis to full-on sexual depictions (I would not classify them as pornography) while managing to capture a humane but extreme portrait of modern, overly-civilized man. Miyazawa also holds a mirror up to himself and society but through an inner language of dream-like symbolism and Buddhistic folktales transformed by his sociopathic viewpoint. It is interesting to compare how both authors compare and contrast in their abject negation of popular, mass culture - one through a hyperrealism of the everyday and a purposefully shallow style that echoes mass media and advertizing and the other through a private mythology of animals, legends and metaphors. Both are true artists, neither compromises in any way. This gives them both a special kind of critical eternity. 

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Tatjana and Alexander Stojanovic are united in marriage and a love of contemporary design, music and fashion. They are making selected works available to the discriminating  public through this online store. They are inspired by everything from the photography of Andreas Bitesnich, the architecture of Tadao Ando, the music of Koop and The Knife, the books of David Mitchell and the classic Art Deco style of the 1920s and 30s. They seek to provide aesthetic artifacts (clothing, music and literature) that will captivate and inspire their audiences.

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The electronica project Pansentient of Alexander Stojanovic will be releasing two new sets of downloadable music tracks in May 2008. All compositions were constructed using Reason 4.0 by the Propellerheads and are completely digital artifacts. No acoustic instruments were harmed in the creation of this music.The first is entitled “Snowflake” - a compendium of downtempo, trip-hop with processed Japanese and 70s SF film vocals.The second is entitled “Fahrenheit (Theme From)” and includes the electronica score from the upcoming short film “Fahrenheit” being developed by Alexander Stojanovic and collaborators for a 2009 digital release.

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Surface and Symbol is the new design house of Alexander and Tatjana Stojanovic. Alexander’s work is principally in electronica while Tatjana’s focuses on contemporary fashion for women and children inspired by European casualware.

Their 2008 Catalog will be available online shortly.

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