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Further BIFOLD: CNFLCT investigation

BIFOLD: CNFLCT stirred up our brains around some intense topics. If you’d like to take further action into any of the areas of conflict you witnessed on Tuesday night, here are some places you can go to find out more info or sign up to help.

Sambo expert Stephen Koepfer

Watch: Expert Village videos on Sambo techniques

Join: The American Sambo Association…

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Vote in the Veer Poster Competition

Thank you to everyone who came to BIFOLD: CNFLCT.

It was an amazing example of how a group of motivated people can raise awareness of global conflict through creative collaboration.

Now you can vote for the posters in the Veer Poster Competition, those black and white posters you saw hanging up in the TriBeCa Gallery last night. Each poster was made…

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BIFOLD: CNFLCT blew the top off the mountain

Last night LVHRD hosted BIFOLD: CNFLCT at the TriBeCa Gallery in Manhattan. Guests outside were greeted by a red carpet and a step-and-repeat where photographers snapped photos of them before they entered the gallery.

While attendees waited to take their seats they mingled to music by Turntable Lab DJs Telekinetic Kat and Lefty, checking out the posters mounted on the wall in…

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Refinery 29 countdown to Fashion Week

Refinery 29 is doing 5 video profiles of 5 fashion designers to mark the countdown to Fashion week 2007.

Last week Refinery met up with Vena Cava designers Sophie and Lisa to go over the plans for their Spring 08 Hollywood Babylon-inspired runway show. This week Alexander Wang reveals his plans for the end-all-be-all of Fashion Week parties in a ramshackle Midtown warehouse. Future…

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Veer Poster Competition: Jessi Arrington

For BIFOLD: CNFLCT LVHRD has selected designers to create posters inspired by the phrase, “Without conflict there can be no growth” using visual elements from the Veer library. The final designs will be on display at the event on August 28th.

Jessi Arrington is a member of the AIGA who teaches Design Fundamentals at Touro College. While studying at the Art Institute of…

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Kerouac wants you to buy $500 shoes: ideals/$ conflict

Walk by the Hogan store in Soho and you’ll see the window display advertising their Kerouac-inspired line of $1300 travel bags and $500 work boots.

Sad that the author’s image has been appropriated by a clothing company to promote a lifestyle the man’s opus On the Road, utterly rejected. It doesn’t matter whether Kerouac would have bought the boots himself once…

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After the Jump Fest

Saturday afternoon we forded the soul-sucking heat and humidity down to Studio B in Brooklyn for the music blogger-curated After the Jump Festival.

We got there in time to see Eastern European klezmer peasant punk band Golem go hog wild on the mercifully cool and dark main stage. Vocalist Aaron Diskin wailed about sausages, his grandmother, and how sunshine makes him gloomy–at one point…

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LVHRD VDO: 043: BIFOLD: CNFLCT 1.0

To prepare for BIFOLD: CNFLCT we sat down with our old friends GOOD and BAD to see if they had changed any since the last time we spoke to them, sometime ago during our conflicted adolescence. Turns out they’re about the same, still pretty shallow without other moral standards like DOUBT and COMPASSION.

Fonts provided by Veer. GOOD: Candyscript; BAD:…

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BIFOLD: CNFLCT Talent: Ryan Duffy

Vice correspondent Ryan Duffy will replace journalist Trace Crutchfield at BIFOLD: CNFLCT. Trace’s wife just had a baby and we are very happy he is taking the time to be with his family. Congratulations!

Ryan Duffy is the VBS.tv correspondent who most recently flew to Colombia to track down and sample the scariest drug on the face of the earth, Scopolamine.…

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The John Galt Corporation: perception/reality conflict

Article in the NY Times today about the shadowy John Galt Corporation behind the demolition of the Deutsche Bank building that claimed the lives of two NY firefighters on August 18th.

In addition to sharing the name of a mysterious character in Atlas Shrugged, the John Galt Corporation doesn’t seem to have any construction or demolition experience at all.

From the NY…

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Les Savy Fav video contest

Those LVHRD members known as Les Savy Fav want to give you money and a trophy.

Brooklyn Vegan is hosting a LSF music video contest. Download the song “The Equestrian,” make a video and send it in. Video with the most views wins $1000 and a trophy which may or may not contain trimmings of Tim Harrington’s body hair.

Full instructions here.…

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Telekinetic Kat and Lefty to DJ BIFOLD: CNFLCT

Returning to LVHRD after spinning at PHTHRD last month, Telekinetic Kat & Lefty from Turntable Lab will DJ at BIFOLD: CNFLCT next Tuesday.

We dig this duo, aka Single Life. They know how to work a party. Thanks to Turntable Lab for hooking us up with great DJs.

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