Godrej and Boyce – the last company left in the world that was still manufacturing typewriters – has shut down its production plant in Mumbai, India with just a few hundred machines left in stock.
Mark Jenkins is a street artist currently living in Washington DC, he uses packing tape to create his base forms using a casting process in which the object is first encased in plastic wrap and then in tape.
Jenkins’ practice of art is to use the “street as a stage” where passersby become actors. Many of his installations have resulted in intervention by the authorities whom he also regards as actors. Check out some of his works and decide for yourself.
” I don’t know. I don’t think anybody likes having their music pinned down to a genre – but people need to know genres. I didn’t want to be associated with “chill out” lounge music. There is everything in (my music) from psychedelic jazz to hip hop, it’s really broad. I wouldn’t want to put it in a box with a name on it, I like to think it’s broader than that. It’s for people to decide.”
