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  • Larger Than Life: The Sculptures of Kazu Hiro – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Suddenly, you notice how beautiful it is and every problem disappears because it’s a kind of switch that makes you focus on this one thing…” Kazu Hiro is selective about whom he chooses to portray in his work and seeks out subjects with whom he has an emotional connection. “I realized that everyone I wanted read more

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    Larger Than Life: The Sculptures of Kazu Hiro – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Roller Derby “Kisses”: The Beautifully Bruised Paintings of Riikka Hyvonen – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    London Rollergirls player Cami Gabriel is the derby girl behind that now immortalized first Facebook comment. “In roller derby, social media is very important,” she says. “As we are a ‘for the skater, by the skater’ grass roots initiative, we require word of mouth to publicize our games and make sure we fill those sports read more

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    Roller Derby “Kisses”: The Beautifully Bruised Paintings of Riikka Hyvonen – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • What does the future hold for generative AI?

    When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT to the world in 2022, it brought generative artificial intelligence into the mainstream and started a snowball effect that led to its rapid integration into industry, scientific research, health care, and the everyday lives of people who use the technology. What comes next for this powerful but imperfect tool? With that read more

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    What does the future hold for generative AI?

  • The Art & Adventures of The London Police – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    From 2004 until 2009, Barrisson worked on the London Police solo and ventured out to other cities. “At this point, I was doing it on my own and I was doing it more illegally in every other country because there wasn’t that niche of the electricity box and the paper, but I would still try read more

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    The Art & Adventures of The London Police – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Metamorphosis: An interview with Floria Sigismondi – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Hi-Fructose: Your work has a very distinctive look, combining dreamily outlandish imagery combined with striking lighting. I was curious about your start, what influenced your aesthetics? You grew up in a theatrical household, how much do you think that shaped the way your art developed? Floria Sigismondi: I think growing up in the industrial town read more

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    Metamorphosis: An interview with Floria Sigismondi – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Antiquity In the Faux: The Sculptures of Kris Kuksi – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    In Kris Kuksi’s “Leda and the Swan,” the mythical woman sits nude and slightly less voluptuous than Rubens and Cézanne’s versions of her. In this mixed-media assemblage, the mother of Helen of Troy is surrounded by cities that literally rise above her and more that are flipped upside down. Train tracks crumble. Armies go to read more

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    Antiquity In the Faux: The Sculptures of Kris Kuksi – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Another Time, Another Space: The Art and Life of Rammellzee – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    WRITING, ALPHABETS, TYPOGRAPHIES ARE ALL UBIQUITOUS ELITE TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE LOWERED THEMSELVES INTO YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS WHERE THEY ADAPT YOU TO THEIR HABIT, THEIR REFLEX, THEIR PERCEPTION. THE PRIZE? CONTROL OF THE MEANS OF PERCEPTION.” Both of these projects were made from found materials. The Letter Racers were smaller, built up off skateboard decks or objects read more

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    Another Time, Another Space: The Art and Life of Rammellzee – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Amandine Urruty: Wunderkammers & The Monocromatic Dream State – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    Building a wunderkammer is a surrealist exercise, in a way,” Paris-based Amandine Urruty explains of the cabinet of curiosities motif that appears in her work. “I tend to gather objects I like, ‘90’s toys, luxury vases, miniature chairs and a bunch of skulls. The cabinet of curiosity is a decor, and each case of it read more

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    Amandine Urruty: Wunderkammers & The Monocromatic Dream State – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Nothing To Hide: The Sculptures of JinYoung Yu – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    “My creations represent those who have chosen a life apart from others, as if they are invisible or non-existent beings. Instead of adapting themselves to human society, they enter into their own personal space, avoiding other’s interruptions.” Jinyoung’s vision, message and technique hit full stride in 2008’s A Family in Disguise. Shown as a solo read more

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    Nothing To Hide: The Sculptures of JinYoung Yu – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Incantation: The Art of Martin Wittfooth – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    In “Loot Bag”, which appeared at Roq La Rue in Seattle last year, Martin Wittfooth depicts a pelican whose beak overflows with stuff. A doll, a toy elephant, and a pig pop out from the mess as though they are trying to escape. Soda cans, balloons, disposable cups and fast food make up much of read more

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    Incantation: The Art of Martin Wittfooth – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Should You Start a Blog in 2025? – Goats On The Road

    This isn’t an article I wanted to write… but here it goes. Blogging as a business model isn’t just dying—it’s already dead. In recent months, we’ve seen major blogs shut down, course creators abandon ship, and even people who made millions from SEO declare it game over. But here’s what no one is saying… This read more

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    Should You Start a Blog in 2025? – Goats On The Road

  • Finding Your Perfect Caribbean Island for a Peaceful Weekend Trip – Goats On The Road

    Your weekends feel so hectic. It is high time to leave the work and plan a weekend trip to get some respite. For such a trip, I prefer a Caribbean island. This isn’t your normal vacation where you run around all the time. Instead, you can ditch your phone for something much better. You’ll find read more

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    Finding Your Perfect Caribbean Island for a Peaceful Weekend Trip – Goats On The Road

  • Transmutations: The Art of Daniel Martin Diaz – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    “I’m like an engineer more than an artist,” says Diaz. “I have to see what this is going to look like what, how it’s going to fit in on that proportion of paper or canvas, whatever it is, before I can do it.” Diaz says that it’s actually the sketch that’s the art for him. read more

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    Transmutations: The Art of Daniel Martin Diaz – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Of Place & Time: The Narrative Paintings of Andrew Hem – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    The paintings of Andrew Hem linger just left of reality. With his instantly recognizable style, Hem blends figurative painting and atmospheric landscapes, echoes of graffiti art and a deep understanding of color harmony. Rendering scenes both urban and rural, modern yet outside of time, he creates works that are a mix of realism and surrealism, read more

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    Of Place & Time: The Narrative Paintings of Andrew Hem – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Employee of The Month: Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Re-Creates Chip Shops, Bodegas, Porn Shops, With All The Inconvenient Details – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    As soon as the show opened, it felt like I was on holiday because working the show is a piece of cake compared to the production stage.” Yet, Sparrow persisted. And although her work has continued to rise in reputation, the actual day-to-day process of creating the items that populate these stores is laborious as read more

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    Employee of The Month: Felt Artist Lucy Sparrow Re-Creates Chip Shops, Bodegas, Porn Shops, With All The Inconvenient Details – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Join The Shift: Turn What You Know into Income – Goats On The Road

    We’re so excited to announce the date of our upcoming, free, LIVE event! We’ve been workshopping, planning and testing things out for the past couple of months and are ready to bring this to you. If you joined us for the Future Vision Event, you already know…our live sessions aren’t just motivational. They’re actionable, interactive, read more

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    Join The Shift: Turn What You Know into Income – Goats On The Road

  • Time Management Tips for Students Working Online While Traveling – Goats On The Road

    Student travel can be exciting… but when combined with online classes and freelance gigs it quickly turns chaotic. Good time management serves as a student’s compass to stay on course and on target. In the first few days on the road, learners often discover that free Wi-Fi is not always free and that local attractions read more

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    Time Management Tips for Students Working Online While Traveling – Goats On The Road

  • Classics of Rock: Adam Parker Smith’s Whimsical Approach Squeezes The Satire Out of Classical Sculpture – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    At all times, there’s a “nagging voice in my head saying, ‘This might be a disaster.’” Smith grew up far away from all that, in the small Northern California town of Arcata, Population: 18,000. His parents owned a mom-and-pop bicycle shop and lived on an apple orchard. It was by all accounts an idyllic childhood, read more

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    Classics of Rock: Adam Parker Smith’s Whimsical Approach Squeezes The Satire Out of Classical Sculpture – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Lola Gil Distorts Memories With Her Glass Managerie – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    I AM DEFINITELY PLAYING AROUND WITH NOSTALGIA… IT IS THE PLACE WHERE MY IMAGINATION BEGAN, AND I AM ATTACHED TO THAT EXPERIENCE FOR MY ESCAPE.” Especially in her early career, Gil was struck by the art world describing her as a type of surrealist. Pop or lowbrow did not matter. It rang untrue. It seemed read more

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    Lola Gil Distorts Memories With Her Glass Managerie – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • Engineering fantasy into reality

    Growing up in the suburban town of Spring, Texas, just outside of Houston, Erik Ballesteros couldn’t help but be drawn in by the possibilities for humans in space. It was the early 2000s, and NASA’s space shuttle program was the main transport for astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Ballesteros’ hometown was less than read more

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