_according to her website: Johanna Dery not only illustrates but also makes short films, drawings, prints, little books, and occasionally music & papier-mache creatures; multi-tasking, Rhode Island-style.

_this photo is titled Motorista and it was taken by Gorka Gondra, a Portugal-based photographer.

_Rip: a Remix Manifesto is a documentary about copyright and the current generation done by Canadian activist Brett Gaylor. Another example of his position about copyright is the project Open Source Cinema.

_this is Low Rise by Peter Root. Frankly, we wish we’d thought this up.

Op3rador

Epa Chapela

from the album Operador Vive [ Pilla Records, 2008 ]

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_we had some fun watching Shapemaker’s video at YouTube but found their website quite annoying.

_the Tour De France wouldn’t have struck us as particularly artsy, but photographer Brent Humphrey has made its sights his muse.

_Lisa Hanawalt lives in L.A. and has a dog named Indiana Jones. She also makes these drawings.

_yesterday’s Jared was 21 years old and from Boone, USA. Today some Pekka Niittyvirta, 35, and from Helsinki. That thing about taking photos of people from behind them.

It’s Just Vanity
Oh Kiddo, You Don’t Even Know

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_if the title is to be taken literally, the guy bending in the photo is a priest. More info at Jared Boger‘s website [ can you believe that Boger is just 21 years old ? ].

_ Shocked Images II is the title of this collage by Berlin-based artist Kirstine Roepstorf

_ These seats are a part of Charlott Markus’ “Cinema de Erotique“. We guess these are shot in Amsterdam, where she lives.

We have been hard at work putting together our zero issue (which you will be able to flip through in our nifty PageFlip on our “magazine” section) several issues have come up surrounding the idea of spaces. Spaces as in …

_the new week gets us thinking about color and gradient. Fitting our mood -  Jordi Ferreiro [ Barça ].

_this is the second time we tip music on this little blackboard. This time a singer-songwriter from Australia? Sarah Blasko is the name and she just released a new album. Here you can see a [ bike ] [ as …

_Tom Gallo’s website  doesn’t say much about the guy, just these words: Tom Gallo – musician turned self-taught designer.

_thursday night and some Jake Longstreth before going home.

_the Design Has No Name studio is from Argentina but their clients are spread all around the world.

_we’re still wondering if the some of the portraits and landscapes by Lane Coder are shot in Polaroid.

_and now that we’re talking about blogs: Boicozine was a project from Press Publish that we still miss, their new blog -just called Press Publish- is excelent, but has quite a different interface and feeling [ in the image …

_we found out about Oum Koulsoum via the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog.

_John Delk does installations like the one above, but he’s also into video and photographs.

_things we’re suckers for 001: websites that look like old computer desktops.

_we had no idea that Adam Scott [ the painter not the golf player ] had showcased his work at Kavi Gupta Gallery.

_so what is Michael Hall up to?

_handmade in french is fait à la main,  for more info, ask Jean Jullien.

_Here at the Gopher we love lists. Lists make up the geography of our minds. So when we found Webdesigner Depot’s list of 100 extraordinary paper designs we had to post it.

_This is not a portfolio, but it is free content in easily digestible meta-format. Check out Chris Anderson’s Wired piece on why freebies are the future of business.

_some Kropilak for a belated monday.

_long time without checking the Ourcommon website, but they’re still as cool as ever.

_apparently, Ryan McGinley knows where the summer goes.

Our last post in this section ended in attributive mystery, so this one is titled and linked for your derivative viewing pleasure. According to his website, Matt (can we call you Matt?) just had a solo exhibition named “Parallel Universe” …

We Liked This

Oh, but how we’d be thrilled to preach on a saturday. Point being, we saw this and liked it, so we post it and a link  – with regards – to the source:

Imagepaste?

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Let’s test this thing, shall we? This one features our friend and Appalachian-dweller Dylan Shrader, who will be reviewing music in our upcoming first issue. We break the seal on our nifty music section with Shrader’s “Some Day” – recorded …

_two words: Pinoy Biswalstyle.

_as if proof was needed that the editors of The Gopher [ Illustrated! ] spend a lot of time online [ particularly editors of the male gender who will will not <LOPE> name that tend to scan the interwebs for …

_Roger Kelly is from london and you can find his work at the Halles Gallery.