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Yann Martel is the 2002 Man Booker Prize winning author of Life of Pi. Conducted in May 2003 this short interview reveals just a little about Yann himself - the man who placed a boy and a tiger in a boat and captured the imagination of all who read about their journey.
Q:When and why did […]
Published by Olly December 15th, 2003
Brought to Defunktion’s attention via the overnight web phenomenon known as GroupHug.us, Gabriel Jeffrey is the graphic-designer-cum-web-site-svengali behind all the hugging.
“I’m really tired of the Web. It all looks the same.“
Q:When and why did you begin designing?
A:As a kid I was pretty neurotic. For a while I had to own the living room during Commander […]
Published by Olly December 15th, 2003
Many readers of Defunktion will be only too aware of, excited about, and out of pocket due to Santa’s impending arrival. Jesus also figures in this somehow, but in today’s consumer driven society Defunktion forgot where. No matter. For in this specific editorial we must kerb our desire to make profound statements about culture and […]
Published by Defunkt Media December 10th, 2003
Ashkan Sahihi has a history of creating controversial images. In 2001 he garnered a great deal of press, both positive and negative, with “The drug series”; eleven photographs depicting eleven adults all on different drugs. Each image was simply named after the drug that the subject was high on when the photograph was taken: crack, […]
Published by Defunkt Media December 3rd, 2003
