KRISTIAN LIEBRAND 2026

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THE COLOR WHITE VOL4

And here we are: white. After an entire week talking about colors, shades, impossible names and some pretty questionable chromatic boundaries, we're finishing with the one color that seems to have decided not to take part in any of those arguments.

Because there's something funny about white: on paper, it seems like the simplest color of them all. It doesn't need to scream for attention, it doesn't have to be particularly intense, and you're unlikely to hear two guys arguing for ten minutes about whether something is pearl white, off-white, ivory or nuclear white. If it looks white, it's white as far as we're concerned, and we can peacefully get on with our lives.

But then white shows up on certain clothes and all that supposed discretion goes straight out the fucking window.

A white T-shirt, a shirt, a dress or, especially, a good piece of white lingerie can attract a hell of a lot more attention than any color specifically designed to do exactly that. Maybe because it doesn't need much decoration. Maybe because it lets the shapes do all the work. Or maybe because our relationship with colors is a lot less sophisticated than we've spent this entire week pretending it is.

Either way, after making our way through greens, blues, lilacs, reds, yellows and blacks, we've finally reached the end of the road.

And we're finishing with white. No mixtures, no complications and no need to check a Pantone chart to know exactly what the hell we're looking at.

Color week is over.
Now we can finally go back to focusing on what really matters.





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IT'S FRIDAY!

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MARIO BROS. MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF JUMPING

The story of Mario begins in 1981, when Nintendo released Donkey Kong, an arcade game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto in which a small character had to dodge obstacles and jump over barrels to rescue a woman kidnapped by a giant gorilla.





Back then, he wasn't even called Mario. He was simply known as Jumpman, and much of his appearance was born out of the huge graphical limitations of the time. With so few pixels available, Miyamoto had to come up with simple solutions to make that tiny character instantly recognizable.

The cap meant they didn't have to properly draw and animate his hair. The mustache helped separate his nose from the rest of his face without having to draw a detailed mouth, while the overalls made it easier to visually distinguish his arms from his body when the character moved.

What we instantly recognize today as Mario was, to a large extent, a collection of practical solutions to technical problems.

The name came shortly afterward. Nintendo of America began calling the character Mario after Mario Segale, the landlord of the warehouse the company rented in the United States.

In 1983 came Mario Bros., where he shared the spotlight with his brother Luigi and his profession as a plumber was firmly established. But the real leap forward came two years later.

In 1985, Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. for the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System. Mario began running through huge levels, traveling through pipes, hitting blocks, collecting coins and facing Bowser to rescue Princess Peach.





The game went on to become one of the most important and influential titles in video game history, selling more than 40 million copies.

From there came Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Odyssey and dozens more. Mario also started racing karts, playing tennis, golf and soccer, competing in the Olympic Games, throwing parties and taking on pretty much every profession Nintendo could imagine.

Over the decades, the Mario franchise has sold hundreds of millions of video games, and its universe has expanded far beyond consoles.

TV shows, toys, clothing, comics, merchandise, theme parks and movies have turned the character into one of the biggest icons in global pop culture.

His image has become so recognizable that you don't even need to have played one of his games to know who he is. A red cap, a mustache, blue overalls and an M are enough.

More than four decades after his first appearance, Mario belongs to that small group of characters that have managed to escape the medium they were originally created for. The internet has adopted him, transformed him, parodied him and reimagined him in pretty much every possible way.

And to think it all started with a handful of pixels jumping over barrels.





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THE NUDES OF NEWCRACKSINTHEWALL. VOL1

Newcracksinthewall is a photographer specializing in artistic nude photography, with work that particularly explores the relationship between the body, light and space.

His photographs stand out for their understated aesthetic, carefully constructed compositions and a precise use of lighting that turns shadows, shapes and lines into essential elements of each image.

Today we're revisiting his work to share the first part of a selection we've divided into two installments. A small sample of his particular approach to the nude, and proof that when there's a good eye behind the camera, you don't need to fill a photograph with distractions to keep someone looking at it.

More tomorrow.





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Britney Spears putting on quite a show at home, with a maintenance worker caught right in the middle of it.

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YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHICH BUTTONS TO PUSH AT THE RIGHT TIME

Over time, you end up learning your partner's buttons. You know which one to push when they're pissed off, which one when they need calming down, which one when you want to convince them of something, and which one can make them forget about the world around them for a few minutes.

Because really knowing someone isn't just about knowing what they like, what annoys them or how they take their coffee. It's about figuring out which keys you need to press to trigger certain reactions.

And once you've had enough practice, there are some buttons you can find practically without looking.





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The Guma is a traditional dance of the Guidar people in northern Cameroon.

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SIMON BOLZ 2026. PART TWO

We continue our journey through Simon Bolz's recent work with a second selection of photographs published over the past few years.

While the previous installment brought his name back to these pages after a long absence, today we can focus directly on what best defines his work: an elegant, suggestive, and visually meticulous way of portraying the female body.

Bolz knows that a good nude photograph doesn't depend solely on who's posing in front of the lens. What is merely suggested also matters, along with the model's attitude, the lighting, and that balance between naturalness and staging that makes every image appear spontaneous, even though nothing has been left to chance.

This second installment completes our selection of his work since 2023 and confirms that, despite the years that have passed since his last appearance on ALRNCN, Simon Bolz still has more than enough reasons to take his place on these pages once again.



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THE APPEAL OF FRECKLES

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There are features that people traditionally tried to hide but that, over time, have ended up becoming precisely what makes a face attractive. Freckles are probably one of the best examples.

For years, the beauty industry got us used to faces with completely uniform skin: the same tone, the same texture, not a blemish, not a mark, practically no sign that there was an actual human being underneath all that makeup. And the funny thing is that when freckles appear scattered across the nose and cheeks, the exact opposite of what you might expect happens: instead of seeing them as an imperfection, a lot of people feel they actually make a face more attractive.





Maybe it's precisely because they break up that uniformity. Freckles add little points of contrast, make your eyes wander across the face, and can especially highlight the eyes, cheekbones, or nose. They're a kind of natural pattern that can make a face more recognizable and give it more personality.

There's also that sense of naturalness. Freckles remind us that real skin isn't a perfectly smooth surface created by a computer. It has pigmentation, pores, subtle differences in tone, and characteristics of its own. And very often, those little irregularities are exactly what make two equally beautiful faces feel completely different in terms of how interesting we find them.

In fact, in recent years we've reached the curious point where some people draw freckles on with makeup or turn to semi-permanent treatments to get something that others spent a good part of their lives trying to hide. The supposed imperfection has become a desirable feature.

And then there's the part that's impossible to measure. Attraction doesn't work according to some mathematical chart where a pair of lips adds two points, a nose subtracts one, and twenty freckles add another three. Some features simply trigger something in the person looking at them.

That's what happens to me with freckles. Especially when they're concentrated around the nose and beneath the eyes. I'm not entirely sure why, but far from making a face look messy or taking away from its beauty, I think they give it character, naturalness, and an especially attractive touch.

In the end, maybe part of beauty lies precisely there: in those little characteristics that stop a perfect face from also becoming a completely forgettable one.

Because sometimes an imperfection doesn't take anything away. It's exactly what was needed to add something more.





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Choose your Pokémon!

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