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Twilight Zone

2012-01-11T14:32:00.001-05:00

Miron Zownir, once labeled by the American author Terry Southern as THE POET OF RADICAL PHOTOGRAPHY, took up photography in the late 70s during the hey-days of the punk-phenomenon, delivering a tight portrayal of the movement and its peculiar attitude towards life in limbo between a utopian vision of anarchy and nihilistic self-destruction. In 1980, he emigrated to the USA, where he

Through the Looking-Glass

2011-09-19T14:34:00.001-04:00

Fabiana Roscioli lives in her very own world. At first glance a world of sensual beauty, framed by lightful architecture and interior. Fabiana lives in hotels, she works in hotels, fine places that serve as the background for her films and photographs. Being a member of a family, who has a tradition in the hotel business for the last four generation, the detached

It's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really

2011-07-21T20:24:00.001-04:00

Reflection (self portrait) 1985; Oil on canvas, 56.2 x 51.2 cm; Private collection (via Paul Payne) Lucian Freud, a towering and uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years, has died, his New York-based art dealer said Thursday. He was 88. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his

Soundsuits by Nick Cave

2011-07-02T18:35:00.000-04:00

Chicago artist Nick Cave, transforms found objects in this kind of sculptural costumes, which are between art and haute couture. The Soundsuits are called like this because when worn they emit sounds. Reminiscent of African ceremonial costumes, he believes that the familiar must move towards the fantastic, to evoke feelings that have no name, which are not realized except in

50 minutes of porn

2011-05-31T14:50:00.000-04:00

Alan Smithee´s latest work will be on display at the contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) media art fair, this weekend, 3th-5th of June. Alan Smithee, best known for his cooperations with Julia Murakami, is represented by A&O gallery/Directors Lounge. Alan Smithee, 50 min. of porn, 2011 from the series Reality Scans Alu-Dibond, Lambda print, behind acrylic glass, 60 cm x 75 cm, 23.6” x 29.5” ,

DIE: Dice Portrait Emphasizing on the Randomness of Life

2011-05-27T10:40:00.000-04:00

13,138 days. 13,138 die. One die for every day he lived. Frederick McSwain remembers his friend Tobias Wong as, “one of the funniest people who ever lived. Every day with him was a monumental occasion. He had this big presence. There was something about the way he saw the world, the way he reacted was like the butterfly effect.” In his tribute piece for the BrokenOff BrokenOff

From Paris with Love

2011-05-26T12:12:00.000-04:00

Looks like Invader is safely back in Paris with new work and possibly a subtle message for the LAPD. (Photo: Lionel/Flickr) (via ultra look)

Ai Weiwei Projected on Chinese Consulate in NYC

2011-05-23T16:38:00.001-04:00

Cuban artist Geandy Pavon projected a giant image of Ai Weiwei on the Consulate General of China in Manhattan on Friday night. Since the diplomatic mission’s security always runs protesters off their sidewalk and into a designated patch of concrete across the street, this was appropriate. Protest project Nemesis Ai Weiwei: The Elusiveness of Being had a rippling Ai portrait tower over

Tthe Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi going Dolce Vita

2011-05-22T14:38:00.000-04:00

The Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi World Tour: The Tour Must Go On - JGP disregarding the Piazza Garibaldi Our little friends, The Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi just popped up in and around Rome, doing what they do best, ignoring the landmarks around them. It was only pure chance that the enchanting Nadya Cazan was around, able to shoot back, capturing the hunters. You know what they say: When in

I am more than my face :) Mitsuko Nagone

2011-05-19T14:12:00.005-04:00

Mitsuko Nagone

Cement eclipses

2011-05-17T13:54:00.000-04:00

electoral campaign Gendarmenmarkt. Berlin. April. 2011 T he Cement Eclipses by Isaac Cordal, "small interventions in the big city" as he calls them are clever placed little sculptures that pop up in several European cities. His sculptures take the form of little people sculpted from concrete in ’real’ situations. Cordal manages to capture a lot of emotion in his vignettes, in spite of their

GO HUG YOURSELF

2011-05-13T15:05:00.000-04:00

It was about time for the Sense-Roid. Unpoked on Facebook, unfollowed on tumblr? There´s always still you, and thanks to Sense-Roid you can enjoy an emotional haptic communication with yourself. A needful gadget from the Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications. via

AS MANY EYES AS A MAN CAN HAVE

2011-05-05T11:35:00.002-04:00

NYMan With A Movie Camera is a 64-minute, shot-for-shot remake of Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera with a live score played by the Michael Nyman Band. Nyman has been heavily involved in cinema for most of his working life, creating the Oscar-winning score for Jane Campion’s The Piano and numerous other features including Peter Greenaway’s Drowning By Numbers and The Cook, The Thief,

habits make us blind

2011-05-04T10:18:00.000-04:00

‘habits make us blind’ 1/4 Spanish architecture studio espai MGR’s ‘habits make us blind’ is a photographic series of work which addresses the vacant lots in downtown valencia, which they pass everyday. ‘…like an invisible metastasis generated in the heart of the city and extending to all its arteries. neighborhoods that, although having huge potential, lay unused, not promoting a good

Where her son flies in the sky

2011-04-12T01:15:00.021-04:00

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, "the Columbus of the Cosmos" became the first human to travel into space. During his flight, Gagarin famously whistled the tune "The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows" (Russian: "Родина слышит, Родина знает"). The first two lines of the song are: "The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky". The Japanese Guerilla

Black Rain

2011-04-10T20:19:00.000-04:00

Black Rain from Semiconductor on Vimeo. Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME's (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission. Working with STEREO

DL hits LA

2011-04-08T12:46:00.000-04:00

One not to miss: Directors Lounge hits LA, opening reception April 9th 6-9pm Directors Lounge is screening assorted highlights at the prestigious Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) as part of NOT A CAR, a special all-media, cross-cultural exhibition featuring the highlights from our partners, the C.A.R. art fair in Essen, Germany, alongside original contemporary artworks by Los Angeles

Gegen Warten | Reinhold Gottwald at a.i.p.

2011-03-31T14:52:00.000-04:00

Gegen warten. Reinhold Gottwald´s concept for his exhibition in the a.i.p. gallery is a volatile, fragile Installation, combining room and wall space. Here he works with industrial made materials, objects that he casualla found on city sites, articles that caught his attention are rededicated and Incorporated in the installation. The open construction and mounting will take place directly in

2011-03-28T09:08:00.001-04:00

Teller is a magazine of stories. Stories told in pictures, in words, in both; short sharp stories, 'so I once heard this story' stories, stories of pure invention and stories that might just be true. Teller brings together photography, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and all kinds of graphic art, from well-known names and exciting new talent. It's beautifully designed by Neue Gestaltung and

Martin Schoeller

2011-03-26T16:59:00.000-04:00

Martin Schoeller at Sweet station

Secret Life

2011-03-23T17:14:00.001-04:00

Secret Life from ⓇⓇ Artstudio Reynolds on Vimeo. Secret Life by REYNOLD REYNOLDS, portrays a woman trapped in an apartment with a life of its own. Transcending the narrative horizons of human desire, the film visits upon us a glimpse of a shared and sacred reality. A work that defies the ultimate metaphysical taboos of temporality by combining novel technique with intrepid philosophical

Tomorrowland

2011-03-20T16:33:00.004-04:00

B en Sandler´s Tomorrowland A retrofuturistic, ambiguous universe of disorder and design where cars can fly and time stands still. digged at the art resort Photographer: Ben Sandler; Stylist/Deco: Julie Vianey; Retouching: Pierrick @ Asile; 3D: Ben @ Asile; Casting: Olivier Duperrin; Homme: Edouard; Femme: Sylvija @ Idole; Fille: Jeannine

You are a country if you say you are

2011-03-17T14:30:00.004-04:00

President Kevin Baugh of Molossia, still from How To Start Your Own Country by Jody Shapiro, 2010, 72 min What makes a country a country? What makes a state a state? A nation a nation? And what’s to stop you from starting your own? In a globe-hopping search for an answer to these fundamental but little understood questions of sovereignty, How To Start Your Own Country visits six

Odes to the Mask

2011-03-14T13:54:00.004-04:00

Calixte Dakpogan (Beninese, born 1958), Heviosso, 2007, Metal, plastic (shoes and combs), CD, tape, H. x W. x D.: 74 x 55 x 28.5 cm), Courtesy CAAC - The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva, © Calixte Dakpogan. Highly creative re-imaginings of the iconic form of the African mask comprise a unique installation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featuring 20 works of art — 19 sculptures and one

Wrong • The Questionable Reality of Asger Carlsen

2011-03-10T07:02:00.001-05:00

The Doctor Is In(sane) : The Questionable Reality of Asger Carlsen What are these? They appear at first, like so many photographs do, as candid moments, mundane vernacular portraits or documents of small news events from the pages of a weekly local paper. The on-camera flash blasts in with that harsh direct light we are used to seeing in our family albums, the black and white palette

Design Is Culture • Lutz Rudolph

2011-03-08T16:12:00.000-05:00

Lutz Rudolph, a charming, little, silver bearded man, started working as a freelance designer back in the early sixties in the former GDR. This unusual independence, most design was done inhouse by permanent employees, was as beneficial as it was hindering. While many design concepts never became real, like the pictured concept car from 1966, it offered the chance to work in total different

MUSE: A Savage Cocktail (with a Dash of Bitters, Please)

2011-03-06T10:48:00.004-05:00

Kudos all around for Massimo Salvato’s Muse, which keenly interposes the almost sepia-soaked world of earnest creativity with the LED-infused shock of the lean, mean and too clean new century that each of the two writers inhabit. We see the story unfold with the three principal characters locked in the uncomfortable embrace of creative exploitation, resignation and cynicism. Jules Mallory

part of the art

2010-10-10T17:25:00.000-04:00

part of the art, two JGP residing inside an art work by Anett Lau Some more sightings of the infamous Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi who seems to be almost anywhere at the Berlin art fair week, sneeking into art as well as into artists. part of the art fairs, a JGP claiming to be on 7th Berlin Kunstsalon, while in fact in front of a photograph by MUT showing Toni Lin Zeidler, claiming to be

the 7th. Berlin Kunstsalon

2010-10-06T12:09:00.001-04:00

movers and shakers: Edmund piper, Spunk Seipel with friend and JGP Yesterday´s opening of the 7th Berlin Kunstsalon was the start for the annual art fair craze. The Kunstsalon moved to a new location, a cozy former slaughterhouse now called a station. The opening was foremost a meeting of all and everyone who´s into the Berlin art scene, even the infamous Japanese Guerilla Paparazzi popped up. A

M FOR FAKE

2010-09-28T22:29:00.002-04:00

Marriage and Shams in Nataša Drakula’s Art “A marriage of convenience is a marriage which one needs for the convenience of papers.” Anonymous Getting married in Germany is a very elaborate affair – at least in terms of the preparation involved. Some fairly absurd steps are added to the process if one of the people getting married is a foreigner. No trace of romance. Nataša Drakula approaches

at some point I became Dirty Harry

2009-07-01T02:12:00.002-04:00

The Oracle of Wifi inside the jukebox at the placeboKatz LoungeYou know, when I woke up this morning I had a realization about myself. I was always Blondie. People always called me Blondie, ever since I was a little kid. What I realized is that at some point I became Dirty Harry. I couldn't be Blondie anymore, so I became Dirty HarryDeborah Ann “Debbie” HarryA happy B-day, Goddess of Punk

Impressions from the tease art fair

2009-04-30T15:57:00.005-04:00

Back from the tease art fair, the vivid counterpart to the Art Cologne. Again the tease took place in the Rhein Triadem, an administrative building from the thirties, right opposite to it´s bigger complement on the bank of the Rhine. One could easily spend a couple of days inside the 5000 squaremeters filled with young art. Smoking artists and barking dogs, the tease came with a gentle touch of

The Ceremony Of Innocence

2009-03-30T20:19:00.004-04:00

Helen Levitt, caught fleeting moments of surpassing lyricism, mystery and quiet drama on the streets of her native New York. A kind of imagemaking, that, as a NYT reviewer once wrote, “combine[s] intuition and intellect to forge sophisticated, lyrical compositions from commonplace events. Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held

CIRCUS MINIMUS - of big visions in shrunken markets

2009-03-27T15:57:00.004-04:00

Julia Murakami, untitled, 2009, Installation, dimensions variableEdmund Piper, the man behind two german satellite art fairs (Berliner Kunstsalon/ tease art fair, Cologne) and artist himself opens CIRCUS MINIMUS, a 100 sqm art fair with 43 exhibition booths on a scale of 1:10. Leaving it to the visitors to look at the art market literally at their feet or to catch a glimpse of a state of

Dance with Me

2009-03-25T01:22:00.001-04:00

Nouvelle Vague “Dance with me” | Bande à part by Jean-Luc Godard.Delicious Anna Karina is reason enough to post a yt flic :)Nice finding from poisonous pulchritude

Thorsten Fleisch | 26th March | Berlin | Scala 9pm

2009-03-24T03:12:00.000-04:00

Personal show by film and videomaker Thorsten Fleischfollowed by a music performance of his bandMalendeOn first sight, his films are very abstract and conceptual. Thorsten Fleisch is working directly with materiality, which can be as analogue and direct as skin impressions or crystals growing on the surface of film surface (16mm), or as digitally generic as a reciprocal math formula that creates

proud flesh • German premiere • Sun 22th • Berlin

2009-03-21T13:12:00.002-04:00

hair-e in collaboration with directors lounge present: proud flesha film by jenny graf sheppared and chiara giovandoSunday, 22 March 2009 / doors: 7pm/ screening: 8pm.Proud FleshTwo young filmmakers, Jenny Gräf Sheppard and Chiara Giovando, from Baltimore, Maryland collaborated on “Proud Flesh”, a film shot in the Badlands of South Dakota located in the American West. The film will be presented

Spring is coming

2009-03-18T22:19:00.000-04:00

Sam Spenser's Umbrella BloomPhoto by Jessica Rollandvia

The Lost Promenade

2009-03-16T02:51:00.001-04:00

Humble People Who Expect Nothing (Margate)There are some things that just don’t go together, though God knows I’ve tried. Custard and horseradish. Eczema and satin. Margate and December…Nhung Dang and Tamsin Chapman met some years ago, late one night during a pub lock-in. Tamsin admired Nhung’s shiny black umbrella. She keeps meaning to ask Nhung what happened to it. Nhung takes photographs,

couple of the moment

2009-03-14T14:29:00.001-04:00

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Non places • Kudász Gábor Arion

2009-03-12T01:10:00.005-04:00

Pension, Gyepü utca / Panzió, Gyepü Street 2005NON-PLACES, The non-place is part of the space. It’s part of the space, but we don’t live in it. It’s part of space, but it’s not a real place, it’s the transitional part ofthe space between places. It’s a kind of matrix: it’s lifeless, apparently unsubstantial space between the spaces, we live in. It’s a lifeless space, which lives it’s own life,

The Little Mermaid

2009-02-27T13:46:00.003-05:00

Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child but now she swims like a mermaid. Nadya Vessey told a little boy: "I'm a little mermaid" when he asked what happened to her legs and the idea stuck.Later she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington asking if they would help her realise a life long dream and make her a fully functional mermaid tail so she could swim.She was astounded when they agreed. She lost

Underworld Cinema: The Life and Work of J.X. Williams

2009-02-07T10:18:00.005-05:00

"Peep Show"J.X. Williams: Wrapped in an Enigma. If the filmmaker J. X. Williams didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent him..An exploitation filmmaker with a storied past, Williams is credited as director of the 1965 documentary “Peep Show” - a kind of spiritual vortex of sub rosa Americana surrounding the Kennedy assassination. After supposedly being suppressed for decades, it was

German Coziness • Deutsche Gemuetlichkeit

2009-01-22T13:22:00.002-05:00

German Gemutlichkeit, a series of photographs, developed with silver gelantine emulsion on wall papers, deals with German cosiness after WW II, when the two Germanies tried to get back to “normality” through the “Wirtschaftswunder” in the West and integration into a pretendingly international socialist world in the East. A clever combination or contradiction of different layers by Joachim

Just one spritz does the trick

2008-11-29T16:34:00.003-05:00

Understand Modern Art Breath Spray $4.99If the only thing you’ve ever seen painted is your living room, this may be the life-changing product for you! Surreal Peppermint Flavor. .25 fl. oz./ 7.5ml If the only thing you’ve ever seen painted is your living room, this may be the life-changing product for you! Surreal Peppermint Flavor.Instant Swedish Accent Breath Spray $4.99Recent scientific

Poisonous Pulchritude: The world of Julia Murakami

2008-11-21T17:47:00.010-05:00

Julia Murakami´s Anatomy of a fairy tale, miniatures in little glass cases, take a butcher at the atrocity of well known fairy tales. The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Little Mermaid retold by tiny, precious sculptures with a sinister shift. Saving grace does not exist for the slaughtered ladies in the realm of Julia Murakami. Broken beauties that will never come

contrary

2008-11-09T20:07:00.001-05:00

Edmund Piper, a true dandy of the Berlin Bohemian, on display at Ziegert part of Kontraer, curated by Alessandro Rotondotill Dec 7th

dice matrix 5x6

2008-11-06T00:22:00.001-05:00

A charming highlight at this years Berliner Kunstsalon, Ralf Schreiber´s Wuerfel Matrix 5x6, presented by Walden. Every now and then the little dices suddenly starts to dance, triggered by solar cells lying under the desk light.

Mission Obamplished

2008-11-05T00:12:00.002-05:00

In case you wonder what made a change, it was Paul Notzold, on the road for Obama… in 10 Nights, 10 Cities, 4 Statescongratsmore

Berlin art fair frenzy: Lounge, Bazaar, Salon

2008-10-28T16:42:00.004-04:00

sneak preview: Andre Werner, parol soleil, an interactive video installation will be shown as part of BAZAAR – Die Strategie des RisikosThe 5th BERLINER KUNSTSALON will continue setting up a base for fresh, young art, worth to be discovered. Thus emphasizing what made BERLINER KUNSTSALON an internationally acclaimed art project. The new venue, a former substation, located in the center of

Berlin art fair frenzy: Artville

2008-10-28T16:26:00.002-04:00

Artville, an Copenhagen based art project is the latest addition to the chain of fairs that will open tomorrow (wednesday). "The sixth Artville, international exhibition for artists, will take place at the Berlin Exhibition Tempelhof, 30. October - 2. November 2008. The venue of the Artville exhibition, a building originally built for habitation, has a unique circular shape. 9 flats on 5 floors

The 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

2008-10-07T19:52:00.003-04:00

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival , the first festival and award worldwide that is solely dedicated to films based on poetry, will open this thursday in it´s fourth edition. The biannual festival that will continue till saturday at one of Berlin´s most charming cinemas, the Babylon Mitte.The 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival will be opened with a poetry film kaleidoscope. Historical films, the best of the

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.'

2008-09-27T13:41:00.005-04:00

For his strong support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California), Newman was 19th on Richard Nixon's enemies list. Something he commented "Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?"Paul Newman, screen legend, superstar, and the man with

ABSENT MINDS / POISSAOLEVA MIELI

2008-09-15T18:57:00.002-04:00

by Renja LeinoFascination and frustration are some words to describe my feelings as a starting point to this new series of photographs. For quite a long time I have been looking at people working by their computers, watching TV, playing PlayStation games. It is almost the same, a strange expression on their face when they are inside a world of their own; faces in foreign landscape. They are often

MC TXT

2008-09-10T15:38:00.002-04:00

Interactive Freestyle RapThis is the latest project by TXTual healing, the ongoing work of Paul Notzold. Text message enabled freestyle rap. The live release was at BLVD in Manhattan. An audience text messages in the content that they want the MC’s to freestyle from. The messages are fed to the MC’s via a monitor on the stage, the audience sees the messages go up on a large display so they can

God Bless Romain Bernardie James

2008-09-08T13:21:00.003-04:00

Me As seen by M.Gtribute yes you know who you areMickey Mouse and me Picture of me by Maroussia with Andre’s artwork at Grand PalaisMaroussia reloaded God Bless Romain B James is the photoblog of Romain Bernardie James and Marion Paris, an ongoing collection of charming, whimsical and wonderful pics.Subjective Camera part. 3 Maria Wassup Guy? OK i just bought the last Guy Bourdin’s book and i

This Post Not Made In Chrome

2008-09-03T13:43:00.002-04:00

Google's EULA SucksDavid Loschiavo points to the fact that Google's Chrome Terms of Service take out a royalty-free license for Google of any content submitted by users over the internet.snippet:If you're like every other geek, you were one of the many people who downloaded Google Chrome within minutes of it's 3:00PM EST release today. There's no doubt about it -- Chrome is ridiculously faster

How to...

2008-08-25T22:31:00.002-04:00

... hack a security camera with a helium ballooneasy way to fool even the most sophisticated forms of surveillance technology.clever intervention by William Lamson via via

Ugo Mulas la scena dell´arte

2008-08-21T13:21:00.000-04:00

John Cage.New York, 1964Ugo Mulas is on display at Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Turin. The focus is on the photographer's relationship with the art scene of his time. At 1964 Biennale he meets the art critic Alan Solomon, the art dealer Leo Castelli and many other Pop Art American artists. He decides immediately to leave for New York. His first trip in 1964 is followed by other visits to the city

WHAT IS

2008-08-20T16:52:00.002-04:00

curated by Kim Donaldson, 21th of August, ScalaWhat is Australia like? There are those that are interested in sport, those that are political, those that like to travel, those that like to just sit and watch, others who don’t mind waiting and those that like to do. There are also those who are interested in popular culture, others who are into architecture and others still who are into sci-fi or

Thobias Faeldt

2008-08-08T14:48:00.003-04:00

Thobias Faeldt collects photographs and compiles them, like notes in a diary, into stories and narratives. It is never clear whether they are his own images and experiences or simple collations of found imaginery. Together they culminate in a one fictional year of a life, Year One. i heart photograph: this photo takes what looks like a snapshot and makes the viewer slow down and think about what

Gatochy's "I Understand and I Wish to Continue" Award

2008-07-31T12:53:00.003-04:00

The "I Understand and I Wish to Continue" Award, created by Mariana Pinheiro of Gatochy-fame, is a way to counter-attack Blogger's censorship of erotic blogs, by drawing attention to the fact that many of these have quality content. More and more often you can´t visit fine blogds without the ridiculous splash screen by google/blogger that states that "Some readers of this blog have contacted

this just in

2008-07-23T16:29:00.003-04:00

Madonna´s Home Destroyed By JesusSwitzerland To Be Devoured By Black Holemy inbox would be nothing without the spammers

Cities, Memory and Urban Development

2008-07-21T20:48:00.004-04:00

China in FreiburgUnder Construction by Liu Zhenchen, 2007, 9 minCity planners decide to pull down parts of Shanghai’s old town in order to regenerate the city. Every year over hundred thousand families are forced to leave their homes and moveinto buildings on the edge of city. This video is a 2 and 3 dimentional flight across the now destroyed living areas of Shanghai which shows how random and

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2008-07-18T00:23:00.000-04:00

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Mona

2008-07-17T19:22:00.000-04:00

The Real Story of the Superheroes V • Batman, the early years

2008-07-16T22:17:00.001-04:00

The day comes when you leave your home and save the worldpart of an ongoing series about The Real Story of the Superheroesvia superbomba

SING HAPPY SONGS

2008-07-14T19:18:00.004-04:00

Olive says:Hello, my dear friends. I'm very pleased you've found my blob's new address. Mike often encourages people to sing more songs, and I've found that it helps me whenever I feel sad. If you're feeling blue, sing a happy song out loud. People might think you're going round the bend, but don't let that worry you. I love singing that old favourite, Happy Days are Here Again. Happy days are

Janez Vlachy

2008-07-13T13:20:00.000-04:00

Through the camera’s lens, Janez Vlachy channels distinctive creative insight in order to capture fleeting and highly sensuous instants of time. His photographs, which have been recognized within the international art scene for over a decade (in 1988, he received the first international award of note in Luxembourg), nostalgically evoke the atmosphere of a passed age, one in which photography did

The world of Risa Sato

2008-07-10T00:28:00.000-04:00

She'll look South and he'll see WestHe'll walk North and she'll run EastBut let's stay together until we say "All the best!" One, two, three and the fourth is you Four, size : h320 w 260 d 155 /cm, year : 2008, material : resin, steel flame, acrylic, etc.place : Otemon Gakuin Kindergarten in Osakamore at Risa Sato´s homepage and at foil gallery

media matters

2008-07-08T12:14:00.001-04:00

Gary Hill Between Cinema and a Hard Place 1991 © Gary Hill; photograph TateMedia Matters is a multi-phase project designed to provide guidelines for care of time-based media works of art (e.g., video, film, audio and computer based installations). The project was created in 2003 by a consortium of curators, conservators, registrars and media technical managers from New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMOMA and

the gentle migration of the golden rays

2008-07-04T04:06:00.000-04:00

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures, that measure up to 7ft (2.1 metres) from wing-tip to wing-tip, made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters. Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold

Lilian Bourgeat

2008-07-03T11:09:00.002-04:00

Objets extraordinaires 1998-2008, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France, 2008 © P. GuenatRétroviseurs, 2007Rétroviseurs, 2007Le diner de Gulliver, 2008By blurring reference marks, Lilian Bourgeat distorts the perception of not only the objects themselves, but also the space where they are installed.Focusing on the ties between art and world, via the relationship of representation and perception,

Sally Golding: Photochemical Hallucinations

2008-06-25T11:49:00.003-04:00

Thursday, 26th of June, Directors Lounge SSally’s obsessions with film: archiving, archeology, and arcana are threaded together to form a psychedelic and sculptural cinematic Victoriana vision. Sally Golding´s triple 16 mm projection fuses photochemical experiments with live performance and references to the horror genre. Sally Golding of Brisbane based Abject Leader, comes to Berlin for this

dress in style

2008-06-25T08:11:00.001-04:00

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World Cup 2018

2008-06-18T13:56:00.004-04:00

world cup 2018, by Eytan Heller for goal2018.org.One of several shorts that are on display on the huge video billboards in Berlin that are used for public viewings of the European Football Championship.A public intervention by Directors Lounge.bigger video herevisit goal2018.org for more about the world cup 2018

Censor Bar Fun

2008-06-11T16:28:00.002-04:00

a must see click, click via

Let them eat < /Cake >

2008-06-09T12:47:00.000-04:00

Someone likes XML a bit too much. On the upside, it is well formatted and localizedkudos to tagez for the cookie

Showtime: Lorenzo Oggiano in Turin

2008-06-06T01:05:00.000-04:00

Lorenzo Oggiano, long time artist at Directors Lounge, will be for the very first time in Turin, with the Bergamo's Traffic Gallery's collaboration, a must see, tonight, June 6th, 8.30-9.30 pm | Cinema Massimo, Via Verdi 18, Turin.Since the early nineties, Lorenzo Oggiano has kept an artistic and theoretical research on biological, sensorial and cognitive mutations induced by new technologies

I am sure it can fly

2008-06-05T11:23:00.001-04:00

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The Duck of Tel Aviv

2008-06-05T08:48:00.003-04:00

To celebrate the life of Dudu Geva, Israel's most famous cartoonist (who died of a heart attack back in 2005) a giant yellow duck has been placed on top of Tel Aviv's City Hall in Rabin Square. Isreal21c writes:Before his untimely death, Geva had been tongue in cheek - or rather tongue in bill - trying to convince Tel Aviv's mayor to liven up the city through weird, wacky and subversive art

I opened the door for a lot of people, ..

2008-06-02T21:33:00.002-04:00

..and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008)One of the greatest persons ever to make music has passed away today. Bo Diddley laid the foundation for raucous rock n roll styles and sensibilities. The musician the world knows as Bo Diddley has, over the past five decades, indelibly stamped his mark on rhythm ‘n’ blues, rock ‘n’ roll and

The biggest drawing in the world

2008-06-02T13:04:00.002-04:00

W“ith the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet,” writes Swedish artist Erik Nordenankar on his website for the project, appropriately named the biggest drawing in the world. “My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.” The resulting drawing’s

The Real Story of the Superheroes IV • 1979

2008-05-30T12:58:00.000-04:00

As documented in the 1979 Hewlett High School Yearbookmore Superheroesvia suwaowa

Video Lounge Schwerin

2008-05-29T02:00:00.000-04:00

Video Art from Austria from the 1960s to the Millennium Fri 30th of MayThe Kunstverein (art association) Schwerin invites to a special night, dedicated to Austrian video art from the early pioneers like Peter Weibel, Valie Export to recent works from the 21st century. The extensive compilation is based on the Video Edition Austria and Release 01, both published by the media workshop Vienna. The

Slow Space at no.w.here lab London

2008-05-27T12:04:00.002-04:00

28th may 2008Klaus W. Eisenlohr with Steven Ballshowing: slow spaceLight Reading’s 2008 series continues with a conversation between artists Klaus W. Eisenlohr and Steven Ball. Eisenlohr’s film Slow Space (2004) will be screened during the event. Klaus W. Eisenlohr is an artist, photographer and filmmaker living in Berlin. He is currently curator of “Urban Research”, an ongoing film and video

It´s real !!!

2008-05-26T22:57:00.002-04:00

...and hungrythe real pac-man via toocheap

Homer: Best CSS ever

2008-05-23T16:35:00.008-04:00

Román Cortés made a brilliant portrait of Homer solely in CSSTo get an idea of how this one was created, click pic and visit Ned Batchelder, who posted Homer in an animated way. Simply stunning."It is not an image in the normal sense, it was instead painstakingly created using CSS. CSS (cascade style sheets) is a language to define a website visual representation, but it is not intended to create

Floating

2008-05-23T14:01:00.000-04:00

Charming video from the less is more deparment.music: John Frusciante, who is probably best known as the guitarist for the Chili Peppers.related: Flying in suburbsvia

Tonight´s the night

2008-05-22T08:51:00.000-04:00

don´t miss the Roadshow

Haven´t seen them for a while

2008-05-21T13:46:00.000-04:00

Spy vs. Spy via

Residues After Sleep

2008-05-20T13:10:00.003-04:00

by Steven FoxleySteven Foxley, known to readers of this katz under his handle aE3, set up a new page, poison-gas, featuring his wide collection of video, audio and graphical art works. Residues After Sleep, his latest video displays traces of a dream of flight & becoming. Multiple X-Rays were scratched & then scanned & set as overlays to the video content. Expand to see this beautiful, dreamlike

A Director gone wild

2008-05-19T13:36:00.002-04:00

Andreas Oehler resuscitating the legendary rooftop performance in Savile Row, January 30, 1969Andreas Oehler, long time fellow of Directors Lounge, has been with us since the very first days. As a Director, together with Trude Trunk, he presented already five movies, he joined us as part of the press squad, as a cinematic connoisseur, and always as a friend. This time we´ll meet this Jack of all

cthulhu fhtagn

2008-05-16T11:36:00.000-04:00

The resemblance is really striking. photo by shugyourelated: choose wisely

"I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun."

2008-05-13T19:24:00.002-04:00

Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008)photograph Dennis Hopper, 1966 »Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82. Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture with his his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative

X-ray drawings - roentgen etchings

2008-05-12T11:22:00.001-04:00

The roentgen etchings by Ben Kruisdijk, who often works together with Conny Kuilboer, lately mentioned hereBen says: "I first started working with roentgen photo's (X-ray photographs) while I was still a student at the academy, this was in 2004 / 2005.For me it is not of importance who's body it is, as an artist I'm more interested in the language of the picture it self, showing something that

Composition In White And Green

2008-05-09T14:25:00.002-04:00

by Diana DiriwaechterBy looking at the carefully composed landscapes, you wouldn´t suspect Diana to be a lighting and material technical director on 3D animated motion pictures such as, “Robots”, “Ice Age The Meltdown”, and soon-to-be-released “Horton Hears A Who” at Blur Studios. Don´t miss her ironic/iconic slave girl. Diana Diriwaechter

32.000 Barbies: An American Self-Portrait

2008-05-06T09:34:00.003-04:00

Barbie Dolls, 2008, 60x80"32,000 Barbies: photo-based statistical artpartial zoomSeattle-based artist Chris Jordan has a provocative and thoughtful approach to using photo-based art to underline the excesses of human consumption and other atrocities. His series, Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, uses cleverly designed huge images to convey the vastness of waste and other ridiculous

Antonio Vieira

2008-05-05T14:14:00.002-04:00

Antonio Vieira

stairway to ....

2008-04-30T11:33:00.000-04:00

Stairway by Lead Pencil Studio, Seattle, Aug. 2003via