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Saturday, 21 February 2009

Amsterdam,Anneke Wilbrink,Danielle Vidal and Roger Cosme Esteve,Gertrud D,Colette Curfs,Chris Berens,Frank Koolen,Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt

Today the whole mighty sun , graced us with a gorgeous sunshine afternoon.
Amsterdam was as usual literally filled with people from the four corners of the planet , while walking specially in the center and more popular areas of the city , i could listen to all sorts of different dialects.

Anneke Wilbrink ( Detail )

The first stop was at Ayacs young art gallery , in exhibition were the paintings of Anneke Wilbrink , absolute marvelous paintings , they look like to have a architectural edge , they are complex at the first glimpse , when you look closer you will really sense the beauty of the detailing , its like shadows of a lost city from where are growing all these exotic and sensual never seen flowers.

Its a clear invitation to come close and get inside abstract and at the same time nature.

Continuing of my saturday art exploration , there were a few more interesting exhibitions still to find.

Danielle Vidal & Roger Cosme Esteve Galerie Witteveen

Gertrud D Gertrud D Galleries

Colette Curfs Art Singel 100

Chris Berens Jaski Gallery

Frank Koolen W139

The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo

" A Semiconductor " film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt shot at the NASA Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley, California, USA

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

Watch | A Semiconductor

Random pics from today.

Friday, 20 February 2009

Solitary Bench , Soundtrack

Solitary Bench by Teatro de Ciegos para Sordos

Would you believe that i found this picture because of Corto Maltese ?
There was i looking at a picture of a lonely bench , a struck of luck i thought , sometimes i find myself wondering around Amsterdam looking for empty spaces or just lonely things , i find them so attractive , its like they have a live of their own , outside our perception , they are so mysterious and i so badly want to enter that outer ring and drown on that imaginative and complex possibility.
Marta says she's not a photographer , i have to disagree , if u can transform something so vulgar , like a lonely bench in a empty park in such a strong statement , sometimes we all experience what is like to be a empty lonely bench , waiting for someone to seat and feel that its not only a empty bench after all , its full of live waiting to be understood.

Its not only Photography , it's art in is quintessential and honest .

More wonderfull pictures from Marta Here

" Affection is a shy flower that takes time to blossom " Jane Austen

Soundtrack for a Solitary Bench

Mp3 | Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker - hymn to the idea of night
Mp3 | Eluvium - I will not forget
Mp3 | Fennesz - The Dead Perfume For Winter
Mp3 | Helios - Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky
Mp3 | Jacaszek - Orszula
Mp3 | Julian Neto - VI (Featuring Keith Kenniff)
Mp3 | Lawrence English - Waves Sheer Light
Mp3 | Lost In Hildurness - growth
Mp3 | Pan American - Are You Ready
Mp3 | Set Fire to Flames - This Thing Between Us
Mp3 | The Beautiful Schizophonic - Music For Lonely People
Mp3 | The Dead Texan - Beatrice, Part Two

Download full Solitary Bench Soundtrack

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Let's Lounge,Daft Punk,Mary and Max,Kap Bambino,Patti Smith,World Press Photo,Planet Orange,Artderailed

Watch | Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland - "Aer Obama"

{Mary and Max} is unique. A claymation animation by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet), it tells the simple story of a 20-year pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, and lives an isolated life in New York City. It is very much a triumph of emotion, insight, and eccentricity—a complete delight.Animation's ability to capture the intricate complexity of life has never been on display in as absorbing fashion as with the storytelling of this Australian filmmaker, who truly makes you forget what you are watching.Sundance

Watch | Mary and Max

Directed by Anthony Dickenson ,produced by Pulse Films,(c) and (p) 2009 Because Music.

Watch | Kap Bambino - Red Sign

Eleven years in the making, Patti Smith: Dream of Life is a unique and intimate portrait of the renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Patti Smith s music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw, and original.
Photographer- director Steven Sebring creates a beautiful collage of images, memories and performances illuminating the complexities and capturing the essence of this distinctive, legendary icon. The film follows Patti Smith s punk-icon roots in the 70s through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Smith tells the story of her early days in New York City, the people that we dearest to her (her late husband Fred Sonic Smith, Allen Ginsburg, Robert Mapplethorpe, and others), her family, and the political causes for which she so deeply struggled.
Through beautiful cinematography, (both black and white, and color), Sebring captures the essence nature of this vital and relevant American artist. Amazon

Watch | Patti Smith: Dream of Life

The international jury of the 52nd annual World Press Photo Contest selected a black and white image of American photographer Anthony Suau as World Press Foto of 2008

Video by Pavlov Medialab .

Watch | Planet Orange - Drip Drop Dripping

Artderailed

Monday, 16 February 2009

Audiopleasures Mixtape,Surface Trailer ,Objects of Sound,Coraline, Broadcast, RedesignMe,1000 Journals, Yummy, Simian Mobile Disco

Silo-1 creative studio is a multidisciplinary visual production collective based in Istanbul. With our creative content we apply traditional and experimental production methods to commercials and our collective works. Silo-1

Watch | Surface Trailer

design by : johanna spath + johannes tsopanides

objects of sound is an interactive concept that deals with the creation of individualised loudspeakers with help of 3d printing techniques. to give shape to the speakers the userdata of online radio stations is taken to parametrically translate information into threedimensional objects that resemble a personal music taste in an abstract way. tags and a 10second frequency spectrum of the 33 favorite songs are translated into shapegiving adjectives and form the body of the speaker. a regular loudspeaker can be screwed into this object and so makes the objects of sound to be an innovative and highly individualised product with affordable technique and a forward looking concept. to demonstrate the concept we show 3 different possible expamples for metal, pop and ambient orientated music.
Designboom

From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Based on the award-winning childrens book by Neil Gaiman.
A fairytale nightmare handmade in 3D , Featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman and Ian McShane. Coraline

Watch | Coraline Web Trailer HD

Broadcast style is a mixture of electronic sounds and Keenan's 1960s-influenced vocals. It is heavily influenced by the 1960s American psychedelic group The United States of America, using many of the same electronic effects. It is also reminiscent of Stereolab. However, despite the similar musical pedigree, Broadcast's music often has a darker, edgier sound - with amorphous samples and analogue dissonance giving it a retro-futuristic sci-fi edge.

Watch | Broadcast - The book lovers

RedesignMe is a great Dutch company focusing on open innovation and user co-design, It was founded by designer Maxim Schram who was frustrated that he had some great ideas how to improve existing products, but had not opportunity to get companies listen to his ideas.

So he started his own web site posting his ideas for improvements – and inviting others to do the same.

His company, RedesignMe, aims to improve the products and services around us by collectively rethinking bad products into better products and good ideas into great ideas. The offering is called Design Critique. Maxim even came up with a simple toolkit so that users are able to quickly capture ideas. Actually it is not more than a simple, easy to use drawing tool that allows you to draw on a photo of a product. But is a great help to really express what you are going to say. Mass Customization & Open Innovation News

The 1000 Journals Project is an ongoing collaborative experiment attempting to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels. The goal is to provide a method for interaction and shared creativity among friends and strangers.

How it Works:
Those who find the journals add something to them. A story, drawing, photograph, anything really. Then they pass the journal along, to a friend or stranger, and the adventure continues.

Unfortunately, you've got a better chance of winning the lottery, then of getting a hold of a journal. That's the problem when there are only 1000 of them. Now, you're best bet is to check out 1001 Journals where you can sign up for a journal, or launch your own traveling, location, or personal journals.

You can also check out the new book, which contains entries from journals around the world. It looks just like a journal, has these crazy stitched pages inside. 1000 Journals

Watch | 1000 Journals Trailer

Some cool belt fashion Yummy Industries

Simian Mobile Disco Live Visual Performance , Directed by Kate Moross & Alex Sushon.

Watch | Simian Mobile Disco - Synthesise

Sunday, 15 February 2009

Contemporary art in the XXth Century,The Hague,Claude Monet,Tobias Rehberger, Mondriaan, Kandinsky, Constant, Anselm Kiefer,Robert Zandvliet,Ossip

This afternoon i was in The Hague , Gemente Museum has still in exhibition a impressive collection of contemporary art in the XXth Century.

3 Staggering floors of art from artist like Mesdag, Toorop, Van Doesburg, Picasso, Constant, Mondriaan, Lewitt, Merz, Lüpertz, Baselitz.

Where some pics i took , from what i liked the most.

" Wisteria " - Claude Monet

" Infection 8XWI " - Tobias Rehberger

" Painting Nr 4 " - Piet Mondriaan

" Unbenannte Improvisation " - Wassily Kandinsky

" Vague Terrein " - Constant

" Design for a Gypsy Camp " - Constant

" Wege der Weltweisheit V " - Anselm Kiefer

" Untitled " - Robert Zandvliet

On the musem was also a a replica of Dutch Artits Ossip own studio .

Ossip uses old photographs taken from medical books or faded newspapers and magazines, often dating back to the early twentieth century. He is interested in the images themselves, not their context. The pictures are astonishing, partly because they often show people with physical abnormalities and partly (as when they show classic beauties of the past) because they are removed from their original historical context. Ossip enlarges these isolated images and manipulates them to place them in today’s world. The original image is still there but its meaning is changed. He restores three-dimensionality by stretching strings or wire around it or adding animal bones or fragments of cloth. In this way, emphases are imposed and powerful images are created. Ossip’s procedure conjures up a completely different world, in which viewers are free to endow the new images with whatever significance they choose. Ossip works by association; the texts he places on the works may bear some relationship to them, but then again they may not. His unorthodox working methods are not based on any ideology or art historical style. He aims to avoid any kind of accompanying rhetoric, believing that art should be left to speak for itself. The resulting work is intriguing, often oppressive, challenging and thoroughly thought-provoking.