2010/02/17
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Sergei Parajanov- Armenian master
A revolutionary of the visual arts: sublime use of color, iconographic characters, compositions and above all forceful message of cultural transgressions.
A link to one of his greatest movies: " the color of pomegranates"
2010/02/12
2010/02/11
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi mixes drawing, cartoon and graffiti that comment on current political, social or cultural issues. Over the past decade he created works drawn directly on the walls of museums and art spaces, most recently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dan Perjovschi (born 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest. Opening reception, February 1, 2008.
2010/02/04
Deja- Sidestepper
Sidestepper takes latin rhythms to a singular encounter with dub and electronic music, where drum and bass, dancehall and hip hop meet with their Latin cousins. The band unites electronic trance with caribbean trance in a timeless and collective party, they puts the 'music' into 'dance music'.
Sidestepper has a reputation as a great live band; they bring spontaneity, joy and Colombian passion, promising a big party that goes all the way from the stage to the dance floor.
2010/01/30
2010/01/27
Wall Street by Lorca
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
2010/01/20
branding for a public
"Product design final project at Central Saint Martins - Skin by Chanel. While at first glance it seems bizarre and perhaps even more low tech on the surface than you’d expect for a “future tech” post… it really sparked some playful conversations on where skincare may take us in the future. But first, here’s his concept! It plays with the idea of skincare and branding ~ looking at the skincare market and how far people go to primp their skin, “Just as we can define ourselves through the brands of clothing we wear, or the brand of mobile phone we have, we can now define ourselves by the brand of skincare product we use. If you are using skincare by Chanel, you want people to know that your skin is by Chanel, in the same way that Chanel handbags have clear branding, why shouldn’t our skin.” In his design, in addition to your cleanser, toner, lotion, you can also leave a logo impression on your skin! Yes, the type that appears when you sit in short shorts on a rattan chair for example. It fades in a few hours, but you look pretty silly until then."
I find the "branding" accessory totally superfluous and, really upsetting, disturbing and 100% poor taste. I actually think this branding "solution" would DAMAGE the brand perception. But most of people that love to display brands publically are also not what you can consider a "refined creative type". Disturbingly obscene.
2010/01/19
2010/01/13
Sapolsky on human condition and religion
Robert Maurice Sapolsky (born 1957) is an American scientist and author. He is currently professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and by courtesy, Neurosurgery, at Stanford University. In addition, he is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya.[1]
Robert Sapolsky received his B.A. in biological anthropology summa cum laude from Harvard University and subsequently attended Rockefeller University where he received his Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology working in the lab of Bruce McEwen, a world-renowned endocrinologist.
Sapolsky has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship genius grant in 1987[5], an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Klingenstein Fellowship in Neuroscience. He was also awarded the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Young Investigator of the Year Awards from the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Psychoneuro-Endocrinology, and the Biological Psychiatry Society. In 2007, he received the John P. McGovern Award for Behavioral Science, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2010/01/10
Language and madness
Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization 212 (“The Great Fear”)
If there is something in literature which does not allow itself to be reduced to the voice, to epos or to poetry, one cannot recapture it except by rigorously isolating the bond that links the play of form to the substance of graphic expression.
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology 59
There is no antagonism here between a true world and an apparent one: there is only one world, and that world is false, cruel, contradictory, misleading and seductive, deprived of meaning… such a world is the true world. We need deceit in order to conquer this reality or “truth,” that is, in order to live. The fact that deceit is necessary in order to live still has to with the terrible and problematic nature of existence… This faculty by which he rapes reality with deceit, this essentially artistic faculty in man, is something he has in common with everything that exists…
Nietzsche
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2009/12/30
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wake up - mad season
I found the mad season album in my shelf while looking for a lost object,
this is music from the past, from when i was young, cocky and fearless... time has passed.
Now I'm young, kind of nice and fearless.
Great find.
2009/12/14
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2009/12/11
Santa Sangre
One of the Masterpieces of South American cinema.
Santa Sangre is a 1989 Mexican-Italian surrealist cult film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Claudio Argento, Roberto Leoni and Jodorowsky. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
our small planet
Global warming, This debate has been made superficial by a dangerous fraction, it is now a debate about form, about the skepticism towards any tangible proof of global warming, the cynics vs the believers on science. (?!)
But in the meantime the substance of this matter, the destruction of habitats by human activity, destruction that is perceived, not only through global warming, but also the destruction of ecosystems, the obliteration of animal and plant species, and the pollution of water and air is ignored in favor of what? some skeptics? the new direction this debate has taken thanks to the skeptics is not only egotistical but extremely dangerous for life in this small planet.
2009/12/10
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2009/12/08
Barbie & Louboutin
There are superfluous products and then there are flamboyant yet cute products:
Barbie with mini designer shoes for $150!
2009/12/07
Slutty nun strikes back
The theme of the nun revisited by Lara Stone, Vogue France December 2009, by Cédric Buchet
2009/12/06
2009/12/05
terminator seed
terminator seed, originally uploaded by Maria Horn.
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Terminator Technology
There is a technology available suitably called the Terminator technology, which is designed to genetically switch off a plant's ability to germinate a second time; kill the plant after the first harvest.
What is the purpose of switching off seed germination?
Many believe it is purely a business idea by forcing farmers to buy a fresh supply of seeds each year -- many of whom are in the developing world and cannot afford to do this.
The traditional practice (tried and tested for thousands of years) of saving seeds for the next harvest comes under threat due to a US patent on this technology to prevent 'unauthorized seed-saving' by farmers. The patent gives EXCLUSIVE ownership to ONE corporation on the genetic code of THOUSANDS of seeds.
Supporters of the terminator, or suicide, technology believe that the idea of it is for the protection of corporations from unscrupulous farmers (yeah, right). Control of seed germination helps prevent growers from pirating their technology. If crops remain fertile, there is a chance that farmers could use any saved transgenic seed from a previous season. This would result in poorer profits for companies.
This then becomes a battle over a farmer's (traditional) right and a the multinational corporation's right.
This issue is the most immoral abuse of corporate power, and affects nations regardless of borders, please inform yourself about it.
What is the terminator seed?,
BBC info,
intrerview on corporate corruption
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Aurel Schmidt
Love her work, but i have to admit, the whole 'in crowd Olivier Zahm pet girl ' makes seeing her face (or butt) in celebrity blogs a shallow experience.
Let her work speak for her.
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- MARIA H
- Compilation of aesthetic manifestations beyond compliance, bring us emancipation.