Friday, June 18, 2010
Joyriders
Joyriding is the act of stealing a car, rallying it under the nose of the authorities, and then abandoning it. Dublin-native Ross McDonnell documented the lives of these Joyriders: Irish youth living in the hollowed-out slum known as Ballymun. The images capture the wreckless abandon of the working class youths amidst burning cars, police sirens, and drug abuse.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
NY films
The following films take place all over New York: Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn and so forth. They are unique films, each with its own style and sensibility, that work together to form a rare perspective about city life. Sending NY flavor out to wherever you may call home.
Harpo's Juke Joint | MySpace Video
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
Quote by
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Harpo's Juke Joint | MySpace Video
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
Quote by
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Scheneiderman
Event: Opening for the Ellen Schneiderman show
Venue: Dutch Kills Gallery
Date/Time: Saturday June 12th 6 – 9pm
Address: 37-24 24th Street, Suite 402, Long Island City 11101
Address: 37-24 24th Street, Suite 402, Long Island City 11101
Price: Free
The show itself runs from June 12th through July 4th
Description: Her mixed media works are influenced by systems that categorize species and specimens, macro and microbiological forms, and her own tendencies to organize, record, and contain. In her paintings, nested rectangles of cut paper house globs of dried paint and create imperfect grids. Inked patterns are covered by poured acyclic mediums to become new images based on actions of chance. Chunks of paint and mixed color from her palette, often from past paintings (failed or realized), become collected sediment. Entangled painterly gestures are obstructed and revealed by dovetailed shapes. These involved processes and meticulous constructions are created with a deep consideration for the painting’s physical surface and materiality.
Whitey Flagg
climate/gallery
37-24 24th Street, Suite 406
Long Island City, NY 11101
718.784.2737
Familiar Strangers
Yoskay Yamamoto "Intimate Strangers" from Jeremy Asher Lynch on Vimeo.
Yoskay Yamamoto is an up and coming artist from Japan who does some amazing sculpture work and acrylic paintings. He is kicking off his third solo show entitled “Familiar Strangers” on June 12th in L.A.
Yoskay Yamamoto is an up and coming artist from Japan who does some amazing sculpture work and acrylic paintings. He is kicking off his third solo show entitled “Familiar Strangers” on June 12th in L.A.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Sacrifice
“Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.”
Quote by
GEORGES BATAILLE
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Many Worlds
The principles of quantum mechanics, the study of energy and matter on the subatomic scales, are difficult for the human mind to understand. We are accustomed to reasoning the world on a scale where classical physics is an adequate approximation. But quantum physicists deal with nature in a counter-intuitive way; taking it as absurd as it is, and being concerned with multiple realities. I think I know what they’re talking about, because I have seen glimpses of parallel universes, within the ordinary, stretching my concepts of time and space.
A hill with a hole. "Paper architecture" by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin from the book Brodsky & Utkin: The Complete Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
The backward world
Recently in Shanghai, I saw many people walking backwards on the street and in the parks. As it turns out, they were following the footsteps of a mythic Chinese immortal, who could do it faster than the eye could see. In China, in addition to healthy exercise, walking backwards is also considered akin to a karmic reverse, allowing the walker to correct mistakes and sins of the past. But what is the world like in reverse?
All the time in the world
The weekend never ends in Berlin. There is no financial or social pressure to practice the everyday, so the outgoing Berliners work together to make the city more enjoyable, distorting time and typical etiquettes. In Berlin, a night out can stretch over days, weeks, and even years. As quantum physicists would say, probability is all we ever know about when it will come to an end.
Dream world
Last year, I read The Book of Scotlands, in which Nick Currie aka Momus uses negative space, or Ma in Japanese culture, to discover what his native country of Scotland could become through writing about everything except the place itself. Like the surrealists – or Soviet “Paper Architects” ignoring the boundaries of possibility and gravity in their 1980s designs – Momus recognizes the omnipotence of the imagined. “Every lie creates a parallel world; the world in which it is true,” he says.
The text was published as part of physics studies for the Science Poems book.
Written by
JENNA SUTELA
A hill with a hole. "Paper architecture" by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin from the book Brodsky & Utkin: The Complete Works (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
The backward world
Recently in Shanghai, I saw many people walking backwards on the street and in the parks. As it turns out, they were following the footsteps of a mythic Chinese immortal, who could do it faster than the eye could see. In China, in addition to healthy exercise, walking backwards is also considered akin to a karmic reverse, allowing the walker to correct mistakes and sins of the past. But what is the world like in reverse?
All the time in the world
The weekend never ends in Berlin. There is no financial or social pressure to practice the everyday, so the outgoing Berliners work together to make the city more enjoyable, distorting time and typical etiquettes. In Berlin, a night out can stretch over days, weeks, and even years. As quantum physicists would say, probability is all we ever know about when it will come to an end.
Dream world
Last year, I read The Book of Scotlands, in which Nick Currie aka Momus uses negative space, or Ma in Japanese culture, to discover what his native country of Scotland could become through writing about everything except the place itself. Like the surrealists – or Soviet “Paper Architects” ignoring the boundaries of possibility and gravity in their 1980s designs – Momus recognizes the omnipotence of the imagined. “Every lie creates a parallel world; the world in which it is true,” he says.
The text was published as part of physics studies for the Science Poems book.
Written by
JENNA SUTELA
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
'Spiderwoman'
Louise Bourgeois died yesterday at 98 after seven decades as an artist. Ms. Bourgeois did not find the recognition she deserved until well into her 70's. When you find yourself giving in to that wasteful self-doubt, remember Louise Bourgeois. She still worked right up until the day before she was hospitalized. A true maverick and inspiration. R.I.P
"Louise Bourgeois shared a set of repeated themes centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world."
Quote from
NEW YORK TIMES
Jeks Viihde
'Jaakko Eino Kalevi is a real person. His search for food, clothing, shelter and love is real too. Only the casually intense manner of a searcher is unreal. Defining the real Jaakko Eino Kalevi is like counting four winds ... but seeing none. The awesome geographical scope of search in terms of miles, months, moods, moments and memories adds up to a staggering set of statistics that are hard to believe ... but none the less valid and real as the search and the searcher. Ironically there is no way to timetable that exact explosion and spark igniting the wildfire quest of Jaakko Eino Kalevi, a Jyväskylä Cat born to be a musical renegade who breathes and breeds the sound of the world ... not the sound of a town. This search caught fire in his soul somewhere between the moments his mother, Anna-Maija Savolainen, gave birth to her only son and that unknown moment when Jaakko Eino Kalevi, the manchild, took that first step out of the home and bolted into the wilderness where he suddenly stood all alone ... naked, hungry, unsheltered and unloved. And so it began, The search. The search born of need. This album is the words and music of Jaakko Eino Kalevi in the search of food, clothing, shelter and love.'
Written by
ROKKOTAJAN MARKA
Extracted from
DIOGENES
Friday, May 28, 2010
Noir
The following photography is taken with a Holga camera on documented cities like Vienna, Hamburg, Venice and Prague giving each picture a haunting vibe. Beautiful.
"You mustn't be afraid of the dark. Night is Purer then day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day take on a new deeper meaning."
Photography by
LUCIA FISCHER
Quote extract from
'DAWN' by ELIE WEISEL
"You mustn't be afraid of the dark. Night is Purer then day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day take on a new deeper meaning."
Photography by
LUCIA FISCHER
Quote extract from
'DAWN' by ELIE WEISEL
Eggshell Art
Franc Grom, a Slovenian artist, makes these amazing designs by drilling holes into egg shells. He has made over 300 so far; sometimes it takes him months to finish a single piece.
Soviet Hobbits
English Russia posted illustrations from the first soviet edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit, accompanied by three videos of a 70's low budget telefilm/play broadcasted to entertain Soviet children. The result is truly hilarious, and yet touching. Gollum is a must-see!
Russian Lord of the Rings
Extract from
ENGLISH RUSSIA
Monday, May 24, 2010
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