Friday, July 31, 2009
Inspiration for today......
Children Full of Life, part 1. (watch the rest: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. Total time: ~40 minutes)
This is an incredible documentary about a teacher, Mr. Kanamori, who encourages his 4th grade students to share their feelings and teaches them that their goal in life is to be happy. Very touching, and likely to make you tear up (especially part 4).
Thursday, July 30, 2009
True champions of life = art. Merci
"They are, rather than being someone, doing something."
Merce Cunningham
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Andres Amador... nice work!
Venice Biennale ART
Venice Biennale: Adrian Searle tours the highlights
A dead man in a pool and a hall of broken mirrors ...
the Guardian's art critic
inspects the international
star turns at the
53rd Venice Biennale
Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Dirk Auer skates down a 860 meter roller coaster
Dirk Auer skates down 860 metre roller coaster in just 60 seconds... jump more watch it in action!
"An adrenaline junkie has taken in-line skating to new heights and set a new world record after racing down a roller coaster at speeds of 56mph.
Dirk Auer decided to go where no sane man or woman had gone before and skated down an 860 metre track in just over a minute.
Wearing specially designed in-line skates, the German made the attempt on the Mammoth roller coaster at the Trips Drill theme park in Stuttgart...
"The roller caster is wooden and so unlike rides made from iron and steel there was always a chance of the odd nail or screw that would not be entirely flat.
If the skates were to catch a stray nail then I could have fallen and I would almost certainly have died. " 36-year-old Dirk Auer said.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Sad news..
"Yellow Submarine" art director dies
STUTTGART, Germany — Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine," has died, his former employer said. He was 75.
Edelmann died Tuesday afternoon in a Stuttgart hospital, according to the city's State Academy of Art and Design, where he had worked as a professor until 1999. No cause of death was given.
Born in Aussig in the former Czechoslovakia in 1934, Edelmann studied at the Duesseldorf Art Academy and became a freelance graphic designer in 1958.
In addition to his work on "Yellow Submarine," Edelmann designed many book covers, including the first German edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings."
In 1989, he won a competition to design the mascot of Seville's Expo '92 world fair, beating 23 other entries with his illustration of a pudgy bird with a rainbow plume and conical beak named Curro.
There was no immediate word on survivors or funeral arrangements.
Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Th Knowledge Series... a sample
Photography, found objects (old books), the golden ratio
language, values... a series of 10 compositions.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Meret Oppenheim @ MoMA
Meret Oppenheim. Object. 1936. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon, cup 4 3/8” (10.9 cm) in diameter; saucer 9 3/8” (23.7 cm) in diameter; spoon 8” (20.2 cm) long, overall height 2 7/8” (7.3 cm). Purchase. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Pro Litteris, Zurich
Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on the power of the imagination to transform the everyday. Beginning in the early 1930s, the production of elliptically erotic, sexually charged objects and sculptures became central to their concerns. This exhibition features some of the most notorious works, including Salvador DalÃ’s bread-and-inkwell-crownedRetrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) and Meret Oppenheim’s fur-lined teacup (1936).
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection
June 24, 2009–January 4, 2010 at MoMA
Friday, July 3, 2009
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