vrijdag 30 september 2011
donderdag 29 september 2011
ANONYMOUS: A SHARED IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF A GLOBAL NETWORKED SOCIETY.
On September 29th, 2011 on the occasion of the festival 'TodaysArt 2011', CuratingYouTube will open the online exhibition „Anonymous: Shared Identity in the era of a global networked Society' at the Speed show 'Landscape Deconstructing Social Networks and Web 2.0'.
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cument on A RT
"i think art is absolutely inseparable from truth. any sort of concealments that you're putting up about your life injure you as an artist just as they injure you as a person." christopher isherwood
woensdag 28 september 2011
dinsdag 27 september 2011
begging 2.0
For Nemanja Petrovic his risk-taking entrepreneurial skills paid off. The street beggar from Subotica got so fed up with being ignored by passers-by and hurried commuters he was tempted to throw the hat in. As an act of protest the 42-year-old tossed his cap and shoes down on the street with a hand-written sign saying 'Invisible Beggar' while he busied himself elsewhere and let off some steam. Once he had calmed down the cheeky beggar went back to his gear and discovered he had got far more than he had bargained for: ‘When I returned I was astonished to find a crowd and my cap was full of money,’ he explained. ‘Now I just put down the sign, a pair of shoes as a prop and wait for the donations to roll in while I have a coffee over the road,’ he added. Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/876429-beggar-making-more-money-by-feigning-invisibility#ixzz1ZAJsCnZG
maandag 26 september 2011
Karl Lagerfeld is an Incoherent Idiot, Deconstructing 8 of his Nonsensical Tweets
Karl Lagerfeld is one of those figures who in a previous lifetime would have been considered the quintessential village idiot. Everything he says, everything he does stinks of idiotic mockery.
Here is my take on 8 of his incoherent tweets:
Karl: Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
Michael: Luxury is a big lie used to separate people from each other. Luxury is used to create a class structure in which the poor cannot afford access to the lives of the rich. Luxury is the mockery of the people, to live a luxurious life while people starve, how do you like that Karl?
Karl: With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
Michael: Expensive fashion is an excuse to turn women into zombie-like consumers of images that they cannot afford. Expensive fashion is a fraudulent industry, which takes the labor of the people for as cheaply as possible and then it creates an imaginary value in the hands of the rich. What is it like Karl? What is it like wearing a $15,000 dress in a village where $15,000 can feed the whole village for a year?
Karl: Nonchalance in couture is very important, because couture without nonchalance is just the drag queen attitude of women of an era past.
Michael: Nonchalance is the excuse that people use for avoiding action against injustice. Nonchalance is avoiding brutal facts of inequality. Nonchalance is the feeling that the upper class have nurtured and harvested in order to avoid confronting the inherent selfishness of their actions. Can a hungry child be nonchalant to food and hunger? Can a poor woman in Detroit dying because she cannot afford a basic surgery be nonchalant? How about that Karl?
Karl: Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
Michael: What is so pleasant about a generation of apolitical women spending billions trying to attain a reality that does not exist? What is so pleasant Karl about deceiving the people with armies of fashion writers and magazines? What is so pleasant about watching people starve while shopping for an $800 scarf?
Karl: Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue.”
Michael: Fashion is not what keeps you designing Karl, it is money. It is your hunger for money and accumulation. It is your diseased psychology, it is your sodden instincts. It is not fashion and art that keep you going, it is the love for money and power and wealth and that hoarding of the people’s resources. How about that Karl?
Karl: I have no idea of the future — never, ever. That’s what I like about fashion. It’s paradise now.
Michael: The future is the revolution Karl. The future is the people’s future. The future is when we grow conscious and debunk your images and vain super model idols. The future is when the people shut the advertised nonsense up. Of course you have no idea about the future, because if you think about it for a second, you’d realize that you’re complicit in the destruction of women’s psychology day after day. How about that Karl?
Karl: I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
Michael: That is because you’re a neocolonialist, of the image type. That is because you spend your days trying to find ways to push your rotting into new markets. You are not a tourist Karl, because you do not believe in culture, because you have spend your entire life erasing the cultures of the world and replacing them with high consumption habits. How about that Karl?
Karl: My greatest problem in life is my indifference to the outside world.
Michael: That is because you’re weak Karl. That is because you have betrayed the people and have become obsessed with money and profits. That is because you are nothing but a profiteer with no human vision. That is because you are nothing but a capitalist trying to accumulate mountains of capital. Your indifference to the outside world is a byproduct of your stale, rotting, political consciousness. How about that Karl?
Michael Schaefer via
Here is my take on 8 of his incoherent tweets:
Karl: Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
Michael: Luxury is a big lie used to separate people from each other. Luxury is used to create a class structure in which the poor cannot afford access to the lives of the rich. Luxury is the mockery of the people, to live a luxurious life while people starve, how do you like that Karl?
Karl: With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
Michael: Expensive fashion is an excuse to turn women into zombie-like consumers of images that they cannot afford. Expensive fashion is a fraudulent industry, which takes the labor of the people for as cheaply as possible and then it creates an imaginary value in the hands of the rich. What is it like Karl? What is it like wearing a $15,000 dress in a village where $15,000 can feed the whole village for a year?
Karl: Nonchalance in couture is very important, because couture without nonchalance is just the drag queen attitude of women of an era past.
Michael: Nonchalance is the excuse that people use for avoiding action against injustice. Nonchalance is avoiding brutal facts of inequality. Nonchalance is the feeling that the upper class have nurtured and harvested in order to avoid confronting the inherent selfishness of their actions. Can a hungry child be nonchalant to food and hunger? Can a poor woman in Detroit dying because she cannot afford a basic surgery be nonchalant? How about that Karl?
Karl: Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
Michael: What is so pleasant about a generation of apolitical women spending billions trying to attain a reality that does not exist? What is so pleasant Karl about deceiving the people with armies of fashion writers and magazines? What is so pleasant about watching people starve while shopping for an $800 scarf?
Karl: Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue.”
Michael: Fashion is not what keeps you designing Karl, it is money. It is your hunger for money and accumulation. It is your diseased psychology, it is your sodden instincts. It is not fashion and art that keep you going, it is the love for money and power and wealth and that hoarding of the people’s resources. How about that Karl?
Karl: I have no idea of the future — never, ever. That’s what I like about fashion. It’s paradise now.
Michael: The future is the revolution Karl. The future is the people’s future. The future is when we grow conscious and debunk your images and vain super model idols. The future is when the people shut the advertised nonsense up. Of course you have no idea about the future, because if you think about it for a second, you’d realize that you’re complicit in the destruction of women’s psychology day after day. How about that Karl?
Karl: I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
Michael: That is because you’re a neocolonialist, of the image type. That is because you spend your days trying to find ways to push your rotting into new markets. You are not a tourist Karl, because you do not believe in culture, because you have spend your entire life erasing the cultures of the world and replacing them with high consumption habits. How about that Karl?
Karl: My greatest problem in life is my indifference to the outside world.
Michael: That is because you’re weak Karl. That is because you have betrayed the people and have become obsessed with money and profits. That is because you are nothing but a profiteer with no human vision. That is because you are nothing but a capitalist trying to accumulate mountains of capital. Your indifference to the outside world is a byproduct of your stale, rotting, political consciousness. How about that Karl?
Michael Schaefer via
God Save Putin
God save the noble Tsar!
Long may he live, in pow’r,
In happiness,
In peace to reign!
Dread of his enemies,
Faith’s sure defender,
God save the Tsar!
–”God Save the Tsar,” Vasily Zhukovsky, 1833
here
zondag 25 september 2011
ballerina on a boat
With its minimalist lines and intricate play of perspectives, director Lev Atamanov’s Ballerina on a Boat is a lovely exercise in storytelling through grace and simplicity.
via
zaterdag 24 september 2011
vrijdag 23 september 2011
donderdag 22 september 2011
woensdag 21 september 2011
Tactical Screenings from Tahrir Revolutionary Archives
International public seminar and evening screening program on the recent outbursts of social protest and their media strategies, hosted by De Balie, centre for culture and politics in Amsterdam, Friday September 30, 2011. MORE HERE
state-of-the-internet
The Internet is a strange, huge beast. It is getting bigger, faster and more mobile each day. Ferocious social networks fight each other to be on top and gain more of our attention and personal information. An entire economy is generated from our browsing habits. This is the face of the Internet now.
HERE
dinsdag 20 september 2011
Assignment work : news meme
Assignment at dgtIDUM4: make a 1 min video with a unstable chair in it.I took it far out and chose to make a news-meme of the latest news that two billionaires, Alexander Lebedev and Sergei Polonsky, were in a fist fight on a Russian talk show discussing the topic of the financial crisis.there is also some chairs inflicted here is the original Comments?
Darwinian evolution of computers and other inorganic machines
One of the most important discoveries of the last 200 years was Darwin’s theory of evolution. You are almost certainly educated in the ways and whys and wherefores of evolution, but here’s a quick recap: through multiple generations of a species, there is a process which ensures the survival of the fittest and the demise of the weakest. At its most basic, this process whittles out bad DNA mutations and embraces the good — but extrapolated out through billions of years, and it is the reason that girls prefer taller boys, and why we instinctively revere the leaders and generals of our society.
MORE HERE
maandag 19 september 2011
readin $toned throughtt the art of joe coleman
havin a spliff with this is his "joe coleman - the book of joe" a very good book i just bought at american bookstore.made some scans, drawings have funny colours and some weird-ass text toit.wild-bea$t-out$$$iderart.
"...the most vulgar place i ever visited. and everyone of the half-naked trolltops who come out upon the stage to show their legs and expose their nakedness, ought to be horse-whipped and kept on bread and water till they are willing to work again a decent livelihood."
also HERE
zondag 18 september 2011
MTVS Broadcasting-Georgian Modernism
Performance of my Georgian friend Lado Kalmar KunstMuseum. (Sweden)
performance by Lado Darakhvelidze & Zurab Rtveliashvili17.09.2011
zaterdag 17 september 2011
LIFE NEUTRAL
vrijdag 16 september 2011
donderdag 15 september 2011
woensdag 14 september 2011
'That Was My Idea': Group Brainstorming Settings and Fixation
When people, groups, or organizations are looking for a fresh perspective on a project, they often turn to a brainstorming exercise to get those juices flowing. An upcoming study from Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that this may not be the best route to take to generate unique and varied ideas.MORE here
Why We Crave Creativity but Reject Creative Ideas
ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2011) — Most people view creativity as an asset -- until they come across a creative idea. That's because creativity not only reveals new perspectives; it promotes a sense of uncertainty.
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Come and be an Israeli! - The Economist
IF HE needs a refuge, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi might consider the Israeli town of Netanya. An Israeli family of Libyan origin has recently surfaced saying they are the colonel’s relatives and that he should think of making aliyah (the Jewish voyage of return) and claim Israeli citizenship as any Jew may do under Israeli law. Gita Boaron told Israeli television she shares a great-grandmother with the colonel. “She fled her Jewish husband for a Muslim sheikh,” she says. “Her daughter was the colonel’s mother, making him Jewish under rabbinic law.”
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dinsdag 13 september 2011
BIRD TABLE - Harmen De Hoop
maandag 12 september 2011
zondag 11 september 2011
zaterdag 10 september 2011
vrijdag 9 september 2011
Adaptive Camouflage Cloak for Combat Vehicles - BAE
Review and video HERE
woensdag 7 september 2011
dinsdag 6 september 2011
Banksy vs. Robbo
maandag 5 september 2011
A warning to students of all ages - Raoul Vaneigem
The author of The Revolution of Everyday Life tackles the issue of education under bourgeois society and how it must be overcome.
A Warning to Students of All Ages.The school, the family, the factory, the barracks, and, by proxy, the hospital and the prison, have been the inevitable passages by which commodity society has bent to its profit the destiny of the so-called "human" being.MORE
zondag 4 september 2011
ocolis art residence ,maramures
so thas a real horinca distillery horinca two times destilled as u can see the 2 tanks and 2 fires burnin. they have artists places a distllery man & animals in one place ... :)))the name of the village is ocolís translated that means "workaround" or even walk around ..
thas when they sell HORINCA on the road
Germans have their Schnapps, French have Eaux-de-vie, and the people of Maramures, in the northwestern part of Romania, have horinca ~ a traditional double-distilled plum brandy.
It is a well-respected tradition in this part of the country to welcome travelers and guests with homemade breads and a small glass of horinca.
In early September, fruit and vegetable markets all over Romania are stocked with overripe plums. The fruits are then crushed in large oak barrels and left to ferment until the first snowfall. By then the plums are turned into a thick, crusty paste with brown sludge at the bottom, perfect for distilling.
The first few drops of liquor will be very bitter and strong (around 94 percent alcohol.) The real art of horinca making lies in knowing how much of this initial output to be blended with the rest to achieve the desired taste and strength. On average, horinca from Maramures has around 50 percent alcohol and is often double distilled for purity.
As you go southwards in Transylvania, the flammable character of palinca decreases, while a more fruity taste of plums gains expression. To test horinca for its ingredients and taste, Maramures people rub a few drops of it between their palms. The result should be a bouquet resembling honey. When poured into shot glasses, pure horinca contains minuscule bubbles, referred to by locals as "pearls."
zaterdag 3 september 2011
vrijdag 2 september 2011
donderdag 1 september 2011
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