What is it with blonde chicks and their pants? March 31, 2006
Can’t you keep your panties on? Come here and let me help you …
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My Home is my Shell
No matter where Mr Crab goes - he always is at home. We also carry often a lot of baggage with us, but sometimes our minds won’t rest, feel safe or at home - no matter where we are. Maybe it’s time to work on that mental shell and get rid of it. A human can survive in all ‘nakedness’ - Mr Crab can’t. It’s our advantage - let’s use it to live without fear and burden.
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - The Creation of Adam 1511
Click me - I am a GodUp.
Oh well, this must be one the world’s most famous paintings and a real neck breaker in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Michelangelo was a genius - no doubt about it.
But he also was a maniac and a great craftsman. He worked in dangerous conditions without a ’safety net’ and modern lighting for days and nights on these great frescos. He spent over four years working in very hard conditions. I am not sure many modern artists would dedicate themselves for such a long period?
Make sure to check out this Wikipedia entry about all paintings by Mr Genius for the Sistine Chapel.
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Your Backup on DVD - do you really think it will last forever?
I always find it highly amusing when friends and client proudly show me their backup. After a solid decade of data loss most people finally understand the bare necessity of making backups. But still they are not ’safe’. DVDs themselves are a terrible backup media: they easily scratch, bright sunlight is bad for them and sometimes the data can’t be read in all DVD drives. Most of all they won’t last forever: manufacturer promise sometimes ten year or more. But try to complain about data loss in ten years to TDK or Sony. You must have done something wrong Sir!
And who knows if we will have DVD drives in ten years anyway? The floppy disk died a slow death, but I guess DVDs and CD-Drives will change and disappear much faster. Hopefully not your data.
The best protection: make backups on different medias! I have my most important data on DVD discs, an external portable harddrive, an USB stick and on a secure server on the web. Overkill? Not really if your work means something to you. Most of all: backups onto web machines or online services can be done every night when you sleep.
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Katsushika Hokusai - The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife
I am pretty sure you already know Hokusai - or his most famous painting with the huge blue wave (”In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa”). But this one is also pretty well know for it’s erotic depiction of “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife“.
I think any psychoanalyst would have a ‘Freudenfest’ drilling into the deeper meaning of an Octupuss pleasing a lovely female - together with his small companion. Can you spell multiple penis? And the japanses have a bondage fetish anyway - it’s already more an artform instead of just a sexual foreplay.
There also seems to be a whole movement of tentacle porn out there - which I find pretty strange. But please - any real Octopus would propably find this as strange as most of us do. They are actually very intelligent creatures and can solve complex puzzles.
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A grand evening out
How times have changed - or have they? Can you still impress modern woman with a fancy car, a great dinner and maybe a visit in a cool club?
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Hobart Smith: In Sacred Trust
On this album of never-before-released work, mountain music virtuoso Hobart Smith, plays banjo, fiddle, guitar, and piano as well as singing, clog-dancing and reminiscing. All of the songs were taped shortly before Smith died in 1965 and they take you on a personal journey back to the lost era of old time Appalachian music. The album includes well known pieces like “Black Annie” and “Banging Breakdown” as well as a bunch of brilliant lesser known songs. Smith even gives two versions of some tunes like “Cumberland Gap” and “Old Joe Clark” to demonstrate how different people used to perform them.
Contributed by Edwin Cahill
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Refinery29: Fit to Print
When it comes to fashion, it”s often necessary to search far and wide to find the most dynamic designers and stores. With Ivana Helsinki, a designer from Finland whose clothing is based around bold, monochromatic prints, the journey is long but rewarding. Much like Sweden and Denmark have been a focal point of modern industrial design, Finland has been leading the way for textiles for much of the past century. Ivana Helsinki continues this legacy by releasing a new batch of hand-drawn, single-subject prints each season. Using unusual imagery, the prints awaken everything from shirts and bikinis to bags, and even bedding. Additionally, Ivan Helsinki”s products uphold ethical, progressive standards and everything is made by hand using no chemical dyes or animal by-products. Lucky for you, Ivana Helsinki”s stuff is now available in the U.S. so you can save yourself the trek—we believe in suffering for fashion but we draw the line at Finland.
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The Danger Global Warming Project
Barbara Kruger fans, if you’ve missed your dosage of art blended with polemic, welcome it back with the Greenpeace Global Warming Project, hosted by British multi-media art collective Blacksmoke Organization. Artists contributing to the project were all asked to incorporate Greenpeace’s yellow and black Danger Global Warming tape into their work.
An installation by UK artist Dave White titled, “We Come in Peace…Do We F$$K†is one of the most dynamic pieces. (Pictured, click for detail.) On the wall behind White’s 3-D environment sits an almost animated painting of a tank on the move, Anime-girl pink hearts fluttering around it. In front, sit oversized sculptures of artists’ paint tubes and industrial paint cans – the toxic tools of creativity. Between the two elements, White ties culpability of aloof artists to the War in Iraq – a war about buttressing an environmentally hazardous lifestyle in the artist’s discussion.
Execution of pieces in the show ranges from traditional mediums to art as public action. Philippe Starck contributes a portrait in what appears to be, cooling artic water. The Way/Fear no Art does wonderful cow cut outs. One of Vopstars’ many interventions ‘vandalizes’ a BP gas station sign with the tape then changes the gas prices to read “hot.†Bruce LaBruce’s human sculpture, “Mummy Says Global Warming is Dangerous”, engages the industrial hazard aesthetic of the tape while contemplating egocentric humankind as temporal creatures.
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James Riches
Some beautiful work from Melbourne based artist James Riches who manages to effortlessly cover his vibrant story book narratives with a darker and somewhat ethereal coating. “I”m curious about those moments when we slip through the crack in reality into a different place. So often in our day to day life we are denied the pleasure of fantasy by the constraints of work, deadlines, commitments and our urge to seek logic in the illogical”, he says. It”s like eating candy floss with a mild chili topping.
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