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not to be confused with the other Theo Jansen:
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Do you know Theo Jansen? (not the soccer player!)
This is amazing stuff; ingenious, marvellous, beautifull and spectacular. Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates creatures that roam the beaches in Holland, gracefully moving around, driven by the wind. His works are a wonderfull fusion between art and engineering. I'd love to see his monsters in real life once!
not to be confused with the other Theo Jansen:
not to be confused with the other Theo Jansen:
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Weekend WTF: David Lynch Signature Cup
As some of us already know, David Lynch has been selling his own brand of coffee for some time now. He's now produced a commercial for his coffee. He's voicing the Barbie head as well as himself. Well, er... enjoy.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Mangelos
And manifesto of the day
Mangelos, a great but for some reason not really well-known artist and art historian inspired me a lot when I started turning to a more conceptual direction with my art.
His work is both, conceptual and very sensual at the same time playing with material and thoughts (represented by texts in different languages).
Born as Dimitrije Basicevic, 1921 in Sid, Serbia (died in Zagreb, 1987), he made art under the pseudonym Mangelos. The name is taken from a village close to his hometown Sid.
He divided his life in different "Mangelos", each Mangelos lasting 7 years (the period for all body cells to reniew). As he predicted, his life took 9 1/2 Mangelos.
His work contains different technics and media, such as drawings, collages, watercolors, paintings, altered books and especially his "globes", ordinary globes that he used for his drawings and collages. They are often inscribed with his manifestos and "no-manifestos" concerning philosophy and art.
A manifesto was for him a kind of a vehicle transporting a thought concept without any metaphorical meaning.
The postwar thinking was to him represented by a functional, direct thinking, the manifesto per se.
A manifesto to him is this functional thinking, including systems like alphabets, mathematical proofs, scientific theories and perceptual schemas.
He was against all kind of metaphorical thinking and emphasises at the same time the rational side of the art. He tried to bring the information to its most laconic form, to a clear and prezise thought (that he called "Super-Wittgenstein-Thought").
His work can be seen in the context of the absurd feeling in the existentialist Nihilism. It's marked by a freedom of expression and a transzendence of media as found in the fluxus movement, as well.
He turned against all what seemed to be exhausted und senile and created in his art his own point of view, called No-Art.
As mentioned before he was also art historien, critic, curator and part of the "Gorgona"-artgroup, organising exhibitions, creating concepts, projects and new forms of artistic communication and publishing the Anti-Magazine "Gogona".
Mangelos, a great but for some reason not really well-known artist and art historian inspired me a lot when I started turning to a more conceptual direction with my art.
His work is both, conceptual and very sensual at the same time playing with material and thoughts (represented by texts in different languages).
Born as Dimitrije Basicevic, 1921 in Sid, Serbia (died in Zagreb, 1987), he made art under the pseudonym Mangelos. The name is taken from a village close to his hometown Sid.
He divided his life in different "Mangelos", each Mangelos lasting 7 years (the period for all body cells to reniew). As he predicted, his life took 9 1/2 Mangelos.
His work contains different technics and media, such as drawings, collages, watercolors, paintings, altered books and especially his "globes", ordinary globes that he used for his drawings and collages. They are often inscribed with his manifestos and "no-manifestos" concerning philosophy and art.
A manifesto was for him a kind of a vehicle transporting a thought concept without any metaphorical meaning.
The postwar thinking was to him represented by a functional, direct thinking, the manifesto per se.
A manifesto to him is this functional thinking, including systems like alphabets, mathematical proofs, scientific theories and perceptual schemas.
He was against all kind of metaphorical thinking and emphasises at the same time the rational side of the art. He tried to bring the information to its most laconic form, to a clear and prezise thought (that he called "Super-Wittgenstein-Thought").
His work can be seen in the context of the absurd feeling in the existentialist Nihilism. It's marked by a freedom of expression and a transzendence of media as found in the fluxus movement, as well.
He turned against all what seemed to be exhausted und senile and created in his art his own point of view, called No-Art.
As mentioned before he was also art historien, critic, curator and part of the "Gorgona"-artgroup, organising exhibitions, creating concepts, projects and new forms of artistic communication and publishing the Anti-Magazine "Gogona".
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Matthew Smith
British computer game programmer Matthew Smith was 17 years old when he programmed the legendary early platform game Manic Miner, back in 1983. I spent a lot of time playing Manic Miner and its sequel, Jet Set Willy, as a kid way back in the 1980's, and it's been a huge and direct influence on my Odboy & Erordog series.
I just recently found this wonderful fairly recent video interview with the guy, who seems like a fantastically likeable guy with a mildly autistic-seeming manner. It just makes me very happy to watch. :) The interview starts at 3 minutes in.
I just recently found this wonderful fairly recent video interview with the guy, who seems like a fantastically likeable guy with a mildly autistic-seeming manner. It just makes me very happy to watch. :) The interview starts at 3 minutes in.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Black Sunrise
Master animator Nick Cross, I mentioned him before in this post, is working on a feature length animation; Black Sunrise. Looks like his usual theme, oppression of the working class, world disorder, government violence etc. Can't wait to see it.
Black Sunrise - Trailer from Nick Cross on Vimeo.
Friday, April 1, 2011
April Fools
My favourite April Fools gag of the day. Ties in with my previous post on Comic Sans. Also, google "Helvetica" today and see what happens. :)
UPDATE: Apparently David Firth (or someone posing as him) is also in a jocular mood today.
UPDATE: Apparently David Firth (or someone posing as him) is also in a jocular mood today.
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