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Some toons

2010-02-01T10:39:00.000-08:00

What's Opera Doc

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Survey of Endless Possibilities: the Scope of Animation

2010-01-11T10:29:00.001-08:00

Windsor McCay 1912 - How a Mosquito Operates

Max Fleischer - Superman 1941

Merry Melodies - Duck Dodgers and the 24th and 1/2 Century

Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century, Daffy and Marvin Martian @ Yahoo! Video

Disney - magic Highways USA

Ray Harryhousen - Creature Compilation

Pixar - A Bug's Life Blupers

Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able Music Video

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp Video

2009-11-25T13:43:00.001-08:00

Amazing song. Pretty cool video. Via Pitchfork. Looking forward to the new album!!

Experimental Animation: Fischinger, Whitney Brothers, Brothers Quay, David Lynch and more...

2009-11-22T18:42:00.000-08:00

Oskar Fischinger

Early Abstractions 1946 -1957

Fantasia -1941

John Whitney

Permutations 1966

James Whitney

Lapis 1966

David Lynch - Alphabet 1968

Brothers Quay

Excerpts of Street of Crocodiles

Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies - 1987

Brothers Quay -1987- Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
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The Cabinet Of Jan Svankmajer - 1984

The Cabinet Of Jan Svankmajer
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David Ellis and Blue - 2008

Ray Harryhausen

2009-11-22T16:35:00.000-08:00

Jason and the Argonauts - Skeleton Battle

Puppetoon: The Sky Princess

War of the Worlds

The Harryhausen Chronicles

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

New Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

2009-11-02T19:20:00.000-08:00

I've really enjoyed Yeasayer since I discovered their first album All Hours Cymbals. I've mentioned singer Chris Keating before on this blog. He is quickly becoming one of my favorite vocalists - especially after Yeasayer's newest single Ambling Alp. You can download the track for free from Yeasayer's Website. The song that really did it for me is Tightrope, on the excellent Dark Was the Night compilation. It allowed me to access the soulfulness that pervades all of their music. I was at first listen attracted the glistening beets and chanting, but it goes much farther than that. Ambling Alp has the unmistakably Yeasayer sound, full of driving jungle/industrial beat, layered under Keating's warbling calls. The chorus, though sentimental and poppy is heartfelt and genuine. Throw in a crazy bridge or two and BAM you've got something great. Hands down, I loves me some Yeasayer.

Grade: 3.6 of 4.0

Early Cinema

2009-10-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

Lumiere Brothers - Samples 1895

George Melies - A Trip to the Moon: 1902

Masters in Early Animation

2009-10-11T21:53:00.000-07:00

Emile Cohl (1857 - 1938)

Fantasmagorie - 1908

Winsor McCay (1867-1934)

Little Nemo - 1910

How a Mosquito Operates - 1912

Gertie the Dinosaur - 1914

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The Sinking of the Lusitania - 1918

Centaurs - 1921

Lotte Reiniger (1899 - 1981)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed - 1926

Cindarella - 1952

Ub Iwerks (1901 - 1971)

Steamboat Willie - 1927

Silly Symphonies Cartoons: Hell's Bells - 1929

Bubble Land - 1934

Max Fleischer (1883 -1972)

Out of the Inkwell - 1922

Big Chief: Koko 1924

Snow White Betty Boop - 1933

Washed Out - Interesting new music from South Carolina.

2009-09-15T15:23:00.000-07:00

I've been watching this new musician Washed Out or Ernest Greene, since he began appearing on Pitchfork this summer. I was particularly hooked on his song Belong, which you can listen to here.

He's also got a great very minimal photo blog full of nostalgic summery images like the one above..

I'm so intrigued. An artist to watch.

Time Lapse of the fires near LA.

2009-08-30T15:11:00.000-07:00

You could see these huge plumes rising from Echo park... quite true to LA's post-apocalyptic nature, it was quite dramatic. I had a thought to film these slow-moving formations and speeding up the footage. Someone else thought of it and actually did it. I don't know what the Grizzly Bear song is about (though I love that song), but the video is amazing...

Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.

80,000 year old bling...

2009-08-27T11:26:00.000-07:00

Turns out North-Africans of eons ago were adorning themselves with shells - 80,000 years ago. That is so amazingly old, I just had to post...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090827101204.htm

PS - I love this science blog...

Los Angeles National Forest on Fire - Smoke hangs in the LA air.

2009-08-26T10:23:00.000-07:00

I woke up to the distinct smell of smoke. The whole city is siting around the campfire, and the campfire is the mountains. Its hanging in the air, visible to the naked eye.

LATimes

Crews are continuing today to battle a 600-acre wildfire in the Angeles National Forest that is being fanned by bone-dry conditions and high temperatures and filling the skies above the L.A. Basin with thick, gray smoke.

LA is so post-apoco...

New Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom

2009-08-25T17:21:00.001-07:00

82%

Its a welcome return for a renovated Massive Attack...

A spooky graveyard song, whispery narration...haunted synths.........spooky clap.........smooth hook...............rabble of ghostly boys....

Play it here

Great puppet video - Dan Deacon: Paddling Ghost.

2009-08-21T10:14:00.001-07:00

This makes me want to make puppet videos.

Video Premiere: Dan Deacon: "Paddling Ghost"

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Atlas Sound + Panda Bear - Walkabout

2009-08-20T11:10:00.000-07:00

87%

I know this song has been floating about for a while this summer. Walkabout, from Atlas Sound's upcoming album Logo, is totally my August Jam. Its got that perfect combination of nostalgic beach boy with robot from outer space to make a perfect summer song. Dreamy and warm but distant and vast. "To go ahead and change your life, without regard for what is said" is a lovely summer sentiment, waiting for the next stages in life and fantasizing about an optimistic sojourn to something different - something mysterious. Adventure awaits, in your mind, while you wait for the 2nd great depression to end...

Check out the Deer Hunter/Atlas Sound Blog... Its got tons of free music and interesting mixes!

Addeboy vs. Cliff - Beep My Beep

2009-08-16T17:07:00.000-07:00

A pretty great song, with a pretty great style that reminds me of music videos from the 80s and 90s, but super slick HD. And who doesn't want their Beep Beeped? This song has one of those dance beats that sounds a little too much to believe, but is undeniably butt-shaking. It has a mentality true to its video's characters, a redbull-raver horny teenager. Ahh, too bad I was playing D&D instead of making out in a bathroom with a strobe light. I give this song 77%. Pretty bump'n.

Addeboy vs Cliff - Beep My Beep from Hannes Lindgren on Vimeo.

Empire of the Sun - Eclipse Broadcast

2009-07-24T20:48:00.000-07:00

This $#!+ is Dope!

RIP Michael!

2009-06-26T13:23:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson was a really special human being.

I forgot I love this song.

RIP

Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge (ft Chris Keating)

2009-06-20T19:33:00.000-07:00

This song is HOT! I love Chris Keating's voice (of Yeasayer) and he sounds awesome in something so downright danceable. Any song that mentions Mama Cass, Damien Hirst, and PM Dawn is cool in my book. The video is pretty great as well.

Amorphophallus Titanum

2009-06-18T21:38:00.000-07:00

I went to see the "Corpse Flower" that bloomed at the Huntington Botanical Gardens near S. Pasadena CA outside of LA. This is that infamous plant you've heard of that smells like a corpse (though I think there may be more than one type). Its other defining feature is its large phallic shape. I'm talking like 6 feet of plant phallus. Whoa.

More amazing is the infrequency of this potent plant eroticism. These plants don't bloom for up to 80 years!!! The blooms only live a couple days, so this was truly a rare opportunity. This plant bloomed in 1999, which was reportedly the first bloom in CA. It bloomed again in 2002, and now in 2009.

There was quite a line in the conservatory, so my pictures are from above which distorts the scale. Trust me that sucker is big! But I was disappointed that there was very little rotting corpse smell. Damn!

I also wandered around the Desert Gardens and Japanese Garden, which was lovely. There are so many great things to do near LA!

Your (monthly) Weekly Logical Conclusion

2009-06-17T10:47:00.000-07:00

Blue for blue sky!

Patrick Wolf - Damaris

2009-06-17T10:34:00.001-07:00

I haven't had the opportunity to listen to The Bachelor, Patrick Wolf's follow-up to the exuberant The Magic Position. However, I have had the pleasure to to listen to one amazing track, Damaris. This song is beyond melodramatic, but something about the way Wolf does it, makes it work. Its at the same time sincere and camp. In my mind I see an epic story, with Patrick in all his regalia, and its great, and it moves me.

The orchestral arrangements of this song are really what make it stand out. They are supremely cinematic but at the same time catchy and almost fun. Wolf sings of a lover lost, while he waits by his grave. The song crescendos with a choral voodoo chant - rise up, rise up, rise up... Magic at its best.

Howard Dean Tells it Like It Is about the Obama DOMA Brief

2009-06-16T11:22:00.000-07:00

I've always liked Dean, and Rachel. Thank god they've got our backs, unlike Obama apparently. I understand the argument that Gay issues need to be put on the back burner before we get through this crucial healthcare battle, but to outright diss the gay community is beyond the pale. I'm not sure what Obama was thinking, and unfortunately there's political capital to be paid. I think its a safe bet to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell. Its not a popular policy. Our Military needs everyone they can get, especially all the specialists and linguists they've fired. And it is discrimination! Its time for it to go!

AmericaBlog has been doing amazing reporting on this story!

While You Were Sleeping - Elvis Perkins

2009-05-17T09:44:00.000-07:00

Elvis Perkins' song While You Were Sleeping has been haunting my psyche for weeks, though it came out in 2007. It is the soundtrack to new relationships in my life, and blast-from-my-past characters visiting LA. While I don't care for the video, the song is amazing. Its changes in scope, loops and progressions are pure ear-joy. Lyrically, who could ask more from a song than mentions of mermaids, witches, vampires mixed with night-time domesticity...

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Street Composites

2009-04-28T08:34:00.000-07:00

Amazing Street photography by Peter Funch. This was pointed out to me by my brilliant student Greg Ruben. See the rest here

I'm a terrible blogger

2009-04-28T08:32:00.000-07:00

I have been doing pretty poorly at updating my bloggy here. I apologize to all you non-existent readers out there. Its a busy world, and I'm easily distracted...

Your Weekly Logical Conclusion

2009-04-17T11:58:00.000-07:00

Can't hear this one, but its a nice color!

Bjork - Nattura (switch remix)

2009-04-10T15:27:00.000-07:00

Amazing remix of Bjork's noisy collaboration Nattura, an activist song for the environment of Iceland. You can download the song here. And you can get more info about Nattura the project here.

Photography - Koreatown at Night

2009-04-09T13:26:00.000-07:00

I love this image, taken in December with my crappy iPhone camera.

Vermont REALLY Embraces Equality: First Legislature to do so

2009-04-07T08:52:00.000-07:00

Wow, two states in one week! Vermont's legislature passed a full gay marriage bill, which was vetoed by their governor. This morning they voted to override the veto, making Vermont the first state to allow gay marriage thanks to its elected law-writing body.

Here's a link to a local paper.

Fundies will explode because this contradicts their "activists judges" meme. They'll have to come up with something else I guess!

Now if only CA would follow suit like it should have done years ago!!

Moribund Newspapers

2009-04-07T08:32:00.000-07:00

Does anyone else think the LATimes sucks lately? Yes, actually... Stu Kreisman at Huffpo does, and LA Observed gets into the action as well.

While I'll admit that I read the paper itself very infrequently, I do consume a lot of news online. The LATimes website is also in a bad way, and its free for god's sake. I tried to make an effort to read it over NYTimes, but its just getting thinner and thinner.

Years ago, when the death of the newspaper industry started, I thought they were getting what they deserved for being so "out dated". After facing nearly a decade of bad news, corrupt government and now financial ruin, we need newspapers to be as strong and vibrant as ever. Bloggers cannot be expect to have the resources or time to do real investigative journalism. Not to mention that MANY people don't have computers, or read blogs.

Being from Seattle, I'm thankful that the Seattle Times still lives, but how long will it be before we have a major city in the US without a print paper? This is an increasingly scary thought.

Your Weekly Logical Conclusion

2009-04-06T16:06:00.000-07:00

A nice happy blue!

Photo

2009-04-04T01:00:00.000-07:00

Iowa Embraces Equality

2009-04-03T16:00:00.001-07:00

The supreme court of Iowa ruled in favor of giving full and equal marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples today. From the state that brought us Obama's momentous run in the Democratic primary. A great analysis of the decision is here.

List of people who's head is likely to explode: Tony Perkins, James Dobson, powerful mormons, Rush, The Men at the Concerned Women for America, Fox News and most of all Peter LaBarbera.

Update: Iowa Rep Peter King thinks Iowa is going to become a gay marriage mecca, whatever that means. These jerks never seem to realize that gays are living their lives all around them ALREADY! Their failure to realize this can be attributed to their bigotry, or ignorance, or both. HT Pam's House Blend

Music Review: Grizzly Bear - Vekatimest

2009-04-03T15:41:00.000-07:00

Score: 90 out of 100

To say that I have had high expectations for Grizzly Bear’s follow up to the hauntingly successful Yellow House, is an understatement. I became a convert to Grizzly Bear when I saw them perform, co-headlining with the Los Angeles Phil at Walt Disney Hall in 2008 (yeah, I was officially uncool until then). That night I couldn’t peal my eyes from their performance. They were a captivating construction of folksy choral arrangements and washes of experimental sounds and loops. Compelling at worst and absolutely moving at best. They revealed a few songs from their new LP Vekatimest. Some songs took a shape similar to songs like He Hit Me and the mix of Little Brother found on the Friend EP, with bursts of guitar, and plaintive lyrics.

Now hearing the new album,Vekatimest retains the haunted atmosphere that defined their breakthrough album, but in a much more controlled way. The sound is more transparent, and its psychology seems less clouded. Where the landscape is obscured in Yellow House, the horizon line is clear in Vekatimest. Songs like the opening Southern Point, Two Weeks, and Cheerleader certainly won’t disappoint fans and may even surprise them.

For me the highlight of the album is the track Ready, which begins with a thumping base rhythm which reminds me of something from PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, (without the wailing angst, of course). This boiling is punctuated by washes of guitar and Ed Droste’s melancholic calls to a lover in transition. He sings “make a decision with a kiss” and about walking home alone through the snow (appropriately dramatic). About half way through the track, the song shifts to something new. Waves of harmonies, starry synths and downright soulful vocal effects cascade the emotional content to new heights, reinforced by roaring guitars at the song’s finish.

All We Ask, is another spooky tune, in which the dynamics of a relationship are described through the subtle details of domesticity, where tiny gestures are magnified sonically and emotionally. The ballad shares its slower pacing with a few other songs on the album. Where some of these songs tend to harmonize into oblivion, All We Ask is intimately toothy. Its sonically smooth surface does not obscure the desirous swells and aching romanticism that bites as much as soothes.

While You Wait for the Others is another high point, a great example of the wonderful confluence of the groups 4 vocalists. The song rocks through Daniel Rosen’s calm and collected verses to be broken by the energetic calls of the entire band. The nostalgia that pervades all of Grizzly Bear’s music weighs heavy upon this song, with its warbled retro synth notes, and its mid-century poppy structure. This sense of age and history, while at the same time feeling experimental, fresh and expansive is descriptive of the entire LP.

Vekatimest is a success for many reasons. It solidifies the type of work that Grizzly Bear does, but does not type cast; they managed to expand while still refining. The songs are familiar and alien at the same time. Vekatimest is an accessible collection of music that is relentless in its detail, and holds layers of surprise upon each listen.

Your Weekly Logical Conclusion

2009-03-30T20:44:00.000-07:00

Don't Tase Me Bro!!

2008-10-30T10:05:00.000-07:00

Something I’ve been following for a few years now is the increased usage of Tasers by police officers against unarmed, and at times totally innocent civilians. This disturbing trend has lead to deaths. This story involved a police officer killing an unarmed, mentally ill man with a taser, who goes on to kill himself.

People are being tasered at traffic stops. In University Libraries, and political forums.

Though some of these events have had consequences for the authorities, in general they don’t. Unfortunately this is a DAILY event, all over the country, and authorities are protected by the Patriot Act.

The implications are terrifying to our personal safety and civil rights. Should we really have to fear a taser to the gut if we disagree with a police officer at a traffic stop?

There are a few ways we could react to this issue. One, though dangerous, could be to hack, or modify a taser for some subversive purpose. Obviously we would have to do a lot of research to know what we were doing, but I like the concept hypothetically.

It could go a lot of different ways. What do you guys think?

Issue_01

2008-07-15T17:06:00.000-07:00

Untitled from Christopher O'Leary on Vimeo.

The first in my thesis series entitled Giant-Sized Issues

Levitation

2008-04-29T11:22:00.000-07:00

New Work

2008-04-21T11:33:00.000-07:00

Some stuff I've been working on - These are video Stills

Scarlett

2008-04-20T19:00:00.000-07:00

Some work I made in late 2006 that I recently uploaded to Vimeo. Soon, I'll expand this series of portraits of female movie heroines.

Scarlett from Christopher O'Leary on Vimeo.

The Milky Way From Maui

2008-04-19T13:44:00.000-07:00

It is funny how much of the universe you can see when you're on a rock in the middle of the ocean.

Light Play on Maui

2008-04-18T00:08:00.000-07:00

Maui Continued...

2008-04-17T00:08:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple shots from the trip, but to see a whole slide show please visit my flickr page!

VIEW FLICKR SLIDESHOW HERE

Storm Front

2008-04-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

More of Xarene's Work

Tentative Architectures in Maui (aka Other Earth)

2008-04-16T23:39:00.000-07:00

I recently spent a week on Maui shooting Xarene Eskandar's MFA thesis project which she calls "tentative architecture". These are some of my favorites from our hard work.

Apparently people still read this blog...

2008-04-16T23:36:00.000-07:00

So I've decided to revive it. I'm currently a month away from my MFA thesis show, but that won't stop me! So, I'll try to update when I can. Coming soon - more travel with Xarene in Maui!

It absolutely poured rain!!!

2007-09-09T08:11:00.000-07:00

The Opening Party was rocking until....

2007-09-09T08:09:00.000-07:00

My Birthday Dinner

2007-09-09T08:03:00.000-07:00

These guys were so sweet. Jacob and Pinar bought me a copy of the Biennial Catalog. Evrim, Itamar, Martina, and Cigdem - thanks for the lovely dinner! Itamar later took me to some crazy electronic club where we danced with the drugged out hipster turks. It was great fun. We didn't get back until after 5 and I didn't get up all day the next day.

Istanbul Biennial Opening Ceremony

2007-09-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Not enough food. SO many people. The press passes got us everywhere.

Tea Before the Opening

2007-09-09T07:59:00.000-07:00

Works from Antrepo

2007-09-09T07:52:00.000-07:00

The Antrepo space at the Biennial is by far the best space we saw on the trip. Its not the work was all that spectacular. Its more that the work had a fresh perspective. It seemed young, non-traditional, and forward looking. The art world is very conservative on so many levels. This show was by any measure very progressive. For me, I take this position because I've studied art history extensively, and as a practicing artist I'm looking for new processes and modes of art-making. In this way the show was exemplary.

From the Biennial Curator's statement...

2007-09-08T07:06:00.000-07:00

I think this is an extremely astute description of not only issues dealt with in the exhibitions here but also a description of the condition of Istanbul today, one I found very surprising...

In today's geopolitical reality, it is necessary and urgent to deal with question of modernization. Urbanization, or explosive urban expansion in the Istanbul fashion, is the most visible and significant sign of modernization. Exploring the urban and architectural conditions of Istanbul has hence become a starting point and central reference to the conception of this Biennial. And contemporary art as an avant-garde in cultural experiments should engage with the city, and it is through this engagement that the biennial will acquire fresh energy and significance in a new reality. the biennial should become a laboratory for innovative projects and strategies, and a site for experiments and productions with different, multiple models of modernization. --Hou Hanru

Istanbul Modern Opening

2007-09-05T15:16:00.000-07:00

This place was packed. The show was pretty good - a retrospective of 20 years of the Istanbul Biennale. Jennnifer Steinkamp had a piece in the show! Yay D|MA!

Then there was party and dancing

2007-09-05T15:05:00.000-07:00

Real Presence wouldn't be complete without a party. We went to a club on the seventh floor rooftop of an old building. They were playing a weird combo of Regge and Drum'n'Bass. It was a great time!

We've been to Asia!

2007-09-05T14:54:00.000-07:00

We took a trip to the Anatolian side of the Bosphorus. This is the straight that separates the two halves of Istanbul, the European half and the Asian half. The panoramic is a view of the Asian side from the European side. We took a photo of our feet in Asia... because we could.

My presentation in Istanbul

2007-09-05T14:51:00.000-07:00

Thank you Jacob for taking this photo.

Real Presence Begins Again - Istanbul

2007-09-05T14:43:00.000-07:00

Lots of old and new faces. I feel like I've known some of these people for a long time! Real-Presence in Istanbul is totally focused on the Istanbul Biennale. We're swamped with events and have press passes to see everything. Its really exciting. These photos are a couple from the first day meeting up with everyone again.

The Blue Mosque

2007-09-05T14:41:00.000-07:00

This is another beautiful building that is in the Sultanamet District of Istanbul. I was scolded here for having plumber's crack while sitting on the floor.

It is really hard keeping up this blog!!

2007-09-05T14:40:00.000-07:00

I'm still trying to post everything from the first day of the trip here and we're now half way through! Ok, here we go....

Basilica Cistern

2007-09-04T04:52:00.000-07:00

Hagia Sofia

2007-09-04T04:45:00.000-07:00

I've dreamed of seeing this building for years and years. It cannot be described with photographs. Its volume is incredible. Its history is even more incredible. It was a church from the Byzantines and was converted to Mosque when the Turks invaded Constantinople in the 1400's.

We made it to Istanbul - and we found Pinar!

2007-09-04T04:44:00.000-07:00

Goodbye Belgrade ... Hello Istanbul

2007-09-01T13:42:00.000-07:00

Today we left for Istanbul. The shot with the propeller is the sun shining through the rain clouds on Belgrade. The shot over the sea is Istanbul.

Goodbyes!

2007-09-01T13:30:00.000-07:00

No pictures from Thursday - I slept through it. These are some the beginnings of the goodbyes on Friday.

Ricardo's Fire Show on the boat...

2007-09-01T13:28:00.000-07:00

Sooooo Cool!

So...Much...Partying.....

2007-09-01T13:12:00.000-07:00

This was the final big party after the second exhibition. We rented a boat which traveled up the Sava river to the Danube and back. This was one of the most insane nights ever, and fun was had by all. Totally over the top...
The Trio is me, Clair (France) and Katya (Ukraine). They're so much fun - great friends in such a short time. We're looking "serious". Thankfully my camera battery died before anything too incriminating could be captured.

My Work

2007-09-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

I was skeptical about this idea at first. Its 40 polaroids of the sky and ground. I connected them like a cube with string from the gypsy market. Its more formal than most of my work, but I think it is an interesting experiment. Given our limited resources and time, I like it.

The Second Exhibition...

2007-09-01T13:03:00.000-07:00

Preshow - wednesday

2007-09-01T12:57:00.000-07:00

Other's Photos

2007-08-29T02:23:00.000-07:00

So far, every image you've seen here was taken with my camera... soon I will steal everyone else's and update from their perspective...

Of course... there was a party afterward... at the Academy of Art

2007-08-29T02:17:00.000-07:00

Damn, I wish the Broad Art Center had a club in the basement....

Maja and Isadora...

2007-08-29T02:16:00.000-07:00

Hoooray for Serbian girls!!!

Opening at the Gallery

2007-08-29T02:14:00.000-07:00

The Italian's Hammock installation in the military hardware

2007-08-29T02:10:00.000-07:00

These guys were up to no good with water balloons...

Jihyun's work

2007-08-29T01:46:00.000-07:00

Exhibitions 1 and 2

2007-08-29T01:43:00.000-07:00

Raul's lovely installation at Kalamagda. He told me it was an Ephemeral Sculpture.

Gypsy Market

2007-08-27T01:47:00.000-07:00

The lovely Ninas (there are two of them) took us to a gypsy market outside of belgrade. It was so much fun. They basically all live in this neighborhood and collect what amounts to trash all week and sell it on the street on Sundays. There were some really great things. I bought a Serbian comic book from the Eighties, a weird Russian notebook and some material for my project here.

Belgrade from the Sky

2007-08-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

Some of us were interviewed by Milica Lapcevic, a radio reporter from Studio B, the local radio station. The next day she invited us up to the studio to see the view. Its on the top of the tallest building in Belgrade. The view was amazing, and the chat we had was really great. Here are a couple shots I put together

Drunken Multi-lingual Pictionary

2007-08-25T03:41:00.000-07:00

Jacob rounded us up for a very chaotic game of Pictionary in one of our spaces. Lots of laughing, forgetting the score, the timer, and the rules in general. My team won though, but we cheated.

Late at the Salsa Bar

2007-08-23T05:24:00.000-07:00

Here are a few of us cooling off after dancing. Itamar somehow got a sales pitch from this crazy German woman who was part of a Pyramid Scheme selling skin products. We had to listen to 45 minutes of her pitch, translated by Jacob. it was quite weird. But Itamar and Claire got free back rubs out of it, which you can see...

PS - I shaved the beard today.

Salsa Dancing in Belgrade!!!

2007-08-23T05:22:00.000-07:00

This city is so full of surprises. Maria took us out salsa dancing. The place was packed on a Wed, the music was great, the drinks were cheap and it was great fun! There were Serbs who could dance like Cubans! It was unbelievable!

Clubbing on the Sava

2007-08-23T05:15:00.000-07:00

Maria took us all to a crazy club on a boat on the Sava River. It was loud and crowded. I'm so surprised by the liveliness of Belgrade. This was a tuesday night and the place was totally packed.

Serbian Lessons from Maria

2007-08-23T05:12:00.000-07:00

Maria, on the right is a young Serbian artist who has showed us a great time on the town every night so far. Pictured here are a few special people, Itamar, Claire and Kat...

Presentations

2007-08-23T05:08:00.000-07:00

Every day from 4-7 we do presentations. Of course of all the artists, I went first. I got it over with though...

Victoria, Dobrila and Bijana

2007-08-23T05:06:00.000-07:00

Three incredibly cool women...
Victoria is my prof...

Artists

2007-08-23T05:00:00.000-07:00

Every night after presentations we all meet in a traditional Serbian restaurant for a meal before going out. Represented in these photos are... Italy, Isreal, Serbia, Austria, Singapore, Portugal, and Spain. The whole point of this residency is mainly to meet these people and party and have fun, more than to make art and exhibit, though we'll all do that too...

BEGRADE!!!!

2007-08-23T04:54:00.000-07:00

We made it to Belgrade which is an AMAZING city. Its really huge, dirty, and very alive. We met the 80 or so artists that we're working with. In the bottom right of this photo is Bijana who organizes this project. She's an amazing woman who has brought artists from all over the world together in Serbia for 7 years straight.

Return to the Motherland - Zagreb Croatia

2007-08-23T04:52:00.000-07:00

Zagreb was a lovely town with weired money called Kune, and a huge Cathedral. We only spent one night there, and had a very nice time relaxing after the craziness of Venice and Germany...

Sleeper Train to Zagreb

2007-08-23T04:48:00.000-07:00

We took an overnight train from Venice to Zagreb Croatia, which was great fun.

Note on Art

2007-08-23T04:28:00.000-07:00

Almost all of my favorite work from both Documenta and the Venice Biennale were video pieces, and were therefore almost impossible to get good images of. Of note at the Biennale were Sofie Calle's "take care of yourself" in the French Pavilion and this video by AES+F group (in the Russian Pavilion). this is a panoramic from a video installation they had that was BY FAR my favorite piece I've seen.

AES+F is *$%#@ amzing - check out their website...
http://www.aes-group.org

Interesting Sculpture

2007-08-23T04:25:00.000-07:00

Tracey Emin

2007-08-23T04:24:00.000-07:00

Not my favorite artist, but I liked this piece from her show in the Brittish Pavilion.

Art - the norwegen pavilion.

2007-08-23T04:20:00.000-07:00

I don't have the book with me so I can't tell you who made this. It was a nice piece...

Travelers

2007-08-23T04:17:00.000-07:00

More Tourist photos before I get to the art...

2007-08-23T04:14:00.001-07:00

Gondole

2007-08-23T04:14:00.000-07:00

Venice!!!

2007-08-23T04:08:00.000-07:00

I finaly have a chance to update the blog. Its weird to go back through the week to venice as it seems like months ago. It was so beautiful and amazing. It is a city that is absolutely consumed by tourism which is a bit sad. But my god, its amazing.

I've made it to Belgrade

2007-08-21T03:05:00.000-07:00

Hello people who happen to be checking my blog. I didn't use the internet in Venice as it was a whirlwind and we just didn't have time. It was amazing and I'll post images soon. Finding a place where I can use my computer to post, and not some crappy internet-cafe machine will be interesting in Belgrade. We arrived last night and the city is pretty amazing. its very lively! but, wifi seems to be an issue and we don't have internet in our rooms at the moment. I'll try to update asap! cheers!