Artist Bovey Lee has created these beautifully exquisite cut paper illustrations with what is clearly an incredibly refined technique. Her work devolves from a wide range of inspiration including perfect geometric patterns and intricate, detailed storyscapes. Like much of the work I post up here it seems to require an inordinate amount of patience, its delicate lines cut with surgical precision.
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The Bayeaux Tapestry - depicting the Norman invasion of England in 1066 - was part of my education, I remember it from school. Even then I was overawed by it and in this wonderful video by David Newton he takes it one step further by animating it. It begins with the appearance of Halleys comet and concludes with the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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I love Monty Python – most people I know do too – and in this rare footage, called ‘Away From It All’, John Cleese stars as Nigel Farquhar-Bennett a voice-over artist badly in need of a holiday. Continue reading »
The film is basically a parody of the tedious travelogues they used to show in cinemas in the late 70s and early 80s.
The short was produced in 1979 and screened in British and Australian cinemas as a warm-up for Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’.
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I love street art and this new work by French street artist Iemza is well worth posting up – he usually paints surreal creatures but in this series he’s taken on people instead. His style is exceptional don’t you think? Continue reading »
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DIY Technology has played a large part in political revolution over the last 18 months. From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement the internet and technology has played a key role in disseminating information, development of new systems, creation of new work by artists and so on. You only have to see these robot activists at Occupy Wall Street working to know things have changed, changed utterly.
At the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, Motherboard TV got hold of Issac Wilder, the founder of The Free Network Foundation, a mesh networking system that allowed demonstrators access to free internet. Well free until Zuccotti Park was ransacked by the NYPD and the Freedom Tower was confiscated and destroyed. If you’d like to know more about DIY tech and the Free Network Foundation then check out this video below. Let me know what you think.
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Billy Wilder died just over 10 years ago a – man who was responsible for some of the most iconic films of 20th Century such as ‘The Apartment’, ‘Some Like It Hot’ and ‘Double Indemnity’. For that very reason I have posted up a list of tips for screenwriters that he told to Cameron Crowe in the late 1990s and published in the superb book, Conversations with Wilder.
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A new Mozart composition has recently been discovered and all quite by accident. A music scholar made the discovery while going through the personal belongings of a recently deceased church musician and band leader in the Lech Valley of the Austrian Tyrol.
Combing through the dead man’s collection of old music manuscripts he noticed a hand written book with the date ’1780′ on the cover. On pages 12 – 14 she found an unidentified sonata movement with the tempo mark ‘allegro molto’ – the Italian notation for ‘very quickly – and on the upper right hand side of page 12 was written ‘Del Signore Giovane Wolfgango Mozart’, or ‘The young Wolfgango Mozart’.
‘Wolfgango’ was a name Mozart’s father Leopold called him when he was a boy. As the scholar looked further into the manuscript she found several pieces that were already known to have been written by the father, Leopold. Those compositions were respectfully marked ‘Signore Mozart’, or ‘Lord Mozart’.
Although the writing was clearly not in the hand of either Mozart, there was no doubt that the meticulousness of the transcriptions and the accuracy of every verifiable detail throughout the book meant that the composition by ‘The Young Wolfgango Mozart’ was probably an authentic, previously unknown composition.
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These geometric images of Brazilian landscapes by photographer and filmmaker David Copithorne are a unique take on the travel photograph. Copithorne spends much of his time travelling the world documenting the places he visits along the way but rather than simply recording what he sees, he digitally disrupts the images in order to capture a specific memory, sense of place.
His process of working is really interesting as he uses a number of techniques in his image making such as layering geometric shaped digital interferences on top of images as well as creating abstract landscape GIFS of places he has been to.
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In 1982 Wim Wenders consulted 15 of his colleagues for their thoughts on the future of cinema. As it was the 35th Cannes Film Festival he managed to round up celebrated international auteurs such as; Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mike De Leon, Steven Spielberg, Romain Goupil, Ana Carolina and more and made ‘Room 666′.
Alone in a hotel room in front of the rolling camera with a tape recorder capturing their voice to their right and a silent television emitting a steam of images to their left – only Herzog had the sense to turn it off – they each respond to questions on a sheet that follow from the same prompt: “Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” Their reactions make up this film.
What’s interesting about the conversations is that many of them are vexed with the issue of video, a new format in 1982. These days it is the internet and digital downloads. Different technology, same question. However this vexation has proven to be a misnomer. In 2012 cinema going is more popular than ever and the notion of home cinema as seen by Anthony Lane of the ‘New Yorker’ is an oxymoron;
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Artist and photographer Xing Danwen has created a beautiful series of works entitled ‘Urban Fictions’. Her work is focussed on portraying urban monotony, something many of us are all to familiar with. The photographs themselves are of models that the artist has built herself using digital prints.
When you initially look at her cities they seem to represent an ideal urban living environment; peaceful, orderly, clean, everything in its place. However, on closer inspection you’ll notice little scenes occurring. A car crash, a wonan on a lilo in a swimming pool, a woman on a balcony smoking a cigarette. In other words the everyday goings on in city life.
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Our skills exchange is hosting it’s third Mutant Cabaret of the year this coming Friday. So far we’ve had a wonderful response from our audiences and some great performances with everything from comedy to spoken word and music to circus.
This Friday we’ve got a great line up all hosted by the incomparable Tina Pisco. So whose up? Well we’ll be kicking off with some wonderful Argentine Tango from the immensely talented Spanish guitarist Colin McLean accompanied by Holly on Violin. Following some serious sweaty sexy dancing our resident Gifted Eccentrics will be on stage in the form of poet Tina Pisco and her sidekick harpist Anja Baaker. Local band Chunky Planet will be following them and will be joined by honouree band member Mairead Kelly on Irish harp. And, if we’re lucky lead singer Carl Plover will don his Wasps vs Humans costume for some raving wordpunk. Then for something completely different: great comedy from one of the rising stars on the comedy circuit, Aodhrua. And last, but not least, we’re delighted to have Spekulativ Fiktion, an alternative hip-hop emcee and beatmaker, bringing up the rear with some energetic sounds before we all head off into the night.
We don’t charge. It’s free. Well, we hand around a donations bucket for the performers but that’s about it. Truth is we’re intent on producing a great night for our audience and a new night for Cork City. We want to breathe new life into a limp dog and don’t want to fleece you while we do it. So if you’re looking for something different from your average, usual, banal, dull friday night then we’re the gig for you.
Tomorrow. In Cork. At The Roundy. Doors open at 9pm and we’ll be kicking off round 10pm.
And if you want to perform in our next cabaret just get in touch with me.
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I’ve never heard of Yung Jake before but I’ll be keeping an eye on him from now on. He works in a form I know nothing about – Net Art and even if you’re not interested in the form it’s worth having a look what this rapper does. He previously made a video in which he data moshed Justin Beiber’s face and celebrated the glitched out effects of pixels bleeding into each other. This time he’s gone one step further and has moved from youtube into our browsers creating a overloaded surf across the net. In a short it takes other web browser music videos we’ve seen and carpet bombs them.
The piece is called e.mbed.de/d and in it we get a real-time look at the hyperbolic viral process as we leap from Justin Beiber tweeting about it, to people posting about it on Facebook and even torrents appearing on PirateBay, etc. Of course, this leads to the song being featured on exponentially larger blogs. He takes over the web in all his viral glory as video upon video are piled on top of each other until the rapper is literally everywhere.
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Arts Skills exchange member Sean Corcoran has a new crafts course starting in his art school, The Arthand, in Waterford, in July. It’s being run by Chicago based artist Ruby Clover. Participants will be shown how to create a family heirloom box using photos, maps and pieces to treasure forever. It’s a three day course running from the 4th – 6th July in Wateford. Arrival and Registration is on Tuesday July 3rd at 7pm.
Rubys own art is made using a wide variety of media and techniques. In this course Ruby will be teaching the age old art of decoupage; a way of decorating an object. You will be gluing paper cut outs onto your box with special paint effects and layers of clear varnish for a polished seamless effect. Continue reading »
The origins of decoupage go back to the 13th century in Siberia where tombs of the dead were artistically decorated and became a popular hobby in Western Europe from the 17th Century onwards.
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Skills exchange member Black Sun returns to the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork on Saturday 31st March for a night of powerful intensity.
Black Sun welcomes artist and composer John Wiese (USA), Wölfbait, the Irish premiere of 80’s Serbian underground film, Personal Discipline and a performance from First Blood Part II and Wölflinge.
So who is John Wiese? Well he’s an artist and composer from LAs, California. He works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi – channel diffusions as well as scoring for large ensembles. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, but he’s known for his collaborations with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Thurston Moore, Bastard Noise, No Age, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation and C. Spencer Yeh as well as his work as a solo artist.
He has toured extensively throughout the worldincluding Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the US alongside Wolf Eyes and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari.
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Most sound sculptures involve some sort of electronic or digital reaction. In this case it’s different. Artist Luke Jerram has built an analog piece of art, called Aeolus, that solely relies on the wind amplifying its movements and giving us a sense of its presence like never before.
The piece is an arch adorned with a crown of round steel pipes that point out in all directions. As the wind blows through the sculpture it creates a range of ambient tones that shift with the direction and intensity of the wind.
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