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  • In a Pinch

    Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011 4:34AM / Members only


    A sculpture by  Mehmet Ali Uysal. It was the Turkish artist's contribution for the Festival of the Five Seasons  in Liege, Belgium. 

    Gacked from Pierre Mâché, Blogger at The Imaginary Foundation

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  • Twinkle Toes are here to stay

    Saturday, Sep 17, 2011 8:22PM / Members only



    My latest obsession: Vibram's FiveFingers




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  • You just know your days as leader of the pack are over ...

    Thursday, Sep 15, 2011 8:20PM / Members only


    ... when you find this upon returning to your breakfast table. 







    Authority gone >poof<.

     



       

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  • Maria Callas grimacing La Habanera

    Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 2:10PM / Members only


    Was you-tubing for La Habanera and came across this Callas Clip from 1962. Well, damn, her voice raises my neck-hair - good singers do that to me (and probably everybody else). But, come on, all voice-induced awe aside, aren't t her facial gymnastics funny as hell?


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  • Urban Art at the Munich Contempo

    Sunday, Aug 21, 2011 9:11PM / Members only

    Got my first real taste for street art in Berlin, more than a decade ago. Had to spend two weeks out in the streets of Berlin researching a book project. I was all alone (insert wide-eyed pout) and some parts of Berlin had a decidedly neglected, sometimes even hostile vibe to them. Walking for miles and miles, checking locations, I stumbled across stencils, walls and art in unsuspected places.  I started to recognize styles or rather handwritings and Berlin's street art became my silent companion in a playful game of hide and seek in a rough cityscape. It never ceased to surprise and amaze. 

    Looking for street art, for me,  has become another way of becoming acquainted with an unfamiliar city  - like tracing the markings on the underbelly of an unknown beast. I guess, others enjoy these explorations just as much as I do. That's why, for a while now, I've been wanting to share this blog link about contemporary street art in Germany -   BLOG für zeitgenössische Straßenkunst. Their Facebook page is here.

    It's a lively - and totally sanitary - peepshow if you get your kicks out of street art AND don't mind getting them in German streets. For me, another good way to keep tabs has been STROKE.


    STROKE  is an Urban Art fair. It usually is divided into two events a year, a Munich show in April and one in Berlin in October. The exhibits are - even if in some cases technique struggles to keep up with the idea of a work - generally funny and interesting, occasionally inspiring and captivating. Performances outdoors have been known to be so absorbing, you keep looking on  and on and on ... in the rain ... with a beer that grows warmer ... and more watery ... till the artists yield to the downpour.  

    Below, the 2010 key visual of the STROKE 02 ...   by Sainer.

    The original is now the key visual of ... my kitchen. I call it "The magician", my guests call it "creepy".

    There's a rough imbalance in Sainer's bodies I like - an obsession with eyes, hands, and faces combined with a loony-cartoony disregard for the rest of anatomy. Bodies reduced to hints of poses, postures, stances, nothing more than is needed to connect the vital stuff ... eyes, ... yeah, not repeating this. Sainer has pics of a number of walls, illustrations, and canvas works up. Such as this one ...

    Go check' em out. I, for my part, like the illustration Alice, and methinks one of his Untitled walls (hands/red thread) would make a great companion piece for the canvas work called Ariadne. Except the only ones who could position them in a ... companionable way would be people living in the building facing the Untitled wall. So ... scratch that. 

    Sainer is represented by INTOXICATED DEMONS.
    They represent a group of artists and organize art events. They are also the driving force behind the STROKE urban art fairs in Munich and Berlin, where they have their branch offices. Clever bridge - Berlin is a gritty city with hungry and driven minds that produce fresh art, Munich is a fat bored lady with a big purse who buys art just to get her hands on some fresh flesh that makes her forget she's way past picking.


    Sepe is another one of their artists.


    Sample works of other artists represented ...



    This is by Daria Kudla, photography credited to Luis Wenceslao Marina Navarro via Facebook
    (seen at STROKE.03 at the INTOXICATED DEMONS stall).



     Picture of INTOXICATED DEMONS Allstar wall in Szczecin, Poland called Jazz in the free-time
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    To be found among the Wall Photos of  STROKE - Urban Art Fair on Facebook)  




    The second edition of the Munich Contempo – International Contemporary Art Fair from 20. to 23. October, 2011 coincides with the first three days of the 56. Art Fair Munich that runs till 30. October. This year, Contempo is into horizon tweaking by cooperating with Marco Schwalbe of   INTOXICATED DEMONS. You could also squint and see, they're trying to infuse their thinnish gallery breed blood by jumping the lively street runts. Any way you look at it, be my guest, I'm looking forward ... to the show.

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    Great , now I have something else to look foward to. TO save electricity I usually power down at night and that night? Nope. It probably would've been OK had I taken my usual steps. Oh well, time to work on a replacement. But honestly, I've been so busy getting other stuff done that I only need the internet for an hour or so a day. My son's been dropping by with his laptop so I can have my fix. Isn't he nice?
  • posted on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 6:18PM  [Report]
    That's the lovely thing about Frankfurt, it mixes old and new, something for everyone. I admire modern architecture, the artistic beauty of it but for me I love old characteristic buildings best too.
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    macht nix, war sowieso krank. Hatte 'ne Magenverstimmung. Wäre schön, wenn's klappt!
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    lol I'm a witch for a living ;) it pays the rent and will keep me going until I come up with some other hairbrain scheme :D
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    Most definitely the pet sitter is in on it. Every leader needs a second in command, if only to throw them to the wolves when they are caught ;)

    I'm real good thanks for asking, busy , especially during halloween when witches are in great demand :D How are you?
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    sehr gerne Tracey! Ich habe ab ca. 17 Uhr Zeit! Ruf mich einfach an, wenn's klappt!
  • posted on Sunday, Sep 18, 2011 7:10AM  [Report]
    I'm down to 2, one whom I like and the other, meow just now, whom I don't like. Can't help it. She's a pest and a dirty girl. Never had fleas around here till she came along, barefoot and pregnant outside my door. My kitty boy likes her so she stays but I'm really tired of the long hair all over. Give me a short hair anyday. He sleeps with me and is very loveable, devoted, a wonderful cat. Not smart but sweet and loyal. Hell, it's a pet. I don't need it to do long division.

    So to answer 2 down from 6. The others were made redundant by traffic.
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    Yeah, it's just so weird for that to happen around here to that magnitude. I understand from the news that the tremor travels further on the east coast than on the west so even though we were 300 miles from the epicenter, I totally felt it. The house was shaking but you know what??? Earthquake did NOT even occur to me. I thought, shit, the foundation's going on this house, or heavy truck outside, or ..... ten things EXCEPT earthquake. This one would be nothing to the west coasters.
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    Techinically, aunts can even be younger than their nieces/nephews but in my case I am probably old enough to be your mother. I have a 41-year-old son. No, don't think I could've started any younger than I did! Let's put it this way, I was a teenage bride, haha, that's what you did in those days, if the guy was willing, and if not, there was always the shotgun!

    News Flash....we just had an earthquake a couple of hours ago. VERY unusual for where I live. I think it's an omen.....of aftershocks!
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