We Wear the Mask
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
this debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, [...]

…Below are a selection of film stills, designs and a time-lapse from Barry Purves’s stop motion film Tchaikovsky. I was responsible for designing all of the imagery that was projected onto the set and also worked as a camera/lighting man throughout the film. It was incredibly exciting to see the puppet interacted with my imagery, the [...]

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

When photographer James Mollison was asked to do a project on children’s rights, he found himself thinking back to his childhood bedroom and the deep importance it played in his upbringing. Taking that idea with him around the world, he photographed a diverse cross section of children and the bedrooms they call home. His moving [...]

In 1965, Swiss photographer Lennart Nilsson took a series of pictures of developing embryos which were published on Life magazine. Within days, the entire print run of eight million had sold out. Those remarkable pictures have been collected in a large hardcover book, “A Child Is Born,”

Aint no angel gonna greet me
Its just you and I my friend
My clothes don’t fit me no more
I walked a thousand miles
Just to slip the skin

click on: view in zoomify

urban art by Richard Vermaak….

Street acrobats performing in Union Square, New York City on September 4, 2010. Doing stunts such as jumping over innocent bystanders, breakdancing, flips, head stands, and then the lead man (the human pretzel) does a front flip over 7 women from the audience! Insane!….  beat this….

400 life-size figures. Depth 9m Cancun / Isla Mujeres, Mexico….

incredible teamwork by Barcelona football team!!!

the chase ….

you are so beautiful…

A selection of works by British graffiti artist Banksy.

“I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to [...]

The Brothers Quay are among the most accomplished animation artists to emerge in recent years. Their fantastic decor and Kafkaesque puppets, attention to the liberation of the mistake and their casual and lingering closeups combine in an ingenious alchemy of unconscious, metaphoric vision. Watching any of their animated films means entering a dream world of [...]

last night I had a drink(!) with Gambeat: the energic bassplayer of Mano Chou…

Last night I saw Doris Dörrie’s Cherry Blossoms : one of the most sensitively intelligent, humane films ever made about two subjects whose serious treatment is all too rare in cinema—aging and death.  In the film you see Tadashi dancing….

Viviana , Caroline, Felix, ….

Rotseken:”This guy was hanging out in Yoyogi park in Harajuku, Tokyo, on a Sunday afternoon. He has clearly practiced a lot! I loved the music he played during his performance. My friends and I were completely mesmerized. He has a very expressive face too, with a charming smile… it really sells the show in the [...]

the art of Antoine Van Loocke…

Drinking the local beverage is a sure way to warm the hearts of the locals. Here is a selection of alcoholic drinks that make the effort of travel all the more rewarding.

one of my facebookfriends…..

Ann once was the dance teacher of my daughter and I worked with her as a light desinger for one of her choreographs… here, a trailer of her new piece: The Co(te)Lette film.

Gain unparalleled insight into the great artist’s creative and spiritual life through examining hundreds of letters between Vincent and his brother, Theo, and their letters to others…

photos by Dewey Nicks

Un roi s’enquiert de l’aide d’un castor pour se construire un château dans une forêt. Having just arrived in a wood, a king wants a beaver to help him build a castle.

4′3″

For millions of years, In millions of homes
A man loved a woman, A child then was born
It learned how to hurt and it learned how to cry
Like Humans Do

( In the middle of the cauliflower) Anamauê, auêia, aê…

I’m going down….

…Joseph Robertson was an infantryman in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The stark black and white images in this short haunt the viewer, just as Robertson is haunted by his memories from that battle…

HBO decided to cancel the fourth season of Deadwood: “…It has nothing to do with pregnancies. It has nothing to do with conservative watchdogs. It has everything to do with money….” fucking cocksuckers!!

“…The process is simple. I project a child’s drawing with an opaque projector, faithfully tracing each line. Applying a combination of logic and instinct, I then paint the image as realistically as I can. My medium is mixed—primarily acrylic, airbrush, and colored pencil….”

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Since the age of 10, Jill Greenberg has been staging photographs and creating characters using the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, film and photography. Her work displays her unique perspective with a clear voice, apparent through her distinctive lighting and personally-executed post production.

Will I see you tonight
on a downtown train
every night is just the same
you leave me lonely now

I made a concertfilm: live @ TAZ…

I filmed a rehearsal of the band S.W.A.N. Musica for their concert @ the TAZ festival in Ostend, Belgium…

I’ve been impressed by Nils Voelker’s work before, but frankly I wasn’t sure how his new piece, a wall of 108 plastic trash bags inflated by computer cooling fans, could be that good. Then I watched the video.

Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) fue un pintor y escultor francés de un cierto éxito en su época especializado en cuadros historicos, mitológicos y de escenas típicas de países por donde viajó como Turquía o Egipto. Tuvo algunos problemas con la moral de entonces por considerar que sus desnudos femeninos eran escandalosos.

Malignant demons with dragon heads at the ends of their feet. Haunting cemetaries, they exhume cadavers and eat them, leaving only the bones of the dead…

Shiele, Klimt, ….

old groovin’ rats…Richard Holmes and Jimmy McGriff : pioneers of the Hammond Organ Groove…

shake that ass ….

Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope … it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

meet Yello!! I know them allready 28 years….

Transforming mobile experience by Superbien. Amazing display of light.  A beamer projection on a 3D surface (cardboard boxes)

the eyes in the top banner on this site are from Rae Dawn Chong

“If I said, ‘This is a terrible thing that we are doing to the planet,’ than people will either agree or disagree. By not saying what people should see, that may allow them to see their world a little differently… It’s not a simple ‘right or wrong’ – it needs a whole new way of [...]

look what I made, four years ago…..

the art of  J. Scott Campbell and Grimm

“Walking on the Champs-Elysées 
with a turtle in order to view the world 
in a better way, 
but it is difficult to drink tea on an iceberg 
when everyone is drunk.”
 FC Bergman

Michael Wolf’s Architecture of Density

…goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility…

the art of Jim Denevan

Though he is believed to have been the first performer to juggle 10 rings, he was best known for his seemingly simple, though very difficult routines, often involving a single ball, that required great control.

I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
Well I could tell by her blood-stained hands

Que este amor não me cegue nem me siga.
E de mim mesma nunca se aperceba.
Que me exclua do estar sendo perseguida
E do tormento

Do you wonder why so many soldiers are suffering from post-traumatic stress …

I’ve got involved in the contemporary dance world again, creating a light plot for two dancers and a musician, so I started searching www again….

Ah, Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done:

“The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

聴覚障害

I don’t believe in omens or fear
Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too.
No point in fearing death at seventeen,
Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light;
Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
We’re all already on the seashore;
I’m one of those who’ll be hauling in the nets
When a [...]

“I would rather be an unhappy Socrates than a happy swine.”

a multimediaweblog

O una barca llena de brújulas en medio del Triángulo de las Bermudas….

A 3D exploration of Picasso’s Guernica

S.W.A.N. is a Belgian-Congolese electrosensation coming out of Matongué and the swampiest trailer park of the Brussels underground scene, steamy soucous grooves mixed with icy cold synthesizers and distorted guitars.  Here, live in Brussels….

Master juggler Michael Moschen performs his incredibly famous, jaw-dropping piece where three balls and a triangle become a musical and visual work of art.

it is velly simpel, one, two, thlee, foul, one, two, thlee, foul, ….

In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in its banks complaining,
Heavily the low sky raining
Over tower’d Camelot;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round and round the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott.

When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the [...]

What would mankind do without the wheel…?

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

X-ray photographer and film-maker Nick Veasey works with x-ray and scientific equipment to create unusual x-ray photos to commission.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

to that idiot person who ruins my house with his idiot graffiti: be more creative!!!

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

unbelievable: The Kangbashi district began as a public-works project in Ordos, China,  a wealthy coal-mining town in Inner Mongolia. The area is filled with office towers, administrative centers, government buildings, museums, theaters and sports fields—not to mention acre on acre of subdivisions overflowing with middle-class duplexes and bungalows. The only problem: the district was originally [...]

Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek have worked together since October 1994. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years.

Rhythmic cycle w/ abstract animation by Renaud Hallée.

714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate a seven minute long mechatronic narrative.

eletronic-music-guide – Guia de musica eletronica – where did it all begin? How did it all start? Who was the first guy who said “Holy shit, this buzzing, spitting, throbbing, pulsing din of an inane sequence of noises that might arguably call itself music sounds totally…

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortensen) by cecil beaton, Ed Pfizenmaier , Bert Srtern, Ralph Roberts and many many others…

superb madness

lend me your arms,
fast as thunderbolts,
for a pillow on my journey.

Fucking Hell – short film by Jake & Dinos Chapman

who was he?

Mario, my friend and OL cartoonist, has a new music project.  Special Choir is an ensemble of musicians who use an unusual instrument- the conch shell. This work of nature is the original trumpet, used since 10,000 B.C. The choir uses these instruments through the filter of all kinds of [...]

“Maybe for detached observer my creative work may seem like some kind of delirium of drunk angels, but actually each work of art I create contains a relevation, which partly is hidden, but other it’s parts gets denuded before the viewer. It’s such a marginal twilight world which I fill with [...]

Lucian Freud: “At the outset there is always a mystery. We cannot know what a painter brought to painting or what drew him to it. Yet everything he paints throughout his life adds to our understanding of one or both these things.

“greasy oilpastels on super qualitypaper” Hannablue is having an exhibition of her warm welcome work in Ekeren, Belgium, 20 march. Desires, seduction, feelings, speech, birth, the soul, wisdom, dreams, divinaties, intuïtie, anonymity, the seasons, human relations, old tales: Allegories in Ladyland

Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They’ve been married for 62 years and he’ll be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as old as we feel, it’s all attitude. Enjoy! They certainly do.

This is an unusual site with a unique perspective on life. Powered with Flash technology, it takes a few minutes to load but is worth the wait. The viewer has a choice of two locations: the Modena railway station and a canal in Venice. As the viewer moves the curser around [...]

creative photos by Chema Madoz

just try it 

I uploaded some old silent movie stunts into an youtube: just for the fun of it.

…. offensive to standards of decency, esp in sexual matters, unseemly or improper, not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society, not suitable or right or appropriate, offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters, conforming to conventions of sexual behavior, ….

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

The Walt Disney Co. has started production on an animated musical fairy tale called “The Frog Princess,” which will be set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio’s first black princess. : but today, she walked into our office in Brussels …. a black pearl…. she calls herself Thugangel and we had a [...]

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“My art works are hand painted black and white photos. Implicating hidden eroticism in fairy tales and mythology…”

Adrie and Alfons Kennis: “At school all we were good at was drawing. We never read; we only looked at the pictures in the books. Human evolution was what interested us. We made clay models of drawings or we copied drawings of fossils and skulls. We still do. We’re identical twins and always sat opposite [...]

photos inspired by paintings et vice versa …

A daredevil, a maverick, a dreamer, an artist: Philippe Petit is all of these things and more. On a slightly windy day in the summer of 1974, a lone figure appeared high above the heads of the people of Manhattan, balancing perfectly on a high wire strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade [...]

the genius of Michel Gondry designing what was the incredible and revolutionary clip of Daft Punk Duo, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and we have the first year students of Belgiums most famous danceschool, P.A.R.T.S. ,who made a remake of it….

I laugh sometimes when I think about say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky… or Hamsun… ordinary men with feet, ears, eyes, ordinary men with hair on their heads sitting there typing words while having difficulties with life while being puzzled almost to madness.

Martin Schreiber photographed Madonna in February 1979. Four of his pictures were published in Playboy Magazine in 1985. Several years later he compiled some of the pictures in a book, Madonna Nude 1979.

… the Red Knight of the Heath in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval, the Story of the Grail  steals a cup from King Arthur and is killed by the protagonist Perceval, who wears his armor and comes to be known as the Red Knight himself…

Making musical instruments. How do you do that? is it true that you have to put something of your soul in an instrument before it can really sound good? I think so.

another russian Fash Freak Show by Oleg Paschenko. I don’t have a clue but I kind of like the images and sounds by Alexei Bazunov …. ( by the way, the guys are looking for a job)

The years first day
thoughts and loneliness;
the autumn dusk is here.

Tom Waits Big in Japan The Hague ‘99 Mule Variations Tour.  Tom’s son Casey joins in on drums….

A wise man once said
A flower is only
A sexual organ
Beauty is cruelty
And evolution
A wise man once said
that everything could be explained with mathematics
He had denied
His feminine side
Now where is the wisdom in that?….

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Alastar: “I am a sculptor working with mixed media relating to the environment. Imagery is guided by the inherent nature of material and by construction systems evolved through mindful observation and play. I also draw from the full spectrum of routines and activities that support my practice:  Design, craft production, farming and rural life.”

they make really beautiful movies….

THe perfect Stella Artois has long been considered an art form.  Now, a group ef artists are proving it.   Stp by step, they will bring the pouring ritual to life as a hand-painted 20 X 50 foot stop-frme animation on a building side in New York City…

” La vie est un théatre…nous ne sommes qu’une bande de comédiens”…Danse épurée par le danseur Doggy…

Wolfram Ghesquière, and his band, Grimm, live in de Muze, in Antwerp, 6 hours before I jammed there on the same stage.  The baseplayer, Dries, is my daughters boyfriend ….

don’t make it bad…take a sad song, and make it better….

Paulien Verlackt took some pictures from the concert of Natalia for which I made the stageconcept, decor, movies and lightplot….

Chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei [...]

I found a song I recorded almost 30 years ago!!!!  a song about heartbreaking affairs…. I put it on a Burlesque Dancing movie

With S, his first piece for the large stage, José Navas evokes human nature through the expression of pure movement. Choreographer and company: José Navas/Compagnie Flak. Music: Erik Satie….

a portion of a song by Riceboy Sleeps … a fraction of Sigur Ros …some nature noises… and a brulesque dancer…

the flesh covers the bone  and they put a mind  in there and sometimes a soul,  and the women break
vases against the walls  and the men drink too  much  and nobody finds the  one  but keep  looking  crawling in and out of beds.  flesh covers  the bone and the  flesh searches  for more [...]

Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS — and tells stories of citizen journalists in action.

as I was walking through the fields outside Antwerp along the river, de Schelde, I saw this speed limiting traffic sings, in the mddle of nowhere!! Belgian surrealism…

is a joy forever…

The new (??? 5412122 views…) short film by Blu: an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

according to Wiki, Flemish is a popular informal term to refer to Belgian Dutch, Dutch as spoken in Belgium and it refers to two specific dialects of Dutch alone, namely East and West Flemish. But in reality there are much more dialects n this oh so small part of the world.  You all know the [...]

no comments…. (hips)

Helen Marshall  is a British artist. Her work is rooted in photography, design and lens-based media. She also works with installation, sound and text. She has a track record in socially engaged and participatory practice in the public realm.

some youtubes….

a collection of some black and white photos that took my attention the past weeks….

lately we did a hughe light job in the Zoo of Antwerp.  There was a new elephant born: Kai Mook.  here some nice photos by Kenvin Pinardy: “elephant girl”

An Italian sexologist Piero Lorenzoni  has claimed that he can tell a woman’s personality from the size and shape of her breasts, and his research has revealed some interesting and previously unknown facts…

moving bodies….

This collection of clips combines notable visual effects of the past century.

Lately I’ve seen so many art movies that I long for a funny one:  If the movie ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats‘ is half as funny as the trailer, it’ll be totally worth it. I can’t wait…

“放屁“ (fang pi) in Chinese literally means to fart but in slang it means to bluff or lie. This piece does not need much explaining and is quite entertaining. I have always appreciated Chen Wenling’s humor.

a whole day, it took me a whole day, just to update my wifes website… IT is not my cup of tea!!!

..is she having a laugh?

Miette made a movie “Mogli” on Musique de Joachim Badenhors…

Caetano Veloso sings Nothing But Flowers from Talking Heads on photos by Mirabilia…

I found a page on cdbaby called: Naked on Cd Cover …!?! if the music is not good enough you can try this …

it’s a silly movie, but I had to laugh when the drums started moving….

in Aalst, Montréal, Stockholm, Seatle, Paris, Amsterdam…

More than 200 dancers were performing their version of “Do Re Mi”, in the Central Station of Antwerp. with just 2 rehearsals they created this amazing stunt! Those 4 fantastic minutes started the 23 of march 2009, 08:00 AM. It is a promotion stunt for a Belgian television program, where they are looking for someone [...]

20 years ago I saw the movie ‘Paris Texas’ for the first time.  I cried for hours during and after sawing it.  I tried it again last night, but it didn’t work out.  but still, I like it a lot… and Nastassja remains one of my favourites of all time.  xxx

we (groep arthur ) created a videoclip for sony music benelux.  a lipsync version of a the ting tings hit danced by the sony music crew…

Danse filmée diffusée sur arte, mise en scène par le chorégraphe et danseur belge Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (sur la vidéo en arrière plan)

bollywood godess and former miss world…

Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster. Playing on Don DeLillo’s riff in his novel Mao II: “what terrorists gain, novelists lose” and “home is a failed idea”, he blends archival footage of hijackings with surreal and banal themes, [...]

If you don’t know who this guy is you really need to do some research. Stefan Sagmeister well known for joining up photography and graphic design together. He is also well known for the poster where he wrote text all over his body.

Beautiful, you’re beautiful,
as beautiful as the sun
Wonderful, you’re wonderful,
as wonderful as they come
And I cant help but feel attached
To the feelings I cant even match
With my face pressed up to the glass,
wanting you
Beautiful, you’re beautiful….

Hannablue in black and red….

“the bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.” Pablo Picasso, Bansky dixit Oskar Lewis.

here’s to you, mrs Robinson, with your legs, as long as a noght without love  ….

give it to me….

Marina Abramović’s art…

Marina Abramovic’s performance ‘Expanding in Space’, with her long time partner Ulay. This is a copy of a copy of a copy of what was called the “official version” provided by the artists themselves.

meet the meat ….. or …. do you eat meat?  did you ever killed a warm blooded animal? Do you like salami?  do you have a pet?  Do you wear wool? a leather jacket?  Do you kill your own food?  Is killing an animal murdering?  Do you like the taste of blood?Do you know what [...]

Oh la la…

should we be prepared to a new sort of Big Brother thing that will rule internet….?

… a sack of flesh and bones….

I live in exile for the moment, my daughters send me a foolish movie and I mixed a ‘dancng fool’ video and an old song with it ….

I collected some of my song in a page ….

a silly song I made being bored and suddenly see the summer wind caressing the treetops…

do check this photograpfer!!!

Andrea G. ( my daughter)  covers a song by Sting: fields of gold.  I made a film while wandering in the garden…

I made, on an other rainy day, a new song.  In my hometown dialect : Dada, m’n lief (bey bey love). Put it on loud!!!

I recorded a song on a rainy day…. In my hometown dialect: Jenny ( a love story)

Didier Massard’s photographs look like they could have been on the cover of your favorite book as a child, or come straight out of that weird dream you had last night. Massard’s “tabletop” photography captures locations that he’s imagined, built as models, lit, and then brought to life.

I’m working on it, I’m working on it….

… by Laurie Hill

tjek out this amazing searchengine … much cooler than google

I stumbled upon this nice dreamcreating collection of old pictures: makes you wander… those people, on that day they took the photo, lived in ‘modern times’ , just like we now do thinf we’re living in modern times…

A store that sells new husbands has opened in a nearby City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:

Answer 20 questions about your concept of God, the afterlife, human nature, and more, and Belief-O-Matic™ will tell you what religion (if any) you practice…or ought to consider practicing.

.. Patients and the doctors …dead, has to live ….

a dancefilm choreographed by Mats Ek, in 3 parts ….

do you like music?  I mean the real stuff.  Music from the people, world music, roots music?  Then you should learn about Tony Gatlif, the film director.  Go to the videothèque or library and get yourself some journey’s…

a nice flashgame…

And this I dreamt, and this I dream,
And some time this I will dream again,

david bowie and bing crosby: little drummer boy…

….”I will love no more.” … (I know, never say never again, ) thank you for the coffee (1905581 visits!!)

just this one photo!!! I like this image really very much.  An excelent moment!  A strong image full of tenderness. I am convinced they had a very good life. The symbiosis shown by the position of their body parts is great. It is very impressive when we look not only at their faces, but also [...]

Absolutely amazing recitation of the Holy Qur’an by a young boy. It left me speechless. Can’t get enough of this recitation. He is blessed with a beautiful voice. His name is Hasan bin Abdullah Al Awadh. It reminded me of that part in our Holy Bible when the child Jesus was missing and the [...]

today it’s ‘sinterklaas‘ day ( saint nicolas, santa claus, Νικόλαος, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, … )

Jonathan Trappe, a Cluster balloonist, or a  chair-balloonist, sitting in his own office chair, flying 5 km high above mother earth, with only balloons…

Arno  sings “Mother’s Little Helper”, a song of the Rolling Stones during a live performance in Brussels.

offering fantastic views over the city centre.

De beklimming van deMechelse  Sint-Romboutstoren is een echte uitdaging voor durvers. Het panorama vanop dit 97 meter hoge gebouw is adembenemend, de 513 treden ernaartoe ook…

Flemish: 1cm x 6cm, French: 7mm x 6cm…. you take your potatoes and cut off the edges (pareren), you cut them in slices of 1 cm thickness, prox. 6cm long,

…” Watch this face painting of everyones favorite villian come to life as i move my face. Face paint art by artist James Kuhn” …

well, some of us….

Annie’s campaing …

I don’t know. I get the idea, yes, but, … I don’t know… girl, woman, why do you wear them?  against the cold? Yes, I know, I know, to flatten the lines, for beauty sake, I know, ….

excercise: try to focus on the face …on the face, the eyes! … focus!!!!

Sound and Visions by Larry Carlson, 2005
WARNING!!! – Watching this video will cause a sense of weightlessness; a time distortion, both of speed and slowing down; a tingling sensation on the skin,similar to that of mild electricity; an increase in the skin temperature; a tranquilizing effect on the nervous system; and finally, very graphic dreams [...]

Fyi: Every February 9 it’s time to commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala in the year 61 AH (AD 680). This tradition is better known as Ashura and is very popular amongst Shia Muslims. Many choose to spend the day performing mourning rituals or passion [...]

…running through the graveyard, we laughed my friends and I, we swore we’d be together, until the day we died, until the day we died.
It’s such a sad old feeling, the fields are soft and green, it’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream, when you dream, you’re innocent when you dream…

In 1930 Bartosch moved to Paris and created the 30 minute film entitled “The Idea”

What happened to the kids? Why did they die? Aren’t policeman not trained to protect them? Who knows the story behind this drama? Who can explain?

“Parliament voted on 28th October for the world-beating legislation after a 3 and a half year campaign by Friends of the Earth.” good!  but there is more to do… Look at this movie, filmed in my hometown Ostend, by Nic Balthazar, a friend.

Over the course of my life, I’ve probably seen close to 1,000 movies. Maybe half of those films contained a sex scene of one kind or another. Yet out of a whopping 500 sex scenes, I can only recall about a dozen… but, sex sells…

Why did the chicken ever cross the road? is one of the oldest and most famous joke riddles still in use in the English language. The most common answer to this riddle is “To get to the other side.” When asked at the end of a series of other riddles, whose answers are clever, obscure, [...]

the art of pouring colored sands onto a surface to make a painting.

don’t maximize your screen: they do it for you!!!!!!!

he has a nice absurd collection of pictures, always with the same two models …

A woman gives a microphone the ol’ tongue polishing in the name of performance art. …

Interessting stuff I heard on the radio this morning …… Reduced Dominance Is Predicted for U.S.: Analyst Previews Report to Next President

No one could foresee that a farmer’s girl  would once play a major part in the big Medieval struggle between France and England,

the art of Pscal Renoux.

check this list of names people invent for a meal made with leftovers !

a poetical short video by good friend and wonderfull photographer Katrijn Van Giel …

What more could you want from your own micro robotic creature? Tiny.  Intelligent.  Obedient…

this song makes her happy ( dixit my daughter about the song ’secret heart’ by Feist) …

can’t you hear me knocking, @ your window … ? ( a hughe audience, rythm, soul, passion, going with the flow … ) …

Richard Williams’ (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) unfinished magnum opus, based upon the 1001 nights.  Because it was in production from 1964 until 1995, a total of 31 years, The Thief and the Cobbler holds the record for having the longest production time for a motion picture in history Running time: 1 hour 37 mins

I like to post his street art …

mama afrika died on stage …

an impression of where we spend our summers …

now that I’m learning to work with Sketchup, trying to create a 3D model of a venue we want to use for a busness fair, I stumble upon this video…

One of Belgiums finest photographers… “Black!!! No gray!” …

Mtv lauched a new videocollection, free to embed (but no music outside the U.S.???, the bastards…) …  here we go!

( cleaning up my bookmarks …) a butty link to a butt website …

What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller; a student project which was seen [...]

could Matthew Barney be inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky ? …

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney’s interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

Matthew Barney is a one-man Baroque revival. Excess and overloaded images of prosthetically made-up mutant creatures in gorgeous costumes, ornate interiors, satyrs and nymphs. “His work is not about excess, but the emptiness inside excess”. The Cremaster series includes 5 films shot on video. There are almost no spoken words, just like in Drawing Restraint [...]

From 1956 to 1962 – at only 10 years of age – Anthony Christian was granted the privilege of studying the techniques of the “Old Masters” at the National Gallery in London and the accolade of publicity he received during this period announced him to the world as a child prodigy. Throughout his time and [...]

Peter Bratt has been drawing erotic art since the 1980’s, firstly with pen and ink, then pencil and airbrush. During the 1990’s he discovered the computer as a medium for painting and from that point stopped using his airbrush completely.

As I was looking through the surreal art to find my inspiration I was struck by how many pictures mixed the realism of something we know with the unexpected. Especially in the case of René Magritte, Surrealism isn’t a fantasy world where nothing is what we expect.

The queen of photoshop ads ….

Niets heeft me ooit weerhouden om te tekenen en te schilderen.
Al van kleinsaf heb ik leren communiceren zonder woorden…

cousin  Jan made a nice poetical impression of his staying @ La Bastidi…

paintings…

a last serie on tattoo

skin, paper, perkament, poetry, remembering, motivation, goal, me, myself, I, ….

Graduation film for MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. An investigative and exploratory hands–on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things ‘off’. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first. Sound design by Mike Wyeld, with a voice over by Bryan Quinn.

I’m into tattoo.  It intrigues me… symbols, lines, pain, art, …

Adam and Jamie, hots of the known mythbusters show compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an  mona lisa drawing using paint balls in 80 milliseconds…

«Politics makes strange bedfellows» and others…

… Japi Honoo is a subterranean, rushing stream, invisible to the eyes of those who dont’ dare put their ears to the ground to feel its vibrations. She gushes from darkness, merging crystal clear and muddy waters…

How great is this short animated film about an octopus love affair / car chase by a group of Gobelins animation students?

Another video on music by my son Wolfram. My daughter, Gudrun, (and our dog, Choco) dances in it.

I made a new video, on music by my son, Wolfram, and Esse danced on it.

“  secrets tumbling from my heart … erotic thoughts ….  ohhh! … such treats in store …”

… Does not really matter who I am or where I come from, the world has no borders.
my illustrations speak for me ….

….. my profession is Garden Architecture….

Donibane Sanjuan: “It is not who I am… it is what I have created”

We do have a strange sort of passion with knights… and their entourage….

2 dance video’s

Jacques Brel “isabelle”

if you like Ingmar Bergman films you will sure like this photos…

my sons made another movie. Wolfram made the music and Oskar (14) the film …

and more …

I love the story!  One day I’ll make a stageplay with it … for adults of course…

a facebook friend: Larry Carlson is a visionary multi media artist. Working with computers he creates artwork that is completely mind blowing.

a facebook friend of mine: Larry Carlson has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries in the U.S., Brazil, Sweden, France, and Germany. Recently the Museum of Modern Art ( MOMA ) in New York exhibited his collage art books in the show Book/Shelf, and his movies were shown at Alex Grey’s COSM (Chapel of [...]

Experimental computer animation by german artist Robert Seidel. …

A brief compilation of shows we made the last years ….

a facebook friend on mine: Larry Carlson is a visionary multi media artist. Working with computers he creates artwork that is completely mind blowing.

It is no wonder  that Ian Norbury should work with wood, a raw material that is so tactile, warm and sensual. It can also be hard and unforgiving, but with Ian this is a true union of man and material, the one complementing the other to the greatest possible effect.

a facebook friend on mine : As a child growing up in northern New Jersey, Larry Carlson spent a lot of time drawing and began to keep a sketchbook at an early age. His artist’s attention has always been captivated by both nature and technology.

I like to listen to Synchronicity, looking at this pictures:”Daddy only stares into the distanceThere’s only so much more that he can take.  Many miles away something crawls from the slime At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake….” 

(once this was a plain rock, Antonio Canova carved that wonderfull statue out of it… )
“Oh foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After I disobeyed my mother’s commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice [...]

German artist Michael Najjar is fascinated by scenarios for the future of mankind. In his large-format photographs and video works, he creates a simultaneously exciting and disturbing picture of human beings as artificial, technological beings (I wander if his mother knows this?) …

Hannablue:”one for the boys and the girls, completely over the top, and a bestranging view.
Ballerina’s…”

… that’s the name this female Russian photoghaper uses, and I believe she does …

hannablue:” sweet combination” Written by Anoushka Shankar & Norah Jones from the “breathing under water” album with Karsh Kale.

“… you can leave your hat on …”

維基百科，自由的百科全書
鈴木春信（すずきはるのぶ，英譯Suzuki Harunobu， 1724年－1770年），是日本浮世繪畫家。早年在京都學藝。首創多色印刷版畫。1765年在江戶領導了木刻「繪曆」的創製。之後到去世的五年之內創作了20多本插圖書和600 幅木刻。他以創作美人畫最著名，畫的多是詩意環境中身材纖巧的少女。也創作了一些春畫。( I think it says: lonely woman, paited by Suzuki Harunobu …. )

Hannablue: “feed the inspiration with this image of a very exceptional sitar playing muze
experimantal. ” (Anoushka, the daughter of Ravi Shankar and sister of norah jones….)

Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信) (1724 – 1770) was a Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style. He was an innovator, the first to produce full-color prints (nishiki-e) in 1765, rendering obsolete the former modes of two- and three-color prints. Harunobu used many special techniques, and depicted a wide variety of [...]

Hannablue:” dance, art, or genius? “

The Garden Of Eros
IT is full summer now, the heart of June,
Not yet the sun-burnt reapers are a-stir
Upon the upland meadow where too soon
Rich autumn time, the season’s usurer,
Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees,
And see his treasure scattered by the wild and spendthrift breeze.

Sensual, and almost sinister at the same time…

Hannablue :”slow listening….”

Korean dance performance …

different kinds of blue …

What would happen if you put together some masterpieces of art history in a sensual and erotic collage kiss? This art video by Italian painter Giuseppe Ragazzini will show it to you…

“An inventor finds meaning to his life. However, he learns that happiness is something that cannot be manufactured. ”
Director and animator Mark Osborne

Impressing clip… so beautiful … Andy Huang is a student? Looks like he should be the teacher. Somebody hire him, quick! His animation is perfectly convincing, the sound effects are first-rate, the editing and compositing are smoother than a baby’s butt, and the social commentary is ironic bordering on profound. Outstanding work.

The new short film by Blu, an ambiguous animation painted on public walls. Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

“In Bed” is an interactive installation by Drew Burrows. The piece compares the feelings of coming home to an empty bed versus coming home to a bed with someone in it asleep but happy that you are joining them. These two situations are profoundly different and the installation invites a viewer to experience and consider [...]

… Tune in and view highlights from the press conference held by musician and iconoclast Tom Waits …

“Like a single note of a piano struck that sets other strings within to vibrating in response, a unique artistic voice can set our soul ringing. ”

“There are no anorexic waifs here- the bodies are fleshy, the breasts are pendulous, there are curves, and a tangible substance to these figures to digest. ”

Teatro UNAM is a mobile theater company based in Mexico D.F. Hauling a specially engineered trailer that transforms into a stage complete with prop and wardrobe storage,

a second collection of photos made with my mobile phone “red” …

“I live in Ukraine, in city of miners – Donetsk. The artist. I use a photo, as a basis for creation of the works. I photograph only itself and only on a film (6×6 – 9×12cm.) the Main criterion in creativity – to feel! And through the art to inform these feelings to people!” Strange [...]

Alberto Seveso is a graphic designer and illustrator. His work is the product of a skillful electronic manipulation of photographs- some he’s taken, some he’s gotten from other photographers, and some he’s bought. Seveso uses the computer to deconstruct the bodies in the photographs into something entirely different, yet he still captures the form, the [...]

Jung von Matt/next, the agency for interactive and innovative communication, presents the project “Tagged in Motion”: Graffiti artist DAIM “sprays” digital graffiti into empty space. More on http://nextwall.net

Brighton, UK based animator Cyriak Harris creates some truly bizarre and surreal animation. Here’s an animation mix featuring of some of his work.

remember this one? I found more artwork on the same model…

Donatello (1386-1466) left behind him so much work through the world that it may rightly be asserted that no artist worked so hard as he.” He set his hand, adds Vasari, to everything, and an epitaph praises him for having done “alone today all that with a skilful hand numbers had once done for sculpture.”

Klara.be did an experiment with Luc Tuymans. What if you take art out of its usual context and expose it in the street?

Stephan Vanfleteren: His radical black-and-white documentary work covers the disappearance of small, anarchic worlds and the phenomena of everyday life in his homeland Belgium as well as events from world’s conflict zones to every day life around the world. He also interested in portraying artists, actors, writers, directors, musicians and all other people that express [...]

Wim Vandekeybus evokes a dramatic effect by juxtaposing plastic movement, music and scenography. Thus, according to one critic, the performance entitled What the Body Does Not Remember (1987) was distinguished by “a brutal conflict of dance and music, by a bellicose, aggressive landscape, which showed what the body really did not remember”.

Royal De Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company. Try to see them! Check the last link I put down there: about mannequins comming alive….

these are 3D drawings… the artist becomes a god ….?

As an artist, I had long been interested in the universal power and necessity of religious ritual and its theatrical qualities. Until a few years ago, I was known as a sculptor and performance artist. Primarily, I created large scale “environmental installations” in which I performed “religious rituals” as performance art.

in according to last post: men/animal or is it men/allian?

“I created this series of canvases using ancient Chinese painting as a model. Each piece is composed using ancestral techniques.” However, as one approaches the work it becomes evident that Li’s content is contemporary. The blacks, whites and browns traditionally used give way to a modern palate – an allegory for the influences of western [...]

Do you know the comics serie ‘Kogaratsu‘? I’m a big fan!!! And this foto’s remind me of the world of Kogaratsu…“Bettoes or Grooms” is a photograph from a Beato album in the Smith College Museum of Art. The image illustrates hand-applied color that dramatically enhances the photograph, in this case capturing the detail [...]

” I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well”

russian – belgian artist draws in a familiar sort of art nouveau style… I like the idea she works near the sea where I was brought up …

incredible how they do it: those digital artists…

Ben Wilson, who in the leafy suburbs of North London takes what is the inherent problem with chewing gum and uses this incredible permanent material as a unique canvas to decorate pavement. This form of synthetic rubber is essentially so hard to remove that it becomes fixed form of street decoration!

The art of Dirk Westphal will appeal to a large audience, his work is detailed, shows accessible scenery and is near technical perfection. This doesn’t mean his work is superficial. It’s quite layered and some images, especially his drawn collages, are revealing eroticism from a very personal perspective.

Roberto Segati has developed his own gothique art style …

The Oilgraph process is a technique Kevin developed in 1994 that combines the photographic print with oil paint and other media to produce an archival original. The works vary in size and complexity and more information can be found at the link below. He began exhibiting the pieces in 1995 and in 1996 Kevin Rolly [...]

This is the purest of photographic experiences. Only the eyes of a poet can enable us to exist in several time dimensions simultaneously.

a friend of mine (Blanche) makes jewelry, do send her some comments…

they all look at the camera asking: “What do you want?”. Well I ask you: what?

“Contemporary art is exciting and provocative, and collecting it can bring years of aesthetic pleasure. Whether you are already a passionate collector or simply have an interest in contemporary art, kunzt.be is your chance to engage with and buy art that is being made now, at a fair price.” dixit Kris Ghesquière, and I [...]

There is an unbelievably wide spectrum between beautiful expressions of the nude human form and the portrayal of explicit lovemaking acts. Those that have not been exposed to different levels of nude art will often find they cannot discern between them, the result is the categorization of all nudity as indelicate and exploitative. The images [...]

Fashion show of SS’08 Preview Collection. Journey through time and liquid space to a futuristic world of bioluminescence, giant mechanic cephalopods, futuristic aquanauts and mysterious galactic polips. Witness the first catwalk show with real models showing with holographic models. Created by Video Architects: Peter Simonsen and Clas Dyrholm. The end of the show is [...]

a new film about Theo’s creatures…

“L’art n’est pas chaste ou bien s’il l’est ce n’est pas de l’art”

erotic sculptures by Jamie McCartney …

From ImprovEverywhere over 200 people freeze in place on cue in Grand Central Station in New York…

Lantos Istvàn: “I was born on 24th November 1961, Budapest. I had been a scriptwriter for long years but now I find it quite difficult to tell about myself as a photographer..

Queen of pain:

a Ronny Van de Velde initiative….

Greta Buysse loves mise en scène, accumulating and associating, a hint of Baroque, tension, retro. Sometimes she cherishes apparently worthless things, but with a whole life behind them, and she integrates them in a work of art. With a cautious, groping sensitivity she often in an inimitable way records the [...]

A Battles collaboration with celebrated light artists UVA (United Visual Artists), produced by Warp Films (This Is England, Rubber Johnny, Dead Mans Shoes etc.).

“Almost my entire family worked in the cinema business, at the technical division of it. My grandfather started his own cinema company and all his children joined in.

a photographer? a writer? a musician? a filmer?a coach?Sensei?Manager?… All art here in this post is by Steve Fitch, only, I don’t know which Steve Fitch

6.104.361 viewers … The uploader, Ezsebas, asks on youtube to put on difererent versions of the same video ( tip from cousin Jan )… well I made one…

she makes nice portraits of the famous, and made a ‘fairy tail’ movie’ …

International Colour Art Competition 2004
Red was the theme for the year 2004 portrait competition in Colour Art Photo

Biliana, your drop and macro shots are amazing, every time I look at them I want to grab my camera and go set it up under the tap in my kitchen

a nic e collection of art photos.

years ago, we made a circus show. I remembered the movie I made, a ‘collage’ and was happy to see it again. We made a 5.1 surround soundscape, with trains running over the public and choirs passing by… My daughter was singing in the show…

a nice flash by Aaron Russ Clinger and Miltos Manetas.

Albert Bierstadt! But he sure could paint…. just like the othe millions of painters who’s work we never will see….

I created the lighting design and the scenery for a music-theatre production. I used only indirect light in a complete white decor. A white floor and a white ceilling. In the back there is the warm color of real fire… You can see a movie of it here.
more by me here and [...]

at last….

miles davis “blue in green”

glamour photos by Aleksey & Marina… Here you find some photos, but on his site he has a lot of ‘painted photos’ of which I like the expression more…

The art of Ted Fusby is clearly intended for a gay audience, it contains mainly male nudes and gay erotic scenes. Most of his work displays the male form in an exaggerated, nearly cartoonish way, combined with a quite tactile approach of the used media.

His imaginary world is full of incredibly sexy women, ranging from a highly seductive Vampire lady to a wonderful water Nymph. Most of his work is build around established fantasy theme’s, with some original variations on the subject. Besides his fantasy women there’s also an abundant collection of religious themed images. Like a female Christ, [...]

zoom in on “LA GLORIA DI SANT’IGNAZIO“

Tarkovski: “Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

it’s modern art, but it really gave me a laugh!! (URBAN ART/the tree)

Denis Darzacq, modern artist, would like to fly….

While he has a knack for getting adult fingers wagging, the desire to tap the fears and free imagination of childhood is at the heart of Cunningham’s creative process. He explains: “When I draw, whatever comes out is what comes out naturally. I don’t see it as ‘dark’. You’re trying to work instinctively, to make [...]

Modern art: the explination is a lot of arty farty bla bla bla, but the images (film) are wonderfull…

fine human art, nice view, wise thoughts creating …

“I touch myself”:

Dimitri Parimèros, artiste belge d’origine grecque, a créé à l’occasion des “Nuits Blanches” de Paris des sculptures monumentales en résine et fibres optiques.

This short by Servais, dedicated to the memory of Paul Delvaux, is literally an animation, in that it brings alive some of the Belgian Surrealist’s most famous paintings.

“Here we are at the threshold. This is the most important moment of your lives. You have to know that here your most cherished wish will come true. The most sincere one. The one reached through suffering.”
An essay on the movie STALKER by Tarkovski (I met him in Italy!!!!) I like the most [...]

“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene”.- Robert Bresson – “Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. . . . The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.” – John Berger –

Angie is one of my myspace friends, and she’s an artist…

a lovely tattooed french lady of l’ille de france… and she’s a painter…

Andy Goldsworthy youtubes, just because…

we write each other sometimes on myspace (Ngelight): she makes pictures…

BBC Motion Gallery. Impressive and beautiful clips from around the world

also by Dustball

by Dustball

policeofficeart ….

What the fuck …

I met Jan Pauwels tonight at an art event in Antwerp. He is a light-artist….

proud father, beautiful daughter… Gudrun dances on music by Oskar Lewis.

by Eric Klarenbeek…

I made a short movie with samples of a musictheatreplay I ( groep arthur) made and put it on music by Jan Garbarek. Use headphones …!  Hope you like it!?!

“The visible and perceptible (portraits, nudes, landscapes, still lives, interiors…) are only a mask that hides the diversity (beauty, nostalgia, sublime terror …) of the invisible, behind which the authentic and genuine reality is hidden. To detect this, situate, research and reveal in paint, pencil, charcoal or clay is my ultimate motive and objective.”

photo
“Sarah’s blue eyes really stand out against the low key colors of the image.” By Carey Evans.

a self taught photographer. Left home at the age of 17 and at 22 he completes a solo trip through the five continents… Such a fine artwork …

I was born @ the Belgium coast and the next words took my attention…
“Born into a seafaring family, Eugène Boudin is mostly known for his paintings of sea and sky”.

don’t you like those colors …?

Lara:”Being an erotic artist is a bit of an odd occupation, and not something everyone approves of.”…

edgar degas :”What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.”

Complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about.-OL-

That’s the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself…

an amazing animation painted on wall…

I spent a time in Colombia, between birds and bullets …. and the nice work by Luis Caballero …

Often through animals or people, Camilla’s pictures inspire their audience with a wide range of feelings. Her work has a knack of allowing you to grasp a notion without robbing you of your personal interpretation, regardless of whether it’s an acrylic painting, paper-on-paper or mixed media.

“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.” -GM-

” Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” -GM-

“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.” -GM-

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
-GM-

Remember Benedict Radcliffe and his wireframe Subaru Impreza? Well, he does it again with a Toyota Corolla. The new work was commissioned by Japan’s Densu Inc for an advertising campaign in the Middle East? How? Only Densu knows.

I discovered a new toy in photoshop and I amused myself with some of my wallpapers … how strange, when you change a body line, beauty disapears and a new character appears … Gods must be crazy!

An excellent source for free backgrounds, sorted by user rating. The images are available in all common resolutions, from 2560×1600 down to 1024×768, and are very diversely themed.

Irakli: “i use the language of art to express myself and communicate to other people. most important for me is a human being which stands in the middle of the world. even though we are civilized today, we feel ourselves more and more alone“.
Jeezes!! Good he’s a ( young) painter and not a writer….

Last night I saw (again) Tarkovki’s ( my hero!!!) movie “Solaris” and remembered he liked to use Bruegel paintings in his decor, especially those winter scenes … those kind of paintings must have been the movies of their time (+/- 1550)

I wandered in a forest this morning and suddenly I looked up, to the top of the trees and the impressive contrast between the green and the blue sky made me realize that for to long I had been looking down …

Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who works with video and new media
in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception…

The Rotators are designed to be the unit of instruments in a rhythm section for automatic playing. The core section to control the unit is named Rotatorhead… by Ujino Muneter.

“get up”

James Avati, a respected artist who was considered a “genius” in the cover-art world “the king of the paperback covers” …

Caravaggio :”All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles… unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing… better than to follow nature.”

some very nice paintings …

“Say It right”
“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

Claudia Philips, a talented young Belgian balletdancer, made a choreografie for us and I made a short movie of it on music by Miles Davis …

“you are so beautiful”
In the words of Shakespeare himself: “The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in their close relationship with beauty and truth.”

I love her and her work, and now she made a new movie …

“the cross”

Queen”Killer Queen ”

Bartok/For Children

“alla laa ke”

Annie Lennox “Why”

Arno “putain putain”

Diana Krall “temptation”

Joe Cocker “Marorine”

Creative but strange artworks by Stephen J Shanabrook

How to turn everything arround you into art….

Another amazing collection of papercuts. by Peter Callesen…

Tom Waits “Burma Shave” live & rare

Sly and the Family Stone “Family Affair”

Prince “sexy M F “

Billy: “My goal is to recognize the complexities that reside in all of us, our lives, and our relationships.”

“no woman no cry”

“the return of the king”
JJ Andre: “In the mid Fifties when I began figure photography straight photographs of the nude alone were not fully satisfying to me. In my mind, regardless of composition, form and lighting, they did not have great artistic value. They lacked meaning. Their use was that of a sketchbook, notes, poses, [...]

“I would die 4 U”

“red rain”
Evgeny Freeone: champion of bodypainting … RED …

“clandestino”
Photographe clandestin … The Parisian artist JR works with portrait photos which he puts up on walls, bridge pillars or gates. Through the special aesthetics of his photos and the sometimes gigantic formats in which he brings the faces to the city, he directly challenges advertisement posters and gigantic banners in a visual way…

It took animator/filmmaker Piotr Kamler nearly half a decade to make this fantastic animated 3-D sci-fi film that is set in a futuristic city inhabited by powerful immortals who are utterly bored with the idea of eternity and so begin playing with time.

last month, we had a show in Beda, Holland. This is the tissue act part, Evelien made for us, on music by Bregovic, played live by The Kirke String Quartet …

“father and son”

Wonderfully subtle and delicate. The best and most refined animation I have ever seen in my life, to say DOG, by Suzie Templeton, is a masterpiece is an understatement!”

Oscar-nominated short film about a man employed in a copy shop, who makes photocopies of himself until they fill up the entire world.

“Polegnale e Pschenitza”

Do watch out for your back!!!…

Love is in the air (inox knife edition) by Carlos Aires

it’s only your imagination…

Their work is a visual exploration of the human psyche and it’s capability to communicate with itself, other people and it’s environment. In their short films, like “Impossible Love” and “Impossible Garden”, we see naked figures touching, searching and interacting in a minimalistic white décor. Intriguing visions of human vulnerability, our body language, and our [...]

1000 portraits….

Grace Jones “libertango”

Cindy Lauper “true Colors”

James Brown “Try Me”

Sigur Ros “Hey Satan”Heysátan.mp3]
An angry young men? Angry Biscuit: “I post many things that people are bound to find objectionable, and/or offensive in nature. In some ways that is the point, and in some ways I’m simply speaking my mind. Remember – MY blog, MY rules….” Look at some of his work.

Bono & Lanois “Falling at your feet”
Yesterday I saw the Wim Wenders / Bono film ‘Million Dollar Hotel‘ with the beautiful Milla Jovovich as one of the characters. I found some art photos of her…

George Michael “I want your sex”
Prince “cream”
Sarah Bishop’s work is a blend of rich colours, bold textures and sensual subjects, served up in generous portions and infused with her warmth.

A la Renaissance, il y a juste 500 ans, Michel-Ange a sculpté la Pietà. La PietàSur ce couple planent plusieurs énigmes, des thèmes et interrogations intemporels que nous retrouvons très précisément dans notre quotidien…
Cinq siècles après Michel Ange Buonarotti, Gregor Podgorski conjugue la Pietà en cinq cents mises en scène sur le ton de l’émotion [...]

Stabat Mater (The sorrowful mother was standing) The hymn, one of the most powerful and immediate of extant medieval poems, meditates on the suffering of Mary, Jesus Christ’s mother, during his crucifixion. text, music and pictures….

john lennon “mother”

Frank sinatra “the coffee song”:

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Tom Zé “vibracao Da Carne”

Rolling stones “paint it black”

tanita tikaram “Valentine heart”

Andrew “Drew” Posada was an American comic book colorist and pin-up artist. Best known as one of the pioneering digital colorists, working for several Image studios including Wildstorm, Top Cow, Avalon and others during the mid to late 1990s. He later left comic books to pursue a career as a pin-up artist. Sadly Drew Posada [...]

Film réalisé par les étudiants suivant la 3ème année de spécialisation en animation de personnages 3D, GOBLINS. Par Gabriel GELADE, Mehdi LEFFAD, Anthony MENARD, Matthieu POIREY. Musique : Vincent EHRHART DEVAY.

Open book (“a livre ouvert”) Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Iris Bonavitacola, Virginie Hanrigou, Carole Maurel, Augustin Paliard,
Raphaël Lev, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation.

The Police “Mother”

Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Antoine Birot, Cecile Coulibeuf, Benjamin Marsaud, Lisa Paclet, Caroline Piochon, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

“Super tibetan racer” Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Christelle Abgrall, Anaïs Chevillard, Bernard Ling, Kosal Sok, Jun Violet, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

“Le piment” Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005. Par Pierre Ducos, David Etien, Louis de la Taille, Julie Serviere, Pierre Tricoire, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

roxy music “avalon”

Film réalisé comme court métrage d’ouverture pour le Festival International du Film d’Animation (FIFA) d’Annecy 2005.Par Sonia Demichelis, Olivier Daube, Wilfried Pain, Bertrand Piocelle,Jean-Vincent Sales, étudiants de la formation Dessinateur d’animation, Goblins.

NIck Cave “helpless”

Some pictures by Joeri de Schutter….

David Byrne “girls”:
Seems like ev’rywhere I go, Seems like ev’rything I do, Seems like ev’rything I dream about, Seems like ev’rywhere I look, ….Well I got girls, girls on my mind. I think about them mostly all the time….

Brain Eno & David Byrne:

I like colored glass a lot. It filters sun’s light. Shows aspects of white… When the light passes through scenes come to life, almost like the windows of Sainte-Chapelle…

…and then God created the dolls….

Floris Andrea(1967) specializes in portrait photography and unusual photo essays. For a number of years he has worked with his own technique, what he calls the Andreatype, in which he combines pigment with photographic emulsion on wooden panel.

Has anyone seen my pants?????

An alternative French artist, likes to work with light…
Christian Boltanski: ‘The big problem when you’re an artist is that the times of creation don’t come often. Most of the time I stay here in my studio and groan, and after that I go to my room, look at the TV.‘
‘One of the beauties of my [...]

Yeah, I know one when I see one….

Andy Warhol: “I’d always wanted to do a movie that was pure fucking, nothing else, the way Eat had been just eating and Sleep had been just sleeping. So in October ‘68 I shot a movie of Viva having sex with Louis Waldon. I called it just Fuck.”

Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child….

Bulgarian writer Liliana aka “Lolla”and “lilit”, makes also nice pictures. And she loves theatre, just like the oskarlewis crew….

In all of her work, children and adults, all the persons have that mysterious ‘female’ look in their eyes…

two times a year I design the lights for the ballet performances of the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp… I like the energy and the concentration of those young persons… The dreams and ambitions…

conceptual photography

Dali on film

Over the past four years, award-winning photographer Douglas Menuez traveled through Jalisco state documenting the traditions from which tequila is born, from the history of the agave plant to how its most famous product became a symbol of Mexico…

Jeezes, what’s on a man’s mind????
(like humans do)

Eric M.: “Making The Party was an attempt to create such an event. I wanted to find out what would happen if a lonely middle-aged man decided he could speak honestly with an adolescent woman at a company party. Even more, I wanted to evoke the “vivid, continuous dream” of fiction.”

A magnetic succession of stripped-down faces, straightforward portraits of the very famous and absolutely unknown, Close Up allows for a hypnotic exploration of the human face. Every week, Schoeller is called upon to capture portraits of the most recognized personalities of our time, from Britney Spears to President Bill Clinton. This German-born photographer spent the [...]

When you paint it it’s art, when you make photos of it it’s ‘dirt’….

When you make such pictures, you must be crazy yourself, I guess…

…They guessed you wouldn’t come…

Gregory Crewdson is to photography what Edward Hopper is to painting…

“There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples. There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in [...]

Heaven or hell? Who cares. As long as there are angels…

I don’t know why I like her photo’s. They seem not to fit together but in each of them I see a story. And I like stories…

Like any reasonably creative and curious human, Scott can’t resist a dirty rear car window. I suspect that Scott starts off with clever sayings, like “wash me.”….

another goblins project…

One of the most popular tourist destinations in India, Khajuraho has the largest group of medieval Hindu temples, famous for their erotic sculpture. The name Khajuraho is derived from the Hindi word khajur meaning date palm.

Very popular……. a century ago… but anyhow…it did took my attention…

I like to see the work behind the scene, te have a look at how films are made (ex. DUNE).. Did you know the animation characters first are made in clay, 3D….?

Image metrics is specialized in high fidelity performance-driven facial animation, digital characters, real-time engines and content analysis. Their solutions power many of the world’s best-known videogames and feature films. Also musicians, like Peter Gabriel, like to use that technic for their video’s. See how it works on the docu’s…

To create a human species… How must it feel, to be a God, and to be able to create, for insance, your own partner…

Gudrun Ghesquière dances without leaving the couch on music by Bach, played Jazzy by Loussier…

“Give me to drink mandragora… That I might sleep out this great gap of time. My Antony is away.”
Cleopatra is a name which has evoked powerful images of sovreignity, femininity, beauty, and cunning throughout history. Cleopatra is perhaps one of the most famous queens of all time. She has been immortalized by Shakespeare, Horace, [...]

Angel Rengell & Luccia Lignan, an artist couple from Spain, are not only sharing their lives, but also a passion for eroticism in their art. Both artist are celebrating female sensuality, beauty and sexual expression, but from a different angle….

Georgie Tier, about her art, her inspiration and her typical mixture of sexuality and humour. “In my opinion sex is a pretty amusing activity and sad is the person who can’t see the funny side of it�?….

Rikki Kasso has collected a beautifull and inspiring list of photographs on his blogspot.  Very Eastern, a bit strange to me but everything about this blog speaks beauty and humanity…

Like so many other budding photographers throughout the world, Kostya Zalesny got his start as a photo journalist. In his early twenties he took the assignments he was given without question, and quickly made a name for himself as a photographer with integrity and grits.

The rape of the Sabine Women inspired a lot of artists. It refers to an event supposed to have occurred in the early history of Rome, shortly after its foundation by Romulus and a group of mostly male followers. Seeking wives in order to found families, the Romans negotiated with the pre-existing population of [...]

In South Korea they also like to paint on skin and Kin Joon makes nice pictures of it…

After years of working as an art director and studying photoshop Belgian artist Ben Goossens found a new passion in creating experimental and surrealistic photomontages… And doing so (and well!!!) he walks in the footsteps of Belgians most famous surrealistic painter: René Magritte

If you can’t sleep tonight you should watch this beautiful documentary about my favorite artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy makes landscape sculpture from purely natural materials that are immediately at hand. He makes arches out of cracked ice, spirals out of cracked stones, and incredible sculptures from woven leaves. The results are simple and unpretentious but [...]

Years ago, me and my friends, we made a circusshow. It was a ‘melange’ of dance, acrobat, live music and our self made 5.1 soundscape. We enjoyed it very much and played the show for more than 50.000 people… Of course the life and comfort we had during the making of is [...]

When I look at this portfolio, I think: “with this guy I want to have a drink this evening… we would surely end up in some David Lynch bar where he would present me to some of his friends….”

Project Bandaloop honors nature, community, and the human spirit through dance. The company, under the artistic direction of Amelia Rudolph, creates a blend of dance, sport, ritual, and environmental awareness. Inspired by the possibilities of climbing and rappelling, the choreography draws on aerial, vertical and horizontal movement to craft dances, many site-specific. The work explores [...]

Some artist use paint, some use a camera and others use concrete….

“…Besides facial expression, your body, your hair, your fingers, and such can be used to show emotion.. thus this pose and the cropping.. also the play with light and shadow too can create images that give you a certain feel, angst, hatred, sadness, fear, so on and so forth.. It’s such a great exploration to [...]

Parking lots, checkout lines, airports, shopping centers, and lobbies are among the backdrops Kristin Lucas employs in her project for Dia’s web site, Between a Rock and A Hard Drive. The inanimate objects in these places of passage and waiting become the actors in Lucas’s vignettes, reciting dialogue in speech bubbles and balloons culled by [...]

How much can one adore him/herself? Narcissus, Dorian Grey, …. Miss Aniela. She made hundreds of very beautiful self portraits and spreads them around on the net…

My myspace friend, Hilde, who is also a ‘deskundige Cultuurfunctionaris’ in Antwerp, mentioned me that she would ‘expo’ the Brussels based illustration artist Dave Decat @ ccLuchtbal. I checked his collection on, also, myspace and was impressioned. His work reminds me on the old circus posters….

In November 1997 Evert Crols, Dirk Engelen and Sven Grooten set up an independent design office: B-architecten. It is based in Antwerp. B-architecten is a team that developed naturally and works innovatively on a wide variety of projects: individual housing, collective housing, shops, offices, public buildings, public spaces, fairstands, exhibition design and also theatre design. [...]

illustrations
I discovered the free dictionary site (Wikipedia is a part of it)when I was looking for info on the grimm story “little red riding hood‘. All is there, so I have nothing to add… only some illustration I found (and there are a lot more out there…)…

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The Bulgarian photographer Ekaterina Chausheva made these photos. Do you know the Bulgarian choir who made the cd: “Le mystère du voix Bulgare�?? Go to the library and try to listen to it, with headphones on.

Their high and sharp voices cut deep. They make one curious to the country. Just [...]

illustrations
So naive, so young,so ‘innocent’, so …
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music
Andrera recorded a new song. This time it’s “Washing of the Water” by Peter Gabriel.
@ youtube
More Andrea music, more Cinoir Art

paintings
Emilio Kruithof: “I go for what touches my heart. I find women beautiful: women are my subject. I used to collect illustrations of women from LP covers, the Internet and magazines. My female friends read Vogue and Cosmopolitan, and whenever I can I browse through their literature. The colours of creams, make-up, lingerie … [...]

lodger
‘lodger’ is the name of a David Bowie cd / lp that brings back a lot of memories when I hear it. Lodger.tv is a site with very nice and simple animated movies: if you succeed to get three movie icons in a row…

vj art
Dorothée Sorbier is an artist, film maker and graphic designer. Based in Toulouse city, France, she also works as a freelance motion graphic designer.

photos & link
Where do some people find an proxemics link with octopuses? The ability to escape through a 1-inch hole, perhaps….?

photos
She is a really good Artist of Illusion. She’s the best and premiere make-up artist / body painter that I know. I like her using earth and sand and grass, …, on such a beautiful bodies…

photos
Although it moves me in a way, I never understood the use or the meaning of lingerie. I mean, it was always dark in my bedroom… But I admit, when seeing photos like those of Serge… they sort of illustrate the longing for tenderness and proxemics some woman surely must have… The lingerie [...]

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He’s a musician but discovered photography (quite late) and it became one of his biggest passion. I like his classic, light soft-skin style a lot…

gudrun danst…
my sister, my sister, she dances with pride… At this moment she’s making a new piece: I hope she will film it… This here is a project of december 2006: “Time Management”

Shields
shield of the priestess – “I am a spacetraveller galopping wild across the borders of the here and now.The godess lives inside of me. The power is Love, which is the capacity to be free.”
Hannablue is a modern female warrior, an Amazon of the arts. The first collections of her work we choose are [...]

David Lynch Art
David Lynch has a fascinating personality.  I like his movies a lot.  There’s a new one upcoming… so stay alert!  Here you find some paintings he made….

photoshoot movie

photos by Virgilliu Narcis

Spencer Tunick Photos

new film
Our Cinoir, true to his name (CInemaNOIR)and a real talent, made a new film. I didn’t know about it. I just stumbled on it on Youtube. Enjoy the dark inner mood of Cinoir….

Daniele Buetti
“Does Time Dance with Memories” It’s Beauty and the Beast all in one cliché. Fascination and repulsion. Tattoos that reveal the beauty-cruelty relationship …

scarification
Scarification, as a cultural activity, is widely performed across Africa. In essence, it is the practice of incising the skin with a sharp instrument….

video
Now YOUTUBE is out we try a Google video!
The 18 minute black-and-white 1963 TV recording featuring British comedians Freddie Frinton and May Warden has become an integral component of the New Year’s Eve schedule of several German television stations and an absolute cult television classic in Europe.
James: “The same procedure as last year, Miss [...]

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portraits of latin beauties by Urko Suaya,a well-known, talented Argentine photographer…

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dali
‘Salvador Felipe y Jacinto Dalí y Domenech’:what a name!! And what a moustache….
my favorite quote: “Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.”

fantasy drawings
Where does this inspiration come from? Eating just before you go to sleep? Garlic? To much coffee? A tram accident? Bad parents? A pedophilic schoolteacher? …

drawings
Just take a pencil and a piece of paper and start drawing…. it’s oh so simple….

photos
What is my criterion when choosing a photographer? Is it the name? The colours? The contrast? This time I choose Jindrich Kaas because of the combination of model and landscape. It’s strange how we do choose a model. Some we like, some we don’t. Are we looking for our mother’s imitation? I don’t think [...]

by Bill Fogarty
“My paintings are irreverent,�? states Bill. “I’m not above exploiting people’s fear, perversions, maladies, religion or ethnicity. Some people may feel that my work is obscene, but I would disagree with this assessment. I am wholeheartedly in opposition to political correctness and I pride myself on being an equal opportunity offender.�?

Frances Turner)
She died as she lived – in a rush. And her death was like her art – shocking. Much of her work, like the pieces shown here, now seems prophetic in the light of her untimely death. Although Frances Turner the woman is no longer with us, Frances Turner the artist is still [...]

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some photos from the book by Peter Menzel
“Arresting, beautiful, enlightening and infinitely human, this is a collection of full-page photos of families around the world surrounded by what they eat in a single week — from Bhutan to San Antonio. Read the illuminating statistics and the essays. This is a book for the [...]

Kirke strijkkwartet “women and music”
Yesterday I met the beautiful ladies from The Kirke Quartet….

jolien(19): I study at the fashiondepartment of antwerp academy, where i can
see fashion in de broadest sense of the word.I don’t know if i want to be a
fashiondesigner, maybe i just want to do all kinds of art. When i work i can
express my emotions, i can dream…

reversable kitchen
As I was looking for new ‘kitchen’ ideas for our (Groep Arthur) next event, look what site I stumbled into…
Grandma’s revenge is a new interpretation of a good old kitchen dresser. And so it’s like the grandma herself: a real multifunctional talent…

photos
“One photo describes everything… but it does not explain anything. I am from Milan, Italy, and my offical profession is designer, even if art has always been my passion. I came the world of the paintings, and going on the photography get me involved more and more.”  – mkb-

movies
“Rinpa” is a word created by the founders of the group meaning “to bring people together, while “Eshidan” essentially means “art crew.” The Rinpa Eshidan is a team of artists brought together by a common creative expression…

love

photoshoot
Not quite how Da Vinci planned it…..

photos
Michal Macku, Czechoslovakia, more and more recognizes that human life is so amazing and magical that any short biography is a bullshit.

animationfilms
Robyn is a design collective. They make films and commercials because they like it…..

“The beauty in art is nothing else but the essence, the creation!”

the work of Siro Anton

movies
My all time hero: Dave Allen!!! Next to Benny Hill and Peter Sellars, Dave Allen is one of the reigning kings of British comedy. With just an empty stage, a shot, a cigarette and a screen he could weave masterful stories with a variety of accents and show off a wide variety of [...]

I’m a young girl from Antwerp making my way to become a make up artist in
fashion… I’m doing a course in Paris at a make up school called Christian
Chauveau. She just finished her second portfolio and it looks… woow

3D breeding art…
I’m learing to draw with Vectorworks now and I was searching for some 3D figures to import in my drawings….

bodyscapes

by DEADFISH

Banksy actions

by hentai toybox
It’s a bit early to send you a Christmas card, but when I saw this drawing by Hentai Toybox, I felt already the warmth and friendship of Christmas eve…

「ガイノイド�?ジェ�?ティカリ・マニピュレイティッド�?空山基

a magical light erotic Eastern world…

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white tribal…

cavalia
From the founders of Cirque du Soleil. Cavalia is more or less the same thing, only with horses — 37, to be exact, appearing with a merry band of riders who put them through their paces.

the scribbler
everybody is an artist….

Mind filled with progressive Masochism.
Language is Chaos and Disorder.
I live for Poetry, music and AnythingArtistic
Gg says hello

Oleg Dou

the Pierre Gonnord website
I like a lot pictures of faces. Only 2 eyes, 1 nose and 1 mouth, and so many possibilities…

photos by solve Sundsbo

photos
I think this boy just saw a new definition of the idea ‘mother’…

Yotanka (22) is a young photographer who lives and study’s in Antwerp. He told me he wanted to be a press photographer and as you’ll soon see, he has what it takes to be one! Here is part 2 of the photo’s he made while he was on vacation in Armenia.

Mind filled with progressive Masochism.
Language is Chaos and Disorder.
I live for Poetry, music and AnythingArtistic
Gg says hello

women by Brain Moss

put some paint on your body (or the wife’s body…), hold it against a canvas, let dry, sell!

wearable sculptures
Born in Kumamoto, Japan, now lives and works in Amsterdam and Japan. Fukuyama ( website) works as sculptor, producing contemporary and ceremonial Samurai suits, inspired by the ancient culture of the Samurai and contemporary game-culture. His creations are made with moulded plastics, finished with leather, fur, precious stones and precious metals. In addition [...]

Annie: “For twenty years, I’ve been doing portraits of my friends and peers from the wild, wacky, wonderful, often titillating world of sex, porn, fetish, burlesque and experimental art. I got my BFA in photography at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, have had my photos published in over a thousand magazines and my work [...]

muscles by Brian Moss
He opened the Better Bodies gym, New York City, picked up a camera and made this unguarded, honest and voyeuristic images of worlds top bodybuilders; man and women. They show an intimacy that’s never been seen before….

Attila has, so I find, a very beautiful website and portfolio. And in his photos he uses very nice colors.

projects
As a boy, Richard Rogers was dismissed as stupid and sent to a school for backward children. When he eventually escaped from formal education (having stayed much too long in an attempt to pass at least one exam), it was to become one of Britain’s best-loved and most-admired architects.The works of Richard Rogers, born [...]

William WHITAKER (website) loves to paint from life in an old fashioned studio. No matter what direction his art takes him, he always comes back to the model in the studio, the form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a high north window. (my favourite painting: Rebecca!!!)

Serpieri
Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri was born in Venice. He began studying at the Fine Art Academy in Rome and became a pupil of Renato Guttuso. Serpieri took courses in painting and architecture. From 1980 on Paolo Serpieri worked on collections like ‘L’Histoire du Far-West’ and ‘Découvrir la Bible’, as well as short stories for magazines [...]

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Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy gained recognition for his intense performance and video-based work on taboo subjects such as the body, sexuality, and initiation rituals. McCarthy’s work has also explored themes of family, childhood, violence and dysfunction while using bodily fluids, paint, and food to create elaborate and grotesque critiques of cultural icons.

pinup art
nudedrawer

Jan Saudek is currently the most renowned Czech photographer. Adored as well as vilified, celebrated as well as despised, worshiped as well as cursed. He holds a unique place in the development of Czech as well as world photography. Because he is distinctive and original, his work is not part of any genre or movement. [...]

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It is very refreshing to see that someone has the right idea of what an artistic nude is supposed to be. Most photographers who submit nudes have merely taken a nude woman and put her in some rediculis position or setting. This approach has no relativity to artist nudes. Nudes are supposed to be [...]

website (+18)
” I look for life.
I look for the very transient and incredible moments that go beyond mere living. I look for the universal. I search for things that everyone can understand. I try to photograph emotions because that is the only thing human that carries through the ages. I want to photograph the [...]

Well, well, well, what a nice weblog I found with a lot of avantgarde fashion pictures!! You should check it out and let yourself being inspired for when you buy yourself a new wear collection.
WEBSITE

realistic paintings
The viewer is at the same time a voyeur and a guest at the party, but an existential calm reigns in the paintings. Rodgers is a master of composition. His strange parties are, despite all their photographic qualities, put together like a painting by Rubens.
Terry Rodgers: “Infinite fascination with details and dynamic pictorial [...]

website
Roland Topor ( 1938 – 1997) was a French illustrator, painter and filmmaker, known for the surreal of his work. He wrote also a short story which took our attention: ‘fucking the queen’, about a young boy who’s only goal in life is …
wikipedia —- free art

Good for some nostalgic moments: another movie made out of saturday morning cartoons from the 80’s like superman and batman. Listen to that dolby surround sound!!!
here you see the flash site with a teaser, and here you find some posters.

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pictures 1 pictures 2 pictures 3 pictures 4

via deMorgen

(wikipedia: Burning Man). Here you can see some nice pictures by Marc Goldchstein on the festival Burning man. And Here the confessions of a burning man. More art films on the subject!!??
De Morgen: fotodagboek!!!

photo’s
Nice pictures by Joseba Ibarra Amor

A 12-year-old boy made these pictures!! (In my days I couldn’t even imagine myself touching my dad’s camera.) 4 kids trying to fly: it’s like the beginning of an adventurous journey… If you have at home such kind of pictures, made by kids, I’d like to put them also on the site.

film
a nice theatre-video film by Romeo Castellucci. The music is made by Scott Gibons
more theatre music made by the Oskar Lewis team: here

On a Chinese site I discovered those nice drawings of my hero: Manara.

photos
very nice art portraits of faces, breasts, women and nature by a gifted fotographer:
Emil Jianu gallery

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Architects and production designers for entertainment: website
They made shows for Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, U2, Cirque Du Soleil, Tina Turner, Robin Wiliams, ….
animations

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“tyger” is a short film directed by Guilherme Marcondes on music by ZEROUM

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I made a “video-montage” of our theatre work of the past three years on music by Peter Gabriel, Prince and Björk.

A collection of peace-linked artworks I found on the Shimose Fine Art website

That’s what we need! Young promising visual artists with their own Tim Burton-like style. Just looking at the work is entertainment! Good work Jochem Van Wetten!

Master of Environmental Portraiture.

The digital journalist on Arnold Newman with some video intervieuws
纽曼精彩图片库

via Zeno X Gallery
Michaël Borremans paintings are dream-like and haunting, their highly suggestive atmosphere lingering long in the mind of the viewer.

Biographie: Décidé à être peintre, Jean Nouvel s’inscrit finalement en architecture à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux en 1964.

In 1935, German General Erich Ludendorgg published Die Totale Krieg in which he presented the view that in war, no one is innocent; everyone is a combatant and everyone a target, soldier and civilian alike…
Guernica: testimony of war
Picasso’s artistic process
via treasures of the world

flash website: here you can find the nice film ‘Blush’ Wim Vandekeybus has made. Follow ‘film & video’, ‘dance’, and then Blush(2005) video. I couldn’t make a direct link.
Woven hand, a solo project of David Eugene Edwards, frontman of 16 Horsepower, made the score of Wim’s dance production Blush (listen to Woven Hand via [...]

anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order te create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular vieuwpoint.
1° 2°

Images from Hiraki Sawa ‘Going Places Sitting Down’, a triptych video projection.
The New York James Cohan Gallery is currently presenting
a solo exhibition of works by video-animation artist- Hiraki Sawa.
via dvblog.org

JSFotografie

“I have always thought of my architecture as being itself a garden.”
interview via desingboom.com

“life style” and “mother and son“

no tears… 25 years ago the man, who brought us reggae, died.
film: Let’s get toghether and feel all right!
more bob marley films on qooqle

“Flickeur randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random.” Can a random blended content be art?

The artists Gilbert and George have merged their identities so completely that we never think of one without the other. Furthermore, they make no distinction between their life and their art; they are their own works of art!!!

Araki’s website

Be patient with the pictures: this is not MTV! ( araki’s website )

I’m sure you know the pictures of Yann Arthus-Bertrand. I like the “portrets de Français” and Here you can choose which country you want to see from up above.

“Because of tillie I have had to rethink two of my most basic assumptions about art and life: first, the notion that animals cannot have an aesthetic sense; second, the core conviction that no sentient being could possibly paint anything worse than what Julian Schnabel recently showed at the Gagosian Gallery.”-James Gardner, New York Post [...]

Pinque: a 1 minute film made by Luyckx Kristof & Copejans Olivier. From the 2005 selection of the 1 minute film&sound Awards.

This is a three minute film, made by Scott Gibbons and Groupe F during a live Performance at La Villete, Paris, France.

When most people think of Easter, the first image that comes to mind is a fancy-painted egg. Few, however, know about the rich Ukrainian history and symbolism of the eggs.
The art of pysanky, or Ukrainian Easter eggs, is so ancient that no one truly knows its origins. At least 2000 years ago, people who lived [...]

I first saw her picture on Photo.net and fell in love with those beautiful Dutch girls she photographs. Those shining northern bleu eyes… But her pictures of male nude art are also very fine. See for yourself. On her website you can’t find much information about the artist herself, very strange for [...]

In 1999 I first met the French acrobat group Les Arts Sauts when I was their local site manager, assisting them to build their huge ‘tent‘. For two whole days I worked together with those rough, but handy Frenchmen and only at the end of the second day, when the tent was build, I [...]

Not so long ago my kids made a tree house in our garden. Well, it was not more than some pieces of wood tied together. They enjoyed playing in it because they still have a lot of imagination.
Tom Chudleigh is a bit older and lost a bit of that childish imagination but in stead he [...]

these drawings contain graphic adult content.
Look what I found!! Jill Miller says ‘I am making art too’? She has an exhibition in Antwerp these days in the Maes & Matthys Gallery where they show these drawings of her. Is this realy art?
Jill’s website

Grace Kelly, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon, Givenchy, Dior, Vidal Sassoon, cult films of the fifties an Sixties, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Olivia Newtn John, the Rolling Stones, … They all has one thing in common: Oliver Goldsmith. Now they are back!! Face windows. Stereoscopic viewing. Horse drawn.
glases

a wet boys dream, the ultimate symbol of independency, the beauty and the beast in one machine, invaluable, speed …

Stefano De Luigi released a new book with photographs of the world behind the scenes of the flesh industry. But he has much more interesting work: you can see some of it here.

I always thought flowers smelled good until I met Clark. He has other ideas about the nature of perfume. Sculpting and painting have always been a part-time passion for him but the past 5 years he has devoted his full attention to creating art. He has been receiving worldwide attention for his unique series of [...]

The moment I knew animals do live and feel, I stopped eating them. The pictures of Gregory Colbert are amazing. See here how he has captured extraordinary, unscripted interactions between humans and animals.
“In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common ground that [...]

The pictures.