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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.

Cal Lane is a smith. She makes lace-patterns out of metal objects. Impressive.

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

Rodrigo Blaas finaly found out where all those cute dolls come from. Alma, a briljant animation:

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?….

Last week I saw a very good Talking Heads-cover band. It made me surf all over the web to find live material from the talking heads.
Intriging!

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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.”

Where do you get your inspiration? birds on a wire?

I would love to do something like this!

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…

ray guns!
more great graphical work by Adam Simpson.

Light knows no border!
It’s the same for BENEFLUX.
Unity in a diversity of flux is our device.

Hello world! I’m back!
How can you get a grip on light? Photography seems to be the easiest way. The result can be very strange.

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Nominated as Most Creative Video 2007 YouTube Awards…

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…

Erwin Redl: “My work reflects upon the condition of art making after the “digital experience.” The formal and structural approach to various media I employ, such as installation, CD-ROM, internet and sound, almost requires binary logic, because I assemble the material according to a narrow set of self-imposed rules which often [...]

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”

Celebrity pictures, Picasso style!

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.

All day long I’ve been the middle man between a designer and a demanding client. really exhausting. All of this for a simple e-mail invitation.
Next time I will suggest a READYMECH as an invitation. cool!

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….

Bill Sullivan has made several projects where he stops an everyday motion.
Take a look at ‘more turns‘.

Nice introduction:
Nastassia Zabrodina is a wonderful person who currently lives in Moscow, Russia, and she’s working as an illustrator.

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

harts, stairways (and other spiral-formed objects), metro’s, stairs, coffee, cans

The artist Erwin Wurm (=worm in Dutch) makes installations with lots of humour and relativation in it.
Lot’s of work here!

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.”

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“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.

I like to change my desktop from time to time…

“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”

Remember my post about surrealism? I found another great site!

Queen”Killer Queen ”

Bartok/For Children

Alie Ward makes funny paintings. That’s it.

“alla laa ke”

Annie Lennox “Why”

Arno “putain putain”

I found this publisher who puts wonderful illustrations on classic books.

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!!!…

Let your computer scribble for you.( remember our POLLOCK post? )

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”

“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 [...]

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….