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Category Archives: animation

FRESH FROM THE OVEN

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

YOU MADE THAT

An abstract-expressionist web drawing app for the New York Times Magazine by Christoph Niemann and Jon Huang – try it and enjoy!!!

TANGO

Just revisited this gem of a film from 1980 – I mean, Zgibniew, what the hell.

MONDAY MUSIC: FUN ADULTS

Fresh sights and sounds from the Leeds-based band, Fun Adults, who have been busy creating their own artwork and videos as well as non-stop writing and recording for their upcoming album.  This animation was created by their drummer, Dan Jacobs, to accompany the band’s debut single Sap Solid, and seems to serve as brilliant visualisation to [...]

What The World Needs Now

It’s funny, but this latest gif paradise called The Anthropocene Man somehow seems to be the most accurate portrayal of life (and death) in early 2013. Also, and quite unrelated: RIP online dating scam master Tim Dog.

RESPECT

Legendary name Björk just keeps being unbelievable! Thrilled by the new video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

LAST CHANCE

Only on view until tomorrow, October 21, 2012, noon – 7 pm:
Wael Shawky. Al Araba Al Madfuna
Recipient of the Ernst Schering Foundation Art Award 2011
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Photo: Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo, 2012
Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg

WAEL SHAWKY

The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky is a storyteller: historiographical and literary sources form the starting point for his concentrated film narratives, in which he interweaves myths, facts, and fiction. The actors, backdrops, and costumes, music, and text each become self-contained narrative voices and through their interplay, fracture ossified views of history. His poetic staging of [...]

CATCOPTER

Speechless.

IN THE OPEN AIR

Natural phenomenon turned into digital-like diagrams, being reminiscent of sound waves: En plein air.