Mikis Mazarakis is running a wonderful and rich site called WordMWorld, where he draws with words; aphorisms about daily life, stories about metaphysical and halfly esoterical knowledge, fictional short stories influenced by experiences, plus visual and audio input. Very interesting and highly recommended to browse through.
He asked me to participate in doing some illustrations for his “Every child a sun” aphorisms in English and here is where you find them. More of Mohak art is here.
Categories: Art
Tagged: aphorism, Art, fractial age publishing, illustrations, mikis mazarakis, mohak, poem, short story, wordmworld
via BelioMagazine
ENGLISH:
This is the call for photo-submissions for Belio 031! Yes! PHOTO! only pictures, no graphics, no digital filters or effects, just pure photography (digital & traditional) in relation with the topic that we propose you here: Abandoned.
The next Flog of Belio wants to be a compilation of beautiful and artistic pictures of ruins, empty buldings and hidden places from the urban common life. A portrait of all those places that have been forgotten, locked and covered in dust. From the underground of our cities to the closed factories far away in the middle of nowhere. Of course that’s the perfect subject for all kind of urban explorers… Oh! Don’t you know what’s “urban exploring”? Ok, if you haven’t hear about that before, please check out here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_exploration ) and here ( http://www.forbidden-places.net/why.php ) to get a better idea.
So, now grab your boots, a lantern and your camera and bring us your best shots!
THE DEADLINE TO SEND YOUR FILES IS MARCH 1st, 2010.
Categories: Art
Tagged: abandonment, Art, belio magazine, flog 031, grafitti, photo, Spain, ue, urban exploring, urbex, vandalism
Browsing through our magazines and journals lying around at home, I had a look at the latest publishing of the annual doc film festival in Kassel Germany and found this great piece of music and film history: RIP – A Remix Manifesto! Covering all from Walt Disney to copyright and copyleft, Baile Funk, Mash Ups, pop culture and parties that make the world go round, director Brett Gaylor makes a statement. It’s about creative freedom going hand in hand with illegal actions, big companies chasing private persons, it’s a view behind the scenes, a mixture of all genres – and furthermore an introduction to the ill producer Girl Talk. RIP has been on 12 film festivals so far and who knows on how many home computers as well. “A true movie for the digital age with adrenaline fueled performances.” Featured artists next to Girl Talk are Gilberto Gil, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, DJ Sandrinho and others.
As remix is what remix does, you can do whatever you like with the movie, it’s all creative commons! Download it, resample it, make an animation, cut n paste a youtube video, whatever. To get hold of a copy simply visit Ripremix and donate any amount you like. By doing this, they’ll send you a link to download RIP plus lots of Girl Talk footage, as well as another link to the distributor Bside, where you get another independent movie which you can chose for free!
Categories: Art · Reviews / Music · Video
Tagged: a remix manifesto, Baile Funk, Brazil, brett gaylor, bside, copyleft, copyright, creative commons, DJ Sandrinho, gilberto gil, girl talk, illegal art, Mash Up, opencinema, pittsburgh, pop culture, red hot chilli peppers, Remix, RIP
Browsing through Brooklyn Street Art I came across this video, showing the work of several artists in New York from 2009. Among those pictures are some pieces which I found as well, being in NYC in Sept 09.
Artists included are: Skewville, Specter, The Dude Company, Judith Supine, C215, WK Interact, Anthony Lister, Miss Bugs, Bast, Chris from Robots Will Kill (RWK), Os Gemeos, Cake, Celso, Imminent Disaster, Mark Cavalho, NohJ Coley, Elbow Toe, Feral, Poster Boy, Bishop203, Jon Burgerman, Royce Bannon, Damon Ginandes, Conor Harrington, Gaia, JC2, Logan Hicks, Chris Stain, Armsrock, Veng from Robots Will Kill (RWK), Noah Sparkes, Robots Will Kill, Heracut, Billy Mode, Revs, Skullphone, Spazmat, Mint and Serf, Roa, Aakash Nihilani, Broken Crow, Peru Ana Ana Peru, & Cern.
All images © Jaime Rojo
Categories: Art · Video
Tagged: brooklyn street art, grafitti, imminent disaster, jaime rojo, miss bugs, New York, os gemeos, paste ups, skullphone, street art
Categories: Art · Reviews / Music
Tagged: 2009, Balkan, Dubstep, Electro, Global, inspirations, Latin, mochipet, momma's boy, music, Skream, solo, technbo, wordle
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Tagged: bacon or beer, Jamaica, learn patois, rastafari
The good people from The Danger in Nyc made a sound / art installation for the Scope Art Fair in Miami and hence created an electronic Gamelan Orchestra for the entrance of the art festival! The Riot Temple: A visceral exploration of worship & violence. It’s the world’s first fully robotic Gamelan Orchestra. MIDI sequences control 117 robotic striking mechanisms and produce intricately woven rhythmic sound. It’s a collaboration between The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR) and composer Zemi17.
“Performances follow an arc similar to classic Indonesian gatherings, where stories from great epics, such as the Ramayana, are told and settings given in words that are continued in music. In fact it’s a combination of sculpture, concert and ritual. The presentation of The Riot Temple includes a ceremony with a dozen performers as walking ghosts encircle the outer parameter. Anointing the crowd with offerings, the ghosts become companion spirits as bystanders become participants, drawing the audience inward towards a distilled and finite moment.”
That’s the freakiest thing I’ve seen so far, especially since I used to play the traditional Gamelan back in Berlin 7 years ago, before going to Barcelona, with which we performed at the Carneval of Cultures. The iniciator Kendra Stepputat had made the huge incredible effort to bring a whole Gamela Ochestra equipment from Bali to Berlin, including huge gongs, drums, ceng ceng’s and all sorts of different reyongs.
Download: Bukkan
Categories: Art · Reviews / Music
Tagged: bali, beleganyur, bukkan, carneval of cultures, gamelan, gameltron, indonesea, java, lemur, Miami, scope art fare, the league of electronic musical urban robots, the riot temple, zemi17
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Tagged: big chill, brew, england, look lively, make us a brew, mint & chilli, mr. scruff, ninja tune, tea
URGENT CALL FOR SOUND COMPOSITIONS
On a topic even more urgent: Climate Chaos
Deadline: December 13, 2009
Public Performance: December 16, in the streets of Copenhagen during the Climate Summit, broadcast from the Sound Swarm, a of battery of bicycle-mounted megaphones within the Bike Bloc
Compensation: Air that you can breath & weather that doesn’t kill you
Curated by: Filastine
From the 7-18th of December the world’s leaders will be in Copenhagen to decide the conditions of this planet’s future. Given the suspects & their financial backing, it’s nearly impossible we’ll be presented with solutions, far more likely we’ll see further privatization, enclosure, and commodification of the our atmosphere under the alias of carbon trading.
This is your chance to put pressure, speak truth to power, or sonically disrupt, at HIGH VOLUME.
Anything on-topic is welcome: remix the speeches of corporate & government leaders, environmental soundscapes, the sounds of nature or it’s undoing, appropriate collages, home-cooked theme songs, subliminal mob-inflaming drones, advertising jingles of the apocalypse
Submission Details:
1. Composition can be of any duration, but there is no guarantee your composition will be broadcast.
2. The loudspeakers do not reproduce frequencies below 500hz. Use a highpass EQ filter. Also, megaphones respond better to longer sounds than short transients. Translation: no bass, no drums.
3. Please submit 5 dual-mono wave files with equal start times. Use the diagram below for conceptualizing space. If you are technically unable to compose and render for 5 channels, submit it anyhow, if it’s good I’ll make the effort to cut it into multi-channel.
4. Send files via an ftp, usendit.com, sendthisfile.com, or a similar service to this email: filastine.soundswarm@gmail.com
5. Name the files like this:
1RR_title
2R_title
3C_title
4L_title
5LL_title
This is how we’ll try to be arranged in the street, the X’s signify non-sound bikes of the bike block.
(imagine Sarkozy, Wen Jiabao, or Obama here in front of us listening attentively.
or maybe just a load of riot police & TV cameras)
X 5LL X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 1RR X
X X X X X X 4L X X X XX X X 4R X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X 3C X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
(+ another ~ 1000 bikes)
Move fast. We are just about out of time.
Get in touch if you will be in Copenhagen and want to build or pilot one of the Sound Swarm bikes: filastine.soundswarm@gmail.com
Steven Morris / The Guardian UK in an interview with the BIKE BLOC:
Spanish version below:
Categories: Art · Reviews / Music · Video
Tagged: candy factory, climate camp, climate chaos, climate summit, copenhague, denmark, double double trouble, Filastine, protest, put the fun between your legs, sound composition, the bike bloc, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (Lab of ii), the swarm
