2010-02-22
“Imaginary fictional filmscores”.
Bersarin Quartett: the solo project of Thomas Bücker. Electronic/Experimental.
Debut album re-release on 29th of March 2010.
Listen: Oktober and St. Petersburg.
Above: album cover, detail.
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2010-02-21
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August
is the coldest month of the year
winter moves six months forward
and this is not the South Pole
here is not the South Pole
August
The alarm clock breaks the silence
Someone is on vacation
and she sounds for hours
How cold it is
August
you look out on a sick heart
five o’clock in the evening
and it’s already pitch dark
winter in August
The ice
settles and covers things
the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead
How cold it is
If it is not true that you’re afraid
it’s not true that you feel alone
it’s not true that it’s cold
then why are you trembling in this August?
August
is written on your calendar
maybe you slept six months
but you’re so tired
so tired
August
is the coldest month of the year
in the other hemisphere they call it winter
August
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Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.
*Text in Italian **Text in French
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2010-02-16
“So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever.
Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years.”.
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Ignore everybody. |
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The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours. |
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Power is never given. Power is taken. |
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When your dreams become reality, they are no longer your dreams. |
Gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”. By Hugh MacLeod.
Above: Dinosaur (2006), print on paper, © gapingvoid gallery.
2010-02-13
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“For a long time, I always had at least two jobs, sometimes three.
Life was good.
In July of 2008, my corporation had mass layoffs, and I was among them.
I have never been homeless before, but I plan to face this with humor and dignity.”.
“As long as you’re alive and healthy and physically/mentally capable of coming up with a plan and executing it, you will be OK.
There is always another avenue, another option, another choice, another route, another door to pursue if one is closed off to you.”.
“Take care of yourself. Anything material that you have/had/lost? It can be replaced, or at least reasonably substituted. You cannot be.”.
(Brianna Karp)
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The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness. A true story. By Brianna Karp.
2010-02-10
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“After another two days
they concluded Bill was not going to die,
so his mother had all the flowers
removed from his room.
She also had to have his casket returned
at greater expense and inconvenience.
Bill had to go back to work the following thursday.
It rained for the entire bus ride.”. |
Everything Will Be OK. A short film by Don Hertzfeldt.
First chapter of a three part story.
With the second part, I am so proud of you, it’s now available on DVD on Bitter Films.
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2010-02-09
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“I am always fascinated by robotics, its benefits and its contradictions. Who has never dreamed of owning a robot for make all the dirty work?”. |
“But what is the border?
How far the robot is there to serve man?
That is what I want to make: caricatures of robots that have exceeded this border, all bathed in a fanciful vision of the future.”.
(Stéphane Halleux, translated from le blog Art & Déco)
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Stéphane Halleux, sculptor.
Top, left: Marriachi brothers.
Bottom, right: Bee Bird.
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2010-02-07
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“My design features: a vertical orientation, because it’s how I handle money; American artists, we’re a culture, not just a government;
corresponding geographical scenes; and a complementary color scheme, with bold, high-contrast numbers.”.
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The Dollar ReDe$ign Project: “It’s time to rebrand the buck.”. By Richard Smith.
2010-01-30
“Either printer ink is made from unicorn blood or we’re all getting screwed.”.
(Why I believe printers were sent from hell to make us miserable)
“Once you fix something, they’ll forever regard you as the Computer genius.
If it reaches this point, you’re pretty much screwed.”.
(Why it’s better to pretend you don’t know anything about computers)
The Oatmeal: written and drawn by Matthew Inman.
2010-01-17
Above: Little Red Riding Hood, watercolor. (from Carbonmade)
2010-01-15
“The history of the Milan subway signs was very interesting, because the subway was completely new.
Usually the architect designed the furnishings and then say, “now you have to put the signals”.
Instead we created a new system, the famous red band on the M1 line , for the signals.
Before then, the station’s name appeared only once in the middle of the quay.
I proposed to repeat the name every five meters so that, with the train still in motion, one could immediately see it.
This was a world first.”. |
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“I believe that my work is always a work of communication.
Communication means that I have to do a service to another, to be able to make readable a text, and to make understand enough.
That’s not to say that it is boring and you can’t do anything.
No, there are many possibilities.”.
(interview for Rai Educational, 2002)
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Top, right: Milan metro sign, 1964.
Bottom, left: Bob Noorda (Amsterdam, 1927 – Milan, 2010), designer.
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