• ART

    Paul Thek “The Tomb (frequently called Death of a Hippie)”

    Mai 21, 2014

    Paul Thek – The Tomb (1967) “Officially Paul Thek died in 1988, but really he died twice. In 1967 er empfing das Grab (frequently called Death of a Hippie) – the summation of a decade, a cultural ethos, and a career. It was the piece he never lived down and never lived up to. Thek became the unwilling prophet of the failure of counterculture idealism and could not regain the tragicomic intensity of The Tomb or his Technological Reliquaries, wax sculptures of raw meat and body parts encased within vitrines.” “The Tomb consisted of a one-story-high, pale pink structure reminiscent of a Sumerian ziggurat, within which lay a full-size, painstakingly crafted effigy of Thek himself. Painted pale pink, the replicant…

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  • "For the first part of this series, Wright created a mould in the form of an L-shaped suburban dwelling, and set out a series of sand castles on his local beach. This scale-model suburbia was washed away by the tide, which perhaps urges us to consider the relative transience of so solid a symbol of the American dream, particularly since the 2007 subprime mortgage collapse. " Statement des Künstlers: "In Master Plan, I am conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. This three-part series culls artifacts from my childhood, suburbia in seiner Vision und legacy.Phase One konzentriert sich auf die Massenproduktion Traktes Haus untersuchen, re-examining it as symbol for the model American Dream.”
    ART

    Chad Wright – Master Plan

    Mai 12, 2014

    “For the first part of this series, Wright created a mould in the form of an L-shaped suburban dwelling, and set out a series of sand castles on his local beach. This scale-model suburbia was washed away by the tide, which perhaps urges us to consider the relative transience of so solid a symbol of the American dream, particularly since the 2007 subprime mortgage collapse. “ Statement des Künstlers: “In Master Plan, I am conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying postwar American suburbia. This three-part series culls artifacts from my childhood, suburbia in seiner Vision und legacy.Phase One konzentriert sich auf die Massenproduktion Traktes Haus untersuchen, re-examining it as symbol for the model American…

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  • ART,  MUSIK,  MEINUNGEN

    Music Video Review: Lana Del Rey – West Coast (Amts Audio)

    Mai 11, 2014

    (We’ve already gone how we feel about the song, see that here.) The official music video was released. It’s not much of a step away from the lyric video previously released. It just displays a few more scenes with her and an older rich looking man. Showing how she’s seduced by the glamor of the West coast and how she has to choose between her current lover and the coast.

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  • Sculptores Dorf
    ART,  KULTUR

    Chiara Goia – Sculptors’ Village

    Mai 8, 2014

    Photographer Chiara Goia’s series titled “Sculptor’s Village” demonstrated the work and craftsmanship of a Mongolian village dedicated in mass producing and replicating popular statues. If it weren’t for the people you could assume these where photographed in black and white. Chiara Goia – Sculptors’ Village

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  • Meerjungfrau Liebe
    ART

    Eine Meerjungfrau Liebes

    April 30, 2014

    Diese Fotografien zeigt eine Liebesgeschichte zwischen einer Meerjungfrau von einem Mann aus Abwasser gespeichert, und auch, wie nicht alle Geschichten glücklich enden. Fotografiert von Anton Konashuck Anton Konashuk Fotografie

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