Nice Things and Good Stuff

2011-05-27T14:37:00.001+02:00

Sofia Coppola - Lick the Star (1998)

Her debut short film. I had been meaning to watch this for a very, very long time. Watched it today and I thought it expressed a lot of things that I feel at the moment. And it looks good. And it fits into the whole 90s girl-power angsty tavi whatchamacallit blog hype - so kill me!

Activity on my blog might resume over the summer, I'm still thinking about it.

2011-01-17T22:19:00.002+01:00

I have a new side-project, Diyar Supermarket. Denver's Alphabets (Colin Ward) and Deptford's The Atoms (Rob Sommerlad) have released their cool split tape under its aegis and I made the artwork (with the help of a neuroscientist friend). Each tape has a different cover and some really good tracks on it, and it's cheap. Buy the tape on the Diyar blog. Here's the blurb:

Alphabets' first European release. The Atoms' debut release. Diyar Supermarket's first release. 5 tracks plus each remixes the other. USA-UK collaboration. Denver-Deptford love. Recorded onto tapes taken from the basement of an abandoned recording studio. The studio which spawned 'Candle in the Wind' giving birth to a monster-foetus of futuristic pop music. Limited edition. Hand-made artwork with a variety of different covers.

2010-11-08T12:58:00.000+01:00

More photos from my mini holiday in Croatia in July.

2010-11-07T17:57:00.002+01:00

So, I'm crap at blogging.

These are some things I've done a while ago: An illustrated Le Guess Who festival guide (November 24th-28th), new music column (p.18-21) apple crumble recipe (p.35) - Subbacultcha September issue, new music column (p.18-21) yam burger recipe (p.47) - Subbacultcha October issue, new music column (p.18-19) courgette roll recipe (p.48-9) - Subbacultcha November issue.

I will schedule some posts soon. Also, I am preparing something NEW and EXCITING, watch this space.

2010-08-12T12:48:00.018+02:00

These photos were taken on the Croatian island, Zlarin. No cars, no phone, no internet, just bicycles, fruit, books and wild, rocky beaches!

2010-08-02T09:28:00.000+02:00

Giovanni da Modena - The Inferno (1410) (Basilica di S. Petronio - Bologna)
This is just about the BEST postcard I have ever bought in my life. JUST LOOK AT IT!!!!

2010-07-31T20:39:00.011+02:00

I saw two video artworks in two different places that drew a nice parallel in my mind. Nina Yuen's 'David' can be viewed at the NIMk in Amsterdam, Ada Kaczmarczyk's 'Litania' is at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. I would have posted videos, but unfortunately none are available, so go and see them for yourself or just take my word for it.

1. Nina Yuen - David (2010)
'David' is an adaptation of a text by Carmen Delzell in which a woman enters into a pact with the devil and becomes eternally indebted to him. In the video Yuen performs a number of magic rituals to grant her wishes. The content recalls superstitions my Polish babcias enjoy believing and questions that arise from this, not to mention the implications a mantralike video loop adds to the general picture. Visually, it's beautifully disjointed and succulently coloured. The work was based on this fragment from Delzell's story: "It was beginning to get chilly. Money would really be tight when it got too cold to sell on the street, so I decided to go to a fortune teller. She lived and worked in a storefront in Chinatown. She was fat and sneaky-looking and had only one breast. But it turned out she was right about everything to come and she gave me three wishes. I wished for an apartment, a man, and an antique store...”

2. Ada Kaczmarczyk - Litania (2010)
Kaczmarczyk embedded her video in a small, garish shrine, crowned with a pair of golden high-heels. It strongly alludes to the countless Blessed Madonna chapels you can find in any crumbling courtyard or mud-splattered ditch in Poland. The playing loop portrays a set of young hands clutching what seems to be rosary beads amidst a huge pile of kitsch crap. Muttering, as many Polish babcias do everyday in their church pews, she recites her 'prayers' with great fervour - "I love spending money on crap, I love going out at night, I love painting my nails, I love ice cream sundaes with cherries and chocolate sauce etc. etc." It pangs with wit and brains and I like it.

(Images from artinfo.pl and nimk.nl)

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Apologies for the long periods of silence. I'm moving back to London on Tuesday. If anyone knows of a nice, clean, cheap, zone 2, 4 bedroom house in London, let me know! Photographs from Croatia will follow once I get them developed.

2010-07-03T07:32:00.001+02:00

I don't wanna sound too soppy and shit, but I'm moving out of Amsterdam today and it's pretty damn sad.

15.07.2010 - It's summer, I'm doing stuff, regular posts will reappear when I feel like it!

2010-06-29T12:48:00.000+02:00

My latest recipe was filo pastry herb pie made for Ariel Pink. We ate it with a large tomato salad on the side and a gigantic fruit salad for pudding. The recipe and illustration are in the July/August issue of Subbacultcha! magazine (p. 44-5). Got this t-shirt as a thank you.

2010-06-28T10:28:00.002+02:00

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) - Hideaki Anno
I saw this anime yesterday and it blew my mind. It is filled with technomystic (whatever that means) Kabbalah symbolism. The film screening was a part of the Glorious Basterds film series organised by the Jewish Salon Amsterdam. The next film is in August and will be a kosher kung-fu type of thing, I am terribly sad to be missing it!

2. No Ghost Just a Shell (1999) - Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno
French artists Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno purchased the copyright for a Manga figure called Annlee from the Japanese agency Kworks in 1999. Annlee was classified as a ‘cheap Manga model’ by the agency, meaning that her character complexity was less developed than others’ in the Japanese Manga industry. She would soon become redundant as a character, Huyghe and Parreno rescued Annlee from imminent character ‘death.’
The title of the art project refers to Masamune Shirow’s manga classic, “Ghost in the Shell,” which explores the possibilities of infiltrating human minds and hijacking identity. Huyghe and Parreno subsequently commissioned other artists to appropriate the Manga character free of charge and to propose scenarios in which Annlee is liberated from ownership and can explore the ambiguities of her existence.

“Each of the projects realized with Annlee is a chapter in the history of a sign, and has a 'life' in the context of the individual artists' activities and within the joint project. The 'life-prolonging' measures taken by the No Ghost Just a Shell project for a short-lived, virtual and commercial being actually raise some 'melancholy' humanitarian questions, but also undermine economic mechanisms by allowing a product that is otherwise viable only in a commercial context to be used free of charge; the artists' autonomous production conditions are another factor. The film and music industries, and the internet, face us with copyright questions nowadays. The project addresses those issues as well overlaps with questions about how identity and difference can be formulated today, given the current demand for the mastery of multiple individual subject realizations.”
In 2002, the project concluded itself when Annlee’s copyright and exploitation rights were signed to her by the French artists, thus liberating the Manga character from circulation and economic and artistic exploitation, yet also condemning her to silence, not unlike the one she would endure if she were made redundant by Kworks. The contract was displayed next to an IKEA coffin built for Annlee by artist Joe Scanlan. The fate of Annlee’s identity, figure and sign remains undetermined.

2010-06-17T14:54:00.009+02:00

I have recently been hanging out with some cool animals.

2010-06-15T10:40:00.003+02:00

2010-06-08T20:01:00.011+02:00

I bought my sister and myself these excellent cocoon scarves. You can practically do anything with this thing, drape it into a balaclava or use it to parachute off a cliff. They drape extremely well thanks to their good, large measurements and supple material. 160cm is the address you should be bookmarking.

Also, my second High Places recipe (vegan crêpes and grapefruit salad) can be read here. It's real good!

2010-06-06T00:27:00.008+02:00

1. Simon Morris - The Road to the Unconscious / The aleatory moment (223,704 words traveling at 90mph) (2003)
In January 2003, eighty-three students from York College cut out every word from Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and as every word was cut from its sentence it was spoken. On 1st June 2003, the artist Simon Morris threw the words out of the window of a Renault Clio on Redbridge Road, Dorset. The action freed the words from the structural unity of Freud's text as it subjected them to an aleatory moment.Maurizio Cogliandro and Dallas Seitz documented the action as 333,960 words erupted from the window of the car. Dr Howard Britton, a psychoanalyst, directed them to any slippages or eruptions of the real that occurred in the reconfigured text.

2. Gold Panda - You (I like this a lot!)

Sorry about the blogging silence. I have been ill, lazy and busy this past week and I'm now in Poland for a few days. I have big essays to write and babies to kiss, so it might be quiet for a bit, but not for long.

2010-05-29T16:15:00.004+02:00

I saw these two events this week and they were strikingly good.
1 + 3. Soap Opera - Bogomir Doringer and Dave Captain (Koningsplein, Amsterdam)
A smoke and bubble machine was placed in the chestnut tree on Koningsplein at night. It went along the lines of "Homo bulla est" and Harry Potter.
2 + 4. Metamorfoses - LeineRoebana (Orgelpark, Amsterdam)
A beautiful, intelligent and emotional dance performance that everyone should see if they have the time this weekend. This was the first time I felt bad that a ticket was so cheap compared with what we were given. The last two performances are tonight and tomorrow night at 20.15.

2010-05-26T18:34:00.003+02:00

My band cooking column and illustration-collage has been published in the June issue of Subbacultcha! magazine (p. 44-45). This month it's courgette cake for High Places, whom I like very much. They gave me their newest vinyl as a thank you.

2010-05-25T14:38:00.002+02:00

My friend Miguel has a gigantic room for rent in this house in London, it is available for June and/or July.

£75 per week,
Also suitable for a couple,
Ace housemates,
Large kitchen, living room and garden,
Near public transportation,
Table football in the basement,
I lived in this house and it was great.

Please comment and leave your email address if you or any of your friends are interested!

2010-05-24T15:13:00.000+02:00

2010-05-23T15:39:00.005+02:00

We cycled and cycled yesterday and this is what happened!

2010-05-20T23:23:00.004+02:00

Roman Polanski - Chinatown (1974)

Aw man, this is the best film in the whole wide world. When you watch it count the whole vs. broken objects - pocket watches, glasses, wheels, tail lights, eyes.

2010-05-19T12:46:00.005+02:00

My posting is irregular at the moment because I am learning a lot of exciting things in the library and I don't have a lot of spare time on my hands. I will share my findings once I am done. Meanwhile, enjoy the AUTHENTIC WILDLIFE.

2010-05-14T17:07:00.010+02:00

Found these buried in my virtual stacks of shit. It's been super cold recently so I thought it was appropriate.

2010-05-12T12:20:00.000+02:00

1. Alison Knowles - Newspaper Music (2008)
2. Long long ago, back when the world was young - that is, sometime around the year 1958 - a lot of artists and composers and other people who wanted to do beautiful things began to look at the world around them in a new way (for them).

They said: "Hey! - coffee cups can be more beautiful than fancy sculptures. A kiss in the morning can be more dramatic than a drama by Mr. Fancypants. The sloshing of my foot in my wet boot sounds more beautiful than fancy organ music."

And when they saw that, it turned their minds on. And they began to ask questions. One question was: "Why does everything I see that's beautiful like cups and kisses and sloshing feet have to be made into just a part of something fancier and bigger? Why can't I just use it for its own sake?"

When they asked questions like that, they were inventing Fluxus; but this they didn't know yet, because Fluxus was like a baby whose mother and father couldn't agree on what to call it - they knew it was there, but it didn't have a name. (...)

from Dick Higgins - A Child's History of Fluxus (1979) (read the rest, it is so good!)

2010-05-07T13:19:00.002+02:00

Bologna in late April. I've got more of these babies.

2010-05-06T17:39:00.003+02:00

Brody Condon - DesResFX.Kill (Karma Physics < Elvis) (2004)

DesResFX.Kill (Karma Physics < Elvis) is a self playing modification of the science fiction first person shooter computer game engine Unreal Tournament 2003. When plugged into a projector/monitor and power, a small custom computer starts and displays the work. The viewer is pulled slowly through an endless chasm of pink fog filled with countless floating, flailing bodies of Elvis Presley. The representations of Elvis are appropriated archetypes that represent a certain type of character; they are empty shells that one can inhabit during a video game.

The choice of pink background and the use of Presley’s image imbue the artwork with a rather humorous quality. The artist’s sense of humour seems rather dark when the observers discover that the convulsions of Elvis are controlled by the original game’s Karma real-time physics system – a type of procedural animation that applies real-world physics to video games, especially when re-enacting death animations. Movements are calculated at the moment they are executed, enabling the video game character to interact more naturally with its virtual environment. The “reality” of the game is not predetermined when using karma physics; the player alters it through his or her imagination’s comprehension of the virtual environment. Condon states that he misuses karma physics as a “new representation of death via code, not just the visual surface of trauma, but the physical dynamics of the falling figure.” [1] DesResFX.Kill (Karma Physics < Elvis) seems even darker in its subject matter when one realises that the artist is keeping the allegedly immortal ‘King of Rock ‘n Roll’ doing the eternal ‘dance of death’ in his artwork. This realisation is striking in both its gravity and lightness, where it is reduced to a simple, repetitive action in the virtual world.

(An excerpt from one of my published entries on the Art and Electronic Media website.)

2010-05-05T19:18:00.003+02:00

2010-05-01T18:27:00.000+02:00

Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain (1973)
We downloaded this film over a year ago and we could never bring ourselves to watch it. Finally, we did, but we had to watch this film in three sittings because of its overabundant use of, well, everything. Do your research first and then (decide if you want to) watch it.

2010-04-29T13:53:00.007+02:00

I have a new cooking column and illustration in the May issue of Subbacultcha! magazine (p. 46-7).
I got this t-shirt from Times New Viking as a thank you.

2010-04-18T11:34:00.003+02:00

2010-04-16T14:30:00.003+02:00

Nobuyoshi Araki - (from) Sentimental Journey (1971-1991)

My recent Subbacultcha! playlists and paper-pencil-fuckabouts are here.

2010-04-15T00:05:00.019+02:00

1. Marcin Maciejowski - Granice głupoty (2001)
2. RIP Lech i Maria Kaczyńscy?

Czekam na interpretację Maciejowskiego. Jego wystawa jest w Krakowie.

2010-04-11T13:19:00.001+02:00

2010-04-02T12:41:00.006+02:00

2010-04-01T13:44:00.004+02:00

The guy who made this is called Alphabets (Colin). He lives in Denver. He is cool and weird. You can download all his cool music files here. You can watch all his weird videos here. I hope you like him as much as I do.

2010-03-29T12:59:00.002+02:00

1. Jan Peter E. R. Sonntag (1998-2006) - GAMMAvert #2 an X-seascape (Another piece at the NIMk. Shame the photo doesn't emit gamma waves.)
2. A green flash
3. Jules Verne (1882) - Le rayon vert

2010-03-26T12:08:00.000+01:00

The Week From Hell has come to an end and I am now going to enjoy the attached.

2010-03-24T10:18:00.004+01:00

Breaking and Entering The Lost Timeframe (2003) from LoVid on Vimeo.

I now know why we're here. This makes me feel like I've eaten so many sweets and crackers that I can see into the future.

2010-03-22T22:28:00.002+01:00

The Tallest Man on Earth is so short he barely reached my lens.
Read the TMOE interview I illustrated and took part in in the April issue of Subbacultcha magazine. (p. 20-24)

2010-03-21T13:47:00.000+01:00

Gone for good!

2010-03-18T13:45:00.002+01:00

I am going to be DJ Pirate Karaoke at Smart Project Space in Amsterdam this Friday night after the Max Tundra + Klaus + Bird on the Wire gigs. More info here.

2010-03-17T12:08:00.002+01:00

We saw Lucky Dragons yesterday night at WORM in Rotterdam. I love Lucky Dragons. I love Lucky Dragons. I love Lucky Dragons. I love Lucky Dragons. I FUCKING LOVE LUCKY DRAGONS. THEY ARE THE BEST.
Thanks to the person who recorded this last night, I'm one of the blurs in the video.

Lucky Dragons are Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara, an experimental art/music group from L.A. Their interactive performance, 'Make a Baby', involves the participation of the audience to initiate, monitor, and meaningfully interpret the transfer of data through skin contact. In short, Lucky Dragons operate an array of homemade hardware and software which sends carrier signal-line level audio frequencies in a series of digital loops through touch conductive fabric sensors attached to various instruments. When one touches the touch sensitive instruments, it produces a sound. This signal is also carried through the human body, which means that if another individual touches the person holding the instrument, it will produce a sound. This spurs a chain reaction of interactions, where people experiment with variating types of touch to produce different tones. These social aural interactions are simulataneously mapped onto a visual display in the form of moving coloured patterns.

Referring to John Cage’s ‘A Year from Monday,’ 'Make a Baby' proves that the artist is “no more extraordinary than we are.” Fischbeck and Rara are the mediators between the artwork and the participants, “anyone who experiences a work of art is as guilty as the artist. It is not a question of sharing the guilt. Each one of us gets all of it.” Cage also questions the direction in which art is going and whether it will become a family reunion. In this sense, 'Make a Baby', confirms his supposition, as the performance forms family-intimate interactions through new acts of perception and cognition. An instantaneous 'art-family' emerges and, as the title of the performance suggests, gives birth to a unique art action.

(An excerpt from my unpublished entry on Lucky Dragons on the Art and Electronic Media website.)

And if you're ever at Rotterdam Centraal Station, get a bami kroket out of the wall from Smullers, it is THE SHIT.

2010-03-15T10:01:00.000+01:00

2010-03-14T10:55:00.002+01:00

HC Gilje (2009) - Blink
This is at the Sonic Acts exhibition in the NIMk in Amsterdam. You follow the splashes of light in a dark room. It is cool. I like it.
This is an excellent piece for running/jumping/skipping.

2010-03-10T18:59:00.001+01:00

2010-03-08T16:05:00.001+01:00

Bruce Nauman (1967) - The True Artist Helps The World By Revealing Mystic Truths

Posting will be slower this week, sorry.

2010-03-03T20:41:00.003+01:00

LoVid (2007) - More of the Same
Click on the artwork link and do this! It is good and cool.

More of the Same loads copies of one sound sample, causing your system to produce different sounds.
Many copies challenge your setup and may not “work” properly, may not sound at all, or may cause your browser to crash.
Our advice: start slow, with only 1. Close each popup window before launching the next as you work your way up to higher copy numbers.
One image is also repeated horizontally and vertically in each window, the same number of times as the sound is loaded. The image scales so all repeats fit in the same size window.

What's up with this computer? Is it the browser? The connection?

2010-03-01T23:42:00.003+01:00

Todd Cole (2010) - Aanteni
I refrain from fashion blogging, but an exception must be made for Cole's speechlesslyfuckingamazing video for Rodarte featured on NOWNESS.
And, AND, the score was written by NO AGE. NO WAY. There's so much good stuff wrapped into this; this has made my week, and it's only Monday.

2010-02-28T16:14:00.006+01:00

Fred Worden (2008) - 1859 (Sonic Acts 2010)
Worden's stuff is scarce on YouTube. His work is mainly concerned with the persistence of vision. I won't write more, you just need to see it. I had the opportunity to see his overwhelming "When Worlds Collude" yesterday at Sonic Acts 2010.

Tao Lin is creating a "North American Hamsters" iphone application, buy your hamster here.
I read his "Shoplifting from American Apparel" this past week; fucking brilliant.

And view my response to Subbacultcha Magazine's March cover by Simon Wald-Lasowski.

2010-02-24T22:29:00.003+01:00

My interview with DD/MM/YYYY is in the March issue of Subbacultcha! magazine. Read it here. (p. 25-7)
Shame I had a word limit, the band and I even talked about weeing on things. I love a good wee.

2010-02-23T12:53:00.005+01:00

2010-02-21T21:40:00.000+01:00

Trying to lure the good weather back.

2010-02-20T18:28:00.000+01:00

1. Thomas Mann (1912) - Death in Venice
2. Kenneth Anger (1963) - Scorpio Rising (Parts 2 & 3 can be found on YouTube)
I saw Tom Ford's 'A Single Man' this afternoon and these two things sprang to mind.

2010-02-18T23:24:00.006+01:00

Daphne Oram (ca. 1968) - Oramics
I'm not going to host any downloads, but if you're clever enough, you will find her album lurking about in the big WWW. This is ear-opening good stuff. Apart from having impeccable taste in eyewear, Oram came from the Future. Oramics is the process of printing physical hand movements onto transparent film strips and passing them onto electronic photo sensors which then are converted into sound. Loadsa sciencey shit that I will never come to grips with, but the result sounds so cool.

2010-02-16T22:54:00.001+01:00

Apparently, I started bitching round 1997.

2010-02-14T11:25:00.000+01:00

I wrote some silly poems. More on the Subbacultcha blog.

2010-02-12T15:35:00.000+01:00

Peter Weibel (1969) - Endless Sandwich
Make sure you throw your hands up in despair and fiddle with your computer to open the circuit.

2010-02-10T13:07:00.001+01:00

2010-02-07T17:54:00.002+01:00

Yesterday night, I had an epiphany when I saw Kania Tieffer. Not only is her logo a pixellated otter smoking a cigar, she screams in fake German, plays the craziest random shit off her ipod and covers Elvis' Hound Dog. Her sticker is never coming off my bicycle. Fucking hilarious and fucking brilliant.

2010-02-05T22:44:00.002+01:00

Longing for warmer climes.

2010-02-03T21:07:00.003+01:00

1. Stan Vanderbeek & Kenneth Knowlton (1968) - Poem Fields #2
2. Lillian Schwartz & Kenneth Knowlton (1970) - Pixillation
3. No Age - Every Artist Needs a Tragedy (by Rob)

I know a lump of YouTube videos can sometimes be tedious to watch, but I insist you watch these. I am deeply overwhelmed by a course I am taking this term, it's called Inventing the Future: Electricity and Visual Culture. Never has a three hour lecture flown by so quickly.

2010-02-02T12:00:00.000+01:00

Bought some coloured pencils and markers for 2 Euros on Sunday, loadsa fun.

2010-02-01T15:11:00.000+01:00

Hoepla (1967) - Wim T. Schippers
This Dutch programme television programme was aired three times before it was taken off the air. Not bad, not bad.

2010-01-28T10:58:00.000+01:00

1+2. Whale bones
3. Monumenta 2010: Personnes - Christian Boltanski (2010)

2010-01-25T18:39:00.001+01:00

Click here and read my interview with Tino Haenen (creative director of Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ) in the newest Subbacultcha! magazine (pages 28-33) or pick up a physical copy if you're in town. Sorry about the bragging, but I am so excited to see this in print. Hope you like it.

2010-01-22T14:43:00.000+01:00

Back here. Loads of catching up to do. More good stuff on the Subbacultcha blog.

2010-01-13T21:34:00.000+01:00

Going here for the week, yesss!

2010-01-12T10:47:00.003+01:00

Water Walk (1960) & Variations V (1965) - John Cage
Read this really cool, excellent, nice, interesting interview from 1987 with Cage by John Held, Jr.

I put a nickel into the phone, and I called the number that Max had given us when he visited the Arts Club in Chicago. This time he didn't recognize my voice. And he said, "Are you thirsty?" And I said, "Yes." He said, "Well, come over Monday for cocktails." And so that was the end of the conversation. And I went back to Xenia, and she said, "Call him back!" (laughs) She said, "We have everything to gain and nothing to lose." So I called him back, and he said, "Oh, It's you." And this time he recognized my voice, and said "Come right over. Your room is ready." And it was then that we met anybody whom anyone would want to meet in the artworld.

2010-01-09T12:50:00.001+01:00

1 + 4. Attack of the Crab Monsters - Roger Corman (1956)
2. The whale Jasconius - Honorius Philoponus (1621)
3. Scarily cool Anglerfish

2010-01-07T10:23:00.004+01:00

Rose Hobart - Joseph Cornell (1936)
Compiled from snippets of the B film East of Borneo, an eclipse documentary, Nestor Amaral's song "Holiday in Brazil" and a deep blue/purple filter.
Read more about Cornell, he was eccentrically cool. Watch the full version here and here.

Speaking of films/videos, go to Stories. It's an interesting, well executed idea/project.

2010-01-05T10:49:00.001+01:00

2010-01-03T12:19:00.000+01:00

It's cold outside, I'm staying in, thanks.

2009-12-31T19:45:00.000+01:00

THIS IS THE SHIT OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

2009-12-30T10:40:00.001+01:00

1. Charles Csuri - Fragmentation Animations, Hummingbird (1968)
2. Das Racist - Rainbow in the Dark (FRESH ASS INTERNET THUGZzz)
3. Little kids pull the best faces. (Xmas 2009)

2009-12-27T19:29:00.001+01:00

Boys/Głupki

2009-12-24T15:00:00.003+01:00

1. One of my homemade Xmas cards
2. Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars (live)

2009-12-22T11:16:00.001+01:00

Hi, so I got a job at Subbacultcha! a few weeks ago and now I'm going to obnoxiously brag and plug their brand new shiny blog that I'm doing for them because they are cool and I am excited about this. Fuck yeah!

2009-12-19T12:07:00.001+01:00

1. Night trip in snowy Amsterdam at 3:00 AM
2. Sinterklaas gift

2009-12-17T21:10:00.003+01:00

I'd never ridden a bike in the snow until today. To be quite frank, I don't like snow, but today reminded me of the biggest, bestest snow day of all time in London last year.

2009-12-15T22:42:00.003+01:00

This was fun to draw.

2009-12-14T16:36:00.002+01:00

1. Dr. Grey Walter's Robot Tortoises with two simulated neurons (1949)
2. Steina Vasulka - Warp (2000) (Pens music video, anyone?)
3. Rob recently made this music video for Blood On The Wall's - On My Mouth and I think it's COOL AS HELL.

2009-12-13T11:01:00.002+01:00

Sanne Sannes, Dutch photographer, took brilliantly intimate photos, died at the age of thirty.
He only worked with a hand-held camera and existing light, hence the extremely cool effects. His stuff was recently in FOAM.

2009-12-10T17:35:00.000+01:00

2009-12-08T23:53:00.001+01:00

A Visual Ode to the Dutch Potato
1. Vincent van Gogh - Mand met aardappels (1885)
2. Patat met mayo (Google images)

2009-12-07T17:13:00.000+01:00

1. Presenting the uni-moustache, made out of a quality nylon stocking!
2. I will not post phone photos, but I/we saw three excellent gigs this past weekend - Little Women (obnoxious, scary, cool skronk jazz band), Thomas Truax (ace DIY instruments) and The Moi Non Plus (biggest surprise of the evening - excellent, excellent.) Have a listen, do your research.

2009-12-06T23:24:00.004+01:00

Constant Dullaart - YouTube as a subject sculpture (2009)
Does this remind you of anything?
Excellent exhibition, Versions, in the Instituut voor Nederlands Mediakunst in Amsterdam. It is brimming with good, cool, subversive net art. This is a phone video of Dullaart's interactive sculpture. It does not do it justice, sorry, please consider it as an incentive to go and see it for yourselves/read about him.

2009-12-04T18:21:00.002+01:00

Used my fingers like a paintbrush.

2009-12-03T11:13:00.003+01:00

Hi, sorry my posting is so crap this week.

2009-11-30T12:09:00.000+01:00

1. Aa
2. Wavves
3. Male Bonding
Phone photos, Ekko, Utrecht, 29.11.09
Aa were fucking cool, Male Bonding were good, as always, Wavves seemed bored (no pun intended).
P.S. Utrecht is way nice, if you ever go, make sure you go to Broodje Plof for patat, eat a fresh stroopwafel by Hoog Catharijn, and play Connect Four in Coffee Company.

2009-11-26T21:37:00.009+01:00

1. T-Rex in Amsterdam
2. Time travel in Euston Station
3. Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely (2009) (Ok, Connie Converse has been the Coolest Person Ever in my books for three weeks now. A singer-songwriter from the 1950s, she packed up her shit in 1974 and disappeared forever (FOREVER). Her music was dug up earlier this year and let me tell you, it is ace beyond ace.)
4. Also, if you ever need a haircut and are in Amsterdam, go to Mogeen. I know they pay them to be nice, but if the hair stylists offer you a bazillion types of tea, apples, sweets, biscuits, video projections and will give you a free trim a month later, they might also be genuinely nice.

2009-11-25T22:28:00.006+01:00

1. Survival Research Laboratory, Increasing the Latent Period in a System of Remote Destructibility (1997)
2. Wetdog - Frauhaus! (2009)

I have neglected the music content on here lately, will improve, promise.

2009-11-24T14:21:00.006+01:00

1. Loves of a Blonde/Lásky jedné plavovlásky - Miloš Forman (1965) (Yeah, this is way cool.)
2. The Witches of Eastwick - George Miller (1987) (Ridiculously ridiculous, the fashion is the shit.)
3. Madonna - What It Feels Like For a Girl (2001) (Good lyrics, really good early noughties bad hair.)

2009-11-22T17:25:00.001+01:00

I like drawing. It is nice. Warsaw Love.

2009-11-19T22:37:00.002+01:00

Going home for the weekend to stock up on good stuff.

2009-11-18T17:13:00.004+01:00

1. Brion Gysin - No Poets (1962)
2. The permutated poems set the words spinning off on their own; echoing out as the words of a potent phrase are permutated into an expanding ripple of meanings which they did not seem to be capable of when they were struck and then stuck into that phrase.
Brion Gysin - Cut-ups Self-explained (1973)

2009-11-17T18:47:00.002+01:00

1-3. Bologna, Florence and San Luca

2009-11-15T17:57:00.003+01:00

Missing people is fucking shit.

2009-11-13T13:15:00.007+01:00

1. Cool holiday snapshot I found in a junk shop in Camden last autumn.

Clothes are cool, yeah? Here are three recent cool/good clothes-related things:
2. Kloos Vintage - this weekend in Westerpark in Amsterdam.
3. Pracownia Żelazko - Warsaw-based new, cool online vintage shop opening this weekend.
4. Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops - Sign the petition because this is actually important.
5. Vintage Delirium di Franco Jacassi, Via Sacchi 3, Milan - Hidden away in an old Italian apartment building, ring at the gate to get in. I went here last weekend while in Italy. Their extensive, beautiful collection of vintage items left me dumbfounded. Prices are very steep, but I sincerely recommend it for purely aesthetic reasons.

2009-11-12T20:01:00.005+01:00

1. Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper (1969) (Shit man, I love this part.)
2. Easy Rider (Sweded) (Sweding stuff is probably the coolest thing ever.)

2009-11-11T17:57:00.002+01:00

Concentration, concentration, no repeats or hesitation. Fifty million things to choose from. Zo starts.

2009-11-10T08:52:00.001+01:00