It's always six o'clock

link
0100101110101101.org
blameitonthevoices.blogspot.com

BATTERS/ KROLL/ WEEGEE: From The Collection of Eric Kroll

“Naomi on my Face”
C-print, ed. of 10
35 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches, print size
38 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches, framed

link
www.annakustera.com

Psycho Buildings at Hayward Gallery

link
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Viktor & Rolf at Barbican Centre

It is a great exhibition!! Very inspireing!

link
www.barbican.org.uk
www.viktor-rolf.com

The American Scene at British Museum

I went to "British" Museum Lates last night to celebrate "American" Independent Day.
There were 2 people explaining the different techniques of making prints in the current exhibition "The American Scene". It was pretty cool the know the differeces between those techniques and how to create different styles.

link
www.britishmuseum.org

fresh faced and wild eyed 08 at The Photographers' Gallery

I went to The Photographers' Gallery yesterday. Here are two serials I like.

online gallery www.photonet.org.uk


Steve Schofield www.steveschofield.co.uk
My practice is concerned with the hyper-real. I reflect the desire of my sitters to create a utopian existence based on their obsessions and hobbies, each influenced by popular culture. By photographing science-fiction costumers in their own homes in Britain, I have sought to show how, through this strange sub-cultural world of fandom, like-minded people establish a fictional existence to escape the everyday.





Alex Sandwell Kliszynski www.ask-art.net
My work explores the idea of the human/doll composite. It is intended as a satirical take on the pornographic image, posing questions about desire and fantasy and their representation in mainstream post-feminist culture. I draw attention to the objectification of the body and, at the same time, the disassociation between the commercialised male sexual fantasy and everyday experience of intimate relationships.

Done!!

I got my result and took down the show last friday. What's next?

Degree show private view

Thanks everyone who comes last night. I had a great time.

1 day left

buliding up

well..2 days left!!!

2008 degree shows at Central Saint Martins

Dates: Friday 13 to Thursday 19 June
Times: Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June 12am - 6pm
Sunday 15 June CLOSED
Monday 16 - Thursday 19 June, 12am - 8pm
Venue: Southampton Row Site, Holborn, WC1B 4AP (entrance off Theobalds Road)

MA Industrial Design at Room G12


link
www.csm.arts.ac.uk

Amelie at CREATE TO LEARN

I went to amazing Amelie's private view today. It is an interesting show.

link
www.amelielabarthe.com

Xhibit 08 Private View

It was great, lots of people, and people did look at the works rather than just came and got drunk.

Xhibit 08

The Arts Gallery
University of the Arts London
65 Davies Street
London W1K 5DA

1 May - 1 Jun 2008
Private view : 1 May 08, 18:00-20:00

Pock-it is going to show at Xhibit 08 for a month.

All-Inclusive. A Tourist World

Ayse Erkmen, Safety Doors, 1996-2008.
Photo: Norbert Miguletz



Ho-Yeol Ryu, Airport, 2005. Courtesy Ho-Yeol Ryu

Consciously, I always feel nervious and uncomfortable to go through the safty door. I hate that beeping noise.

link
we make money not art
Ho-Yeol Ryu

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XYZ at Salone Satellite, Milan

Our show at Salone Satellite Milan went really well last week. It was interested to see people trying to reach something in an empty space.

link
www.maindustrialdesign.com/xyz

What can you bring to the table

link
www.belowtheclouds.com

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Cai Guo-Qiang at Guggenheim Museum New York

link
www.guggenheim.org
link
icon review

New museum

Building is way cooler than the exhibition inside.

link
www.newmuseum.org

Noguchi museum

very zen....

link
www.noguchi.org

Whitney Biennial 2008

some installations at Park Avenue Armory, space is cool, installation are ok.

link
www.whitney.org

Design and the Elastic Mind / Color chart @ MoMa

Almost all are from Europe, lots of them are from design interaction at RCA.


I like the website,
color chart

link
www.moma.org

Polymorphous Perverse @ Deitch

link
www.deitch.com

"Made Ready Made" KRISTOFFER AKSELBO

link
www.browngallery.co.uk


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WORK IN PROGRESS

ma industrial design
ma design for textile futures
ma creative practice for narrative environments

Work In Progress Exhibition

Tuesday 8th January, 2008
5.00-8.30pm, 9th +10th Floors, Red Lion Square,
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
University of the Arts London
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP


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Secret Shop exhibition by Company

The exhibition is already past, but still worth to look at some products on website.
All the objects are Finnish designed or made.

link
Secret Shop
www.com-pa-ny.com

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THANKS

Thanks everyone who came to our stand or interested in my work!
I think it will be at www.peachy.uk.com sooner or later.

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TENT LONDON

I am really happy about the lampshade and glad that we manage it on time.
Thanks Lauren!!! You are de BEST!!

Miss Geschick & Lady Lapsus at DesignersBlock London

I think I put their work on my old blog long time ago and I like the T-shirt“natural mink”a lot. That's a shame it's only for girl.
When I saw they were showing at Designersblock, I was too excited!!
I hope I didn't scary them..:p



more link
www.missgeschickladylapsus.de

Living With Things

Living With Things is a series of seven everyday objects, modified in their functionality. They explore how and to what degree an object can be subjectified by a person's imagination and emotions, and how intimate moments can be created between a human and an object. Through using the objects you create a symbiotic relationship with them; they need you as much as you need them. The project is about enhancing everyday life in poetic rather than rational ways, creating moments that make you stop and consider. The project has also been documented photographically. These photographs search for the aforementioned moments – where, when and how they take place – and then captures them. The objects and photography together encourage people to explore a different view of the world, of everyday life and therefore themselves. It won't change the world, but may alter our perception of it, and perhaps open up new ways of looking at things we often take for granted.

more links
magnetkonto.de

[via alice-wang]

bye-bye blackboard

Einstein / Oxford / 1931

Blackboards were wiped after use: they were meant for immediate communication, not for record. Even as they were being used, their messages were continuously revised, erased and renewed.

I still remember when I was studying at high school, I copied down everything which teachers wrote on blackboard. It's more like a text book rather than "communication tool". There were only 2 occasions I would touch a blackbroad, one was answering questions which teachers wrote on the blackboard, the other was erasing and cleaning it after a class.
However, blackboard represent a professional image to people. When people see a photo of a person stand in front of a blackboard, it naturally presents the person as a academician or scholar.
It is because people tend to use objects to symbolize or express who they are, or we create a stereotype in our mind?

How about a criminal standing in front of a blackboard?


more links
exhibition website

Un chien andalou

PART ONE

PART TWO

I went to see Dali's exhibition at Tate Modern with friends.
We all know he was an important surrealism artist but the exhibit focus on Dali and his films.
In personal, I like the dream part in Spellbound (1945) which is a film Dali collaborate with Alfred Hitchcock and a Disney movie Destino (1946) (but I have no clue why there was a baseball man in the animation, it ruined the whole scene).
可是為啥我放"Un chien andalou"而不是上面提到了影片
因為開場白"once upon a time" 這幾個字瞬間就把這部短片故事化
所以不管再怎樣怪異的場景或事件 人們接受的程度變高了
或許因為他們覺得這只是故事(fairy tale)而已
台灣的政客或許都應該在他們的屁話前加上"once upon a time"