REJECTED

Posted by Fabio 17 February 2010

Rejected is an animated short comedy film by Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It received 27 awards from film festivals around the world and in 2004 was ranked by the Internet Movie Database as the 3rd best short film of all time.

Anna Shelton

Posted by Fabio 17 February 2010

Interview with the very talented photographer and musician from Portland, Oregon, Anna Shelton. read more

Chalmers Butterfield

Posted by Fabio 17 February 2010

A set of beautiful colour phots of London from around 1949 shot on Kodachrome by photographer Chalmers Butterfield. The photo shown here is from Shaftesbury Avenue. See the rest here.

Jennifer Cohen

Posted by Fabio 16 February 2010

Jennifer Cohen
Grey Lines in Formation

Exhibition runs until 25 February

Salon 94
1 Freeman Alley, New York, NY 10002

200000 Phantoms

Posted by Fabio 16 February 2010

In this experimental short film directed by Jean-Gabriel Periot, the history of the 20th century flies past, illustrated by 600 photographs of the Genbaku Dome. In 1914, the Genbaku Dome in Hiroshima was a dazzling center of elegant urban life in Japan. On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb called Little Boy detonated 500 feet away from the building, killing 78,000 people and leveling the city within a single second.

Free Radicals

Posted by Fabio 16 February 2010

“Jess Baines looks back at London’s printmaking workshops of the 1960s and 70s, DIY sites of political and community activism that rejected the role of the artist to participate in a network of campaign groups, radical publishers and distributors”. Read full article here on Afterall.

Jenni Hiltunen – Pink Mania

Posted by Fabio 16 February 2010

Hysteria, pink mania, a fetish, the skin. One colour full of meanings. A hectic rhytm of the video reflects the fever of individual in the global and weird world. There aren´t any limits of binging and inequality. Asexuals, beggars and artists face one other, time vanes and speeds up. Feelings of alienation and bystanding are present. _Jenni Hiltunen

Simon Høgsberg

Posted by Fabio 16 February 2010

This image is a selection from a 100 meter long photo (100m x 78cm) taken over 20 days from the same spot on a bridge in Germany. The photographer behind this marvelous photo coined We Are All Gonna Die, is Danish Simon Høgsberg. Click the link below and have a scroll yourself.

www.simonhoegsberg.com