Mermaid by Aleksandr Petrov
Posted by Fabio 8 June 2011
Aleksandr Petrov’s style from the late 1980s onward can be characterized as a type of Romantic realism. People, animals and landscapes are painted and animated in a very realistic fashion, but there are many sections in his films where Petrov attempts to depict a character’s inner thoughts and dreams. Mermaid was nominated for an OSCAR in 1998 for Best Animated Short Film.
IS TROPICAL – The Greeks
Posted by Fabio 7 June 2011
IS TROPICAL are set to release their debut album ‘Native to’ on the 13th of June 2011 on Kitsuné. Their recent single The Greeks was accompanied by a video directed by French team MEGAFORCE. The video has gone completely viral, clocking up over 1.5 million views in just over a week and being described as best video of the year by many.
Beth Höeckel
Posted by Fabio 7 June 2011
Much of the work of Baltimore based artist Beth Höeckel is figurative and landscape oriented and recalls surreal dreamscapes and whimsical illusions. Through Hoeckel’s collage and mixed media painting and drawing, she conjures a vividly beautiful and mysterious world beyond our wildest imagination.
Mark Leckey – SEE, WE ASSEMBLE
Posted by Fabio 7 June 2011
The Serpentine Gallery presents a new exhibition conceived by Mark Leckey. In a multi-disciplinary practice that encompasses sculpture, sound, film and performance, Leckey explores the potential of the human imagination to appropriate and to animate a concept, an object or an environment. read more
Amon Tobin – ISAM
Posted by Fabio 7 June 2011
ISAM is Amon Tobin‘s all new, highly ambitious, breathtaking live show. Tobin will be stepping away from previous DJ centric performances, and instead will be providing a large scale live audio/visual experience to select cities around the world. Designed in conjunction with Blasthaus, VSquared Labs, Vita Motus Design, Leviathan and others.
Lisette Mode
Posted by Fabio 6 June 2011
Lisette Model (November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer. Model left Vienna for Paris after her father’s death in 1924 to study voice with Polish soprano Marya Freund. It was during this period that she met her future husband, the French-Jewish painter Evsa Model. read more
UNKLE – Money and Run (Feat. Nick Cave)
Posted by Fabio 6 June 2011
Money and Run is the new video from Unkle featuring Nick Cave. Directed Tom Haines.
TEENAGE
Posted by Fabio 3 June 2011
Teenage a film by Matt Wolf, written and based on a book by Jon Savage.