/ANYONE FOR SCRABBLE?


It is valid to assume that the majority of society likes or rather needs chocolate from time to time.
The only problem for gluttons such as myself is,that the eating process sometimes only lasts several seconds and thereby limits the enjoyment of the experience. Chocolate Scrabble is therefore a suitable answer for people such as myself, as it offers double the fun and will elongate the experience, leaving you feeling less guilty as you excercized your braincells whilst stuffing yourself...

/THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT...

Product design prototypes often looks hyper slick and so refined that you would never consider owning what is displayed because it seems to only be suitable for the "couture haute".Often products that could make ones routine much more efficient or ones life more comfortable are either ridiculously priced or look like astronaut gear or in the case of furniture would look though as if one bidded on some sci-fi films furniture set .I have recently come accross some more cunning and appealing products, that have an aesthetic edge and are efficient and can be used by any commoner without making it look though as if one has confiscated ones childrens Robocop gadgets.

SIGUR ROS-HEIMA

Heima was allready released last year sometime...November, if I'm not mistaking. Eventually after having bought the accompanying album and having heard other people ranging from friends to co-forum dorks getting overly excited about it, I decided to finally invest in it and just order it over the internet as every time I heard one of the many underground music shops stocked it I got there too late...

Heima is a great investment if you're into Sigur Ros, and is something that even people who aren't avid Sigur Ros supporters may enjoy!This is due to it not only focussing on the band touring Iceland (their hometown), but also on the Icelandic scenery and people. The dvd consists of a documentary, which shows the band touring across the country and playing free shows at unusual places, including old abandoned factories or just in the open Icelandic outdoors. What makes this dvd such an experience, is the experience of quality, as whilst one is watching it the quality of the shots and the content, as the documentary is approached in a very artistic manner. It is one of the first music dvd’s that is not just about the strain of touring, the tense process of recording and the basic live performances at the end, but offers more than a band dvd usually guarantees to…

Here is an external link to a source where the dvd is streamed…

Have a look to get the idea and then order it!

http://deekmedia.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/sigur-ros-heima-2/

enjoy!

here are some stills from the film:

//ATTENTION....SELF PROMOTION!

So since it has been quite some time since I've featured something slightly solid on my blog I'm still busy working on on some dvd reviews... the fact that it is taking me forever to do does not have todo with the quality, but rather with my deadlines.Until then I figured I should just be a self-indulgent asshole and post some ideas relating to the stuff i'll be working on this year.. I'm working with the idea of the western world colonizing the sky! Since there are no more countries to conquer or corrupt down here (on the ground),and since it has become inhumane to do so, why not aim for the sky.... So here goes...

Just another awesome pic i stole off the internet!


Since i'm a real image dork, and enjoy spending hours online sourcing random pics, i decided to post one o my latest favourites..I will try to more frequently post some of the awesome stuff I come across, and promise not to add long and meaningless text or an over the top picture analysis...So it's basically just the fast food feature of my blog...enjoy!

(avantcarguard)

JHB ART FAIR

Next week, from the 13^th March-the 15^th, the Jhb Art fair, which has been referred to as “the first contemporary African art fair”, will take place. Of course this sets high expectations, as either this new event aimed at promoting contemporary African art collecting will prove to be a great success, or it will arouse the same disappointment that many directed at last years Cape Town Exhibit or Africa Remix exhibition, that were ambitiously planned and hyped only to receive a lot of negative publicity.

Jhb art fair is taking place at the Sandton Convention Center, and features 22 contributing SA galleries such as up and coming Whatiftheworld, Rooke etc., as well as SA pioneer galleries such as Goodman and Bell Roberts.The galleries will be selling work by the artists they present in a traditional art fair set up, such as at Frieze Art Fair. Artist that will be displayed at the Fair include up and coming young talents Andrzej Nowicki, Lyndi Sales and Zander Blom amongst many, and of course the older and established cats such as Kendell Geers, Penny Siopis and Colbert Mashile as well as Fat Cat William Kentridge.

Apart from the Galleries contribution, there will also be an exhibition “As you like it”, curated by Simon Njami. Speeches dealing with collecting of contemporary African art will be made, and there will be 8 Kentridge films screening.The event will be rounded off by an after party, which probably exceeds the expectations of the fair itself, as after party tickets are nearly triple the price of the Fair entry fee.The whole event is organized by artlogic and not only features local artists, but also lists eminent international names such as Julian Opie, Andy Warhol, Nick Cave and Kiki Smith.

(Anrdzej Nowicki)

This Art Fair, whether or not it will prove to be a success should hopefully inform the still somewhat uninformed South African Public of the fact that art no longer just consists of Irma Stern and Walter Batiss. The art on display will hopefully succeed in defining the new ideology of South African Art and also make its impression on international collectors, proving that despite the fact that we are a third world country, we still offer contemporary art that should be reckoned with on an international level.




(Nick Cave)

Intelligent women of the 60's and the theme of Atomic Radiation...



I spend many of the hours i'm meant to be sleeping on the Internet,lurking for interesting images that I obsessively save to my image database.Recently a friend gave me a link to a site that features images other people (or visual geeks, such as myself) have found and uploaded onto a site, which eases my cap usage and makes my image collecting process a whole lot easier! Yesterday I came accross an old book cover that at first amused me, then shocked me (I tend to be quite a feisty feminist at times), and then actually just made me wonder how feminism came to be in first place. The title of a 60's book (written by Margot Bennet, note:a female) stated the following : "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Atomic Radiation".It unfortunately seems, that the "Inteligent Women" were too occupied reading Atomic Radiation books, rather than giving Judy Chicago a helping hand...