Vlad Artazov - Nail's life

While reading a magazine I found a small chronicle about a photographer from Czech Republic that captured my atention. His name is Vlad Artazov and he recreates situations, feelings and emotions with nails...



Click on this link to see all photos: Nai's life

More of his work here: Vlad Artazov

Kseniya Simonova

Kseniya Simonova é uma artista de performance ucraniana que cria animações com areia. Nascida em 1985, foi a vencedora da versão ucraniana da franquia Got Talent em 2009. Na sua apresentação fez uma animação retratando a vida na União Soviética durante a Grande Guerra Patriótica contra o Terceiro Reich na Segunda Guerra Mundial.

"Sounds from a town I love" (Woody Allen)

This is a short film from Woody Allen and is part of the "Concert for New York City: Live", an event that took place shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. David Bowie, The Who, Jay-Z and other artists participated in the event. Short films were made for the occasion by New York filmmakers as Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.

"If you hate it, I'll try to make it up to you somehow in the future." (Woody Allen)

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Guerilla Girls

"In 1985, a bunch of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerilla Girls. Dubbing ourselves «The Conscience of the Artworld», we started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information, provoke discussion and to show that feminists can be funny. We assumed the names of dead artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when we appeared in public, concealing our true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on our personalities."

Couldn´t think of a better introduction, my apologies, but I hope you enjoy their work.
Here´s the website.

Cinema Português

Para quem quer ver trailers de filmes portugueses, ou ter uma lista desses e ainda visionar curtas-metragens nacionais, aqui ficam dois links:

http://filmesportugueses.com/

http://www.cinemaportugues.info/

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Water Fountain

I was looking for this video that I saw once, and now that I found it I want to share it with you. The idea is quit simple, a lot of work to do it, but the result its just amazing...
This is a water foutain display at Canal City in Fukuoka, Japan. It´s a large shopping and entertainment complex. I tried to find the creator(s) of this fountain, but didn´t found it wet.
Enjoy... Video

Vera Mantero - Prémio Gulbenkian Arte 2009

A Bailarina e Coreografa portuguesa Vera Mantero, foi galardoada este ano com o prémio Gulbenkian Arte 2009.

Com uma carreira a contar com duas décadas, inserindo a sua arte em diversos campos artísticos, Vera Mantero justificou a sua carreira numa entrevista a revista "Lusa": "Eu não faço apenas trabalho multidisciplinar. Gosto mesmo de ir roubar às outras áreas o que não encontro na minha".

A Fundação Gulbenkian descreveu Mantero como “uma das artistas mais criativas e singulares da cena nacional, com uma sólida carreira construída ao longo de mais de duas décadas”.

Para os mais interessados nesta notícia, poderão ver no site da Gulbenkian o artigo referente ao prémio que lhe foi atribuido - Vera Mantero - Gulbenkian Arte 2009

Sobre o trabalho desta ilustre bailarina nacional, deixo-vos o link de um video dela, intitulado Poesia e Selvajaria, espero que seja do vosso agrado.

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Lens Culture - Online Magazine

A "Lens Culture", é uma magazine online, onde visa contemplar a arte contemporânea mais direccionada para a fotografia. Possui uma galeria formidavel, e uma vasta lista de fotografo, assim como entrevistas áudio com os fotografos. Um site que se torna facil de explorar, apelativo ao olhar, e sem duvida alguma de grande interesse para os mais interessados pela fotografia.

De não esquecer que a "Lens Magazine" tem um concurso fotografico a decorrer, com inscrições até 15 de Setembro de 2009. Para mais detalhes no concurso visitem o link a seguir indicado - http://www.lensculture.com/contest.html

Para acederem ao site basta visitarem o link a seguir. Lens Culture

Espero que seja de vosso agrado.

L.V.

Nocturna Artificialia (1979) - The Brothers Quay

“Nocturna Artificialia”- realizado em 1979, é o nome da primeira curta metragem dos norte americanos Irmãos Quay. Esta curta metragem dura aproximadamente 20 min, e está disponivel para visualização no YouTube, dividida em duas parte. Deixo-vos o link de ambas as partes.

primeira parte - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Uaww0yon4

segunda parte - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1SmMpQeVZs

Espero que gostem. Para terem mais informações sobre os Irmãos Quay, vejam os seguintes links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Quay

• http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=quayretrospective&mode=filmmaker

Exposição TimeOut, Burned Out pelo Colectivo Arte às Tantas

TimeOut, um bar que privilegiava o rock/metal, foi consumido por um incêndio a 30 de Janeiro de 2008. Quatorze meses depois, o Colectivo Arte às Tantas fez registos do espaço onde antes se reuniam para ouvir música ao vivo.

TimeOut, Burned Out, é o ponto de vista de 7 “fazedores” de arte acerca desse bar, da beleza destruidora que o atingiu e da necessidade de reabilitação de espaços.

A exposição TimeOut, Burned Out do Colectivo Arte às Tantas será inaugurada dia 1 de Agosto no Paralelo 38, pelas 22:38, praia do Furadouro-Ovar (Rua jornal o comércio do Porto nº16).

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Colectivo Artistico Fondiu - C.A.F. (Fondiu Artistic Collective)

Fondiu is an artistic collective that I found during researches on the internet.
Fondiu is a collective with 5 active members. They believe it's necessary to participate, colaborate and create discussions to encourage the members in the development of their artistic projects. One of Fondiu's objective is that different people, with different ages, should meet to create opinions and to give different points of view. C.A.F. has also the objective to create intelligent art and culture dialogues, to spread art through exhibitions, concerts, perfomances, etc. They want to develop an healthy relation between people with interests in art and culture.

"Revolution! (...) use your brain to mobilize change, a change that is more necessary today, you have the right and obligation (as an artist, intellectual, thinker and human being in general), to leave behind all the obstacles between you and your fullness." (C.A.F. - Fondiu Artistic Collective)

For us from Arte às Tantas Collective (a Portuguese Art Collective) is spectacular to notice that, in Mexico, the Fondiu Collective is fighting for similar objectives that we still perserve.

For more informations go to http://www.fondiu.co.nr/

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Jakub Nepras

Jakub Nepras, life and work well summarized on - Jakub Nepras Bio

Civilization by Marco Brambilla

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

"Civilization depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell."

Marco Brambilla website

Civilization was created for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. "(...) it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down." http://www.vimeo.com/5082155

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The Fallen Princesses

Rapunzel II by Dina Goldstein

"These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The '...happily ever after' is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues."

The Project: Fallen Princesses

Spiritus from Susana Andrez

Spiritus from Susana Andrez on Vimeo.

After a fire in a bar, gostly presences seize the abandoned and destroyed place, observing the curious intruders' steps.

The intent was to creat a similar trailer/teaser structure.
It was filmed in 3 hours, during an Arte Às Tantas Collective photographic ride.

- Filmed with Sony HDR SR 11 Handycam (SD, Mpeg4, 16:9)
- Edition: 5 hours (aprox)
- Pos-production video: 4 hours (aprox)
- Pos-production audio: 5 hours(aprox)

Spiritus will be shown as a video installation in "Time out, Burned out" exibition (August 1, in Paralelo 38, Furadouro-Ovar, Portugal).

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"Chicken Ala Carte" from Ferdinand Dimadura

"In February 2006, at the 56th Berlin Internacional Film Festival, Filmmakers were invited to join a short competition on the theme: food, taste and hunger."
Chicken Ala Carte from Ferdinand Dimadura (...) "topped the Competition by being adjudged the Most Popular Short Film."

The art of making videos have an incredible power to show what's happening, to alert people. Everyday, more film documentaries seem to show the social-cultural conditions of a world's economy declivity. Some believe that a documentary must fulfill social-cultural prerequisites, almost as an obligation of this video format.
See Chicken Ala Carte on Online Film Festival
See Chicken Ala Carte on youtube

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Colette Calascione

Two Birds Sold for a Kiss, Colette Calascione, Oil on Wood, 1995 , 8" x 10"

"The women of NY-based painter Colette Calascione's world are the most luscious and enigmatic lot you’re likely to encounter in modern classical painting. Inspired by Victorian portraiture and Surrealism, Calascione is gifted with an Old Master’s hand for technique, a fevered imagination, a wicked sense of humor and a reverence for the feminine form rivaling that of Vargas himself. The resulting work is whimsical, provocative and elegant in turns. Demure masked nudes entice viewers with smoldering eye contact and slight, come-hither smiles. Grand dames of the parlour consort with beastly Ernstian suitors. The rosy aura of myth and allegory that surrounds these ladies is a fetching as their silken lingerie… maybe more so.

Scrupulous attention is paid to everything, and the color and contrast she imbues in each form — powdery decolletage, folds of drapery, the riotously rococo backgrounds — is exceptional.

Truly, Calascione knows that Goddess is in the details."

- via Coilhouse

Site Oficial

Exposição do Colectivo Arte às Tantas "Sonhei que era o par de collants de Ursula Andress" (Woody Allen) no PlanoB

A nossa exposição, "Sonhei que era o par de collants de Ursula Andress" (Woody Allen), vai ser inaugurada esta quinta-feira dia 4 de Junho de 2009, pelas 22 horas no Plano B.

CONTEMFESTA

"CONTEMFESTA é um evento que celebra a arte dos Contadores tradicionais, numa festa que engloba as mais diversas actividades, desde a música, teatro e conto tradicional, passando pelo vídeo e literatura do cordel, até às formações várias, sempre no contexto deste regresso (e redescoberta) às origens da Palavra, oral e escrita."

Dia 4, 5 e 6 de Junho no ACE-Teatro do Bolhão, Praça Coronel Pacheco nº1, 4050-453 Porto.
Link blog Teatro do Bolhão
Link programa

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Tilt-Shift

Neste estilo, fotografias e videos de objectos e cenários reais, ficam parecidos com miniaturas e maquetas. A primeira lente desenvolvida especialmente para produzir este efeito foi a Canon TS35mm f/2.8 S.S.C em 1973. Actualmente o "Tilt-Shift" pode ser produzido através do Photoshop. Alguns dos videos mais bem conseguidos, na minha opinião, são os produzidos por Keith Loutit e podem ser vistos em: www.vimeo.com/keithloutitFotografia de : Kros

Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.