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Shannon Keller: blood for everyone (via)

see also: Knitter by Shannon Keller

Rabbitho on flickr

Roger Ballen: My photographs comment on the complex word that we loosely term as reality. Reality is ultimatley impossible to define with words, perhaps images will provide some clarity. It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative . My images symbolize the chaos around us and our inability to ultimately control our fate. In contrast to this world, my aesthetic is expressed in a very formalistic manner. (via)

Find Interviews to read or watch on Lensculture and Euroalter

Robin Schwartz: My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary. (via)

Jin Young Yu: My works are about the invisible people. I wanted to talk about the stories of the people who said, I definitely don’t know them, but they knew me so well. To me, that person was a transparent existence that neither did or didn’t exist.
My works feign expressionless faces. They are holding their tears back and swallowing them, or they try to put on a cool face despite the traces of tears on their faces. Or simply, they seem to have something hiding behind the hurried pretense of their expressionless faces. Looks on their faces that don’t make people approach them with ease - a subtle look of suspicion and caution keeps others from easily approaching them. (read more)

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.

Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort”.

A magic merry-go-round takes a little girl on the ocean voyage of a lifetime.

discover more beautifully animated shortfilms on Gobelins website or youtube

Jelly Sunday

wowlab 2009 - An installation where reality and imagination blends.

Factory and Fantasy is an experimental installation produced by architects, visual image composers, musicians and scientists. The project outline was to construct a work combining the technology and imagination of each field. The work occupies the space between fantasy and reality and explores the borderline itself.

This was the Trailer to the exhibition, very beautiful

Patricia Piccinini’s worlds are full of youngsters, including pink and blue truck babies promising to tell where grown-up trucks come from.

Patricia Piccinini’s exhibition at Artium explained by herself

The Gathering

Chris Anthony is an internationally recognized photographer who was awarded the 2007 Grand Prize in American Photo’s Images of the Year Competition for his “Victims & Avengers” series. Born and raised in Stockholm, Anthony also lived and studied in Florence. In his teens, he worked as a rock photographer and went on to direct music videos and commercials. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

“I’m the most normal person in know”

Marina Abramovic (born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1946) is a performance artist who investigates and pushes the boundaries of physical and mental potential. In her performances she has lacerated herself, flagellated herself, frozen her body on blocks of ice, taken mind- and muscle-controlling drugs that have caused her to fall unconscious, and almost died from asphyxiation while lying within a curtain of oxygen-devouring flames.

As a part of the collective film Project ‘Stories on Human Rights’, Marina Abramovic created the short experimental film Dangerous Games (2008).

previous works of Marina Abramovic include:
How we in the Balkans kill rats a piece of “Balkan Baroque” (1999)

Art must be beautiful (1975) “I brush my hair with a metal brush held in my right hand and simultaneously comb my hair with a metal comb held in my left hand. While so doing, I continuously repeat ‘Art must be beautiful’, ‘Artist must be beautiful’, until I have destroyed my hair and face.

Director Tim Webb’s experience as an animator led him to realise that there was a quality in some autistic children’s drawings that would lend itself to animation. The 12min Shortfilm A is for Autism is a dazzling animated collage of drawings, live-action sequences and voiceovers that offers an insight into different aspects and forms of autism and their sensory responses to and experiences of the world.

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Hayao Miyazaki is widely regarded as the Walt Disney of Japan. Because of his influence in the animation industry, Miyazaki was recognized as one of the most influential Asians of the past 60 years in 2006.

Latest movie: Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, all 170,000 frames are hand-drawn. Stream Full Movie

illustration by Nasou (download in high res)

Raúl Lemesoff is the creator of the “Massive Education Weapon“. A sculpture/car that contains thousands of books that are given away to children in Buenos Aires. Bars, shantytowns, rural houses and poor districts are just some of the destinations at which Lemesoff’s peculiar vehicle gives away books. (Read more)

Explore Laser Bread’s flickr-album: Make Something Cool Every Day 2009

Fleshpop 5/4/09: clay + lollipop stick + doll hair + band aid + sri racha + ear ring

Coraline is a fantasy/horror novella by British author Neil Gaiman, published in 2002. It has been compared to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and has been adapted into a 2009 stop-motion film directed by Henry Selick.

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Find more info about the movie, plus Trailer, Making of and Outtakes at CoralineTheMovie’s youtube channel

Megan Brain from Los Angeles creates amazing paper sculpture art and has a cool blog.

 

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Newsround (originally John Craven’s Newsround) is a BBC children’s news programme. Newsround on Knives has been selected for the TV Special category at the Annecy Festival 2009. Directed by Layla Atkinson. Produced by Kez Margrie and Richard Barnett. Production company: Trunk Animation.

Olivia Jeffries’ Website

Also take a look at Art Sparks on Tate Kids Films

Brothermcleod on Youtube

The Hubley Studios (1942 - 1976)

Eggs (1970)

Windy Day (1968)

Voyage To Next (1974)

The Tender Game (1958)

“Very Early Pictures” responds in part to an increasing number of recent projects and exhibitions by contemporary artists that incorporate or refer explicitly to their own childhood production. Some of the earliest examples in the exhibition reflect the formal ingenuity and expressive, performative spontaneity that inspired classic modernists such as Miro, Picasso, and Klee, who most famously collected and studied his own childhood drawings. On the other hand, the searching, self-conscious images by some teenagers seem to mirror the hybrid conditions of postmodernism. In many cases, the links between an artist’s childhood work in the exhibition and his or her adult practice seems arbitrary or nonexistent. Several examples, however, stand out as evidence of surprising artistic prescience while others offer a fascinating glimpse at the way current events and popular culture have increasingly captivated children as subject matter. Regardless of any possible affinities these early drawings may possess with mature works by the same individual, each piece hints at an idealized engagement with art-making that remains a goal for artists of any age. (via)

Participating artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Kjetil Berge, Rachel Bliss, Shannon Bowser, Elizabeth Bryant, Charles Burns, Mason Cooley, Patricia Cronin, Dorothy Cross, Russell Crotty, Tony de los Reyes, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Wim Delvoye, Daniel Douke, Anda Dubinskis, Marlene Dumas, Tim Ebner, Joy Feasley, Jim Shaw, Chris Finley, Mathew Hale, Steve Hanson, Doug Harvey, Mona Hatoum, Jim Hinz, Julian Hoeber, Jim Houser, Martin Honert, Tehching Hsieh, Yvonne Jacquette, Kim Jones, Alex Kanevsky, Deborah Kass, Glenn Ligon, Tristin Lowe, Christopher Knowles, Kerry James Marshall, Virgil Marti, Sarah McEneaney, Gerald Nichols, David Reed, Marco Rios, Kay Rosen, Adam Ross, Ed Ruscha, Hinrich Sachs, Judith Schaechter, Carolee Schneemann, Anne Seidman, Randall Sellers, Shelley Spector, Paul Swenbeck, Jude Tallichet, Dani Tull, Jeffrey Vallance, Marnie Weber, Olav Westphalen, Fred Wilson, Barbara Woodall, and Andrew Jeffrey Wright. 

I have selected 5 of the participating artists, to present their “Very Early Pictures” and to introduce you to their current work.

Marnie Weber (age 3)

Randall Sellers (age 4)

Julian Hoeber (age 5) 

Charles Burns (age 8)

Jim Shaw, (age 15)

Also take a look at the book:  The Innocent Eye by Jonathan David Fineberg

“The idea that modern art looks like something a child can do is a long-standing cliche. For some modernists, however, the connection between their work and children’s art was direct and explicit. This groundbreaking and heretical book, centered on such modern masters as Klee, Kandinsky, Picasso, and Miro, presents for the first time material from the collections of child art that these artists actually possessed as they undertook some of the greatest masterworks of their careers.” (more)

Sibylle Peretti was born in 1964 in Mulheim-Ruhr, Germany.  She was trained as a glass designer at the School for Glass Making in Zweisel, Germany.  She studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cologne, where she received her M.F.A.  She is internally known and has had many solo exhibitions as well as museum shows worldwide.  In 1997, she received the Raphael Founders prize.  Together with Stephen Paul Day, she was awarded a Wharhol Grant for artist residency at Penland.  She has taught at many schools in Europe and the USA.  Her work can be seen at the Corning Museum, the American Glass Museum, and many museums in Europe.