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From the Something Else Yearbook 1974 (via)

(via rapeshower)

Ashley Reaks: it seemed a good idea when i started it…

see also: Reasons to Live, Rasons to Die by Ashley Reaks

Juan Burgos expands the urban apocalyptic events of inattentive daily life. His inspiration is an innocent children’s storybook, out of which emerges a delirious collage. (read more) via we make money not art

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OMFG! Check the Highlights from October

get inspired! Mashup your favourite posts, use as many as you like and upload your collage / tag: mashup

this one’s called ‘Stages’ - Dive in High Resolution

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Megumi Naitoh: In our contemporary world, mosaics are not just ceramics, stone, and glass, they are also digital. In some respects, the meaning of mosaic has changed over time. Mosaic used to be a technique to reveal design and imagery, yet the idea of the digital mosaic in contemporary society is used almost in an opposite manner. It is used to obscure nudity, obscene gesture or identity.

Real Life/virtual Life
wall relief with 3 vantage points

iphone portrait series

I think that many of my works can be described as an advertising campaign coming from possible parallel realities. They’re conceived as actual advertisements, just without the claim of a product, slogans, and of course the pay I would receive upon completion. What they sell is rather the real value upon which our society is based, without any sort of lie or hypocrisy hidden within them. (Read more)

Collages by Devin Troy Strother

We’ve been walking on the boarders between real flesh and fake backbone.
Review 24 blogposts and take a tour through last month’s oink bubble.
i call it figure of a perfect head.

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The romatic stories of Sauca Wilmer on Flickr

Solaris°, Creative support For the Love.

Herr Schobel , For the Love.

Little monsters from past and present. Discover 24 of the most oinked blogposts from August in the collage and a story behind each link.

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your collage. Tag: mashup

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by Patrick jann!n , For the Love.

Dont forget to check out Dieter VDO’s fantastic comic’s and paintings

Tal R’s Last Drawing Before Mars is a collage of supernova proportions. Bursting with the graphics of primitive special effects, Tal R makes a painting-cum-time machine. Hundreds of tiny clipped figures and consumer ephemera are conjoined in the unifying rays: a Nazi soldier to a gay porn star, a cartoon cat to a chintz lamp. People with no heads or wrong heads and others with skulls merge seamlessly with ugly furniture, sock puppets, tribal sculptures and status-symbol splendour. (via)

Hear from the artist personally what inspired him for his most recent exhibition
“u laugh an ugly laugh” in his 1h videodocumentation

Stan Vanderbeek (January 6, 1927 - September 19, 1984) was an American experimental filmmaker.
Vanderbeek’s career spanned about a third of a century, a period of almost constant creativity with extraordinary amalgamations of media. As such, it is a difficult career to summarize, especially in light of the fact that no definitive list of his truly countless productions seems to exist. Vanderbeek appeared to exude creations at a rate that escaped even his own cataloguing.

you can find a number of Stan Vanderbeek’s videos on TheMotionBrigades youtube channel.

see also: A la mode

Keens prolific output has embraced collage, live action, diary film and animation - often played out as expanded cinema performances where chance and accident are vital components.

The British Film Institute have released an incredible nine hour Blu-Ray retrospective of Keens work, named: GAZWRX

Find more of Jeff Keen’s work and explore the fabulous website kinoblatz.com

Flik Flak / 1963 / 8mm (extract) features Beulahs Boogie added by Keen 2008.

Q:  ”Somewhere along the line we’re supposed to figure out that one medium can’t do another’s chores. For instance, a written artist statement can’t stand in for a performative song and dance number. And yet the attempt, however clumsily made or especially if it’s clumsily made can be better than if everything played its assigned role, spoke it’s own language, did what it was best at doing.
Everyone: Arms up, Kick and Kick and Kick, together now, spin around” (via)

“What’s the earliest thing you remember being really into?”
“My mom’s leg. Is that what you mean…? ” Read Interview

The Brian Bress Channel

Browse three beautiful exhibitions by Joseph Mills: 
Anarch. The Loves of the Poets. Inner City.

“From surreal photocollage imaginings of a world gone wrong to documentary street scenes, Joseph Mills’ images and pictorial objects of the last twenty-five years alternate between shock and pathos, between black humor and existential dread.” 

Let me introduce one of my favourite contempory artist, Christian Marclay :

Marclay’s work explores connections between sound, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramaphone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collage, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the “unwitting inventor of turntablism.”^[1] His own use of turntables and records, beginning in the mid-1970s, was developed independently of but roughly parallel to hip hop’s use of the instrument.  - wikipedia

Here a little overview documentary, Marclay discusses his interest in unwanted sound, his use of turntables, early examples of his art and more recent pieces too.

If you have a chance to catch a Marclay’s exhibition,… go !

“I sent my bank manager some of my poetry. He took me to court.”  (more)

Reasons to Live >> and Reasons to Die >>

i have started to do some mashups, out of our collaboration - contributions, to start playing with the ideas that are already in.

i’ve continued Serbé’s associations of execution in some very rough collages using Benoit’s, Serbé’s and my images, plus old execution-photos found on the web.