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"You Know what I am saying" Dreed 88
Interview with artist Dreed 47th St and lake Park, Hyde Park, Chicago Mural Project
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IT'S TIME TO PUT YOUR ASSETS ON YOUR WALLS
The devolution of confidence in traditional investment alternatives, in concert with the elevation of the importance of design and aesthetic throughout the world, points to a renaissance in the value of art to a degree never before witnessed.
After all, the art auction market is fair and transparent with a degree of stability that many financial institutions, and even some AAA-rated U.S. government debt, can only dream about.
The Current State of Things
The U.S. has experienced many decades of economic growth facilitated by technological innovation and ongoing reductions in the cost of labor. As a result, it has enjoyed one of the highest rates of consumption in the world, bolstered by low interest rates and record rates of liquidity, all courtesy of the rest of the world's willingness to buy U.S. debt.
The DJIA is down 13.1% year to date and the S&P has fallen 12.4% in that time. The U.S. dollar has lost 10% against a basket of six currencies over the past year, 40% over the past six years, a time when the price of oil is up seven-fold. The Chinese Yuan is up 7% year-to-date versus the dollar after having gained 7% in all of 2007.
The U.S. money supply is growing at the rate of 16% per year, the highest rate of growth since 1971 and, correspondingly, Gold is up 283% against the dollar since June 2001. The real source of many consumers' wealth, their homes, have already lost 16% of their value since the peak in 2006.
Writeoffs related to the credit crisis have already passed the $450 billion mark. Keep in mind that this still only reflects sub-prime losses, as no commercial or Alt-A losses have been taken as of yet. After assuring in June that economic risks had diminished, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke testified in mid-July that "there's no doubt there's further deterioration in the cards for bank earnings and we'll continue to see financial sector woes play themselves out." Despite inflation in the form of rising consumer prices, currently at an annual 5.6% rate, the highest since 1991, the stresses in the financial system negate almost any efforts by the Fed to tackle inflation. That does not bode well for the dollar.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
The liquidity and capital crisis at these two mortgage behemoths is set against their guarantee of a whopping $5.3 trillion in mortgage credit, or half the total of all U.S. mortgages. The main issue however, revolves around their relative under-capitalization; the two have only a combined $81 billion in capital and that inadequacy means that raising capital has become a priority in this era of mortgage crisis. That roughly 2% of liabilities in the form of capital means that the danger exists that if the value of the mortgages that they guarantee declines by a small percentage......From where that capital will come is the big question, and it is increasingly likely that it will be the U.S. taxpayer who will have to shoulder the burden once again. Why? Absent their ability to raise additional capital in the public market they will almost certainly be rescued by the federal government because they are at least implicitly, if not so stated in their prospecti, guaranteed by the federal government, meaning that their failure would send a pronounced negative signal to the nations' creditors were they allowed to fail. Hence, their bailout could cost as much as 10% of GDP, the rating agency S&P has said and "could create a material fiscal burden to the government that would lead to downward pressure on its rating." The devolution of confidence in traditional investment alternatives, in concert with the elevation of the importance of design and aes... more -
Dean Shredder Contest (Jobal)
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Louise Bourgeois: Pandora's Box
Louise Bourgeois - an artist, whose career spans a century is beyond the confines of modern or even contemporary art as well as it is beyond any art styles or art movements. Her work simultaneously absorbs and repels all labels art critics so eagerly distribute to artists. This summer Guggenheim Museum is honoring 96 year old sculptor. Here is an excerpt from Olesya Turkina's essay Louise Bourgeois: Pandora’s Box We remember her [Pandora] most vividly because it is she who released human suffering from the box the god's entrusted her with, only to leave hope at the bottom. According to Jean-Pierre Vernant11 the mythological figure of Pandora represents the answers to the questions: What is man? Why are there men and women? Why is there good and evil? Why is there image versus reality? It is in this figure of mythos and duality, a figure that embodies the tension between hope and fear, that the main themes of Louise Bourgeois’ work may be found. Louise Bourgeois, who was born in Paris in 1911 worked more than half a century in New York. In fact her creative work reflects the century, with its revolutions and world wars, Utopian hopes and crippling disillusionments. Never one to blindly follow fashion in art, she has been compared with such masters of the 20th century as Constantin Brancusi and Vladimir Tatlin, Hans Arp and Alberto Giacometti, and even Joseph Beuys and Bruce Nauman. Her work is abstract and figurative, realistic and phantasmagorical, and is made from all manner of material such as wood, marble, bronze, plaster, latex and fabric. Probing themes of universal import, it is also highly autobiographical. In fact the personal and traumatic is Bourgeois’ most vital material. Throughout the 20th century one might say Louise Bourgeois has created an idiosyncratic symbolic dictionary in which certain personal experiences and fantasies are concretized into expressive images. In the words of the artist, “Symbols are only empty bottles. They function only through what you put in them – personal symbols mean personal alphabet, our uniqueness is all we have.” 3 For example, her use of the spider is not a sign of arachnophobia (terror of spiders), but a sign of the enveloping and diligent mother. In much the same manner, sewing needles are not represented as aggressive instruments but symbols of magic to signify the restoration of losses. And home is depicted not as a refuge, but as an enclosure where one is in danger of losing oneself. These objects thus recover magical properties connected to personal experiences well known since childhood. Louise Bourgeois - an artist, whose career spans a century is beyond the confines of modern or even contemporary art as well as it is ... more
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Portrait of Silvia Elena by Swoon
Honeyspace is an oasis of fresh thinking about art and its presentation — it is closer to the process of making it than to the process of selling it — despite its location in the midst of Chelsea’s booming commercial galleries. This is largely because the space is run not by a dealer, but by an artist: the sculptor Thomas Beale. The gallery is unmarked, no one is guarding the space, it has no sleek white walls and no commercial purpose. The building owner donated studio space to Beale and supported his radical idea to open an unmonitored gallery. Since it first opened in February of this year, Honeyspace has gained a lot of attention for its provocative ideas and shows. Honeyspace’s fourth show is called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years. The installation is a collaborative project by Swoon, a New York artist, famous for placing her wheatpaste cutouts on the streets of New York as well as showing them at MoMA, Brooklyn Museum and Deitch Projects, and Tennessee Jane Watson, a documentarian and social activist. Most visitors stumble upon the unmarked gallery, where a small framed note on the wall invites them into the raw basement to see the piece. Shabby stairs lead viewers underground and one cannot help but be submerged in the somber mood of the installation. Such a departure from a safe guarded gallery in the rest of Chelsea drastically changes the usual gallery experience. The installation includes sound recordings by Watson, shrine elements and an intricate cut out portrait of Silvia Elena by Swoon. The only explanation of the piece is in the corner of Honeyspace’s street level. The shrine on the table is made out of flowers, candles lighting the posters of the disappeared women, photographs of the commemorative pink crosses spread along the roads of Juarez and snapshots of the girls among their friends and family before their tragic disappearances. To date, over 500 women and girls have been confirmed killed in Juarez, and more an 1000 have disappeared. Most of the victims are young, poor, and have been sexually ssaulted prior to their deaths. The local police has been extremely ineffective in solving the 10 year old terror. Earlier this year, during the trip to Juarez, Swoon and Watson met Silvia Elena’s mother Ramona Morales. They recorded Ramona’s recount of Silvia’s disappearance, traveled together to Silvia’s grave and brought back photographs of Silvia. By inviting us to mourn together with them, Swoon and Watson bring emotion into the cold news stories we read and hear everyday of events taking place in Mexico, a place so far away, yet so close. Honeyspace is an oasis of fresh thinking about art and its presentation — it is closer to the process of making it than to the process... more
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British towns allowed to adopt red phone boxes
BT has announced that UK towns and villages will be allowed to keep hold of their much-loved red phone boxes, even after their phonesets have been removed because they're not used enough.
The local councils will have to pay £250 per empty box, or £500 for one with a working connection.
I wonder what we could do with the empties? Tiny art galleries come to mind, like one or two of the old police boxes here in Edinburgh. BT has announced that UK towns and villages will be allowed to keep hold of their much-loved red phone boxes, even after their phonese... more -
Gustav Klimt
A leading Viennese painter who broke away from convention to develop a highly original style. The intense, introverted subject matter reflects Klimt’s oversexed and workaholic personality. It also expresses his wish to explore modern sensibility. He worked through suggestion in order to touch the inner feeling, not the outward show. A leading Viennese painter who broke away from convention to develop a highly original style. The intense, introverted subject matter ... more
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Anathem - an evening with Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson's long-awaited book Anathem will be released to the public on Tuesday September 9, 02008. Join us on this evening to hear the author read from his new work and converse with Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis of The Long Now Foundation. We'll also have a special musical performance of math-based chanting created for Anathem by composer David Stutz . A book signing, reception and all-around celebration will follow (we'll have a cash bar too). Additional copies of the book will also be for sale at the event, but we can only guarantee that pre-ordered books will be signed.
The concept behind Anathem germinated in 01999* when Danny Hillis asked Stephenson and several other contributors to sketch out their ideas of what Long Now's 10,000 Year Clock might look like. Stephenson tossed off a quick sketch and promptly forgot about it. Five years later, however, when he was between projects, the idea came back to him and he began to explore the possibility of building a novel around it - Anathem is the result.
"It is a great story, set in an alternative reality where people take long-term thinking seriously." -Danny Hillis
"Long Now’s 10,000-year clock inspired Neal Stephenson’s new story, Anathem, and now Anathem is inspiring the Long Now. In ten centuries, no one will be sure which came first." -Kevin Kelly
Tickets are $10 for the event only, or $42.50 for the event and a SIGNED copy of Anathem ($10 ticket and $32.50 book, includes tax -- only pre-ordered books are guaranteed to be signed).
Members of The Long Now Foundation receive a complimentary ticket with RSVP, and can choose to pre-order a SIGNED copy of Anathem for $32.50 when they RSVP (only pre-ordered books are guaranteed to be signed).
Tickets and Member RSVP are available through Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/42323
We will also be doing a live stream of this event at 7pm PST on 9/9/08 on http://www.longnow.org/anathem/ Neal Stephenson's long-awaited book Anathem will be released to the public on Tuesday September 9, 02008. Join us on this evenin... more -
Brazilian Dreams of Os Gemeos
Brazil is famed for carrying a sense of the carnivalesque in everyday life. You can smell and taste it even if the festivities are a long way away. The work of Os Gemeos ("The Twins") reflects this celebration as they offer audiences a vibrant taste of everyday life portrayed through a fantastic caste of characters, real and imagined. Largely self-taught, the brothers started out by tagging the streets with the name "Os Gemeos" in their distinctive style. Later, they started to weave surreal narratives of Brazilian subconsciousness into their graffiti. Over the years their street painting reached such high levels that officials invited them to paint Brazilian trains. Now, they're equally at home on the street and in museum and galleries. While still tagging Os Gemeos, their work has been recognized by the Tate Modern in London, MAM in Sao Paulo, Museum Het Domein in The Netherlands and Deitch Projects in New York. This summer Deitch Projects is showing the largest gallery exhibition of Os Gemeos to date. Called Too Far Too Close, the show fills the gallery with the dreams and fantasies of Brazil: street kids, family portraits with mermaids, bathing girls, street musicians, favelas, flying animals, clowns and the reoccurring theme of twinship. The show invites viewers to visit the childhood of the Pandolfo brothers as well as revisit their own. Brazil is famed for carrying a sense of the carnivalesque in everyday life. You can smell and taste it even if the festivities are a l... more
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For me here is the Best Entry on Dean Shredder Contest USA 2008
he is an amazing guitar player
really cool style on the two hands techniques
check out this guy ...Thiago Trinsi
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design gangster
Gangsta rap-style video about graphic design.
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Legally blind person shreds for Dean Guitars
Michael knouff, 22, was recorded by people at a local show in Knoxville, TN. He was asked by his peers to enter Dean Guitar's Shredder Search contest. Michael, has been known in his area for being an Icon to many both on a personal level and musical despite his visual handicap. You can vote for him by clicking on this banner:
<A HREF=" http://www.deanguitars.com/shredder/viewProfile.php?id=... target="_blank"><img src=" http://www.deanguitars.com/shredder/bnrs/DeanShredder46... width="468" height="60" alt="Vote for me at DeanGuitars.com/Shredder!" border="0"></A> Michael knouff, 22, was recorded by people at a local show in Knoxville, TN. He was asked by his peers to enter Dean Guitar's Sh... more -
STL: Lutz Bacher and Aïda Ruilova at Contemporary Art Museum 9/12/08-1/4/09
For her first major museum exhibition, Lutz Bacher takes over the Main Galleries of the Contemporary. Working since the 1970s in Berkeley, California, Bacher makes use of a broad range of media to search for the noises that disfigure contemporary culture, isolating the alien images that make up our shared visual landscape. Rooted in a tradition of appropriation, she sifts through anonymous books, illustrations, pulp fiction, advertisements, and abandoned photographs. Spill maps out the artist's most current artistic territory and includes new site-specific installations, a rotating display of older works, and an artist-book.
New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova presents an installation of short videos that draw from horror films, music, and popular culture, combining interests in classic cinema with a frenetic and low-tech sensibility. Ruilova—a classically trained musician and member of the experimental music group Alva—is one of a young generation of artists who employ media with a do-it-yourself aesthetic, often drawing upon structures of cinema and music that exist outside the art world. Co-organized with the Aspen Art Museum, The Singles 1999 – Now presents a comprehensive survey of her single-channel video work since 1999 and is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue. For her first major museum exhibition, Lutz Bacher takes over the Main Galleries of the Contemporary. Working since the 1970s in Berke... more -
Vote "11" for Geoff Unger - Dean Guitar Shredder Contest Submission
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Shipping Containers Converted to Homes
Shipping containers, those big metal boxes used to transport the lamps, washing machines and furniture in our houses, are now becoming homes in their own right.
The 40-foot-long and 8-foot-wide containers left empty at ports around the country are being recycled into stylish, eco-friendly housing that's less costly than traditional construction.
Initially developed as an experiment for art installations, emergency housing and vacation homes for wealthy modernists, cargo container housing is moving off the fringe and into the mainstream. Shipping containers, those big metal boxes used to transport the lamps, washing machines and furniture in our houses, are now becoming... more -
cool ascii art which looks like 16bit graphics
8 bit /16 bit graphics made out of ascii text
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Pope slams crucified frog
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned a metre-high sculpture of a crucified frog by German artist Martin Kippenberger. The work is currently on display at a museum in Bolzano, North Italy.
"In a letter dated August 7, Benedict said the sculpture 'has injured the religious feeling of many people who see in the cross the symbol of the love of God and of our salvation which deserves recognition and religious devotion.'
The amphibian, which according to the museum curators represents a self-portrait of the artist 'in a state of profound crisis,' is said to have shocked many visitors.
Does it offend you? Pope Benedict XVI has condemned a metre-high sculpture of a crucified frog by German artist Martin Kippenberger. The work is currently... more
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