ELMGREEN & DRAGSET

thought I would have posted these guys....

awesome work, them. In my top 5

snaps

Walter Pfeiffer

Walter Pfeiffer

EUROPA

Lars Von Trier's masterpiece-visually, stunning.

On October of 1945, the American German descendant Leopold Kessler arrives in a post-war Frankfurt and his bitter Uncle Kessler gets a job for him in the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. While traveling in the train learning his profession, he sees the destructed occupied Germany and meets Katharina Hartmann, the daughter of the former powerful entrepreneur of transport business and owner of Zentropa, Max Hartmann. Leopold stays neutral between the allied forces and the Germans, and becomes aware that there is a terrorist group called "Werewolves" killing the sympathizers of the allied and conducting subversive actions against the allied forces. He falls in love for Katharina, and sooner she discloses that she was a "Werewolf". When Max commits suicide, Leopold is also pressed by the "Werewolves" and needs to take a position and a decision.THANKS IMDB

Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger

Gorgeous installations

saw this exhibition ealry in the year

BLEW MY MIND!

lovely 4 room installation "journey"

I would lend you the book i have.

But i can't....virtually maybe?

oh BUY IT :-)

its worth it!

EARTH HOUR UPDATE

Christchurch saved a massive
8.1%
compared to last sat night.

5.4% less than last year

Caption: Least fav cities

Christchurch

smells like poo

looks like pollution

and has the face of mayor Bob Parker.

thats him, with the face paint.

ew

Matthew Barney

Bjork's Husband.

Along with Marina Abromivic, a master of performance art.

Check out his movies such as the drawing restraint series.

I have never

Skipped school today and headed down to the universities school
of fine arts and watched a girls performance for her art.

She was playing the drinking game "I have never" with herself, and got
the audience to put i have never...'s in the box.

Amixture of immature, funny, sexual and horrible ones were in there.

1. I have never had afternoon tea with an elephant
2. I have never been mesmorised by oranges.
3. I have never kissed a girl (giggle, drink)
4. I have never fucked. (drink)
5. I have neveer had sex for revenge. (drink)
6. I have never had sex outside the burnside high school
art dept. (drink)
7. I have never fabtasised over a family member
8. I have never thought about a lecturer in a sexual way (drink)

after a bottle and half of red later, in 45 mins, she was done.
It was all about power being out of her hands and self admittance.

was amusing, and interesting with crowd reactions, etc.

well worth skipping sculpture for!

Earth Hour

Earth hour is here, you should know the deal by now.

Switch off, only one hour.

Greyson Perry

Cool new artrist I have just found, does cool drawings on

ceramics + stuff.

FREE THEATRE

Remember back, deep into the abyss of my posts, actually

only a few back...I posted about FAUST:CHROMA, staged

by Christchurch Free Theatre.

Just Went to see Ella and Susn. Two monologues presented

in and old style loft theatre, down a back alley.

Two very disturbing and intruding monologues, by fantastic

acttooooorrssss and of course the ever stunning director

Peter Falkenburg.

Typical of Christchurch: Chairs were arranged in a heap in

the middle, so everyone took one off the pile and went to the

back of the room. So instead, my friend and I sat amongst the

pile.

love this theatre company, all of their work is simply stunning

and mesmorising!

Nom*d Prints

I have been meaning to post about this for a long time.

Nom*d have a very very cool range of printed tees and tanks.

Because we have Plume in town too (aka Nom*d) we can get them

also printed on hoodies! But they can also be ordered through their

website. All the way back from their first ranges!

Check them out.

nomd.co.nz

Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinsons works are actually stunning, not are they only aesthetically (sp!) pleasing

but they are quite clever. I don't know about this particular works, but if your are interested, he does a series of sculptures out of coke cans and combs and stuff, that are analog clocks. Google him. Very very clever!

DAMIEN HIRST

Probably one of the most influential sculptures of
our time.

WINTER IS AMONG US

I was trying to think about what to post today, and as I was adding wood

to the fire it just came to me...

WINTER IS NOW AMONG US in the almost deep south of New Zealand.

So here is a list of winter favs/essentials:

1. Please stock up on teas, particularly Lapsong (see earlier post).

2. Please stock up on winter coats (brought my first for the season last week).

3. Scarf (Yet to do)

4. Light that fire, or invest in a good heater

5. Chill out in heaps of layers of clothes in a warm cafe with friends

6. Movie nights (great nights in)

7. Good dvd's (a list will be posted soon)

8. Make use of the winter fashion (ie boots, leather shoes, etc)

9. A good book

10. Make your winter mixtape!

There you have it. a few things to do before winter fully hits us.

Excited already!

The science of sleep

I can't believe that I have not posted any movies on here yet!

Here is the first! Genius film, by the AH-MAZE-ING Michel

Gondry.

Captions Favourite Streets

FAVOURITE STREET NUMBER ONE: brunswick st,melbourne.

why?: amazing boho culture, cafes, shops etc.

Cool people

mostly in black

a couple of dingy pubs which, admitty, we like

anytime your in melbourne, make a stop by Brunswick Street

note: polyester books in the photo. best book shop ever!

FRANCESCA WOODMAN

all my old artist storred away in the back of the many

cubicles of my mind are shining their torch light!

Very cool photographer.

Love to occasionaly paint her photos

Jason Greig

Lovely work

amazing surfaces and treatment of ink.

SARAH KANE

Welcome to the mind of Sarah Kane.

do not know what is to be expected.

unexplained and belivable twists

incest

that thing when humans eat babies

sex

suicide

a hotel room

soo much more.

Sarah Kane, is one of those people whose work will leave an everlasting mark on the world. By doing what others have never dared to do. Her work is amazing. Truely stunning.

Please, I beg of you. Google her. amazon. buy her plays.

all of them are a force to be reckoned with.

FAUST: CHROMA

Free Theatre did a performance of FAUST:CHROMA last year.

the most amazing theatreical experience of my life, on a different

level to wicked. but all the same.

Looking forward to their new season of Ella and Susn.

Keep posted!

WICKED

SAVE ME FROM THE WICKED!

I cannot believe I haven't posted about this yet!

So here goes the story, a little remenise (spelling). I was doing my first ever show [cute!] with Riccarton players, the local amateur group, of Joseph. The most amazing cast and the most amazing experience of my life, many people are now friends for life. Anyways. so it was closing night and we will sad and on the drive home, someone put on defying gravity. That was the moment i was introduced to WICKED. I then loved wicked for years and it came to Melbourne. I went and saw it and LOVED it of course. Fascinated me, being a lighting designer myself. and we are doing wizard of oz this year so very helpful.

But anyways, if you want to know more about the most OZTASTIC musical ever click here.

I love it because, again, it is so dark and fantasy like!

love it, amazing music, AMAZING moving sets, lighting, stunning costumes.

and Kerry Ellis' fantatsic rock version of defying gravity.

Love it, be it, defy it!

Daniel Richter

Daniel Richter set out to conquer the art world.

Personally, I think that is impossible.

However, he has [and continues] to create a great

body of work. He has a specifc style and work.

His paintings are a bit booo, but his drawings are just

amazing.

I think it is impossible to conquer the art world. Sure I think

Daniel Richter is amazing, but then the likes of Marcin Cienski

are around and create fantastic, dark, mysterious pieces, which is

a bit more my style. So really, how do you judge if you have conquered

the art world?? By the most sold? I don't think so. Most exhibitions?

perhaps. there is no real way though in my mind!

lookbook.nu

Lookbook is way cool!

cool people

cool clothes

cool photos

and you can just keep mindlessly scrolling for hours!

great!

Only thing is that it is *invite only*

I think i have one spare...

Melbourne Fashion week 09

Its time of the fashion shows still.

Paris has been and gone,

Sorry that I didn't post much about that!

[the fashion tv website confuses me]

I have been writing about a lot of very cool artists

recently, so hopefully I can find some cool new

fashions designers!

Anyways, so the L'Oreal Melbourne fashion week

kicked off in Melbourne on Sat! Keep your eyes peeled to

this page!

Marcin Cienski

A very cool painter

uses often religious (somewhat anti) subject matter

very dark

his works a like a puzzle that in which he only ever

reveals one pice of the puzzle, the clues are there.

Use your mind to finish it.

ONE DAY SCULPTURE

Sunday March 15 2009 saw The Physics Room and Christchurch Art Gallery present a new sculptural work by the international artist Thomas Hirschhorn developed specifically for Christchurch and part of the New Zealand-wide ONE DAY SCULPTURE series.

This remarkable sculpture existed for just 24 hours, starting at midnight Saturday 14 March until midnight Sunday 15 March, in a busy public location on The Esplanade that runs adjacent to the Christchurch beaches of Sumner and Scarborough. Hirschhorn dramatically customised a standard sedan with a variety of cheap materials as is typically seen in his practice, and places the car on show for a limited time only—potentially attracting both car enthusiasts and the general public alike.

The sculpture references the global enthusiasm for car customisation evident in the lowered, louder, brighter and bolder DIY modifications seen parading city streets: "I am interested in the universal act of customising. Its universality comes from its personal act as an individual gesture. Universality is created by love, by personal implication, by giving a form to one’s passion. I am interested in the Form which is created by customising or tuning a car. The fact of personalising one’s own ordinary car in order to give it a unique individual touch is the revolutionary gesture of everybody, without exclusion. Customising or tuning is an act of resistance to the non-written laws of all kinds of exclusion. In the desperate and useless act of car-tuning I see a form of resistance throughout form. And as an artist - what can interest me more than Form?"

RONNIE VAN HOUT

pretty cool guy
amazing and funny artist

very clever with what he does

WHITE FUNGUS MAG

pretty cool art and culture magazine.
http://www.whitefungus.com/

THE TEENAGERS

they are french
way cool

marina ABRAMOVIC

.... Is (as she likes to call herslef) the "Grandmother of Performance Art", and that she is, along with Matthew Barney as the Grandfather. Together, they have given birth to a generation of artists known as Performance Artists.

What might you ask is a Performance Artist? Well, my troubled child, Performance Art is:

"... is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience. It is opposed to painting or sculpture, for example, where an object constitutes the work. Of course the lines are often blurred. For instance, the work of Survival Research Laboratories is considered by most to be "performance art", yet the performers are actually machines." [thanks WIKI]

Marina Abramovic's career has spanned so far over three decades and in that time she has had viewers totrue her with whips, knifes and perhaps even a gun, and had viewers carve stars into her stomach. She has also starved herself in a gallery for 12 days. Outrageous.

She is amazing, everyone should worship her.

LAPSONG SOUCHONG

Just thought I would introduce you to this most amazing tea.

Smokey in flavour

Chinese black tea, smoked in baskets over a wood fire.

and that basically sums up the taste.

Two words, wood burner.

Great for a cold stormy night... a bit like tonight where I am!

Not a good night to be wandering the streets of town!

COCA - COLA ENJOY.

sunny day in lyttelton

friend and i took some shots

bjjjjjork-3D!

WANDERLUST

IN 3D

friends and i had a little viewing of Wanderlust

in 3d by Bjork at Lunchtime in the printmaking
room the other day.

pretty cool video

check it out here

takes a while to load . . .

and have your 3D glasses ready

how to make them?? template here

PAM or not to PAM

So, whats the verdict?? Do we like Perks and Mini (aka PAM)

or not?? Personally, I like a few pieces...but yeah.

Local designer shop in Christchurch really trying to push them . . .

ZAMBESI WINTER

ZAMBESI WINTER 09

paris fashion week

So, its that time again. Go home, switch on Fashion TV and 

just sit for hours and watch the fall/winter Paris Fashion week. 

Featuring all the favourites: Dries Van Noten, Ann 

Demuelemeester, JPG, etc etc.

Stay tuned for news.

LEGGINGS

FYI....

mens leegins are coming back in, well actually, if you don't already know...THEY ARE IN.

yup thats right. I started the craze, because I am that good. Its all about showing it in the right places, starting with Brunswick Street, Melbourne. Wanna hear the story??? Yeah ya do!

So, I was looking on the chronicles last season shoot, and their men were wearing tight track pants. So, i was like cool! and I searched for some for a good amount of time in the big Christchurch, with no luck. What was I really expecting anyway?! CHRISTCHURCH?! COME ON!

So, then I went to Melbourne, walked into my fav shop, and there they were, sitting in the womens sections, but hey! So, they are not like tights, and not like track pants, think a mix of both. Like tights, but slightly furry. I wore them down Fitzory one day, got a few looks. Went down 2 weeks later. I spotted 6 guys wearing them

What can i say!

So! hint hint. from boho central itself. and you know me. preferably. black on black is best.