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geekgirl (r)osiex aka the metal cupcake publishing about interesting things for a really long time!
BigHugeLabs has added a “Warholizer” tool that lets you upload a photo or modify one hosted at Flickr or Photobucket so it becomes a tribute to Warhol’s bright, posterized art.
BigHugeLabs already offers a large collection of entertaining photo-effect tools. Along with the Warholizer, my favorites include the mock motivational poster maker, the ID badge maker, the palette generator, and the picture cube creator.
It’s hard to write about someone you don’t know. I didn’t know Pip Starr, who took his own life on January 24, 2008. He was close to some of my friends – all of whom are devastated by his suicide. It’s easy to say he was obviously depressed and plagued by the troubles of the world. But, looking at Pip’s own words he was obviously a complex person with multiple layers of perception and appreciation for duality and ambivalence.
“While recognizing that there are things about the world that we would do well to change, I also appreciate that the world is a magnificent and beautiful place that must be celebrated, loved and enjoyed.”
Pip was a well-known Melbourne activist and film maker, adored by his friends and family; and his loss has come as a terrible blow and tragedy. I am sure that Pip’s legacy will be his films which probably reflect and portray the mashup of emotions he personally felt about the crush of globalisation and the sense of disempowerment we sometimes all feel.
Perhaps Pip was just having a bad day, no one will ever really know – suicide is so senseless & selfish – to those who are left behind. I suspect suicide to Pip was a way of controlling his own destiny and although that decision should be respected it’s a tragedy that is also shocking & unacceptable to those who loved him.
A funeral will be held Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 in Melbourne to celebrate his life and work. There have been a number of tributes to Pip, and quite rightly so.
Some of his documentaries can be found here: http://web.mac.com/pipstarr/starr.tv/starr.tv.html
**RIP**
The National Gallery of Australia unveils the exhibition Australian Surrealism: the Agapitos/Wilson collection on Saturday 16 February 2008. The exhibition showcases over 170 works of the recent 25th Anniversary acquisition, the Agapitos/Wilson collection. These works will be seen for the first time in Canberra with this exhibition. On Exhibition 16 February through 11 May 2008.
Covering the period 1925 to 1955, the exhibition includes paintings, prints, collages, drawings, photographs and sculptures by the foremost artists associated with Surrealist art practice in Australia, including James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Robert Klippel, Joy Hester, James Cant, Peter Purves Smith, and Dusan Marek, as well as lesser known artists who produced some of their best works under its influence.
* The Surrealist revolution was launched in Paris in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto. The Surrealists’ aim was to transform society through the liberation of the imagination from the dominance of reason. While Surrealism was not conceived as an artistic movement, its influence was felt most strongly in the visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, and film.
Surrealism, the great revolutionary movement originating in France in the 1920s changed the course of Australian art in the 1940s. A generation of Australian artists encountered Surrealism at a formative time in their careers, and its influence transformed their art forever. The exhibition features key works of Australian Surrealism, including James Gleeson’s The attitude of lightning towards a lady – mountain, Max Dupain erotically charged photographs, and Robert Klippel’s Paris drawings of menacing hybrids of plant and machine.
“The National Gallery of Australia now has the strongest collection of International Surrealist art in the country,” said Ron Radford, Director of the National Gallery of Australia. “With the Agapitos/Wilson collection the Gallery has a world standard resource of Surrealist art.”
This exhibition will be a fascinating insight into an extraordinary fertile period of Australian art, where dreams and the subconscious transformed our views of the world. Entry to the exhibition is free. . Web: www.nga.gov.au
NanoArt is a new art discipline at the intersections of Art, Science and Technology, and relates to the micro or nanosculptures (atomic and molecular sculptures) created by artists or scientists through chemical or physical processes and visualized with powerful research tools like scanning electron or atomic force microscopes. The scientific images of these structures are captured and further processed using different artistic techniques to convert them into artworks showcased for large audiences.
37 nanoartists from 13 countries and 4 continents sent 121 NanoArt works to this second edition of the international competition. Public online voting is now open through March 31, 2008 at www.nanoart21.org. Judging is via the Internet and decided by the site visitors.
This site was founded by the artist and scientist Cris Orfescu (www.absolutearts.com/nanoart) to promote worldwide the NanoArt as a reflection of the technological movement. NanoArt is a more appealing and effective way to communicate with the general public and to inform people about the new technologies of the 21st Century and should raise the public’s awareness of Nanotechnology and its impact on our lives.
The 4th edition of the Pocket Films Festival, organized by the Forum des images, will take place at the Pompidou Center, Paris, France, on June, 13-14-15th 2008.
Three main festival sections are open this year : INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR PROJECTS Looking for all types of audiovisual participatory projects using mobile technologies, to be presented in Paris during the festival. 2 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE SECTIONS : CINEMA SCREEN and MOBILE SCREEN Main Jury Prize for each section : 1,500 euros Participate to the international competition « Cinema Screen », open to all films shot with mobile phones and / or digital cameras. Pocket Films also launches this year a section open to all video contents developed for portable screens, “Mobile Screen”. The Pocket Films Festival, festival of mobile video creation, organized since 2005 by the Forum des images, a major cinema center and film archive created by the City of Paris and dedicated to explore the relations between cinema, cities and society, with a strong emphasis on educational perspectives.
Since 2005, Pocket Films has gained international recognition for its exploration of the artistic possibilities of the mobile telephone as pocket camera, as well as the place this tool occupies in our everyday lives from social and aesthetic perspectives.