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Live Footage of Radio Birdman way back from the 70s is pretty rare. Glad to come upon this one: Glamoureskly edited here the Australians cover one of there most popular tracks “Aloha Steve & Danno” taking from the title track of  Hawaii Five-O.

www.radio-birdman.com

If you fancy this one, check this one out performed at Paddington Town Hall, Syndey in 1977:

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Call ist cynical, or just a statement – “oil painting is back”, postitulated ubermorgen in its press release today.

With the slogan “OIL PAINTING: THE SUPREME DISCIPLINE OF ART. THE OIL SLICK, THE SIZE OF PUERTO RICO, IS BEGINNING TO PAINT COASTLINES” the infamous artist group released a series of video edited images. Abstract yet colorful this imagery is taken exclusively by arial footage of the Gulf of Mexico where since two weeks now hundred thousand litres of oil a day spill into the ocean. A statement which might be appear at first sight provocative if not perverted as critics did not miss to point out:

In its statement ubermorgen points out the words of an apparently anonymous curator: “It is perverted and sick to compare a mass media spectacle and natural desaster with the century old tradition of fine art painting […] it is obvious that this comes from the ice-breaking european techno-art avant-garde. They step onto our fine tradition without the slightest idea of the consequences – and i am not talking about the butterfly effect”!

And yet, the disturbing sublimity of ubermorgen’s reedited images are far from applying a nostalgic conception of a Kantian sublime: Once again, and remember well 9/11 – it is not that we are hooked to and fascinated by something which is unrepresentable and hidden within the idea of a sublime phenomena. The result and damages of the oil castrophe have indeed become all too realistic and presentable on our tv screens, in the images taking by satellites. In this we are direct and immediate witnesses of an immense disaster which leaves us in anxiety, frustration or even indifference. And at the same time, irratingly we become – even if we don’t like to admit it –  fascinated by the outcome this disaster.

lizvlx of ubermorgen writes: “I saw the NASA earth observatory images and I was blown away” […] “Finally traditional painting made its comeback as a high-tech innvovative art form and not as the starving grandparent of photography, video, digital art and performance. As a former painter I am thrilled and as a digital artist I want to work this material until it bleeds”.

This is not cynical. It is the appalling result of the conditions our highly consumerist society has to face: The sheer terror and repulsive pleasures of something which can be called technosublime. A man-made desaster.

ubermorgen.com/DEEPHORIZON/
ubermorgen statement

Tags:   dis/connection · disaster · Hal Foster · net art · oil painting · sublime · technosublime · ubermorgenNo Comments.

Wow, that really looks likes me. Create your alter ego with this nifty flash site..

flashface.ctapt.de

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Hell, yes! Waking the Snow Leopard on my Mac Book a year ago gave me a sad mourning as unfortunately FLIQLO™ rejected to flip its fine digits on my screen in idle times. Finally, 9031.com made an update and released lately a new version of the screensaver which works as well on Mac OS 10.6. Beautiful and worth donating!

9031.com

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nice little vertigos for your spare time pleasures.. served by DavidOpe.

Tags:   AnimatedGIF · animation · david Ope · graphic design 3D · hallucination · hypnotisation · volllNo Comments.

Without being a specific fan of  Vice Magazine I just lately came aware about Soft Focus, a series of talks shows hosted by Ian Svenious (The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses). Taped before a live audience at the New York’s Guggenheim Svenious sporting a classic club blazer chats up with the likes of Will Oldham, Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, Henry Rollins or Genesis P. Orridge.. Honest, warm, passionated and hard to the core insights and delights by people you hardly would see on conventional tv formats.

“We, here at Soft Focus, assure you that we neither seek the truth nor the pain.. but a comfortable space inbetween the two, called the entertainment.”

www.vbs.tv/de/watch/soft-focus

Tags:   60s · Chan Marshall · entertainment · Genesis P. Orridge · Henry Rollins · Ian Svenious · music · soft focus · talk show · Will OldhamNo Comments.

Come Wander With me.. I first came aware of this beautiful yet mysterious song on  AIR’s LateNight Tales. Spellbound by the soft female vocals over subtle guitar strings I was confused by the name Jeff Alexander, whose name was indicated in the track listing. Being responsible as music conductor for a couple of the popular Twilight Zone TV series Alexander indeed composed the song. But it was sung by a Beenie Beecher, a temporarily mate of Bob Dylan, who was introduced as an actress in the very last episode of Twilight Zone (Season 5 / Episode 34) with features the same title as the song.

After spending some time to actually watch this specific broadcasting on the CBS website, which is not easy if you are not located in the States, I finally discovered the blog entry by June where you can see in 3 clips the complete episode.
Marvelous!

Pardon me, June, but to present the clips in one go, I simply do a reblog:

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Apparently a nice idea every day have finished their first 3D video where you don’t have to use any sort of glasses. Twinkle just a little bit with your eyes and it works, hahar!

www.aniceideaeveryday.com

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For a long time Julian Opie’s website featured the classic interface of Mac OS 9.. A bit outdated this all to a heavy golden frame which displays a Baroque scenerio: An explorer’s table filled with books, globe, a compass, telescopes, a skull, violine and some peeled lemon.. Click once, and you browse through Opie’s Historic Pages.. Indeed, beside current and future project there’s a good collection of the artist’s older works. Especially the sculptures from the late 1980s are worth looking: a cool reinterpretion of minimalistic sculptures. Then, by the early 1990s models of houses or race tracks made of concrete, the monochrome cubes.. A period before abstract outlines made Opie so popular.

www.julianopie.com

Tags:   artist sites · baroque · julian opie · webdesignNo Comments.