Windbreaker: Patagonia / Trousers: Weekday / Boots*: Heierling
(* “Können Sie überall tragen.. auch im Stall”)

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archicture, landscape.. and yes! planes by Rasmus Norlander

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hahahar!

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selbstversuchmullet.blogspot.com

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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

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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.

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