Sign up today! The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten days (TCTMTLTD)
Share Welcome to The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten days. Please sign up to show your support for this vital new campaign. Join the facebook group! Who are we? The Campaign for Test Matches to last Ten Days (from here on referred to with the easy-to-remember nickname “TCTMTLTD”) is a group of worried...
Amateur film maker winning prizes: Luis Mieses and The Fixer
Share Bringing hope to all wannabee film makers and with no formal film training, Conrad attempted to fulfill his dream of making movies for the first time at age 37. In 2011 he showcased his first short film, Avenger Love, as an amateur with a home (consumer) video camera. Soon, Conrad began to meet people...
Hexen 2.0 by Suzanne Treister at the Science Musuem
Share Hexen 2.0 is the new exhibition from British artist Suzanne Treister showing at the Science museum in London. It is a follow up to Hexen 2039 which she showed in 1995. Treister works across media and has produced a large body of work dealing with notions of identity, power, history and the hallucinatory. Hexen...
Artist Interview: Gina Higgins, Los Angeles
Share Interviewer: R. Weisberg, MFA, University of California at San Francisco Gina, what is your definition of “American Noir?” American Noir is my modern interpretation of the movie genre of the 40s and 50s. I’m incorporating the aesthetic aspects of film noir and making them current. When most people hear the term...
Panoramic Possibilities by Ivan Jenson
Share Stretching out before me hundreds of miles of places I can go behind me all that I have seen before all around me that which is going on now above me that stuff I will never reach no matter how hard I try below all that is buried and gone and so after much...
Design a digital artwork and win €10,000
Share Recently, designboom and INFINITI launched an international competition worldwide to find the best of the best talent in the digital art world, with each theme focusing on one element of the INFINITI brand. Viral video by ebuzzing The first theme was “Inspired Performance” and garnered huge international interest, with over 500 entries from all...
Art War: Casoria Art Museum v Italian Govt
Share Antonio Manfredi of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples has burned a painting today in protest at the budget cuts that the Italian government has imposed. He plans to burn three paintings a week, saying that the museum’s artworks were ‘headed for destruction anyway because of the government’s indifference’. The first painting burned...
Cookbook review: Italian home baking by Gino D’Acampo
Share Gino D’Acampo is one of the current crop of TV chefs and he has authored several cook books already. He has also won I’m a celebrity, but don’t let that put you off. Italian home baking is an exciting cookbook that is full of recipes that make you want to get the flour out...
Why didn’t I love the 3D Aardman Pirates and their scientist friend?
Share I was looking forward to seeing Pirates! In an adventure with scientists! more than I have looked forward to seeing a children’s film since, well, when I was child. On paper it had all the top-notch Aardman elements so when I went into the cinema with a gaggle of children I was the keenest...
How I made my first feature film, ‘The Dinner Date’, for just £700 by Win Edson
Share So there I was, my film camera in one hand, aiming the boom mic with the other, attempting to nudge a light stand with my foot to better light my actors. This is when I realized that to write, produce, direct, camera operate, and edit a feature film on my own, may have been...
Imminent arrival of Broken Fingaz Crew in London!
Share In their first major exhibition inside Europe, the pioneering group (Unga, Kip, Deso and Tant) present a new large-scale, mixed media installation CRAZY EYE HOTEL, in the heartland of London’s street art scene, The Old Truman Brewery. Regarded as the first collective of their kind to emerge from Israel, “the Haifa based BFC stand...
Bob Carlos Clarke T shirts from COLLECTIVE
Share COLLECTIVE have launched a collection of limited edition T shirts featuring prints by iconic photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. The collection is pat of a collaboration with the Little Black Gallery, featuring the very same prints that will be hung in the first Bob Carlos Clarke Photography Bar at the Imperial Arms in the 17th...
Curzon On Demand brings the big screen to your sitting room
Share Film lovers will already know the Curzon cinema chain as a place for cineastes to find new independent films and classic matinees. Now with their On Demand service, Curzon have brought the latest releases of world and indie cinema into the sitting room. Films are available on line from the same day that they...
What of it? by Ivan Jenson
Share What did you do with your relationship did you leave it and what about the house did you sell it and your dog did you give it away and that car did you junk it and that novel did you finish writing it and that plan to move to Maui did you scrap it...
How to be an artist in the 21st Century – Answers please!
Share What is your advice on how to be an artist in the 21st century? All artists are asked to answer the above question and send their answer to artist@flaneur.me.uk with HOW TO BE AN ARTIST in the title. We would also like you to answer some or all of the following questions as well,...
Evidently So by Ivan Jenson
Share I will admit I have been snooping around and peeking at your journals you have incredible secrets and handwriting and I have been listening in on your conversations you have quite a few hilarious, suspicious friends I have been observing your schedule and you seem to have some mundane and circumspect errands and after...
From Here To Nudity by Ivan Jenson
Share Throw off your reading glasses slowly move toward the shore first kicking off your flip-flops then ripping off your shirt now undo your belt, unzip your fly and drop your slacks, boxer shorts then slip off your socks now dive into the sea of freedom and splash in the unexpected undercurrent which tugs you...
The Cinema of Ideas by Barry Bliss
Share “What are we coming to? No room for me, no fun for you.” David Bowie A revolution in cinema has taken place and most people are blissfully unaware of it. This revolution is as great as the French Nouvelle Vague or maybe even the coming of sound, the discovery of montage and the invention...
My Studio: Lisa Chandler, painter
Share Name: Lisa Chandler About my studio: My studio is in Mapua, a small seaside town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is only temporary as the commercial complex is up for sale but it is perfect for me. It is a long and skinny space and I can stand my large-scale paintings next...
Art blogger interview: Amy Ng of Pikaland
Share This week’s art blogger interview is with Amy Ng who runs the large art and illustration blog Pikaland.com, ’a blog about living the illustrated life’. Amy is an illustrator from Malaysia who also publishes zines and loves crafts and doodling. Hi Amy, thanks for telling us about your art blogging. What is the...
François Morellet, A arte Studio Invernizzi gallery
Share The A arte Studio Invernizzi gallery dedicated a solo exhibition to the French artist François Morellet, the sixth one since 1994. Within this new show, it has tried to highlight the existing links between works belonging to different time periods. Over the years, Morellet’s artistic research has investigated the unitary space in order to...
Crossing Wires: Technology and Play at Evanston Art Center, Illinois
Share An original and quirky exhibition, Crossing Wires: Technology and Play, on view at the Evanston Art Center through April 15 includes nine works by ten artists who explore themes of technology, and play. A few decades ago, my husband’s grandfather, a high school shop teacher, would repurpose scraps he found in the workshop to...
Berlin film collective Polacos: Fukushima video
Share A video haiku on the problems of assessing the facts concerning the Fukushima disaster. The piece was directed by the Berlin film collective Polacos, originally for the New York based artist DT. Inspired by the geiger meter like textures of the song that it was directed to, the Polacos decided to destroy the idea...
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