Category: Art
‘The Art of Nowness’
May 15, 2012 | posted in Art, Events, Exhibitions, Music, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
In samenwerking met Hotel Arena presenteert creatief platform PUP Amsterdam aanstaande vrijdag de expositie ‘The Art of Nowness’, een ode aan rust en stilte in deze drukke en chaotische tijden. PUP zal een jaar lang curator zijn van het prachtige hotel en er verschillende expo’s organiseren en ruimtes vullen met werk van getalenteerde kunstenaars. Deze[...]
Eric Antoine ‘The Ambrotypes’
May 14, 2012 | posted in Art, Nudity, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Beautiful images of dreaming people in nature, people taking their time, just like the technique French photographer Eric Antoine uses to make the images. The works are made using wet plate collodion technique which requires long poses because of the long exposure process, an almost impossible time-taking technique to use on location, for portrait photography, also[...]
Brea Souders ‘Counterforms’
May 14, 2012 | posted in Art, Manipulation, Photography | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Wonderful mix of techniques in this beautiful series, a ‘search for her European roots’, called ‘Counterforms’ by American photographer Brea Souders. Brea is one of the selected photographers for this years Hyères Festival International de Mode & de Photographie. (Really worth having a look at the other selected photographers too) ‘As an American with typically mixed bloodlines,[...]
Courtney Love ‘And she’s not even Pretty’
May 12, 2012 | posted in Art, Drawing, Events, Painting | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Nice works by singer Courtney Love who apparently, also paints. The colorful works are made using a mixed technique of watercolour paint and drawing, finished of with snippets of texts. They handle dark themes, with the works having pretty depressing titles like ‘post mortem’ and ‘everybody I love goes away in the end’ as well as[...]
Frida’s weekend tips!
May 11, 2012 | posted in Art, Events, Exhibitions, Fashion, Music, Party, Photography | by Frida Boeke | Leave a comment
Huup Huup barbatruuc, de voorbereidingen voor de metamorfose van saaie kantoortut naar nachtgodin zijn hopelijk getroffen want het is weer tijd om te KNALLEN! Vrijdag beginnen we het weekend bij Rootical Vibrations in Kriterion om de première bij te wonen van de documentaire die Kevin Macdonald maakte over Bob Marley. _ Om in de exotische[...]
Hattie Stewart ‘Megazines’
May 5, 2012 | posted in Art, Fashion, Graphics, magazines | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
I’m a great lover of creative and original magazine covers, and equally fond of artists using the original covers as a canvas for their art-works, as recently shown here. Exactly the reason, why I was happy to discover the brilliant things London based illustrator Hattie Stewart is doing with her cover based graphic art-works. Adding[...]
Kanye West ‘Lost in the World’
May 4, 2012 | posted in Art, Music, film | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Kanye West just released the official vid for ‘Lost is the World’, a track that probably is the best track of his critically acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. And probably is the best vid of this year so far. The amazing high energy black and white video featuring Kanye himself as well as[...]
Frida’s weekend tips!
May 4, 2012 | posted in Art, Events, Exhibitions, Music, Party, Photography | by Frida Boeke | Leave a comment
Het kampioenschap van Ajax en de Koninginnedag festiviteiten hebben de kater niet bepaald binnen de grenzen van het weekend gehouden. En nu is het alweer tijd om te bedenken wat je komend weekend gaat doen. Geen paniek, ik heb de leukste dingen voor je op een rijtje gezet. Na de dodenherdenking wordt vrijdag “Theater na[...]