especial de natal / xmas special

more c4: hidden story of jesus
mais channel 4: a historia escondida de jesus

e isso tb / and this too

humanos ainda evoluem ;)
humans still evolving

via
kultureflash

Where do we go from here?

• 

• • Ian Sample
  • The Guardian,
  • Saturday December 15 2007

(...) The question of whether modern humans are evolving has not gone away, though. This week, scientists added to a growing pile of papers that indicate human evolution is not only continuing, but may be accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Where this will take us has become one of the most contentious questions in evolutionary biology.

(...)

In an essay entitled The Spice of Life published in 2000, the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould reinforced the idea that thanks to improvements in medicine, shelter and, for many, plentiful food, humans had all but stepped off the evolutionary ladder. "Natural selection has almost become irrelevant," he wrote. "There's been no biological change in humans in 40,000 years or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilisation we've built with the same body and brain."

(...)

This week, Harpending's group published details of a study that asked how much humans have evolved in the past 80,000 years, a period that includes the exodus of humanity from Africa. The answer, they concluded, was an awful lot. They identified a rapid increase in evolution, as our ancestors adapted first to harsh latitudes with miserable climates, then to farming, which revolutionised the human diet. Harpending's group studied the DNA of four distinct groups around the planet: Japanese, Han Chinese, Europeans and Yoruba in Africa. They found that nearly 2,000 genes, or 7% of the genome, have been subjected to recent natural selection.

full story

e mais / and this

also from newsgrist, via kultureflash

Randy Kennedy's interesting Times article on Richard Prince and his commercial sources; but first, some thoughts from Christian Patterson via Speak, See, Remember:

Christian Patterson: ...in the article, Jim Krantz, one of the photographers whose work Prince has appropriated, shares his feelings:

Jim Krantz: My whole issue with this, truly, is attribution and recognition. It's an unusual thing to see an artist who doesn't create his own work, and I don't understand the frenzy around it.

If I italicized Moby-Dick, then would it be my book? I don't know. But I don't think so."

Christian Patterson: I personally enjoy looking at a lot of this type of work.

There is often a complex relationship between the original and appropriated images. There is often a difference in artistic intent. And the appropriated image usage often relies on the viewer's familiarity with the original image to achieve a certain effect.

If you'd like to learn more, and read a couple of interesting case studies:

U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use
Wikipedia - Fair Use

Wikipedia - Appropriation (Art) (This page includes many good links to appropriation artists, and examples of legal decisions dealing with the subject.)

NEWSgrist: Krantz's naive remarks about "artists who don't create their own work" and appropriation in visual art being tantamount to italicizing Moby Dick, illustrates commonly-held misconceptions about originality (not just appropriation), and about how all art is sourced. People do get caught up in appearances; of course there is more to it than meets the eye, as Mr Patterson points out above.... anyway, I find it hard to sympathize with commercial photographers for what should be obvious reasons.

NYTimes article: ...Mr. Krantz said he considered his ad work distinctive, not simply the kind of anonymous commercial imagery that he feels Mr. Prince considers it to be. "People hire me to do big American brands to help elevate their images to these kinds of iconic images," he said.

NEWSgrist: Corporations pay Krantz to make their product more desirable. As far as the public is concerned, he IS anonymous (does Marlborough let him sign his name to the ads?)

via NYTimes:

If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What's the Original?
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: December 6, 2007

Since the late 1970s, when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art — photographing other photographs, usually from magazine ads, then enlarging and exhibiting them in galleries — the question has always hovered just outside the frames: What do the photographers who took the original pictures think of these pictures of their pictures, apotheosized into art but without their names anywhere in sight?

Recently a successful commercial photographer from Chicago named Jim Krantz was in New York and paid a quick visit to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where Mr. Prince is having a well-regarded 30-year retrospective that continues through Jan. 9. But even before Mr. Krantz entered the museum's spiral, he was stopped short by an image on a poster outside advertising the show, a rough-hewn close-up of a cowboy's hat and outstretched arm.

Mr. Krantz knew it quite well. He had shot it in the late 1990s on a ranch in the small town of Albany, Tex., for a Marlboro advertisement. "Like anyone who knows his work," Mr. Krantz said of his picture in a telephone interview, "it's like seeing yourself in a mirror." He did not investigate much further to see if any other photos hanging in the museum might be his own, but said of his visit that day, "When I left, I didn't know if I should be proud, or if I looked like an idiot."

When Mr. Prince started reshooting ads, first prosaic ones of fountain pens and furniture sets and then more traditionally striking ones like those for Marlboro, he said he was trying to get at something he could not get at by creating his own images. He once compared the effect to the funny way that "certain records sound better when someone on the radio station plays them, than when we’re home alone and play the same records ourselves."

But he was not circumspect about what it meant or how it would be viewed. In a 1992 discussion at the Whitney Museum of American Art he said of rustling the Marlboro aesthetic: "No one was looking. This was a famous campaign. If you're going to steal something, you know, you go to the bank."

People might not have been looking at the time, when his art was not highly sought. But as his reputation and prices for his work rose steeply — one of the Marlboro pictures set an auction record for a photograph in 2005, selling for $1.2 million — they began to look, and Mr. Prince has spoken of receiving threats, some legal and some more physical in nature, from his unsuspecting lenders. He is said to have made a small payment in an out-of-court settlement with one photographer, Garry Gross, who took the original shot for one of Mr. Prince's most notorious early borrowings, an image of a young unclothed Brooke Shields. (Mr. Prince declined to comment for this article, saying in an e-mail message only, "I never associated advertisements with having an author.")

cont

mais mcarthy / more mccarthy

da expo dele em NY / from his NY show



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mais shrigley / more shrigley

vi isso hj: adoro / saw this 2day & loved it


David Shrigley (British, born 1968)
Untitled
From a portfolio of sixteen etchings
Copenhagen: Galleri Nicolai Wallner, 2005
Printed at Niels Borch Jensen’s Værksted for Kobbertryk, Copenhagen
Kennedy Fund
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection.

Courtesy of Galleri Nicolai Wallner; photographer: Anders Sun Berg

http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/multiple/captions/shrigley2.html

via:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com

dica do giacomo / giacomo's tip

OI mocada, fui no show do led zeppelin na segunda; ganhei convite do
jimmy page... [Nota: ele sempre menciona q eh amigo do j page. se fosse eu tb mencionaria. ;) T]
Fiz uns clips la, o meu youtube site estava sendo o mais visto na
terca, ate que a warner bros mandou censurar tudo, alegando coprirght.
A mocada fez o maior bafafa nos comentarios, passei a terca no
computador respondendo emails. E impressionante a internet.

O youtube recolocou os videos hoje. O site ja tem ate medalha do mais
visto hoje.

http://uk.youtube.com/giacomopicca



ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
MARCH
GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
THE TIME IS NOW
http://www.campaigncc.org/


THE TIME IS NOW

bom blog de animacao / good animation blog

http://fantasticanimation.blogspot.com/

acredite se quiser / believe it or not

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/12/wtree112.xml

cool

http://www.ulillillia.us/aboutme/dreams.shtml

mud dream


artista de gifs e games mto maneiros: ulillillia
a very cool gif and game artist

via:

dica do crescenzo / crescenzo's tip

http://www.medardorosso.org/


bookmaker / apontador


conversa / conversation

todas sao de gesso pintado, sec 19
all are painted plaster, 19th cent

autoretrato afundando / sinking self-portrait

uma das ultimas experiencias em faianca: 'facetado' soh c/ os dedos
one of the latest experiments in faience: 'faceted' w my fingers only

minhas coisas no site da kate / my stuff on kate's site

a kate macgarry refez o site da galeria e botou novas imagens de alguns trabalhos meus
kate macgarry redid her gallery's website and posted new images of some of my works




fonte:
http://www.katemacgarry.com/tiagocunha.php?

eu li / i read

Disastrous sale sends Sotheby's shares falling by 37% in one day Ed Pilkington in New York Friday November 9, 2007 The Guardian Photograph: AP The auction house Sotheby's suffered an almost 40% slump in its share price yesterday in the wake of a disappointing sale of Impressionist and modern art, prompting speculation that the art market bubble is starting to burst. After 11 years of steep growth in the value of fine art, the drop in Sotheby's stock by about 37% in the course of one day sounded alarm bells. Analysts were particularly struck by the fact that Vincent van Gogh's landscape, Wheat Fields, possibly his last finished work, painted in 1890 two weeks before he committed suicide, was left unsold; Sotheby's had valued it at up to $35m (£17.5m). Article continues

peticao do rafa / rafa's petition

Esta correndo um projeto de lei que obrigaria as TVs a produzirem conteudo nacional de animacao.

O projeto de Lei criado pelo Vicentinho esta nas maos do Deputado ELISMAR FERNANDES PRADO (dep.elismarprado@camara.gov.br) e sofre uma pressao enorme das TVs para nao sair do papel.

Colher um numero grande de assinaturas pode servir como uma ferramenta para vencermos o lobby das TVs.

Assinem e espalhem!

[]s

Rafael

http://www.petitiononline.com/animacao/petition-sign.html

Rafael Terpins

Terpins Greco estudio

www.terpinsgreco.com.br

Assista os 4 episódios de Batalha, A Guerra Do Vinil:

http://www.guerradovinil.com.br

paul macarthy's painter

versao integral disponivel na
full version availiable at:

www.ubu.com

dica do alberto / alberto's tip: ubuweb

UbuWeb

UbuWeb: Film & Video Vito Acconci Marina Abramoviç Igor and Gleb Aleinikov Alejandra & Aeron Erik Anderson Skip Arnold Robert Ashley Beth B Francis Bacon Derek Bailey John Baldessari J.G. Ballard Banksy Piero Bargellini Colin Barton Otmar Bauer Samuel Beckett David Behrman Charles Bernstein Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Jorge Luis Borges Walerian Borowczyk Stan Brakhage George Brecht James Broughton Robert Breer Gunter Brus Luis Buñuel Chris Burden William S. Burroughs

etc etc etc
cheior de filmes de artistas
full of artist-movies

www.ubu.com

mais terry jones / more terry jones

Medieval Lives - Host Terry Jones

Famous for lampooning the medieval world in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Jones has a real passion for and detailed knowledge of the Middle Ages. In Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, his mission is to rescue the Middle Ages from moth-eaten cliches and well-worn platitudes. Behind the stereotypes of "damsels in distress" and "knights in shining armor," there are wonderfully human stories that bring the period to life. Terry will start with the medieval archetypes—the Knight, Peasant, Damsel, Monk, Outlaw, King, Merchant, and Physician—and in the course of unravelling their role and function will introduce a host of colorful real-life characters, recreating their world by visiting key locations.

Episodes on Google Video:
Medieval Lives 01 The Peasant
Medieval Lives 02 The Monk
Medieval Lives 03 The Damsel
Medieval Lives 04 The Minstrel
Medieval Lives 05 The Knight
Medieval Lives 06 - The Outlaw
Medieval Lives 07 - The Philosopher
Medieval LIves 08 - The King

fonte:
http://popperslist.blogspot.com/

mais amigos / more friends

e anteontem teve a do alberto, mto divertida:

reacao ao 'lo att' no utube / reactions to 'lo att' on utube

Thursday, November 1. 2007

PETER ELLIOT NAKED

I am almost finished the basic structure for my new traditionally oriented Gorilla Men website and spent some time today working on a few remaining bios. Most of my attention is usually focused on gorilla men of old but I was stunned by a video clip that I came across in my web travels this afternoon. Performer Peter Elliot has spent over twenty years acting in gorilla suits and also choreographing simian appearances on film. His first major film GREYSTOKE may not be the greatest Tarzan outing but it was distinguished by incredible costuming by Rick Baker. Peter had not appeared on screen a la ape previous to his audition but he made such an impression that he was given the lead role in assembling the ape man's troop. According to his site, the films' production was postponed to allow him time to engage in research and development. I thought it sounded somewhat pretentious but the video below eliminated any doubt that he must have impressed studio execs. The clip originates from footage shot by a English Visual Arts post-grad student Tiago Carneiro da Cunha who entitled it Low Attention Span / High Curiosity Rate (portrait of Peter Elliot). The film maker explains on her blog that the title "refers to how Elliot defines his 'state of perception' while performing."
Elliot's nuanced performance is disturbing in that it quickly convinces you that you are watching a Mountain Gorilla, not a short British man with hand stilts. Bloody good stuff - proof a true gorilla man needs no suit. I recently caught the film BUDDY where he plays the titular role opposite Rene Russo. Another exceptional role for this Brit and reason enough to seek out his other films.

http://www.gorillamen.com/index.php?/archives/61-PETER-ELLIOT-NAKED.html

ceramica chinesa / chinese pottery

(from silk road exhibition, art insitute of chicago)


the Bactrian camel


the work camel of the trade route



fonte:
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/chicgo_art_institute_silk_road.htm

:_( __

1/10/2007

Assassinos no poder

Ação de grupos de extermínio dá lucro à contravenção e favorece a ascensão de políticos ligados ao crime na Baixada Fluminense

José Cláudio Souza Alves

A Baixada Fluminense é um imenso campo de concentração sem arame farpado. Ali, 2.500 pessoas são assassinadas por ano, à razão de cinco a seis por dia. A média – 76 assassinatos por 100 mil habitantes – é bem superior ao número de homicídios (50 por 100 mil habitantes) que caracteriza, conforme os padrões da ONU, regiões conflagradas pela guerra. A Baixada se situa a oeste da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e é formada por oito municípios: Duque de Caxias, Belford Roxo, Mesquita, São João de Meriti, Nilópolis, Nova Iguaçu, Queimados e Japeri. Sua população tem sofrido, de forma crônica, com a violência desmedida, sem esperança de que a matança chegue um dia ao fim. (cont)

http://www.revistadehistoria.com.br/v2/home/?go=detalhe&id=1154

gary webb: emocionante

tb do site da approach / also from the approach site

emocionante tb pq a gente viu o 'heart&soul' na coletiva homonima de 99 q lancou esse povo lah em londres. devia fazer uma camiseta

also emotional bcoz i saw 'heart&soul' in the homonimous 99 (?) groupshow in london. i should make a t-shirt

The Creator Has A Master Plan, 2004, Aluminium, rubber, steel, fabric and fan, 190x287x49 cm, 74.8x113x19.3 ins

Gay Boy, 2005, Rock and perspex, 80x88x92.5 cm, 31.5x34.6x36.4 ins


Another Lippers, 2005, Perspex, glass, steel, flocking and rubber sea urchins, 200x70x26 cm, 78.7x27.6x10.2 ins

Cock and Bull, 2001, Plastic, assorted metals, wood, Perspex, china, 184x135x46 cm

Heart and Soul , 2000, glass and neon lights, 100x31.5 cm


Adam or Gary, 2003, Stainless steel, brass, perspex, glass, rubber, paper, 270x350x450cm




Deep Heat T-reg Laguna, 2004, Installation shot at Chisenhale Gallery, London.


Mr Miami , 2004, Steel, Q-Cell, glass, electronics and speakers, 167x104x90 cm, 65.7x40.9x35.4 ins

Pooing Dutchman, 2004,
Glass, magnetic sheeting, wire, coins, clay and perspex,
44x46.5 cm, 17.3x18.3 ins