I’m in Antwerp and will not post for one week…
I’ll share new notes on art, fashion and technology from the 7th of may.
best — Joachim

Last December I’ve posted the short version of this beauty!
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Who do you think should be on this year’s list of TIME’s most influential people? Read through the profiles of the 200 candidates and rate your top choices. Then check out the list below to see the full results.

Vote on yours at The TIME 100 Poll
My #1 is Richard Dawkins

Rebel rebel, Remembering Karlheinz Winberger.

Rebel Rebel: Remembering Karlheinz Weinberger is a group show featuring the work of Ryan McGinley, Walter Pfeiffer, Collier Schorr, along side some of Karlheinz Weinberger’s orginal photographs. The interest in capturing images of youth and their lifestyles, spanning over several generations, is a continuing fascination shared by each of these artist.

April 20 – May 25, 2007 at the Kustera Tilton Gallery, NY

The bizarre works of Christopher Conte.
Above Chronos V1 (2006). Hand casted acrylic resin with vintage watch parts.

thanks to Martijn

Opening next Thursday at ‘ De wittenplaats’ Urban Aesthetics brings you Wires & Streams. Beautiful work by Dick Duyves and Marjolein Houbaer.

Desolate photographs by Duyves and quiet and calm drawings by Houbaer brought together in the temporary project space ‘De Witenplaats’.
27 April t/m 6 May 2007, Thursday/Sunday 13.00/18.00, De Wittenstraat 27, Amsterdam.

From April 27 till May 26 at the ATM gallery, New York.

“Black, luminous, tactile, formal, partially mirrored and optically psychedelic – there is a calculated sensuality to these paintings. Terry realizes that you cannot harmonize with the music of the spheres if you don’t have pitch. Multiple, perhaps parallel universes manifest from ostensibly abstract blobs on hard acrylic surfaces. Sea anemones; supernovas; intelligent pattern formations from the future; great, primordial, alien creatures locked in battle; fantastic geological upheavals on a planetary scale are all there to see–captured in paint.

It’s an old post from gapingvoid but I was pointed on it by Dan and thought lets share it; Because it’s still relevant!

1. Ignore everybody.
2. The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to change the world.
3. Put the hours in.
4. If your biz plan depends on you suddenly being “discovered” by some big shot, your plan will probably fail.
5. You are responsible for your own experience.
6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.
7. Keep your day job.
8. Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion creativity.
9. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.
10. The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props.
11. Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.
12. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.
13. Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside.
14. Dying young is overrated.
15. The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.
16. The world is changing.
17. Merit can be bought. Passion can’t.
18. Avoid the Watercooler Gang.
19. Sing in your own voice.
20. The choice of media is irrelevant.
21. Selling out is harder than it looks.
22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.
23. Worrying about “Commercial vs. Artistic” is a complete waste of time.
24. Don’t worry about finding inspiration. It comes eventually.
25. You have to find your own schtick.
26. Write from the heart.
27. The best way to get approval is not to need it.
28. Power is never given. Power is taken.
29. Whatever choice you make, The Devil gets his due eventually.
30. The hardest part of being creative is getting used to it.
31. Remain frugal.

Read them all here.

I really love the daily drawings of Marcel van Eeden!

If ideas are the currency of our times then this is, undoubtedly, the age of conversation, for without the art of dialogue, the cut and thrust of debate and discussion, then the economy of ideas would implode under its own heavy weight. Instead, the reverse is true. Far from seeing an implosion, we are living in a time of proliferation — ideas build upon ideas, discussion grows from seeds of thought and single headlines give rise to a thousand medusa-like simulations echoing words whispered somewhere on the other side of the planet. All this — in an instant…

Join the conversation!

Beautiful pictures by Cara Barer

My photographs are primarily a documentation of a physical evolution. I have changed a common object into sculpture in a state of flux.

The way we choose to research and find information is also in an evolution. I hope to raise questions about these changes, the ephemeral and fragile nature in witch we now obtain knowledge, and the future of books.

Thanks to one of my kind readers I was pointed on the thing that this Banksy art was overprinted 2 years ago and he was asking why this makes the news now.
“…the piece is gone since the july bombings in 2005 when someone put a “fuck al qaida” piece over it…”

So, then the question is, why is it on BBC, why did I read it in the NRC (dutch news paper), why? Is it banksy’s press agent trying to get some attention?
If you have the answer, let me know.

London transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by Banksy estimated to be worth more than €400.000…

“Our graffiti removal teams are staffed by professional cleaners not professional art critics”

read the full article at BBC

Don’t curb your creativity! Create the most unlikely ads with one of the selected Corbis images and get published… More information.

Beautiful ceramics by Ruth Lodder

Make a change today, and every day. Celebrate earth!

Earth Day Network
How to celebrate
Picture from Nasa

Moving Brands have created a sound reactive visualization for the 5 x 10 meter LED floor at the KEF Muon launch event in the Sala del Cenacolo @ Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano. These 2m tall high-end speakers were designed by renowned product designer Ross Lovegrove and engineered by the British company KEF.

See at flickr.

Drive one day less and look how much carbon monoxide you’ll keep out of the air we breathe. By Ogilvy Beijing via Ads of the world

Strange and happy paintings by Jeana Sohn

I am always hungry for life, for simplicity, for breaking genres, for the ordinary… and the extraordinary, for the “enhanced” experience, for old school sneaks, old school beats, and new school thought, for the remix and the original, for the laughter and the crying (but not over spilt milk), for creating a stir, for writing long run-on sentences (like this one), for details, for getting to work early (and late), for the pungent smell of acetone, for Robert Rauschenberg, Tibor Kalman, and John Heartfield, to not go above and beyond… but further, for gumbo, for an unexpected smile, for a Terry Gilliams film, and the wonderful cinematography of Jean-Paul Jeunet, for handwriten letters, for film noir, for the reviews of janet maslin, for consuming obscene amounts of caffeine, for a place I can call my own, for design. Iamalwayshungry