August 20th, 2010 by RMRS
Whether you’re looking to move or frighten them, send them on an adventure or whisk them away to a foreign land, these are the perfect gifts for your friends: http://www.penguin.co.uk/
I want all of them!!!!
August 20th, 2010 by RMRS
Jan: “pandas are awesome”
Max: “pandas. natures biggest assholes”
Me: “Haahaaaaaa”
August 19th, 2010 by RMRS
Jess from The Center : South LA wrote us an email to tell us about their exquisite project of bringing art, creativity and fun back to the neglected area of South Los Angeles:
They’re currently working on building a center for the arts in South Los Angeles (also known as South Central Los Angeles). If you look on their website you can a see a map of all the opportunities a person living in LA has to take classes in the arts. In just one image you can see how those opportunities pretty much don’t exsist in South LA.
The idea is splendid, but it they need money to realize the project. That’s why they’ve put together a kick butt fundraising campaign called “I Art LA”. And have an AWESOME viral video (as far as I know made by famous Three Legged Legs Studio) to fundraise and spread the word of what they’re doing.They also had a bunch of different LA Artists, like Mel Kadel, James Jean, SLICK, Marco Zamora and more, design “I Art LA” t-shirts in their very unique styles as part of the fundraising campaign.
Help them build a center for the arts! Donate today at http://www.thecentersouthla.com/
The Center : South LA
“The Center : South LA will be an Arts Center in South Los Angeles. We will offer a variety of creative classes in traditional and non-traditional Dance, Theatre Drawing/ Painting, Music and Arts & Crafts.
We will always strive to offer interesting classes and event in the arts with a lean to the more “non-traditional” form in that category. Our goal is for art to be accessible to everyone.
The Center will be a catalyst for revitalization, development and community connection in the South Los Angeles by serving as a central place for classes, performances, various group meetings and exhibitions.”
The Mission
“Art should be accessible to everyone. Our mission is to inspire and educate young people in the community through unique classes in the arts. As well as share our passion in the various art fields through performances. We are a place to learn and connect. Growing our community.”
August 17th, 2010 by RMRS
Mark your calendars! The date for SketchCrawl #29 has been set by Enrico Casarosa. It is OCTOBER 16th, 2010 !!!
Berlin anyone?
http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=54
August 17th, 2010 by RMRS
Gestalten teamed up with Uniqlo to create a series of t-shirts and hoodies inspired by the prints in the Playful Type book. Now they’re giving away a pair of tees to 10 winners! Just become a fan on Facebook and comment on the tee you want to win. The winners are to be announced in the next Gestalten newsletter.
My favourite is the shirt “The devil hates me” ^^
August 16th, 2010 by RMRS
Tonight I watched “Silk Stockings” with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse again. This short sequence (with Janis Page) is -for me at last- the highlight of that fabulous movie.
“Glorious Technicolor, breathtaking CinemaScope and stereophonic sound!”
This pretty much sums up everything I love about those old movies.
August 14th, 2010 by RMRS
Besides being at the Boxhagener Platz flea market every Sunday, the Zozoville Gallery will also have a market stand at the “Nowkoelln Flowmarkt” tomorrow.
Nowkoelln Flowmarkt
August 15th, 2010*
Maybachufer / Liberdastrasse
http://www.nowkoelln.de/
*additional market day on August 29th!
August 13th, 2010 by RMRS
The Fantasy Film Fest starts next week:
Berlin– Aug 17th- Aug 25th 2010
Hamburg– Aug 18th- Aug 25th 2010
Cologne– Aug 25th- Sept 1st 2010
Frankfurt– Aug 25th- Sept 1st 2010
Hannover– Aug 26th- Sept 2nd 2010
Munich– Aug 31st- Sept 8th 2010
Stuttgart– Sept 1st- Sept 8th 2010
Nuremberg– Sept 2nd- Sept 9th 2010
http://www.fantasyfilmfest.com/
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August 13th, 2010 by RMRS
After the first week is almost over, we’re close to finishing animation. Our friend& animator Andreas, who just came back from MPC London, is incredibly fast! Next week we’ll clean the rough animation and start doing the backgrounds. I’ve already painted a quick moodboard of the opening scene (I tried to stay in the same colour scheme Scott Benson used in his last scene – - kind of – -).
(click the image to enlarge)
~ And here are some production photos:
August 12th, 2010 by RMRS
Mateo showed me this amazing book with monkey portaits last week. It’s really astonishing how human they are. Or how ape-like we are :)
“We share about 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, our closest biological cousins. And never have the similarities between simians and humans been so amusingly and brilliantly captured as in Monkey Portratis. Jill Greenberg has spent 15 years photographing celebrities–from Clint Eastwood to Drew Barrymore–for leading publications, but has recently focused on actors of a different sort. She has been photographing monkeys and apes, many of whom have appeared on film or in television shows. Her intimate portraits of these animals convey a startling range of emotions and personalities, and evoke an almost eerie sense of recognition. Each of these 76 amazingly anthropomorphic photographs will remind you of someone you know. These monkeys in all their glory will cause you to laugh out loud and to wonder just how different we truly are.”
Monkey Portraits – by Jill Greenberg
http://www.amazon.com/Monkey-Portraits-Jill-Greenberg/dp/0821257552
August 12th, 2010 by RMRS
Now it’s official: “Make Believe – The Artwork of Johan Potma & Mateo Dineen” is expected to be on stock on Saturday, 18. September 2010. You can already order it here:
http://www.onkelundonkel.com/shop/
As character designers they´ve made themselves a name with numerous international exhibitions and works for Playboy, Nickelodeon, Pepsi, XXS, Pacifico beer, sixfeet, VOLVO and Titus Skateboarding. Zozoville has also conquered an international fan club.
With its high-quality equipment and so far unpublished material on 304 pages, MAKE BELIEVE becomes a must-have not only for collecting tanks and fans – enjoy!
The release party is on the 18.09.2010 in the Zozoville Gallery in Friedrichshain!
August 12th, 2010 by RMRS
BASE23 – RAL GALAXIA
Vernissage: September 4th, 2010 — 18:00
Exhibition runs until October 1st, 2010
YARD5 Store
Samariterstr. 5, Berlin Friedrichshain
August 12th, 2010 by RMRS
Obsolete Angels.
Tales from a forgotten world captured in photographs by Annie Bertram (CH).
In The Vault: Saturno Buttò (IT).
Curated by Yasha Young.
“For many years now Annie Bertram has traveled throughout Europe to find and document places which inspire her, and radiate a magical appeal. Often she finds old and delapidated castles, buildings or industrial ruins that attract her and become a solid part of her photographic art. While discovering hallways and rooms her imagination is stimulated by her surrounding. Wondrous stories about what could have taken place in these houses, and what kind of creatures could have lived there, emerge in front of her eyes. Obsolete Angels tells fantasy tales about mysterious places and residents. It is about vulnerable mechanical creatures that once where conceived by their masters to relieve their lives or to provide company to their isolated and lonely owners. In cooperation with professional costume designers and special effect make up artists Annie Bertram created breath-taking objects for each story. Bertram’s sensitive way of photography let the protagonists and their wondrous homes become real. Obsolete Angels will drag you into a mysterious world that will cast a spell over you.”
Obsolete Angels.
Opens August 13th 2010 at 19:00 (Lost Area will perform their music live at the opening)
Strychnin Gallery
Boxhagenerstr. 36, Berlin Friedrichshain
www.strychnin.com
Opening hours: Thursday – Sunday from 12 pm – 6 pm.
August 10th, 2010 by RMRS
~The Animation Tag Attack~
I have no idea why I haven’t posted anything about the magnificent animation project called “Animation Tag Attack” yet. There has even been (and still is) a link in our blogroll for quite a while.
ATA godfather is the multitalent and fellow blogger Christen Bach. The rules are simple: Each participant gets 4 weeks to produce between 5 and xx seconds of film. When the time is up, the clip gets uploaded to the blog and the next one in line takes over. It is up to each individual creator to pick the style and media they want to work in – and to decide how they think the story should evolve.
The Animation Tag Attack already enjoyed some press, like here on CartoonBrew.com and several requests to submit it to festivals.
There are 8 episodes so far and now we at KAISERBRAND have the honour of continuing the story. Our predecessors are Christen Bach, Mads Juul, Andreas Normand Grøntved, Ned Wenlock, Oren Mashkovski, Maxwell A. Oginni, Ewen Stenhouse & Scott Benson. This is their work:
~ The Animation Tag Attack ~ Episode No.9 ~
Yesterday we started with the storyboard & character design and two scenes are already animated! Below you can see the first coloured design and a scribble from my sketchbook. It’s the first project we’re going to produce in our brand new extended office space, the KAISERBRAND Residenz, solely set up as 2D department directly next to our main office.
We’ll animate traditionally on paper and use ToonBoom for colours, draw the backgrounds digitally and make it look nice in After Effects.
I don’t want to tell you too much in advance, but after the plot was built up steadily in the past eight episodes to an intense but still intangible level, we decided to have the first real showdown. No backstabbing. It will be dark & violent — because we are usually condemned to animate fun educational clips for kids or happy & colourful tv commercials. The Ochrana, the Kaiserlicher Geheimdienst and even the Légion Etrangère seem to be involved now. But will there also be a duck-bear of pure energy? We’ll see!
August 5th, 2010 by RMRS
Carhartt presents SKATEBOARDING.3D
An exhibition of 3D photography
by Sebastian Denz
“SKATEBOARDING.3D is about space in a phenomenological sense and about human beings creating their own construction of reality within these spaces. With the example of skateboarding-culture I bring up for discussion a ´hybrid space´ that is somewhere in between virtual and ´real´ – a ´postvirtual space´ (…) I’m talking about an expanded understanding of space, about lived, vibrant spaces that are loaded with many different qualities. Skateboarders take architecture and the experiential environment surrounding them and, through their social practices, they adapt it, use it for other purposes than for what it was originally intended, actually constituting the space, as well.”
SKATEBOARDING.3D
Inoperable Gallery
Burgstr. 24, Vienna
Vernissage: August 7th 2010, 18:30
The exhibition runs until August 28th 2010.
August 4th, 2010 by RMRS
GOOD NEWS! The book of the two Zozoville Gallery artists Johan Potma & Mateo is almost finished — rumor has it that it will take only three more weeks!
The book “Make Believe” will be the first collection of the complete artworks of Mat and Johan ever. It will contain over 100 pages more than the 200 announced in the catalogue; that’s why it will be a bit more expensive (I’ve heard something about 68 Euros). But compared to the unique piece you’ll hold in your hands that’s less than nothing. The book has an embossed cover with a label inlay, and besides innumerable wonderful images there will be sketches and background stories.
You can pre-order it already at Onkel&Onkel. But don’t hesitate too long: Make Believe is limited to 1.000 books only.
ZOZOVILLE
~Make Believe~
The artwork of Johan Potma & Mateo Dineen
ISBN 978-3-940029-69-0
http://www.zozoville.com/
August 4th, 2010 by RMRS
Ink And Movement is a project supported by the Department of Culture of Spain and the Spanish Embassy in Berlin.
The exhibition will show the artwork of SatOne, Spok & Okuda.
Ink And Movement
Vernissage: August 5th 2010, 20:00
Exhibition runs until August 29th, 2010
Altes Tagesspiegel-Gebäude
PotsdamerStr. 85, Berlin
August 4th, 2010 by RMRS
This is so cute! You can see all of Becky Dreistadt’s artwork here:
http://www.tinykittenteeth.com/ and here http://www.owlfactory.com/.
There’s also a small article on Juxtapoz (That’s how I found her).
