Have a lovely weekend.
24 September 2009
23 September 2009
artists anonymous
Overall, it was a great show. Riflemaker is housed in a former gun shop building that dates back to 1712, and exudes all the character and class an artist could ever ask for. Since its inception in 2004 it has proved to be one of the most successful independent galleries in the capital, largely thanks to the remarkably high quality of the leftfield shows held there. Riflemaker's unique style and impeccable taste places it firmly in the highest echelons of London's ever dynamic cultural scene; for the conceptual, emotional and progressive, accept no substitute.
Artists Anonymous are a collective of painters, photographers and filmmakers. They describe themselves as primarily painters but all three media are used in their installations. Often the time-based media of performance and film are utilised in the same way as other artists plan and develop projects through drawing. The artists themselves always appear in their work but as a collective they forego their individual identities to collaborate on a permanent basis. They operate within agreed rules established when they first met at art school in Berlin in 2001. Agreeing at that time no individual would ever work independently of the group. They would always operate as Artists Anonymous.
They say, “We’re anonymous not because we want to be anonymous as artists or people but because we want the work we create to be anonymous and free from assumptions that viewers might make from meeting anyone of us individually.’
I recommend the show to everyone. Their work is very interesting.
22 September 2009
london film festival
Yesterday The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival (Oct 14-29) programme announced by Sandra Hebron, festival artistic director...
The lineup is heaviliy comprised of the best work from other film festivals around the world. Although, it has its fair share of world premieres as well, including "the Fantastic Mr. Fox" (which I can't wait for...a Wes Anderson take on Toald Dahl's beloved anti-establishment classic). Closing gala this year will be for Sam Taylor-Wood's debut "Nowhere Boy", a kitchen-sink take on the early life of John Lennon, which also is much-anticipated.
The British elements of this year’s festival seem typically strong: Nick Hornby wrote the script for ’60s teen romance ‘An Education’, while Ben Whishaw stars as romantic poet John Keats in Jane Campion’s lush period biopic ‘Bright Star’. British filmmakers head abroad for documentaries like ‘American: The Bill Hicks Story’ and ‘Mugabe and the White African’, while foreign directors head over here for diverse fictions such as the award-winning ‘She, a Chinese’, a tale of immigrant life in London, and ‘Valhalla Rising’, a brutal tale of Viking warriors on the rampage.
Two Cannes successes will doubtless prove to be hot tickets: ‘A Prophet’ was the word-of-mouth success on the Croisette this year and Palme d’Or winner ‘The White Ribbon’, the latest from ‘Hidden’ director Michael Haneke. Of the preview clips shown at yesterdays launch, a few other films certainly caught the attention: Robert Connolly’s ‘Balibo’, about an Australian film crew caught in the crossfire during the East Timor conflict, looked intense and powerful, while Steven Soderbergh’s ‘The Informant!’ promises to be a comic, Coen-ish take on the classic corporate espionage tale. Of the films we’ve already caught at earlier festivals, among the best are Bong Joon-Ho’s radical genre work ‘Mother’, Todd Solondz’s disturbing sequel to his own early success ‘Happiness’, entitled ‘Life During Wartime’, and Ang Lee’s laidback and likeable ‘Taking Woodstock’.
Tickets for this year’s London Film Festival will be on sale from Saturday September 26th, both online from the BFI website and by phone on 0207 928 3232.
via TimeOutLondon
18 September 2009
art weekend
In New York?
go see Murakami at Gagosian on West 24th. Its a new major work by the artist in "the distinctive superflat style" ...
As for me, across the pond, I am going to the 20/21 British Art Fair which starts tomorrow and features modern and contemporary British art by both emerging and established artists (including Hirst, Emin, etc). I am looking forward to it, as it's in its 22nd year!
14 September 2009
New Island Festival
So, I'm about to book a trip to Amsterdam and came across this great NYTimes article, "400 Years Later, Another Dutch Island"...
check it ouuuut...its Amsterdam IN NEW YORK, and it looks delightful !!!
click here
11 September 2009
oktoberfest?
Now that I'm in London, everyone is talking about Oktoberfest in Berlin...what fun!
...but for those that aren't over here on this side of the world and still in SF, not to worry, because I have a plan for you, so listen up:
Petaluma's Lagunitas Brewing Company has revamped its existing space (and adjacent lawn) into a 3,500-square-foot tasting room and beer garden, complete with Oktoberfest-y banquet tables and site-exclusive brews like the malty Hairy Eyeball Ale and sweet, 9.5% boozy, serious bang-for-your-alcoholic-buck Brown Shugga brew. Worth the trip: a still-experimental menu made with ingredients like Sonoma's Willie Bird Turkey and La Tortilla Factory Chips, enjoyable while boppin' to local bands playing live on LBC's outdoor stage. It's a good call. Do it.
Also, I've forgotten that the rest of the world isn't exactly at the same level of "Green Thinking" as us Californians...
So, to stay in subject with the beer theme and my new English language...."have a Pint" over bottled beer. It's less packaging waste, plus, buying local results in fewer carbon dioxide emissions from shipping. At least they got that down, now to find recycle bins!!!
07 September 2009
hungry?
you will be after you read this food blog!!!
the photos are enough to make you want to get to the kitchen and cook up some delicious meals!
05 September 2009
Hello Londontown
Sorry for the long lull in no postings....but I have recently relocated from the beautiful city by the bay, San Francisco, and have arrived in what most may argue is the capital of the world, London. It incorporates the best of both Europe and America. I've found myself living just southwest of the city, which feels strange to me since I've always been in the heart of cities. It seems as though that the south of the river Thames is a mythical land that those on the North talk about in nervous whispers, but it actually isn't that bad and is fast becoming the only place in the city besides cardboard boxes that is affordable to live in. So, for now, farewell to my beloved San Francisco with its' California coffeehouse lifestyle and 'Summer of Love' hippie subculture that listens to psychedelic rock, embraces the sexual revolution, and uses drugs to explore alternative states of consciousness, and, hello, London-town.
For today's post...I figured I'd give you a few random things to check out this weekend...easy from any city in the world!
And in honor of Northern California wine country...If 10,000 San Franciscans buy a locally produced bottle of wine instead of an Italian import, we'll save enough fuel to drive from SF to LA and back 18 times. ... thats a lot of fuel
and while sipping on that Napa Valley fruit, some cocktail facts:
The oldest bottle of wine was found in Germany in a sarcophagus that dates back to 325 A.D.; instead of a cork closure, there was a layer of olive oil floating on the surface of the wine that kept it from evaporating.
At $3.2 billion in net assets, the American Red Cross is the 6th-richest charity in the nation, after Salvation Army, Shriners Hospital, the Nature Conservancy, Mayo Clinic, and Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Botanically speaking, tomatoes are considered a berry.
and after Cinderella, Hamlet is the world's most filmed story.
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