Lobster Random Gallery presents “SPAMCOMPANY”.
Exhibition “Lobster Random: No Gain!” February-2010 in Munich / Germany. 240 bottles of Augustiner beer. A collaboration with Neumie & JimBo (ChaosCrew), DOG (MBM), RiotUrban & Raymond Millah (Heimatstoff). (Watch Dan`s Slideshow at Picasa!)
February 2010: Atelier Sessions in Munich – supported by Wurst.
Dirty Techniques on Cheap Material… 2 dayzed & confused Days – 5-9 houres for each canvas. Already Sold!
Blackriver ISPO Wall 2010 in Munich / Germany. 15 x 2,5 meter. 80 bottles Augustiner beer.
In close collaboration with DOG & LORENZ. (Watch the Flickr Slideshow by Black the River)
Chaos Crew Tattoo Longsleeve.
I used textile markers to draw some icons on old canvas made shopping bags.
Guns, tattoo machines and other motives! Glued to a black longsleeve.
You can buy it at Neumie’s Chaos Crew’s Website www.chaoscrewtattoo.com
Chaos Crew ist Neuhausen’s führende Tattoo-Studio und Mannschaft. Alle Einzelkämpfer sind zum ersten mal in einer Truppe vereint. Jeder für sich allein, zeichnet sich durch die Welt. Gemeinsam ringen sie um das eigenen Leben und das der Kunden. Viellerlei Leid erblickte ihr Auge, aber noch mehr leibverschönernde Motive auf allerlei Hautfarben und Speckschwarten. Dein nächstes Körperdesign ist nur ein Telefonanruf entfernt, kann aber nie wieder entfernt werden. Wer schön sein muss will leiden.
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In Japanese culture the dragon is said to be a symbol of supernatual powers. With incredible strength and a hidden wisdom. It was said the only way to journey past a dragon was to answer its riddles.
BoneKnuckelz Part1 (Fingerboard Comic Proto)
SPAMCONSUMER contribution to the “Fingerboarder Magazine“. – November 2009
It was a first and draft test – so the story is quite lame ,-) Watch out for upcoming issues…
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BoneKnuckelz Part1 (Fingerboard Comic Proto)
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SPAMCONSUMER contributed to the exhibition “Urban Experiences – Workspace Berlin“.
Art, Design, Fashion, Architecture, Film, Music – Oktober 2009
Das Haus am Köllnischen Park, Berlin
Live Show with 6 Video-Projectors & Live Audio Performance.
scumskullzare constructed from black and white pixels on a 5×5 grid. the result is a space-Invaders-like pixel fighter – friendly or aggressive, chaotic or regular. it started out as an icon design study and has grown into a collaborative online art project with contributors from all over the planet. but beware: not every 5×5 bitmap is valid. there are certain constraints the anatomy of a scumskull has to meet. like almost every living creature on earth they are symmetric and contiguous. they have to touch all boundaries of the construction grid, too. an exhaustive search showed that according to this definition there are 12,209 possible scumskullz.
scumskullzusually live on computer screens and stickers on the streets, but they can be made out of everything you can imagine. bathroom tiles, legos, food, rubber stamps, lamps or truetype fonts. there are even rumors of scumskullz spotted on acid sheets and pills of E. visit the website to witness the global infiltration, learn more about the anatomy, view all discovered species and create your own scumskull. the scumskullz crew consists of interdisciplinary design and IT experts based in munich, bavaria.
…wurde bis 1990 von SED-Parteischule “Karl Marx” sowie von der Bezirksparteischule “Friedrich Engels” genutzt.
Urban Experiences Workspace Berlin fand im größten Raum des Gebäudes, im Kinosaal statt.
In enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Helden von “BerlinBeamBoys“.
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Augustiner Bräu is a brewery located in Munich, Germany.
Established in 1328, it is Munich’s oldest still independent brewery and produces some of Munich’s most popular brands of beer.
The origins of the Augustiner brewery date back to the year 1294. On July 5, Pope Celestine V succeeded Nicholas IV as the 192nd pope and on December 24 – Pope Boniface VIII became the 193rd pope after Celestine V abdicated the papacy on December 13, only five months after reluctantly accepting his surprise election on July 5, wishing to return to his life as an ascetic hermit. It was in this year when, on the order of the bishop of Freising, an Augustinian monastery was established at the Haberfeld, just outside the gates of Munich (a city famous for its breweries operated by monks). By 1315, the monastery had been incorporated within the city walls of Munich.
The earliest documented evidence of the brewery’s existence comes from the year 1328 (when a major fire spared the brewing house); this year is now commonly accepted as the founding year, although the brewery had probably existed for several years before the fire. The monastery was granted the right not only to brew beer but also to sell it on their premises which started the tradition of brewery-owned beer halls that still exists today. From the brewery’s inception until secularisation in 1803, when many Bavarian monasteries were put under state control by Napoleons‘ reforms, the brewery was present at the original site and only sold within the monastery’s own tavern. After the takeover of the monastery by the state, the monks walked out in protest.
Augustiner beer is normally found within the Greater Munich area, but in the last few years it became quite popular outside of Munich, for example in Berlin where dozens of bars offer it. The reputation of the brewery is so good that the company does not engage in any advertising campaigns. As an example, when most German breweries changed their bottle to a slim and more modern design to give their beer a more classy and less old fashioned appearance some ten years ago, Augustiner stuck with the “classic” older form, often nicknamed the “Bauarbeiterhalbe” (construction worker’s bottle). The labels have not changed in over 20 years either. Its brands nevertheless are among the most popular of Munich’s beers, and the company regularly reaches an annual output of more than 90 million litres (2003).
Augustiner Bräu operates a beer tent on the Oktoberfest, as well as owning one of Munich’s largest beer gardens, the Augustiner-Keller at Arnulfstraße 52, and several traditional bars throughout the city. In recent years, Augustiner beer has become a popular drink in several bars in Berlin; however, the amounts of Augustiner consumed in Berlin are still minuscule compared to its popularity in Munich.
In the record-breaking heat of summer 2003, the brewery refused to sacrifice brewing quality and traditional process to increase production, even though it could have sold more beer.
In the US there is one distributor named Global Village Imports, LLC. that carries Augustiner, it is located in King of Prussia, PA. Although the demand is high, the distribution is very limited.
You can also taste it at “Schneider’s” in NYC Manhattan. Ask for an “Edelstoff”.
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It`s a long time tradition in germany for kids who attend to first grade to carry a “cone” on their first day at school filled with sweeties.
There are kids who are fine with the cones you could get at the stores, there are some kids who prefer to create them on their own and then there are kids who have a very special idea of their cone.
In this case Xaver wanted to have a space cone with robots and spaceships on it. Getting a blank body and a few hours later a pretty unique cone was ready for first day of school.
It was sprayed first for space look and then being attached with cut-out rubber characters.
What is a School Cone?
A “Schultüte” (or School Cone, even though the word “Tüte” translates more as “bag” from German), often also called Zuckertüte (”sugar bag”, especially in Eastern Germany) is a paper (and later plastic) bag in particular.
When children in Germany set off for their first day in school upon entering first grade, their parents and/or grandparents present them with a big cardboard cone, prettily decorated and filled with toys, chocolate, candies, school supplies, and various other goodies. It is given to children to make this anxiously awaited first day of school a little bit sweeter.
History of the Schultuete
The first day of school is especially sweet and memorable in Germany. On this day each child entering the first grade receives a large cone decorated with paper and ribbon. Inside they find small gifts, school supplies, and lots of chocolate and candy. Often the entire family, including the grandparents, accompanies the child to school. Some of the cones dwarf the five- and six-year-olds.
The tradition of the Schultuete, also called the Zuckertuete or sweet cone, seems to have originated in the eastern cities in Saxony and Thuringia about 200 years ago. They were originally provided by the child’s godparents and hung from a tree in the schoolyard. Children were told that when the “fruits” on the tree were ripe enough to be picked, then they themselves were ready for school.
In Germany, the first day of school has long been acknowledged as a special occasion with customs that have been documented back to the middle ages. Depending on the region, it may have taken the form of a special church service, at the conclusion of which the children may have been led in a procession to the school, or they were presented with cookies that had been baked in the shape of letters or the pieces of slate that, until well into the middle of the last century, where used for the first tentative tries at writing legible letters and numbers.
The custom of the “Schultuete” proper goes back to about 1810, to Saxony and Thuringia at Germany’s easternmost borders, where sweets were given to the children on this day. The first documented report of the cone-shaped Schultuete proper comes from the city of Jena in 1817, closely followed by reports from Dresden (1820) and Leipzig (1836). It started in the bigger cities but spread quickly to the small towns and villages, soon becoming an institution all over Germany.
Spreading from city to city and then eventually to all of Germany, the Schultuete has always been representative of the times. During the period before WWI the face of the last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II often adorned the cones. Under Hitler, the cones were given a uniform size symbolizing the equality of those within the “Aryan” race. One woman I know who grew up in the GDR describes how her parents bought special “west” candy for her Schultuete from hard currency stores allowed to sell products from West Germany. Today many parents buy cones pre-decorated with their children’s favorite cartoon or book characters.
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An “iThink” Evolution Mapping. Various Ink Drawings on Vellum Paper. My Contribution to the 11th International Istanbul Biennial (visit website) September 12 – November 8, 2009 The Lord Wink Award Istanbul (visit website) at the Gallery .artSümer (visit website)
Collective Exhibition with artists like Olaf Metzel, Günther Förg, Dan Graham and others.
Stuffed Wolpertingers, composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to tourists as souvenirs in the animals’ “native regions”.
The Wolpertinger (Crisensus bavaricus) (also called “Wolperdinger“, “Poontinger” or “Woiperdinger“) is a fictional animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria in Germany.
It has a body comprised from various animal parts — generally wings, antlers, and fangs, all attached to the body of a small mammal. The most widespread description is that of a horned rabbit or a horned squirrel. It is similar to the Rasselbock of the Thuringian Forest, or the Elwedritsche of the Palatinate region, which is described as a chicken-like creature with antlers; additionally the American invention of the Jackalope, as well as the SwedishSkvader are similar creatures to the Wolpertinger.
“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.”Terry Pratchett (English Writer, *1948)
Charles Robert DarwinFRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an Englishnaturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
The International Istanbul Biennial History:
The İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has been organising the International İstanbul Biennial since 1987. The Biennial aims to create a meeting point in İstanbul in the field of visual arts between artists from diverse cultures and the audience. The ten biennials İKSV has organised up to now have enabled the formation of an international cultural network between local and international art circles, artists, curators and art critics by bringing together new trends in contemporary art every two years.
The most comprehensive international art exhibition organised both in Turkey and throughout the geographical sphere we are in, the İstanbul Biennial plays an important role in the promotion of contemporary artists not only from Turkey but from a number of different countries in the international arena.
Various Ink Drawings on Vellum paper. An “iThink” Evolution Mapping. My Contribution to the 11th International Istanbul Biennial (visit website) September 12 – November 8, 2009 The Lord Wink Award Istanbul (visit website) at the Gallery .artSümer (visit website)
Collective Exhibition with artists like Olaf Metzel, Günther Förg, Dan Graham and others.
The Wolpertinger is not a typical cryptid, as local people likely never believed in its existence. Rather, it is some kind of traditional prank belief, as is evident from the many stuffed Wolpertingers displayed in village inns along with real hunting trophies, which have been fabricated deliberately in order to make fun of gullible foreigners who may want to go hunting for this remarkable animal. Like the Jackalope, the Wolpertinger is thought to have been inspired by sightings of wild rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus, which causes the growth of antler-like tumors in various places on the rabbit’s head and body.
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“Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A genogram is a pictorial display of a specie’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships. It can be used to identify repetitive patterns of behavior and to recognize hereditary tendencies.
We invented Graffiti to one of the last standing nations. They need the streets to react to their leadership. You won’t see any US-tourists around. I liked that ,-)
This country is fucked up by the US-Trade Embargo. They got blackmailed like Angola, Panama and Iraq. (a. o.)
But these people know that Castro is saving them from crack & capitalism. They got rum, chicks, green caribbean sea and sun. What else do they need? Of course: Freedom & Cuba Libre! Patria o Muerte…
CUBA IS A LITTLE CROCODILE-SHAPED ISLAND in the Caribbean Sea.
Trapped between Florida and Jamaica, the Bahamas and Haiti, the island offers rum, cigars and a whole lot of love on top of an azure-blue sea and ample sunshine.
But Cuba also stands for slavery, racism, revolution and bloody battles. Despite being such a small part of the world, Cuba has been through more than its fair share of misery and is certainly going to see some more. Guantanamo Bay and an aged dictator, a psychotic climate and a Big Brother state that controls and restricts its people in spite of defunct technology and infrastructure – Cuba stands for all of the above. If you go to Venezuela you find Burger King and McDonald’s on every street corner and everyone’s on crack. In Cuba, there are no drugs or advertisements, apart from the omnipresent hand-painted propaganda posters celebrating the revolution and its leaders.
Propaganda and censorship determine every day. Free-thinkers, like artists for example, have it particularly hard. For them, the image of the boat has become a symbol of freedom, since there are no boats in Cuba. Because of the trade embargo against Cuba all products and commodities are rare.
» Passers-by stopped to say thank you for bringing colour into their dull quarter.
The people in Cuba don’t even have paint for their house numbers.« 3 2 A K
The name “Cuba” comes from the Taíno language and though the exact meaning is unclear, it may be translated either as “where fertile land is abundant” (cubao),or as “great place” (coabana).Additionally, there is the claim that native inhabitants called the island “Cubagua” in the Columbus era starting in 1542.
Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country’s capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city. Cuba is home to over 11 million people and is the most populous insular nation in the Caribbean. Its people, culture, and customs draw from diverse sources, including the aboriginal Taíno and Ciboney peoples; the period of Spanish colonialism; the introduction of African slaves; and its proximity to the United States.
» I have never before seen a little girl just coming up and kissing a 32ak’s character affectionately on the mouth.
What’s the use of being represented in the most important museums?
Something like this is makes the work much more worthwhile.« W O N A B C
An orange Adventure: Zombielove is a project by WONabc, SHAMEabc & MYLANder. They performed in Cuba with orange Guantanamo Bay Overalls and got arrested 3 times in only one week by the cuban’s secret-police.
Interrogated by their Propaganda Experts.
It was filmed for a next level Zombie Movie. Watch it at Cinemas soon! Read my circumstantial Article (Open PDF)
Lügenbaron Sürfhausen kommt durchs Wurmloch geschossen.
Er schießt mit Kanonen auf Spatzen. [Piratenkanone aus Havanna /Kuba]
Lying Baron “Surfhousen” dashes through the wormhole.
He breaks a fly on the wheel. [Pirates crackerjack in Habana /Cuba]
I left Havana by taxi. About one hour to all directions out of town…
I instructed the driver to slow down whenever we pass a propaganda signboard aside the road – to photograph it.
I did some fotos – browse some of the most representative and interrestic ones!
They are all handpainted. These ones highlight health, education, socialism, the embargo and other topics. Commercial Advertizing doesn’t exist in Cuba at all.
It’s interesting to see how much spiritedness is invested by artists and government for those few people passing the highways. Propaganda is a part of our life and human history. Don’t get confused ’bout it!
CubaBrasil is a German-Serbian-Brasilian-Cuban co-project, founded by Carlito Stone two years ago.
Urban art and graffiti are coming together to form an all new category at the biennial in Havana. WWW.CUBABRASIL.NET
Created April/Mai 2006 - 3mx2mx0.1meter canvas for Kestner Museum, Hanover: (A ScumSupplies Project – supported by ShameABC / www.shameabc.com) It’s all about Train Surfing, Skating, Train Bombing, Godzilla, Bode´, Fucking, Sucking, Eating, Shitting etc.
Check the spraying peoples’ human pyramid at the right bottom corner – hee! (Thanks 2 Man Fred!)
The History & Definition of isometric Pixelart: The term pixel art was first published by Adele Goldberg and Robert Flegal of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1982.The concept, however, goes back about 10 years before that, for example in Richard Shoup’s SuperPaint system in 1972, also at Xerox PARC.
Some traditional art forms, such as cross-stitch, mosaic and beadwork, bear some similarity to pixel art by constructing pictures out of small colored units analogous to the pixels of modern digital computing.
A similar concept on a much bigger scale can be seen in the mass games.
Pixel art is distinguished from other forms of digital art by an insistence upon manual, pixel-level editing of an image (without the application of image filters, automatic anti-aliasing or special rendering modes), often at close magnification. In this form, it is commonly said that “each pixel was placed carefully” to achieve a desired result.
ICE = Intercity Express:
(German pronunciation: [iːtseːˈeː]) — is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and neighbouring countries. It is the highest service category offered and is the flagship of Deutsche Bahn.
It’s among the best-known brands of Germany. It’s the most secured Train in Germany – Go and paint it!
Klaus Kinski:
(18 October 1926 Danzig, Poland – 23 November 1991, California)
Klaus Kinski was a German actor, famous for his ability to project onscreen intensity, and for his explosive temperament. His real name was Klaus Günter Karl Nakszyński.
He acted in over 130 films. He lived at Elisabethmarkt in Maxvorstadt/Munich in Germany. [Read more about Klaus Kinski at Wikipedia] [Klaus Kinski Video Clips and Interviews]
Created April/Mai 2006 - 3mx2mx0.1meter canvas for Kestner Museum, Hanover: (A ScumSupplies Project – supported by ShameABC / www.shameabc.com)
Kestner Museum Hanover:
Thousands of years under one roof
The lawyer August Kestner (1777-1853) lived as a diplomat of the Hanover king house in Rome for many years, where he gathered an extensive collection of antique art. Its nephew gave the works of art to the city of Hanover in 1882. Together with the 1887 acquired art collection of the printer and Hanover senator Friedrich Culemann they form the basic stick of the today’s collection of the museum, which was opened 1889. www.kestner-museum.de
»People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. «
KLAUS KINSKI (1926 – 1991)
