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Lobster Random Gallery at Schellingstr. 50 Maxvorstadt inMunich/Germany. (RIP)

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Exhibition “Lobster Random: No Gain!” February-2010 in Munich / Germany.

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ISPO is an International Trade Fair For Sports Equipment and Fashion.

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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.

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BoneKnuckelz Part1 (Fingerboard Comic Proto)

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SPAMCONSUMER contributed to the exhibition “Urban Experiences – Workspace Munich“.
Art, Design, Fashion, Architecture, Film, Music – November 2009

In enger Zusammenarbeit mit den Helden Wurst, Flin und Workingclasshero.

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scumskullz are 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.

scumskullz usually 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.

Das Haus am Köllnischen Park …

…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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Pickup Artfestival – Galerie Richter & Masset (www.galerie-richter-masset.de)

Pickup Artfestival – Galerie Richter & Masset (www.galerie-richter-masset.de)

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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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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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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.

“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 Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist 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.

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Science fiction is not about science. It is about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Reality is a crutch for people who can’t handle science fiction. It has become a dialect for our time.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Hell Is Other Robots. We have enough robots in this business.

The universe is a machine where you have been placed, and like a machine the outcome can be known.
Every battle has already been won or lost. All that is left is for you to choose your side.
But before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine!
The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.
Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a machine – One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

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Captain Future’s Spaceship Comet:

Captain Future was both a science fiction magazine and a fictional character.
In 1978 Toei Animation of Japan produced a Captain Future (キャプテン・フューチャー, Kyaputen Fyūchā) TV anime series of 53 episodes, based on 13 original Hamilton stories. Despite the strong cultural differences and the large gap between a literary work and animation, the series was close to the original in many ways, from the didactic scientific explanations to the emphasis on the usefulness of brains as opposed to brawn.

Captain Future’s lightspeed spaceship “Comet” was developed and constructed in the year 2495.
It’s 200 meters long.
The word comet came to the English language through the Latin cometes from the Greek word komē, meaning “hair of the head”; Aristotle first used the derivation komētēs to depict comets as “stars with hair.” The astronomical symbol for comets accordingly consists of a disc with a hairlike tail.

Star Wars: AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport)

The AT-AT is a large, four-legged walker introduced in The Empire Strikes Back during the Battle of Hoth. An AT-AT also appears in Return of the Jedi.

Joe Johnston’s original design for the Empire’s war machines was a giant, multi-wheeled vehicle; ILM filmed the AT-ATs using stop-motion animation against matte paintings created by Mike Pangrazio because attempts at compositing miniature footage against live-action background footage yielded mediocre results. Additionally, ILM studied elephants to determine the best way to animate the four-legged AT-ATs.

The AT-AT, designed to favor “fear over function“, can carry five speeder bikes and 40 Imperial stormtroopers. The walkers themselves carry two blasters and two laser cannons. Manufactured by Kuat Drive Yards, Expanded Universe sources describe the AT-AT as being either 15 or 22.5 meters tall. Their armor is resistant to standard blaster weapons; however, the “neck” column of the walker holds no such invulnerability and, if shot, can cause the entire walker to be destroyed.

Toys:
Kenner released AT-AT and AT-ST toys as part of their Empire Strikes Back line, and Hasbro released toys based on those molds when the Special Edition trilogy was distributed. Micro Machines also released AT-AT, AT-ST, and AT-TE toys. Both Decipher Inc. and Wizards of the Coast published AT-AT and AT-ST cards for their Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game, respectively. Lego has released AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-AP and AT-TE models.

Transformers: The Headmasters

(トランスフォーマー ザ-ヘッドマスターズ, Toransufōmā za Heddomasutāzu) is a Japanese anime television series.
Rather than import The Rebirth three-part mini-series as a conclusion, Takara, the Japanese producers of the Transformers toyline, opted instead to continue the Generation 1 universe by creating the full-length 35-episode series, Transformers: The Headmasters (two additional clips episodes were produced after the fact for direct-to-video release). Supplanting The Rebirth’s position in Japanese continuity, The Headmasters occurred one year after The Return of Optimus Prime, introducing the titular characters to the Transformers universe in a different way. Whereas in western fiction, the Headmasters result from the merging of a Transformer with an organic alien being from the planet Nebulos, the Headmasters of the Japanese series are a group of small Cybertronians who departed the planet millions of years ago and crash-landed on the inhospitable planet Master. To survive its harsh climate, a select few Cybertronians constructed larger bodies called “Transtectors,” to which they connected as the heads.

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“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
Isaac Asimov (Russian science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)

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A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral.
Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of aesthetic convalescence.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object.
I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and
environmental condition. Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun
walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls, girls in tight shorts.

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces.
Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view
down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

You’re torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that’s really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don’t understand the process?
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. We call them “Bastard Spaces“!

» Learning from Sim City” is neither a geek’s wet dream about the virtualisation of space, nor is it a techno-phobe’s lamentation of the loss of physical matter. An eye – that of a 21st century critic-tourist – onto the great screen-saver that is our reality, and illuminates the inevitability of an illuminated future that oscillates between the supposedly real and the allegedly virtual. «
Shumon Basar, Architectural editor for Tank Magazine, writer for Blueprint Magazine and curator at The Architectural Association, London

Exhibition at the Praterinsel in München / Germany. March 2008.
120qm of visual art. 5 banner sized pillared collages. (5 x 2,1m x 11m)

» Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music. «
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775 – 1854)

Exhibition at the Praterinsel in München / Germany. March 2008.

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I wrote this whole report for RUGGED Magazine – ©Carhartt Europe //Work in Progress //Nord31
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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.

Even in the capital Havana it’s difficult for a painter to buy a simple brush.
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» 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.

Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern United States and The Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti, east of Mexico and north of the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

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.

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» 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!
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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

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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.
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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)

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You are the only one who can search honestly inside yourself for the meaning of your life, eternal love and infinite energy. No doctrines, no set formulas, no new prophets or false messiahs or hypocritical rituals. You will only find your personal salvation in the simplicity of your own feelings, of the sincerity of doing good.
Who told you that God exists?

Piedra del Sol (Aztec Stone of the Sun)
is a large monolithic sculpture that was excavated in the Zócalo, Mexico City’s main square, on December 17, 1790. Measuring about 3.6 metres (12 ft) in diameter, 1.22 metres (4 ft) in thickness and weighing 24 tonnes, the original basalt version is presently on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park. It is often informally considered to be one of the national symbols of Mexico. This basalt sculpture is a representation of the Aztec calendar.
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»Mysticism and exaggeration go together.
A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push
all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. «
MILAN KUNDERA (*1929)

In close collaboration with CPT73 [Visit CPT Website] <<BASILICA SATIVA (2005)>>

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The permanent surveillance generates an uninterrupted reality scan.
All of this media footage is being reflected back to the societie’s eyes and ears.
The monitored consumers became the controlled addicts of this circular flow of entertainment.
A metapher for loosing our souls and disoriented victims of the global crisis.
As we know them today: Zombies - the living Dead – the abart of the century.
It was a treatment for Carhartt’s RUGGED Magazine. (Check their website…)

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Civil Disobedience – The unusual suspects
»distrust any enterprise that
requires new clothes. «
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817 – 1862)

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• Yestertimes the governing portion used to conduct the newspapers and media relatives.
  Now the media monopolists pilot their string puppets.
  I wrote a comprehensive recapitulation about media manipulation.
  My analysis in a nutshell.
  It was a treatment for Carhartt’s RUGGED Magazine. (Check their website…)

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Our world is constantly becoming a smaller place.
Broadcasting stations brings us news from every part of the globe directly into our homes.
The network of the media corporations has become ever so complex.

Media tycoons, like Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, embody the global power of the media and the danger of it manipulating politics and public alike.
The outcome of elections can be manipulated by swaying opinions and wars abroad seem to have become the instruments of political campaigning at home.
Even terrorists make use of the modern tools of propaganda.
All that remains to audiences is to participate as a silent zombie in front of the idiot box.

What is propaganda? Are satellite-TV and Internet the last step to total control?
Or is all of this nothing more than harmless entertainment?

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Exhibitions in Munich/Germany, Zaragoza/Spain, Katowice/Poland, Vilnius/Lithuania.

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Scumskullz are 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.

Scumskullz usually 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.

Every Scumskull is constructed from black or white pixels on a 5×5 grid.
Additionally there are certain constraints on the shape of a Scumskull:

	A Scumskull must be symmetric to the vertical axis.
	A Scumskull must be contiguous. That is, all black pixels have to be connected. Diagonal connections are allowed.
	A Scumskull must be expletive. That is, the bounding box of the black pixels of a Scumskull must cover the whole 5×5 grid. Or, there must be at least one black pixel on the leftmost and rightmost columns and the topmost and bottommost rows of the grid

Browse the whole SCUMSKULLZ gallery and see all of the pics (191 images!)
Visit the SCUMSKULLZ website by SCUM SUPPLIES INC.

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