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!)
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)
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.
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.
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…)
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?
I found theses image files. I scaned them a while ago. There out of one of my mini black books.
i scaned it because the book got distorted somehow. looks like it got wet – i guess it’s the combination of that paper and the marker that i used…
its a very small book format. Ca. 10 x 10 cm.
i tried to draw an ultimative collection of simple comic characters with boilerplate formed heads or helmets.
Some of them with horns that make them look like devils, vikings or bulls…
There is some knights, ice hockey players, astronauts, evel-knevels, wrestlers etc.
Es ist nicht schwierig ein Kleinkind zu erschrecken.
Viele fürchten sich im Dunkeln und vor dem Krampus.
Wir alle erinnern uns an Hexen und Pestleichen aus Kindermärchen die uns damals verstörten. Erwachsene erschrickt man besser mit Spinnen oder Gay-Comedie.
Dieser versuch eines kleinkindergerechten Comicstils erscheint mir passend simpel in der formgebung und übel genug für ein, zwei Alpträume. Ca. 12 Stunden Arbeit für die beiden Figuren. Dazu kommt noch die Vorzeichnung und das Zusammenstellen der Comic Panels.
Der Vorteil ist, daß man bei Beibehaltung des Zeichenstils, Körperteile wie Hände und Accessoires wie Schuhe in einer Bibliothek organisieren und wiederverwenden kann. Nicht vergessen: Die Bilder anklicken, um sie zu Vergrößern!
