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!)
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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Created 2009 - 4×0.8mx1mx0.1meter canvases. (A Spamconsumer Project – Two Transformers, a Spaceship & an AT-AT.)
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 Latincometes 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.
(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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