Just a victim of bad music? If the air of the room had previously been checked, the sudden death of these famous symbols of glamour and eroticism maybe could have been prevented. Rotterdam-based art collective Rotganzen has created a series of deflated disco balls. If you go out clubbing on the weekend, watch out: they could lie lifeless on the floor.
Carsten Nicolai: »Future Past Perfect«. An artist’s HD vision of life above the clouds. Read the full story on Nowness.com.
Sonne bleibt Sonne und Mond Mond. Boards of Canada passt immer, eine Frage des Prinzips.
Sitzmuster des Todes, which typically means »seat patterns of death«, offers an incredible collection of horror designs, that brings you fear, anger and procrastination. It seems to be a global epidemic. Here in germany, there is barely any bus without these weird and horrible looking multi-colored print patterns. You can also visit The Great Pattern Collection, a similar page, but the pictures there do not show the real ugliness.
Die Diskussion über die Abschaffung der Künstlersozialkasse ist so alt wie die über die unappetitliche Wahrheit von McDonalds. Wir sollten sie dennoch nicht außer Acht lassen. Denn die Abschaffung von Sozialleistungen war nie einfacher als heute. Die deutsche Wirtschaft sehnt einmal mehr das Ende der KSK herbei, trotzdem sie seit Jahren von »ihren« Künstlern profitiert. Andreas Zielcke hat sich für die Süddeutsche mit dem Thema auseinandergesetzt (kein Link mehr wg. LSR – Edit Roland).
In this excellent debut episode of their »The Art of Punk« series, MOCAtv* dissects the art of the legendary Black Flag, from their iconic four bars symbols, to their coveted and now collectable gig flyers, singles, and band t-shirts, all depicting the distinctive Indian ink drawn image and text by artist Raymond Pettibon.
»The Art Of Punk« traces the roots of the punk movement and the artists behind the iconic logos of punk bands such as Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon), The Dead Kennedys (Winston Smith) and Crass (Dave King). The stories behind the art of the Dead Kennedys will debut on June 18, and June 25 will see the release of the Crass episode, all of which will be available at: www.youtube.com/MOCAtv. Filmmaker Bryan Ray Turcotte also posted the following Black Flag flyers and many more of his remarkable collection on Noisey.
*MOCAtv is a contemporary art video channel, developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
