Saturday 31 July 2010

Kalliope >>>> ACF HQ Latest Resident ♯3

NT2-A Rode
Multi Pattern 1" Condenser Microphone
Kalliope
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Καλλιοπη (Ancient Greek)
Means "beautiful voice" from Greek καλλος (kallos) "beauty" and οψ (ops) "voice". In Greek mythology she was a goddess of epic poetry and eloquence, one of the nine Muses.

Friday 30 July 2010

Made For HQ

Vegan cookies in a cardboard box getting crushed by quotes :)

Wednesday 28 July 2010

Guerilla Art..... I'm Reloading!!!!


Sophistipunk


Ideals raised from primitive roots, such as blues music and voodoo blood, packaged neatly in bow ties and oxfords.
A fist fight in white gloves, single malt in the gutter.
We call it Sophistipunk.

The Bell-Shaped Curve

Thursday 22 July 2010

Friday 9 July 2010

Dada & Dadaism


Dadaism: Historical Overview.
excerpt from "The Dada Archive"
by Timothy Shipe
Curator, International Dada Archive
[www.finitesite.com]

Contemporary art as we know it could not have come into existence without Dada. Virtually every artistic principle and device which underlies the literature, music, theater, and visual arts of our time was promoted, if not invented, by the Dadaists: the use of collage and assemblage; the application of aleatory techniques; the tapping of the artistic resources of the indigenous cultures of Africa, America, and Oceania; the extension of the notion of abstract art to literature and film; the breaking of the boundaries separating the different art forms from one another and from "everyday life"; the notion of art as performance; the expropriation of elements of popular culture; the notion of interaction or confrontation with the audience--everything which defines what we loosely call the "avant-garde."

One would be hard pressed to name an artistic movement since 1923 which does not, at least in part, trace its roots to Dada: Surrealism, Constructivism, Lettrism, THE BEAT POETS, Pop- and Op-Art, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Punk Rock and even ACF.

But the effects of Dada are not limited to the world of the arts; its impact on contemporary life has been felt from the streets of Chicago to Madison Avenue. The style of political protest which came to the forefront in the late sixties--mock trials, Yippies, Guerrilla theater--can readily be traced back to the actions of the Dadaists in Zurich during the First World War. And commercial advertising as we know it today is indebted to the Dadaists' experiments with collage and typography; indeed, two members of the Berlin Dada group founded a "Dada Advertising Agency," and the Hanover Dadaist Kurt Schwitters designed newspaper and magazine advertisements which pioneered techniques we now take for granted.