Do Art

Leipzig has countless old industrial complexes, most of them are harbours for artists, galleries, designers and other entrepreneurs. The biggest complex with galleries, a huge art supply, a fantastic bike store and art studios is the spinnery (Die Spinnerei). These pictures aren't from the spinnery, but a small industrial complex near it, which contains art studios, an outdoor bar and a fashion design studio. The chair in the first pic just stood there this way and I just thought: "This looks so crazy, put it in a museum and you've got modern art". So I had to take a picture. Same goes for the tables. I guess they just happened to stand there outside, because the artists and designers sit together on nice evenings and discuss stuff. The fourth pic was interesting to me, because of the tension between old and new (brickwall vs. shopping cart) and the clash of the colours. The fifth pic. Well I just thought it funny to put your stuffed dog in a little hole in the old br...

This sunday I switched places with The Digital Photographer , she shot with an old Praktika using 35mm film and trick lenses and I shot with my Digital IXUS. We both agree on the fact that you can never have enough cameras as a photographer. (One of the photography shops in Leipzig has a Mamiya in stock. WANT!!!) This is the fountain at the Friedrich-Schubert-Place in the Clara-Zetkin-Park. The third pic is a hundred yards down the Anton-Bruckner-Allee, still in the Clara-Zetkin-Park.

Lake in the Clara-Zetkin-Park or short Clara-Park (I couldn't decide between the second and the third picture, so I posted both. Though now I'd say the second is more interesting than the third, simply because of the reflection in the water. The foreground in the third somehow lacks structure, it seems kind of boring to me.)

Cath Barcan Bear hug , lambda print, 80cmx 50cm, 2009 Lenore Gee , 'The First Meditation' Cyanotype on cotton sateen, 92cm x 92cm, 2009, Fine Arts at Nepean Arts and Design Centre is represented twice at this year’s prestigious National Photography Prize. Works for this year’s prize were selected by Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Victoria. Head Teacher and art photography teacher Cath Barcan has a work in the prize titled ‘Bear Hug’, which is part of a portrait series called ‘At Home with Cree.’ The work was shot in Tasmania, at the home of the subject, who lives with a menagerie of large toy animals. Also represented in the NPP is recent graduate Lenore Gee. Lenore graduated with a Diploma of Fine Art from WSI, and undertook extra fine art photography studies with us. Her work in the prize uses a 19th century blue emulsion known as cyanotype. The image, entitled ‘The First Meditation’ is a response to musings by the philosopher Descartes o...

The Auenwald - meadow forest. Leipzigs green lung - oasis

Yesterday, my friend " The digital Photographer " and I made our usual Sunday bike tour, but this time we took another route. Which thankfully reminded me of how stunningly beautiful my hometown Leipzig is. We took a lot of pictures and so I decided to make this week a Beauty Week, The Beauty of Leipzig. All of those pics are taken with my digital Ixus and without any alterations. Enjoy. Looking from the Beipertbridge of the Schleußiger Weg on the "Pleisse" river.

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Photo courtesy ARTZPUB Absolutely brilliant!!! I've been out of POS for some time and have not yet had a chance to explore this year's EAW but judging from these photos, I'll be doing that over the coming week!  CHECK out more photos from ARTSPUB here . DO also check out the Erotic Art Week blog .

Leipzig

Sorry if I get on your nerves with the "bubble", but it fits these pictures. (Leipzig, next to St. Thomas)

What do you think: has the architect ever anticipated such beauty when s/he designed this building? I guess not. (But I'm an engineer and not an architect. (Part of Fraunhofer institute in Leipzig. Older posts here and here. )

FROM  photographer Alex Smailes project  Gangs of Morvant , featured in the latest issue of Draconian Switch here .

Christopher Cozier, Now Showing, (2010), silkscreen on archival paper, 27”x20” It has the look of a puzzle, some kind of coded message. Apparently incongruous images collide above feet, some bare, some clothed. Enslaved or free? What might be a plot in a graveyard (the artist sees it also as a car-park) stands alone, next to a large letter A. A grade? A brand? A start? '12.30' oozes red liquid. Is it after midnight or mid-day? A '12.30' show? Above it all, three key images raise ideological questions and paint impressions of relationships. Prime among them is the tree, inspired by the one at the Forensic Sciences Centre, Port of Spain, where murdered bodies are brought almost daily, where families seek shade. Faint in the background is Clint Eastwood and company. What exactly is showing in this wild wild west? WATCH a film about the making of this artwork, for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2010, here . READ the artist's own account of the work here .

Ahem. I'd rather let Richard Rawlins explain. SEE more here .

Point Galera, Toco. Photo courtesy the Toco Foundation The participants of this year's Cropper's Writer Workshop will today read poetry and short fiction on Radio Toco live from 2:00 to 2:30 pm, hosted by Wendy Diaz. Radio Toco is an independent station that broadcasts at 106.7 FM, has 90,000 listeners, and can be heard throughout northeast Trinidad, in Tobago, and by some listeners in the Eastern Caribbean.  Reading today are: Andre Bagoo : journalist and PLEASURE blogger whose poetry and book reviews have been published in journals such as Boston Review, The Caribbean Review of Books and Draconian Switch. Shakirah Bourne : an award winning short story writer from Barbados who is not afraid to voice what others try to keep secret. Shivanee N. Ramlochan : an English Literature teacher from Trinidad who advocates fairness and freedom in life, art and her fiction writing. Colin Robinso n: a Trinidadian writer and community organiser whose work engages political questions of desi...

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From the latest edition of the online journal  Caribbean Review of Books , an excellent feature/interview on  Karyn Olivier's  ACA Foods Free Library  project. READ it here . Photos courtesy Karyn Olivier/CRB.

Ok, so TT fashion designer Anya Ayoung Chee has a new website which you should check out here . For more information about Anya, visit here .

Hoover Dam, which I visited on a recent US tour, was constructed between 1931 and 1936, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935 by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over a hundred lives. But today it is arguably striking example of function, meets art, meets politics. READ more about the Hoover Dam here . FIND more posts about a recent US trip here .

I've been on a kind of mini-vacation from my life over the last few days. Though I stayed at home I holed myself in due to the current heatwave. I didn't post on my other blogs either, just needed some time off. Hope all of you are alright.