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Desde Venezuela llega: OCHO PARES DE PATAS = MUEVETE de Guadalupe Rodriguez, a La Biennale de Montevideo resto pub, Palacio Sorocabana PLAZA CAGANCHA 1364 A cura de Naomi Silvera LA EXPO ESTARA DISPONIBLE PARA SER VISITADA POR EL PUBLICO a partir del dia jueves 28 de octubre a las 18 hs en horario continuo todos los dias hasta el 1º de noviembre inclusive LOS ESPERAMOS!!!

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Oil pastel drawing by Julieanne Bartolo, Certificate IV Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, 2010 The students in Dalia Maron's  CIV drawing class have recently completed a class project based on landscape and colour theory. Students have continued to sharpen their representational drawing skills, whilst also showing form in space with colour. The same group of students have also been researching and producing  images based on still life and portraiture. These genres have been explored using a range of different media. Please visit our flickr page  linked below to see a full  range of the student's work. We think you will agree there are some terrific results from a dedicated group of students, many of whom first started studying fine art at the beginning of the year. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsifineart/sets/72157625084204179/ For information on our fine art and ceramic courses, visit our website  at http://nadc.wsi.tafensw.edu.au/art/about.aspx

Yeah, I'm a big kid and not a grown up. But who is watching us there? Is it a spy? Stealing our ideas?!

Trying to hold a camera steady while holding the release for an unspecified time for nightshots isn't exactly easy and I got this. But I really like the first and the last pic anyway.

 Kendal Heyes, 'Shape of Time' (detail), poker work on paper, 2010 Printmaking teacher Kendal Heyes is having his PhD show, and it will open Wednesday November 3 at COFAspace, ground floor, Block E at the COFA campus in Paddington. Congratulations to Kendal, who also recently won first prize in the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize for COFA post-graduate students.

Drawing teacher Di Holdsworth and drawing and theory teacher Catherine O'Donnell both have exhibitions opening this week. Di is exhibition in a small sculpture show, 'Defiant Little Devils', at Defiance Gallery in Newtown. The show opens this Wednesday, October 27, at 7pm. For more info, click here Catherine is showing drawings at Boutwell Draper Gallery, opening this Thursday October 28 at 6pm. For more info, click here Di Holdsworth, 'Love makes the world go round #1 ' Mixed Media Assemblage - with music-box movement 12.5 x7x7cm

Di Holdsworth is currently exhibiting in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize at the Redleaf Council Chambers in Double Bay. See above for a video of the kinetic sculpture that Di is showing.The exhbition is open until Sunday November 7, 2010. For full details, click here

JUST BECAUSE.

Gardening in the Tropics, you never know what you'll turn up. Quite often, bones. In some places they say when volcanoes erupt, they spew out dense and monumental as stones the skulls of desaparecidos -- the disappeared ones. Mine is only a kitchen garden so I unearth just occasional skeletons. The latest was of a young man from the country who lost his way and crossed the invisible boundary into rival political territory. I buried him again so he can carry on growing. Our cemeteries are thriving too. The newest addition was the drug baron wiped out in territorial competition who had this stunning funeral complete with twenty-one-gun salute and attended by everyone, especially the young girls famed for the vivacity of their dress, their short skirts and even briefer lives. --From Olive Senior's book of poems, Gardening in the Tropics (2005).

Grace Jones photo by Jean-Paul Goude Just a look at a few pages inside of Island, a history of the famed record label out of Jamaica. Florence and the Machine by Tom Beard

SEE it all at Rodell's blog here .

when I make my Sunday bike tour.

Invitation to Studio One+2 open day this Saturday in Rozelle and Balmain. Click for a larger image. After an excursion to artist studios in the city, Diploma of Fine Art student TJ Combos was inspired to increase his commitment to his art practice by leasing a studio. Read what he has to say: "For our 2nd year Diploma painting and drawing class, our teacher Shadee Selim took us on an excursion to One+2 Studios in Rozelle and Balmain. It was fantastic to see artists and their working spaces outside of an educational setting. We spoke to a few of the artists and gained an insight into their work, hearing about their aesthetic and philosophical interests and how they help shape their work. It was very exciting to envision myself working in one of these spaces, so I contacted the director and am now leasing a space in Rozelle. It has proven to be a substantial development in my view towards becoming an established practicing artist. The interaction between others working in the studi...

Old Liar Vomit 18" x 24" Acrylic and Oil on Hardboard Socks 31'' x 23'' FIND OUT MORE HERE .

This hat you can buy at my hatter Bräuer Hüte in Leipzig, the adress of it you'll find at my new "style" blog: "hats make me happy". Which you find here: http://hatsmakemehappy.blogspot.com/

MARLON DARBEAU :  "I have been working on a new project for sometime now, it's all coming along pretty fine...One great moment was while working one night at my Dad's workshop, he came outside to see how things were going. He realized I needed his help to get the angle on a component right, which was really hard for me to do alone on the metal bender... And that was the first time we, should I say... made something together, funny, I never imagined that moment." CHECK  the preview on Marlon's blog  here .

In case you didn't notice ;) PLEASURE XXX

CHECK the Never See Come See blog here .

May I present: my first attempt at Udon. It's pretty easy all you need is some broth (I used instant miso), some Udon noodles, an egg, some slices of spring onions. I used bell pepper, smoked tofu and wakame. Itadakimasu.

Head Teacher Cath Barcan has been out and about in the community as a guest speaker for a number of local art events. On the 17th of Septermber she spoke at St Paul's Grammar School in Penrith, for their annual 'artscape' exhibition. The show has a featured artist every year, and this year one of our current students, Shirley Ayres from the Certificate IV in Fine Arts was selected for the honour. The topic of Cath's talk was the nature of creativity, and it's value and application in the community. This was also the broad theme when Cath recently spoke at the Blue Fringe Art Award presentation ceremony in Springwood. Blue Fringe is a mountains-based mental health advocacy body, which specialises in the promotion of creative pursuits. Cath spoke alongside Blue Mountains Mayor Daniel Myles and MP Phil Koperberg. This important annual art exhibition also featured work from some of our past and current students.

Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake  in David Fincher's  The Social Network I first heard about Facebook at university, around 2004/2005. At the time, I was studying at King's College, London. Everybody at King's was on Facebook. Like for most universities, there was a special category for us on the website: our own network.  But one day in class there was a heated debate going on about this new rival to Hi5 (you remember that other social networking site that was so hot before Facebook?) In the middle of a class on moral philosophy, fellow student Rob passionately argued that the whole idea of Facebook was premised around elitism and exclusivity. At the time, I remember thinking, "gee what's Rob going on and on about? It's just a website! Relax bro! Sheesh."  Rob then segued into further arguments about capitalistic society and Weber's iron cage. When I then spent a year in Belgium at one of the oldest universities in Europe, Facebook became an inva...