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my new book about CAVELLINI- 168 pages full color cm 15x23 cm only 24 euros write: bchiarl@tin.it

The Entry period to the Nikon Photo Contest International has been extended due to server breakdown. So you still have a chance. I just noticed because I wanted to load up my last picture. Here's the Link: http://www.nikon-npci.com/

The weather is totally unusual for Leipzig. We've had a beautiful day yesterday too and got new snow from 5 AM this morning and it's still snowing. So since it's so darned beautiful and weird for Leipzig, you'll get a lot of snow pics from me this week. I've enjoyed my walk through snow today, though I fell once and would prefer to be at work. Unfortunately I just got another "No". Oh well, I've got three applications scheduled for today. Let's see if I get them all out. Looking at my elleuk horoscope (Your communication zone gets the lovely fringe benefits of Venus, starting today and lasting through the end of the year. All missives should have the Midas touch now, as your charm is totally off the hook. Send out emails and blog your heart out, Virgo – everyone will get the message.), I say I will succeed and get myself a job. Haha. Have a fantastic Monday.

Intoxicating song which comes at a crucial moment of Almodovar's last film, Broken Embraces , starring Penelope Cruz. The film itself is standard Almodovar: dark, self-reflexive, profound and hilarious. It is, like all Almodovar films, essentially a soap opera with a plot so effortlessly convoluted and full of secrets that it cannot be summarised. This time, though, it lacks the edge and genuine complexity of some of the Spanish director's earlier work like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Bad Education and Talk to Her . But it is still unforgettable.

It's good. Thank goodness. And the fact that it ends mid-way through the action is a huge plus, avoiding all that sentimental wrapping-up that often accompanies the denouements of the prior films. If you have not read the Harry Potter books, you may at some points have NO IDEA what is going on. But this does not stop any of the fun. I sometimes found certain lapses of logic and then I snapped out of it: after all, it's a film about a bloody boy wizard flying around the place on a broomstick. HELLO! The acting in this film is also up a notch, the characters have matured a bit, though they remain stockish. The use of landscape in this film was incredible and, for the first time in a Potter film, I found the special effects completely convincing. Not spoiling things too much I will say this: like in the last film, a major character dies. Be prepared for tears. ALL IN ALL: **** 

FROM THE ORGANISERS: Thursday November 25th TONIGHT! FREE! doors open at 7:30pm and films will start at 8:15pm After last weeks film about Henri-Georges Clouzot's aborted masterpiece INFERNO we bring you his existing one... Les Diaboliques Les Diaboliques (Henri Georges-Clouzot/France/1954/116')  Legend has it that Henri-Georges Clouzot beat out Alfred Hitchcock to secure the rights to this novel, which proved to be a veritable blueprint for an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery and suspense. Afterwards, the story goes a fellow told Alfred Hitchcock that after his daughter saw Psycho she refused to take a shower and that after she saw Diabolique she refused to get in a bathtub. Well, Hitchcock said, send her to the dry cleaners. Véra Clouzot plays the sickly wife of a callous headmaster of a provincial boarding school going to seed, and the commanding Simone Signoret is the headmaster's mistreated mistress. Together they plot and carry out his murder, a brutal drowning that...

Agora - Contemporary fine art gallery - Chelsea art galleries district - New York City

Good morning everyone. Today is the big day. I'm moving out, 2 1/2 weeks of moving and I'm still not completely done and there are some issues to be fixed in the next weeks (finding a nice bathroom mirror, replacement of the bed on Friday, sorting the books, moving the furniture). But I will finally live my own life!!! No discussions about what to eat, what to wear and what to do. Finally my own "castle". Wohoooooooo. And we are having the first snow for this season today. XD Fitting since Christmas Market started yesterday evening. Have a great day everyone.

FROM THE ORGANISERS: This new Performance work by the artist A k u z u r u will be presented on two separate days at the COCO Dance Festival 2010: Moving Movement Museum. Performance art, though not traditionally a dance medium, is very much an interactive genre characterized by unrehearsed situations, which establishes uncontrived results. Because of its spontaneous, experimental and extended spatial process as a given, movement and stasis become the engine of its connective projections. Act 1 RED : the prelude to the main performance on Sunday, will be in motion on Friday 26 November at 8.30pm from the Alice Yard Art Space on the street. Act 2 WHITE : continuing as a much more extended presentation, will be in motion on Sunday 28 November. Starting at 5.45pm with a walking action from the General Hospital in Port of Spain, around the Queens Park Savannah route to Alice Yard, this performance will continue from Alice Yard at 7.30 pm on the street. The public is invited to ‘walk with m...

Stephen Hall and Catherine O' Donnell at the opening of the 2010 Dobell Prize NADC Fine Arts teachers Catherine O'Donnell and Stephen Hall are both represented in this year's Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Dobell Prize is a long running prestigious drawing prize, and we are thrilled to have two of our teachers represented. The exhibition is on display at the Art Gallery of NSW until January 30, 2011.  Catherine and Stephen's work selected for the Prize can be seen below:  Catherine O'Donnell, 'no 19', charcoal on paper, 2010 Stephen Hall, 'the limner and his steed rest' , mixed media on paper, 2010 .

Another two days and then I'm free!!!!

click for larger image Former NADC fine arts student Steve McClaren is constantly organising exhibitions on a grand scale. Steve's latest extravaganza, called "it's az plain az black and white" opens this Wednesday evening, November 24, 7pm at TAP Gallery Darlinghurst. All welcome!

Nerine Martini in residency at the paper mill. Photo: Tim Dauth Fine Arts teacher Nerine Martini is currently Artist-in -Residence at the Paper Mill Angel Place, Ash St, Sydney CBD. As part of her residency Nerine has given artist talks and conducted a drawing workshop. She is in daily residence at the Paper Mill until December 22, and visitors are welcome to drop in and see the changing window display that Nerine is creating. Gallery hours are 11am-6pm Tuesday to Saturday, and Nerine is in residency during those times. The Paper Mill is a volunteer run, not for profit artist run space which opened in September 2010. Visit http://www.thepapermill.org.au/ for more info. To see more of Nerine's work, visit http://www.nerinemartini.com/  photo: Tim Dauth

The "evening" sun (it was 3 in the afternoon) in my new flat. After a week of dark grey skies and rain, this sunshine felt soo good. Those watersteamclouds on the left are from the power station Lippendorf, which is about 20k south of Leipzig. Can you see the Rockbiter from the Neverending Story on his bike? Right to right of water steam column?

NOPE. Its the big head at the Markkleeberger See. I'm still moving into my own flat and the bedissue isn't solved. The bed will be switched, which will probably take another week. So let's keep our fingers crossed that the next one will be alright. However, I've been to a percussion concert yesterday at Leipzigs Music School , which was totally AWESOME. I can't even begin to describe how cool it was. Funny thing, the students were a hundred times better than their teachers. Especially the xylophone / marimba pieces were AMAZING. No idea what I'm talking about? Here is the link to a youtube video of Nanae Mimura who plays a Marimba: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjG-GPjUmK4 and here are the Blue Devils: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFib-Hr-VDk&feature=related The best thing? The concert was free and the musicians/students really enjoyed to play and show off. They were grinning the whole time. And not only them... So, if there is a music school in your to...

Helen Nairn, 'Cross Affection', 1.5m x 1m, mixed media on paper, 2009 Congratul ations to Helen Nairn from the Advanced Diploma of Fine Art. Helen's large mixed media collage recently won the $4000 abstract art section of the Crockett Art Prize. You can see more of Helen's work at  TAP Gallery as part of the Advanced Diploma of Fine Art exhibition, or on her website: http://helennairn.yolasite.com/

Current student Marcela Vilaplana is showing photographs at Gallery Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, from now until January 2, 2011. As well as her interest in printmaking, Marcela has a strong interest in art photography, and her current show features evocative landscape images from the Blue Mountains region. Marcela Vilaplana, Beauty from the Underworld 1, 2009, lambda print on metallic paper, 76cm x 56cm Marcela has been exhibiting for several years and has work in private collections. She finds inspiration in the Old Masters, and frequently utilises strong contrasts betwen light and dark in her images. " I endeavour to capture the essence of ordinary tableaus and translate it into the stillness and beauty inherent in all things." For more information on the exhibition visit: http://www.galleryblackheath.com/guest.htm

It's looking like a cross between Iron Man and... Iron Man . With Chris Evans (the flame from Fantastic Five ...or Four ?) There are concerns over the tired tones: "There is a distinct whiff of Iron Man to the debut trailer for Green Lantern, which hit the web earlier this week. Cocky hero plunged unexpectedly into superherodom and required to shape up to new responsibilities? Check. Rousing hard rock soundtrack? Check. Attractive female discarded with wisecracking insouciance? Yes, Green Lantern even borrows an early scene from Jon Favreau's 2008 film--- Guardian, UK . We await with trepidation!

FROM Tanya Marie's smoking hot blog .

Congratulations are in order for  four of our students who were finalists in the Fishers Ghost Art Award : works on paper category 2010.  The prestigious annual art award  boasts prizes totaling  $30,000  and attracts  an average of more than six hundred entries every year. The exhibition  is  on display at the Campbelltown Arts Centre until December 2. The finalists were Terrence Combos, Natalie Horvat, Carol Ann Fitzgerald and Sean Sweeney. Congratulations to these artists who kept company with emerging and well established artists in the Fishers Ghost Art Award. Terrence Combos:  'Untitledest'  Linocut/screenprint, 2010 Natalie Horvat, Untitled screen print, 2010 Carol Ann Fitzgerald:  'Anthony' linocut, 2010 Sean Sweeney 'Focused 2' Linocut ,2010

EL LATIDO DE LA VIDA" EL LATIDO DE LA VIDA" EL CUERPO HUMANO ES EL CARRUAJE, EL YO, EL HOMBRE QUE LO CONDUCE; EL PENSAMIENTO SON LAS RIENDAS, Y LOS SENTIMIENTOS LOS CABALLOS. Platòn-filòsofo griego.

Pic was taken in March 2010 and it was really cold. That it looks like summer is due to the cross development, I used a normal film and it was developed with the slide process. Therefore those warm colors and vintage feeling. Somehow this way it looks way more real than any photoshoped picture to me. After taking yesterday off from the move to do some much needed paperwork, I'm back to the move today. Wish me luck that I finally get my bed fixed. In the evening I'll pamper myself and go to an event of the School of Music and Theater, it's contrabass evening, wohooo. Best thing: no entrance fee. Have a nice day everyone and thanks for reading. ;-)

Chocolate 650 bucks for a bedframe and when we wanted to put it together it didn't fit!!! And since today is a public holiday in Saxony I have to wait till tomorrow for the service to show up to fix it. Which means more procrastination in terms of moving, since I can't finish the shelf before the bed is properly build and that means I can't bring over more of my books today. (Leading to chaos in my old room. While I didn't have a problem with chaos when I was younger, I started to really dislike it throughout the last year.) The kitchen isn't finished either, I still have no workplate and since I have such an expensive taste I always end up liking the plates which are really expensive with their print (Palisander, anyone). Argh. The bath still has no mirror, my desk is still in my old room, so are my plants, paperwork (strewn all over my desk) and jewellery. But my clothes are already over there! It's sooooooooo frustrating.