Sunday 12 December 2010
Freedom Fight
Empty frontpages of two weekly cultural magazines against the planned new media-policy of the rightist government which aims to control the freedom of speech and press in Hungary.
Saturday 27 November 2010
Friday 26 November 2010
Thursday 25 November 2010
Sunday 14 November 2010
Fragments
"None sings as purely as those in deepest hell;
it is their singing that we take for the singing of angels."
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Ombra Mai Fu
Ombra mai fù
- di vegetabile,
- cara ed amabile,
- soave più.
- A shadow never was
- of any plant,
- more dear and lovely,
- more gentle.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Christ vs Apollon
"There is something about the entire crucifixional tradition that strikes me as a mean, as backward, as medieval in the worst sense... Greece provided a better civilizational idea than Judeo-Christianity... Hellenism as an alternative to Christianity... was the sole vision of the good life... When Hellenism failed... humanism went bankrupt."
""Whenever I shut my eyes I see Jesus on the cross." [Her son David, 4 years old]
It's time for Homer, I think. The best way to divert these morbid individualized religious fancies is to overwhelm them by the impersonal Homeric bloodbath."
Saturday 2 October 2010
My Hero Anfione
Anfione doesn't want power any more. The vision of heaven threatens him, frightens him. He is praying to the spheres to help him to put in motion what stays and give it a harmony.
Monday 27 September 2010
Embrace
"To reach an agreement in a conflict ... you need more than justice: you have to be willing to embrace the other ... one needs to maintain the boundaries of the self, but also keep the boundaries porous."
Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace
Monday 20 September 2010
Saturday 18 September 2010
Nope Pope
There is a controversy in deeply secular Britain around the papal visit as after some funny demonstrations thousands marched in central London yesterday in the biggest protest of his 5-year papacy.
Child abuse scandals around the world, labelling gay people "evil", telling Africans that condoms "increase the problem" of HIV, the church faces its deepest crisis in history.
Men in woman's dress with sinful secrets, their eyes turned on the sky with bad conscience, giving sermons while abusing young altar-boys in the sacristy, banning women out of their world - it is time for the church to open their stained glass windows and let in some fresh air.
Invite women to be priests and priests to marry, banish criminal priests - it may help the church to survive.
Tuesday 14 September 2010
Bébi 1994 - 2010
"...the limitations most of us encounter in our relations with other animals reflect not their shortcomings, as we so often assume, but our own narrow views about who they are and the kind of relationships we can have with them... So open your heart to the animals around you and find out for yourself what it's like to befriend a nonhuman person." J.M.Coetzee: The Lives of Animals
Thursday 26 August 2010
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Monday 23 August 2010
Geek and Nerd - Fox and Hedgehog?
Geek wedding ring
Today they are called geeks and nerds, but the idea is a little bit confusing and people cannot really see the difference. While both type of mainly young people are related to some sort of computer-gadgetry fascination, the geeks can be viewed as someone with a large amount of knowledge that is sometimes rather mundane, fun and even bizarre while they are socially very comfortable, the nerds are someone with an extremely intense interest or fascination in an academic field with less social skills.
To better understand this distinction we should turn to the philosopher Isaiah Berlin who said that you you could divide people according to a saying by the Greek poet Archilochus: " The fox knows many little things but the hedgehog knows one big thing."
Hedgehog
Friday 6 August 2010
Wednesday 28 July 2010
Battle of Letters - Rammellzee
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Rammellzee by Iris van Gelder
Rammellzee, the New York based artist who died this June was rarely photographed without wearing one of his elaborate science-fiction-inspired masks and costumes - a way of deconstructing the clothing code of modern society.
In his theory of Gothic Futurism he aimed to liberate the mystical power of letters from modern alphabetical standardization. He also had an anarchic plan to revise the role of language in society. In his statement he describes the "academic language" and its verbal absurdity as an exclusion of masses from culture and stacking them into slums and ghettos. For these masses writing=graffiti, and to be able to understand its means one have to communicate with people in poor quarters.
Graffiti artist's symbolic warfare of letters in Budapest
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Sunday 6 June 2010
Dark Force
Darth Vader from Star Wars
Vader is the most iconic, charismatic and fearsome villain in the history of film, an evil cyborg who acts as the supreme commander of the brutal Galactic empire in the Star Wars trilogy of George Lucas.
Pop Vader
The iconic Vader Project collection features 100 Darth Vader Helmets re-imagined by today's most notable artists.
Thursday 27 May 2010
Message in a Bottle
The new artwork on the Fourth Plinth of Trafalgar Square in London is a giant scale replica of HMS Victory, in a bottle. The ship's enormous sails are made of the richly patterned textiles commonly associated with African dress. These fabrics are, in fact, inspired by Indonesian batik design, mass produced by the Dutch and sold to the colonies in West Africa. By the 1960s the material was popularly assimilated in Africa and became symbolic of African identity and independence. Tying together historical and global threads and traversing oceans and continents, this work considers the complexity of British expansion in trade and Empire, made possible through the freedom of the seas that Nelson’s victory provided.
"This piece is an expression of Nelson's legacy, a legacy which has contributed to the diversity of this city." says Yinka Shonibare.
"This piece is an expression of Nelson's legacy, a legacy which has contributed to the diversity of this city." says Yinka Shonibare.
Pentecostal Thoughts
Pentecost - the descent of the Holy Spirit from Heaven
Birth - the arrival of the Spirit to the body
Creation - the presence of the Spirit in the work
Death - the departure of the Spirit from the body
Saturday 15 May 2010
Visions of Satan
Black leopard bares its teeth in the wildlife shot by Jonathan Griffiths
Satan chewing the naked sinners in the Last Judgement by Fra Angelico
Thursday 13 May 2010
The Winner Is: Glamour, Elegance, Beauty
Monday 10 May 2010
Dreadful Boys
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Ahmed Farooqui The Fall
"Panic is in the air over children - dreadful creatures that we can't control and who frighten us, drugged and dangerous. Working class white boys who lack ambition, black boys abandoned by their fathers, muslim boys that are waiting to blow us up."
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Seed Bank in the Wind
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has created the British Pavilion of the Shanghai Expo 2010: a 20 metre high building made up of 60,000 transparent acrylic filaments, each of which holds a seed from Kew Gardens' huge Millennium Seed Bank – a worldwide project to preserve a quarter of the world's plant species.
The 7.5 metre long spikes sway gently in the breeze
Microcosm
Kew Gardens Millenium Seed Bank has embarked on a mission to save seed of as many plant species as possible. The mission to save seeds in our time of dangerous climate change is very important - since virtually all life on earth is dependent on plants and each little seed is a microcosm of the plant itself.
Seed of Castilleja flower, popularly known as Indian paintbrush or prairie-fire
Pollen of Helleborus orientalis or Lenten rose
Eastern sun (Scutellaria orientalis) seed
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Seed of the Paulownia tree
Electron microphotos of seeds preserved at the Kew Gardens Millennium Seed Bank.
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