Archive for August, 2008

  • Danijel Zezelj: silence and wordz # ink and story # line and sound

    Sunday, August 31st, 2008

    I don’t think I’m able to express fully how much graphic novels by Danijel Zezelj have had influence the way I see thingz…
    Sometimes, I think that everything what I‘ve learned about composition, relation between black and white tones, telling stories with liquid irony draining from my mind the latest drops of my ‘imaginative exploratorium’ it’s because [...]

  • Dancer Kettly Noël: personal demons or cruel truth?! Cruel truth

    Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

    Kettly Noël is one of those impressive performers who can leave a very sharp mark in your personal memory because she’s wiling to deal with roots only to come out with something very concrete… like a mental razor…
    Dancer and choreographer Kettly Noël came from the Creolian city Port au Prince in Haiti but has decided [...]

  • Interview with Robert Hylton: I think, I’m a dance junkie!

    Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

    Robert Hylton is an ‘urban classicist’… being continuously tainted with the virus called street art in its most refined sense…
    As a youngster he was involved in the UK’s underground Hip Hop scene (break dance and popping techniques included), then jazz dance&stylez, and after a while he realized that contemporary dance might work for him too [...]

  • Olympics and Leni Riefenstahl

    Friday, August 8th, 2008

    Do controversial events result in controversial people, or it’s inversely?! Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
    I don’t remember the heavily boycotted XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow which took place in 1980… But I do remember badges (bear Misha, remember!?), which could be today easily found at all flea markets or antique shops [...]

  • Michael Benson: landscape photographer with robots as assistants

    Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

    This is interesting… Yesterday I went to see the photography exhibition by Michael Benson entitled ‘Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes’ with photos of planets in our Solar System and when I came home and switched on my TV (Arte and DW TV, mostly!) I’ve heard that NASA has again confirmed the existence of water [...]