centre pompidou video art @ acmi

Yesterday my mum and i went and checked out the centre pompidou video art 1965-2005 exhibition at acmi. it was pretty awesome. there of course was some stuff that didnt interest me that much but most of the instalations were really awesome. i really liked Interface (Peter Campus, USA, 1972) where a pane of glass features as both a screen and a mirror and visitors can superimpose their relflection onto the screen, its pretty ghost-like. i also really liked Switch ( Tony Oursler, USA 1996) which is a series of cloth dolls whose faces are projections of real faces (including David Bowie's). they are kind of creepy in a way. a few of them were a little bit interactive such as Interface and Going Around the Corners Piece (Bruce Nauman, USA, 1970) which uses surveillance cameras that track visitors around corners. In order to see everything properly and sit and watch all the videos it is a good idea to have quite a bit of time on your hands if you are going to go visit this exhibition. its free and running until sunday the 27th of may. more info on the acmi website.

videos...

these are kinda cool if you are looking to kill a few minutes:
pixelator its some art thing and the new bumblebeez video, its a pretty cool concept.

art for arts sake?

this is a bit weird its a guy in new york who collects garbage off the streets of ny, puts it all in a clear plastic cube, signs and numbers it then sells it. and calls it art? seriously what the hell. who would buy this crap? anyone could make it.

Curvy exhibition graff thing in hosier lane

Today i went and checked out the graff that was done as part of the Curvy exhibition in hosier lane. its pretty awesome, however my camera decided to run out of batteries and so i didnt get as many photos as i wanted to. pretty awesome to have a fafi piece in melbourne. im not so impressed with deb though, i reckon she just steals fafi's style. annnnd i think the fox is really awesome (and i dont even like foxes). i was disapointed in the fafi and adidas colaboration this year. oh well that really has nothing to do with what this post is about!

Science of Sleep

may 3rd science of sleep gets released into australian cinemas! I CANT WAIT!
incase you weren't aware it is the new film from french director Michel Gondry who is mostly famous for his music videos and also his film eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. anyway i think science of sleep will be a crazy mix of film and animation. it should be awesome. here is the official site for the film.

300

My family and i went along to the movies the other night to see 300. i wasnt really interested in seeing it but i wasnt paying and so i didnt care. i'd give it a 2 out of 5. it was really quite funny, but it wasnt meant to be! i dont know what they were aiming for, did they want a serious film or some mythological joke? the persian king looked like a transvestite and was surrounded by characters that looked as if they had come out of the bar in star wars, im suprised jar jar binks wasnt wandering around there, i mean they did have a goat playing a flute at one stage (wtf!?). Yeah the CGI stuff was pretty good and the battle scenes were awesome, but the film just lacked substance. the lead actor that played the spartan king kept slipping into his scottish accent and david wenham's narration was awful. maybe they didnt care about the acting and were mainly concerned with the post production which apparently took an entire year to complete. all the 3d stuff was done using Maya, XSI and Lightwave (according to IMDB). so i guess i can appreciate the 3d aspects of the film and the way it was created and everything, i just didnt enjoy the film and found it so bad that it was funny. i really dont understand how it passed the test screenings. half the cinema when i went had lost interest and talked through all the parts that werent battles and everyone else just spent the time sniggering and the complete ridiculousness of some of the characters. i'd wait until it was on dvd.

polaroid rentals

this blog mentions a bar in the states in which customers are able to rent a polaroid camera for $15 already loaded with film. its a pretty cool idea. i mean all the trendy fashionista indie kids are loving the polaroid cameras these days, i guess its 'vintage' and its nice to have a hard copy of something rather than 150 photos on your digital camera or some rather shabby ones on your phone. but then again, polaroids dont take the best of photos.

new young pony club photos

Just some pictures i took of new young pony club when they played at the espy.

last.fm

everyone should get last.fm (mine can be found here). its probably just another thing to distract from doing assignments or whatever, but i think its pretty cool. it tracks what you listen to and then creates charts of your music and shows you your listening patterns, it also gives you 'neighbours' aka other people that like the same stuff, and you can leave people comments or send them private messages. last.fm also reccomends different bands and you can download free mp3's of alot of bands. there are also 'radio' stations you can listen to, such as the radio station of your neighbours or perhaps ones that sound like other bands you like.

Curvy 4, wooden toy mag and no comply

Thursday night lawrie and i went and checked out the Curvy 4 launch at Until Never gallery and then the wooden toy mag launch at Rancho Notorious, which was part of the No Comply festival that will be on during april. We basically went to the Curvy launch to check out the work of french graffiti artist/ adidas colaborator Fafi. However, we were a little disapointed because there wasnt much of her work there, but still all the other artists work that was there was still pretty good (curvy focuses on female artists) and the best stuff was the adidas originals hoodies that had been worked on. the bad thing was that we had missed the free alcohol and the gallery was about a billion degrees inside. After watching a few songs by Gameboy/Gamegirl who were playing live we left and headed over to Rancho Notorious to check out the wooden toy launch. The wooden toys were cool, but the bloody magazine wasnt even out yet! why have a launch if it isnt out!? but yeah the best thing there was the wooden cassette tape, pretty awesome. on saturday night we headed over to fed square for the opening of the no comply skateboard exhibition, which is 150 skateboards whose decks have been art-ified by some artists. mostly graff sort of stuff. there were some awesome ones. its on until the 21st of april at the atrium at fed square daily from 10am to 5pm and its free so it is worth checking out.

sneakers: classics to customs @ NGV

So i finally went to the sneaker exhibition at NGV it was good, not what i had expected but im not sure exactly what i had expected to begin with. Mostly i was just jealous that i didnt own all those shoes myself. The thing i found lame was the way they kind of tried to emphasise the whole 'underground culture' aspect of sneaker collecting by their use of crappy club-like lighting, hip hop beats and crappy animations shown on tvs, i didnt think that it added to the exhibition in a good way, i mean it was probably better than if they were all just chucked into a white room but the atmosphere of it seemed just that little bit too contrived. For some reason sneaker collecting has just become really popular all of a sudden, it seems like everyone is doing it these days. im not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing, it could be good because it widens the market and makes collecting rare sneakers harder or whatever, but then if everyone is doing it it kind of takes away from its underground cult following. if i owned all those shoes i'd wear them.