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Born in Kielce, Poland in 1945, →Rafal Olbinski studied architecture before dedicating himself to painting and design. He graduated from the Architectural Department of Warsaw Politechnical School. In 1982 he immigrated to the US, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer. In 1985, […] 
Born in Poland in 1952, →JACEK YERKA ←studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980. While at university, Yerka resisted the constant pressures of his instructors to adopt the less detailed, less realistic techniques that characterize so much of contemporary art. Instead, he […] 
¤ Optical Illusions drawn with SPIEGELKUNSTENAAR (MIRROR ARTIST) ↓ → http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/Hans.Kuiper/optillus.htm ¤ Trust your brains? ↓ Practice your Spanish with this slideshare Alucina ⇑ 1. What’s our brains up to…! 2. If you see anything turning – you’re in need for a holiday!!! Stare at each circle in isolation and you’ll […] 
Early 20th Century Influenced by the work of the Post Impressionists: Van Gogh, Cezanne, and Matisse, there were two great branches of German Expressionism: ¤ Die Brucke: – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; – Edvard Munch; – Paula Modersohn Becker; – Kathe Kollwitz . . . ¤ Der Blaue Reiter: – […] 
. . . Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol’s parents were Slovakian immigrants, living in one of Pittsburgh’s Eastern European ethnic enclaves. At the age of 8, Warhol contracted Chorea—also known as St. Vitus’s Dance—a rare and sometimes fatal disease of the nervous system […] 
♦ Keith Haring ↓ (1958-1990) ⇓ An American Visual Artist and Social Activist ◊ Keith Haring’s quotes ↓ “The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … […] 
[1882 – 1967]
Critics tend to note that Edward Hopper’s painting House by the Railroad and Edward Hirsch’s poem “Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad” (1925) offer two views of a particular time and place in American history: the tail end of […] 
Pina is a 2011 German 3D documentary film about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch. It was directed by Wim Wenders. The film premiered Out of Competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. During the preparation of the documentary, Pina Bausch died unexpectedly. Wenders cancelled the film production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to make the film anyway. It […] 
◊ Kids sniffing airplane glue ⇓
There were kids eight or nine years old, they were sniffing aeroplane glue, to get high on. These kids are responsible for turning musicians onto a lot of things they never knew about actually. So, I had a fantasy, how it happened. Kid is alone […] 
♠ RUBBISH ⇓ ♠ FOOD ⇓ ♠ TRANSPORT ⇓ ♠ COMPUTER GAMES ⇓ I read this in theprisma (The Multicultural Newspaper) on 16th August 2012. ¤ Planned Obsolescence – Death on the Instalment Plan An idea that belongs to capitalism: producing goods that soon stop working (programmed death) and […] 
A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads’ unstoppable march across Australia. Cane Toads: The Conquest [85 min] is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis. Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, Cane Toads: The Conquest tracks […] 
•→ Nine astonishing ways David Attenborough shaped your world ⇐ ⇒ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears ⇐ ¤ The Tree of Life ↓ Sir David Attenborough gives credit to Darwin & Mendel, and comments on evolution and DNA from a modern perspective… ∇ 5 David Attenborough moments ⇓ enero 18th, 2015 | Tags: doc, England | Category: Interviews, Film-makers | One comment 
→http://www.wernerherzog.com ← ♦ ♦ Lessons of Darkness ↓ (1992) Shot in documentary style on 16mm film from the perspective of an alien observer, the film is an exploration of the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait, decontextualised and characterised in such a way as to emphasise the terrain’s cataclysmic strangeness. […] 
Pioneering filmmakers that have expanded the image vocabulary of documentaries, Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke join BYOD to discuss Chronos, Baraka, and their new creation, Samsara. Discussing the difficulties of capturing stunning images in remote locations, and the signature filming techniques that have blown millions of minds, Ron and Mark key us into […] 
¤ ⇒F I L M O G R A P H Y ⇐ ∞ Four-time Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel & Ethan Coen are an American treasure. They have the uncanny ability to coax entertaining, memorable and iconic performances out of any actor they work with, whether it’s a featured extra or an […] 
•→ Kevin Smith Screenplays ⇐ Born and raised in New Jersey and very proud of it; this fact can be seen in all of his movies. His first movie, Clerks. (1994), was filmed in the convenience store in which Smith worked. He was only allowed to shoot at night after the store closed. This movie […] 
A Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar. In 1998 she began to work as a moderator and director’s assistant with Mongolian National Television. In 2000 she moved to Munich, Germany, to study […] 
In a world where most «art-house» movies are pretentious meaningless garbage, Kim Ki-duk [1960-2020] was one of the few directors whose films are pure art. ♦ Seom (The Isle) ↓ [2000] Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and […] 
Narrated by Derek Jacobi and Joseph Fiennes this is one of the most famous ancient sagas ever told, Beowulf tells the tale of a young Danish warrior called Beowulf who goes to the aid of King Hroðgar and his people, who are attacked by a half-man half-monster named Grendel. ♦ ◊ ♦ 1998 […] 
◊ The Lady and the Reaper is a 3D imaging animated short film created by Javier Recio Gracia and co-produced by Kandor Graphics and Antonio Banderas,. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and won the Goya Award for Best Animated Short of 2009. The lady and the reaper […] |
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