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cranky frames per second mayhem

i watched the sequel of Crank last night, without any expectations in quality and plot – but i was stunned! the video camera work is faster and shakier with fast cuts and beautiful fish-eye sequences – like a music video of aphex twin or squarepusher. the music is hysteric and ingenius with cranky sound effects and a more than fitting musical selection. all in all it’s a fine piece of 90min video-art with adrenaline and testosterone overdose…

the flick is peppered with graphical elements and typographic delicacies, live-visuals style kaleidoscope effects and colors and contrast always crisp to the max. there are psychedelic sequences, illustrated sequences, super8-aestetics, a really absurd long shot tribute to godzilla movies.

the characters are exaggerated comic heroes reminding me a lot of robert rodriguez archetypical figures. couldn’t be better! the appearance of david carradine as a life-craving horny old chinese triad gangster drooling over busty young whores is hilarious considering his current absurd death.

if you have strong nerves, are used to bloody gore mayhem, explicit language with funny brit accent and a b-movie fan, video or VJ art geek, you will definetly enjoy this flick as much as i did.

5 out of 5 stars!

trailer at apple.com

(July 2009)

less is more

awesome minimalist but felicitous illustrations by Noma Bar

(May 2009)

immigration reforms now!

really nice new posters by obey giant shepard fairey.

Tags: shepardfairey, obey, immigration, art

(May 2009)

wave crave

incredible surf photographs by clark little at guardian.co.uk

damn. must surf. now….

Tags: surf, wave, clark little, photography

(May 2009)

david lynch photographie

interview und noch mehr fotos

(September 2008)

puducherry unlimited

amazing photo gallery of christoph who traveled from istanbul, turkey to auroville, india with trains, cars and buses.

view full gallery

(September 2008)

city 17 street art

the epic 3d fps-rpg half life 2 had the most realistic an nicely made street art spread across city 17. if you liked it as much as i did, here is a zip file with all graffitis, pochoirs and posters from the game, extracted from the original .vtf files as tga images including alpha channels. enjoy.

this is my favorite stencil of the g-man in the rain. it only appears once. i don’t remember where it was – somewhere underground city 17…

(August 2008)

mindfuck fulgurator

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The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.

Technically, the Image Fulgurator works like a classical camera, though in reverse. In a normal camera, the light reflected from an object is projected via the lens onto the film. In the Image Fulgurator, this process is exactly the opposite: instead of an unexposed film, an exposed and developed roll of slide film is loaded into the camera and behind it, a flash. When the flash goes off, the image is projected from the film via the lens onto the object.

(July 2008)

pandas in space

bei meinem besuch in meiner heimatstadt heidelberg stieß ich im forum für kunst zufällig auf eine flyerpostkarte mit einem interessanten bild darauf. die postkarte bewarb eine kleine ausstellung im bourgeois pig, einem kleinen gemütlichen laden in der ingrimstraße. in dieser ecke bin ich gerne unterwegs, denn es ist zwar nur eine parallelstraße von der mittlerweile total verkommenen fußgängerzone in der hauptstraße entfernt, aber trotzdem ein immer noch uriges viertel. der blitztourismus ist hier noch genausowenig angekommen wie die infiltration der individuellen ladengeschäfte durch mobilfunkläden, mode- und kaufhausketten.

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(April 2008)