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  • destroying the laboratory for the sake of the experiment

    © Mark Power/Magnum Photos.

    PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK POWER / POEMS BY DANIEL COCKRILL
    Atlas Gallery, London /// 9 JUNE – 10 JULY 2010

    „Atlas Gallery presents a ground-breaking exhibition exploring synergies between words and images, which will dramatically transform the gallery into a multi-media experience including photography, poetry and live performance. ‘Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment’ is a collaboration between Magnum photographer Mark Power and award-winning poet Daniel Cockrill. This multifaceted project began in 2006 as an experiment and continues in this guise of exploration and evolution. The two artists travel together to different parts of England, usually a town or city, share similar experiences, but react independently. It is an exercise in seeing and selecting what each considers interesting or important at any given time. Mark Power responds with photographs, Daniel Cockrill writes poetry.“

    {text © art daily}

  • The low end theory

    Everytime I’m losing contact with contemporary Hip-Hop it pulls me back in again. After breakdancing like a clown to Old-School Hip-Hop and Electro there was a guy ten years later who gave me a tape with music by A tribe called quest’s „Low end theory“ to get me started again. Now Dubstep has done it again, combining Dub, Hip-Hop and Electro, exploding now in many different directions.

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    Skweee is a new music-genre by itself combining compressed digital Funk, Electro, Hip-Hop and Dubstep with Eighties Disco Flavor. People like Eero Johannes, Daniel Savio and Mesak are only a few among a lot interesting projects from Sweden, Finland und Norway. For a beginners guide, check out my mix from weeks ago or buy the new compilation „International Skweee Vol. 2″ or „Skweee Tooth“ as long as it’s available. (mehr …)

  • Stills

    Stills

    I like almost still videos, it’s like adding an other dimension to a photographic portrait, streching the act of taking a picture in time. „L’Enfer“ by Henri-Georges Clouzot is a never finished psychedelic experiment in lighting and movie techniques literally starring a wonderful Romy Schneider.

    A familiar project is the first officially published DVD by Andy Warhol „13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests“. You can watch Lou Reed drinking a coke and some girl toothbrushing. Warhol shot around 500 portraits and the original material was around two minutes each and was stretched to five minutes in slow motion. (mehr …)