Charlie Isoe

Whoa. This guy is amazing. My new favourite Australian artist.... living in Berlin.

“We exist in the nervous bowels of Late Capitalism. In this age of disposable, plastic consumerism, I observe the late nights, the addiction, and the perverse. I am not a passive observer, but rather a reflexive participant. Where the disparate worlds of decadence and desperate necessity meet – the liminal spaces – those of consumption and addiction, I see the animalistic side of human nature, and it gives scope to the contemporary Human Condition. We are tourists in our own lives. We often miss the bits that are real.” - Charlie Isoe

If I were a photographer part 2....

These are images taken in Russia between 1909 - 1918.
See this blog for more.... http://new-art.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-russian-art-ad-1909.html


"Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer born in 1863. After studying chemistry with Mendeleev and later with Adolf Miethe - one of the crucial figures in the invention of color photography - Gorskii started developing his own techniques and processes of color photography, giving it a quality that even impresses even today.
In 1909, he convinced the tsar Nicolas II to send him on a trip across the Russian Empire, to document its impressive diversity. It was a 10-year project, during which Gorskii took over 10 000 pictures, and it ended up outlasting the tsar himself, and the Empire for that matter, as the October Revolution swept away the monarchy. In 1918, he emigrated to Paris, where he died in 1944."

If I were a photographer....

I would take photos in black and white and paint over the top of them like in the 30's.
These are photos taken in MOscow by an unknown photographer in the 1930's.

Flying Mexicans

This is a video of 'Danza de los Voladores de Papantla'. A Mexican tradition dating back to the Mayan time. For some reason this ritual really hits me hard in the chest. Perhaps it's the freedom it illicits. I'm not sure.

More dudes dancing.

Still Standing You by Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido from CAMPO.

Still Standing You - Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido / CAMPO from Kunstencentrum CAMPO on Vimeo.

Lucy and Pina