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Musician For Hire
The story of Joe Everman, a man who wants to be a musician first and a celebrity second. His band Lost My Appetite, is modeled on the bands he grew up listening to. When Joe gets his demo heard by Clive, a record executive, he gets an offer to have one of his songs featured on a movie soundtrack. Joe has to figure out what it is he wants: Artistic Integrity? Fame at all costs? Flavor of the week? With the support of his girlfriend Tina, who herself is a struggling actress, he comes to the right decision.
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The Memphis photographer (born 1939) is credited with bringing respect for color to fine-art photography through his images of Southern Gothic scenes. Using a dye-transfer process that enriches some hues and makes the pictures almost ...
J. Porat - Conversations with Kafka
Prof. Nurit Govrin: Jacob Porat's Kafka The paintings of Jacob Porat converse with Kafka on the backdrop of Kafka's home city -- Prague - in a multi-layer "correspondence". One layer is Porat's paintings. The second consists of photographed sites in Prague. The third includes pen drawings made by Kafka, and the fourth depicts Kafkaesque situations taken from Kafka's works. And the fifth layer is that of the viewer, who draws near the paintings to look and reveal the worlds hidden inside, one on top of the other, one coming out of the other. The longer one looks at the paintings, the more details are discovered and layers excavated, the complexity of the worlds depicted proliferates and deepens. The viewers bring themselves to the paintings. However, the more versed they are in Porat's artistic world, the more real their familiarity with Prague, and the more they feel at home in Kafka's works, the more responsive they become to the paintings. They can then interpret them by peeling off layer after layer of the open meaning, of a symbol never fully construed. Jacob Porat is distinguished by his search for different, various forms of expression. The exhibitions he has held throughout the years expose the constant and changing elements of his works in all possible aspects: techniques, compositions, and themes. Although evident in his work, his literary education does not make his paintings an illustration of literary writings. Rather, it serves as the driving force of the painting, an enabler of deeper expression and intricacy of the visual statement. Porat's paintings have a life of their own, and these lives have been an integral part of his works since he has begun painting to date. His works in general, and "Conversations with Kafka" in particular, strike a correct balance between the "painting instinct", which is based on intuition and talent and the intellect that is aware of itself and of the literary interpretation of themes. Porat's continuous pursuit is associated with his unsteady, difficult and diverse childhood, his search for Jewish and Israeli identity, his assimilation of past events and family history, as well as of Israeli present and society and his place in them. His standing within several artistic branches -- painting, literature, music, and photography -- allows him to assemble the special of each, creating a unity of contradictions. The Kafkaesque figure in Jacob Porat's series of Kafka paintings stands opposite the closed gate, waiting for it to open. Made of ornate iron or arched stone at the entry to a house or wall, the gate is concrete, realistic, and traceable to specific buildings in Prague. The Kafkaesque figure is part of the gate, swallowed into it, protruding from it or entangled in its twists. However, it is also the metaphorical gate found inside any person as well as in one's relations with other people and the world. This is a gate, which at the same time blocks the road and a personal gate designated only for the person standing opposite it. The tall and thin Kafkaesque figure is placed in a huge church space, hovering against colorful vitrage, always conflicting with authority: the Father-God. Yet another extension of the figure is positioned in the space inside a fence-cage, like a culprit in court. This is a conflict between Judaism and Christianity, between man and superior forces that turn a deaf ear, between man and the law enforcing authorities. This conflict is open to additional conflicts and interpretations, which the paintings offer their viewers. The paintings are a splendid aesthetic expression of a world of nightmares, of frightful dreams becoming concrete, of the encounter between madness and nightmare and the logical, sane, and clear. They manifest art's exclusive ability to unify conflicts and contradictions, to express lunacy by aesthetic means, and to concurrently depict contradictory situations: terror and beauty, colorful loneliness, styled nightmare, terrestrial hovering, and life growing out of death. This exhibition is yet another brick in the glorious buildings of paintings inspired by literature and juxtaposing these two realms of art. It is an interpretive, principle confrontation between the worlds of literature and painting, and between the worlds of Kafka and Jacob Porat. However, more than anything else, it is a confrontation with the world of the readers-viewers -- their way of deciphering Kafka's works on the background of Prague and their comprehension of Kafka paintings by Jacob Porat. [Prof. Nurit Govrin, Tel Aviv University]
Dittiscombe Pics
The Complete Set of Dittiscombe Pics Current mood: artistic Category: Art and Photography A lot of people ask me if prints are available. Yes they are. I get them printed from a lab close to me and the results are fantastic. I post low resolution images in my blogs with watermarks, but high resolution images without watermarks are available if you wish to purchase them. I have very affordable prices and I also offer canvas prints and cushions. Email diadesigns@aol.com if you are intereste
Interview with Wolf Lieser - Artfacts.Net
Cosplay Kickboxing - Nagashima's Cartoon Fighter Suit (VIDEO)
"As a prominent portraiture and human figure photographer, Almond Chu and pH5 Photo Group present sixteen latest studio works on Cosplay Kids in Shanghai Street Artspace. This exhibition provides an anthropological… [More] ...
Masters of Photography - James VanDerZee
Photography © Donna Mussenden VanDerZee VanDerZee's portrait © Irving Penn "My Pretty Girl" by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher... ------------------------ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Va... James Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 - May 15, 1983) was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee captured the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen. Van Der Zee was originally from Lenox, Massachusetts; he soon traveled to New York with his brother and father. He was a skilled pianist and an aspiring professional violinist, but hated painting. The five-piece Harlem Orchestra was created by Van Der Zee, in which he also performed. He discovered photography as a hobby in his hometown of Lenox. At age fourteen he received his first camera from a magazine promotion. His interest with the toy camera led him to getting a slightly better camera with which he would take hundreds of photographs of the town and his family. He was only the second person in Lenox to own a camera, and he developed the images himself. This early start led him to a vast and prolific career documenting each decade in his unique style. Moving to New York, music lessons were a prime source of income for Van Der Zee. At age 29, he worked as a dark room technician at Gertz Department Store in Newark, New Jersey. He would substitute as a photographer when his employer was unavailable. Patrons enjoyed his creative manner of shooting subjects. This encouraged him to open his own studio, Guarantee Photography, within two years, and he was immediately successful. In 1932, he outgrew his first studio and went on to open the larger GGG Studio, with his second wife as his assistant (since closed, but the building with its original sign can still be seen at Lenox Avenue and 129th Street in Harlem). In these studios, many visual techniques were employed using props, architectural elements and costumes in the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. So much time was taken in posing his subjects that he often only could do three sittings a day. During the Great Depression, and as the availability of personal cameras severely lessened the need of professional photography, the gap was filled by shooting passport photographs and miscellaneous photographic jobs to make a living. After World War II, he survived via commissions and in the field of photo restoration. National recognition was given to him at age 82, when his collection of 75,000 photographs spanning a period of six decades of African-American life was discovered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photos were featured in 1969 as part of the Harlem on my Mind exhibition. From the 1970s until his death in 1983, Van Der Zee photographed the many celebrities who had come across his work and promoted him throughout the country. He was known to have brought the spirit of Harlem to life. Works by Van Der Zee are artistic as well as technically proficient. His work was in high demand in part due to his experimentation and skill in retouching negatives and in double exposures. ----------------- According to the "Drop Me Off in Harlem" site: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ex... "Arriving in Harlem as an aspiring violinist in 1906, he formed—and performed with—the Harlem Orchestra. VanDerZee was equally skilled at piano; he often tickled the ivories with such jazz giants as Fletcher Henderson." ------------------ http://www.howardgreenberg.com/ http:/ /www.aaregistry.com/african_ame... http://www.biography.com/search/ artic... http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ex... http:// newartsweb.com/vanderzee/ http://www.artnet.com/artist/92718/ja... http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ewilke... http://www.agallery.com/ Pages/photogr... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage... http:// hamburg.k12.ar.us/hhs/Beck/Har... http://www.montmartre-virt.paris4.sor... http://www.sptimes.com/News/022201/We...
Flickr: Discussing (Back by popular demand!) Artistic Figure and ...
Latest: 73 minutes ago. (Back by popular demand!) Artistic Figure and Nudes Lighting Workshop - November 15, 2008 Latest: 3 hours ago. Todays photography too easy? Latest: 8 hours ago. Favorite Quote of the Year Latest: 8 hours ago ...
Art of Photography - André Kertész
André Kertész (July 2, 1894 -- September 28, 1985) born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer distinguished by his photographic composition and by his early efforts in developing the photo essay. In the early years of his lengthy career, his then-unorthodox camera angles, and his unwillingness to compromise his personal photographic style, prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Even towards the end of his life, Kertész did not feel he had gained worldwide recognition. The first photographer to have an exposition devoted to his work, he is recognized as one of the seminal figures of photojournalism, if not photography as a whole. Dedicated by his family to work as a stock broker, Kertész was an autodidact and his early work was mostly published in magazines. This would continue until much later in his life when he ceased to accept commissions. He served briefly in WWI and began to form dreams to move to Paris, which he realised in 1925, against the wishes of his family. There he was involved with the artistic melting pot of immigrates and the dadaist movement, and achieved critical and commercial success. The imminent threat of WWII pushed him to immigrate again to the United States, where he had a more difficult life and needed to rebuild his reputation through commissioned work. He would take offense with several editors that he felt did not recognize his work. In the 1940s and '50s he stopped working for magazines and began to achieve greater international success. Despite the numerous and awards he collected over the years, he still felt unrecognized, a sentiment which did not change even into his death. His career is general divided into four periods based on where his work was most prominent at these times. They are called the Hungarian period, the French period, the American period and, towards the end of his life, the International period. Read more in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%... http://www.dawsonbooks.com/viewgaller... Music: "Baroque And Blue", Claude Bolling http://www.amazon.com/Bolling-Suite-F... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_B... Official website: http://www.claude-bolling.com/
artistic figure photography - Google News I love that you portray "compassion" as the figure of a woman, excellent image in every way ART WOMAN ART WOMEN I've FAVEd your EXCELLENT Artwork! Seen in the group ART WOMEN Posted 3 days ago. ( permalink ) ...
Musician For Hire
The story of Joe Everman, a man who wants to be a musician first and a celebrity second. His band Lost My Appetite, is modeled on the bands he grew up listening to. When Joe gets his demo heard by Clive, a record executive, he gets an offer to have one of his songs featured on a movie soundtrack. Joe has to figure out what it is he wants: Artistic Integrity? Fame at all costs? Flavor of the week? With the support of his girlfriend Tina, who herself is a struggling actress, he comes to the right decision.
New York's freshest shows | csmonitor.com
The Memphis photographer (born 1939) is credited with bringing respect for color to fine-art photography through his images of Southern Gothic scenes. Using a dye-transfer process that enriches some hues and makes the pictures almost ...
J. Porat - Conversations with Kafka
Prof. Nurit Govrin: Jacob Porat's Kafka The paintings of Jacob Porat converse with Kafka on the backdrop of Kafka's home city -- Prague - in a multi-layer "correspondence". One layer is Porat's paintings. The second consists of photographed sites in Prague. The third includes pen drawings made by Kafka, and the fourth depicts Kafkaesque situations taken from Kafka's works. And the fifth layer is that of the viewer, who draws near the paintings to look and reveal the worlds hidden inside, one on top of the other, one coming out of the other. The longer one looks at the paintings, the more details are discovered and layers excavated, the complexity of the worlds depicted proliferates and deepens. The viewers bring themselves to the paintings. However, the more versed they are in Porat's artistic world, the more real their familiarity with Prague, and the more they feel at home in Kafka's works, the more responsive they become to the paintings. They can then interpret them by peeling off layer after layer of the open meaning, of a symbol never fully construed. Jacob Porat is distinguished by his search for different, various forms of expression. The exhibitions he has held throughout the years expose the constant and changing elements of his works in all possible aspects: techniques, compositions, and themes. Although evident in his work, his literary education does not make his paintings an illustration of literary writings. Rather, it serves as the driving force of the painting, an enabler of deeper expression and intricacy of the visual statement. Porat's paintings have a life of their own, and these lives have been an integral part of his works since he has begun painting to date. His works in general, and "Conversations with Kafka" in particular, strike a correct balance between the "painting instinct", which is based on intuition and talent and the intellect that is aware of itself and of the literary interpretation of themes. Porat's continuous pursuit is associated with his unsteady, difficult and diverse childhood, his search for Jewish and Israeli identity, his assimilation of past events and family history, as well as of Israeli present and society and his place in them. His standing within several artistic branches -- painting, literature, music, and photography -- allows him to assemble the special of each, creating a unity of contradictions. The Kafkaesque figure in Jacob Porat's series of Kafka paintings stands opposite the closed gate, waiting for it to open. Made of ornate iron or arched stone at the entry to a house or wall, the gate is concrete, realistic, and traceable to specific buildings in Prague. The Kafkaesque figure is part of the gate, swallowed into it, protruding from it or entangled in its twists. However, it is also the metaphorical gate found inside any person as well as in one's relations with other people and the world. This is a gate, which at the same time blocks the road and a personal gate designated only for the person standing opposite it. The tall and thin Kafkaesque figure is placed in a huge church space, hovering against colorful vitrage, always conflicting with authority: the Father-God. Yet another extension of the figure is positioned in the space inside a fence-cage, like a culprit in court. This is a conflict between Judaism and Christianity, between man and superior forces that turn a deaf ear, between man and the law enforcing authorities. This conflict is open to additional conflicts and interpretations, which the paintings offer their viewers. The paintings are a splendid aesthetic expression of a world of nightmares, of frightful dreams becoming concrete, of the encounter between madness and nightmare and the logical, sane, and clear. They manifest art's exclusive ability to unify conflicts and contradictions, to express lunacy by aesthetic means, and to concurrently depict contradictory situations: terror and beauty, colorful loneliness, styled nightmare, terrestrial hovering, and life growing out of death. This exhibition is yet another brick in the glorious buildings of paintings inspired by literature and juxtaposing these two realms of art. It is an interpretive, principle confrontation between the worlds of literature and painting, and between the worlds of Kafka and Jacob Porat. However, more than anything else, it is a confrontation with the world of the readers-viewers -- their way of deciphering Kafka's works on the background of Prague and their comprehension of Kafka paintings by Jacob Porat. [Prof. Nurit Govrin, Tel Aviv University]
Dittiscombe Pics
The Complete Set of Dittiscombe Pics Current mood: artistic Category: Art and Photography A lot of people ask me if prints are available. Yes they are. I get them printed from a lab close to me and the results are fantastic. I post low resolution images in my blogs with watermarks, but high resolution images without watermarks are available if you wish to purchase them. I have very affordable prices and I also offer canvas prints and cushions. Email diadesigns@aol.com if you are intereste
Interview with Wolf Lieser - Artfacts.Net
 Artfacts.Net | Interview with Wolf Lieser Artfacts.Net, UK - What do you call Digital Art? Lieser: I have to deal with this aspect every day when a photographer comes into the gallery and says "This photograph is ... |
Cosplay Kickboxing - Nagashima's Cartoon Fighter Suit (VIDEO)
"As a prominent portraiture and human figure photographer, Almond Chu and pH5 Photo Group present sixteen latest studio works on Cosplay Kids in Shanghai Street Artspace. This exhibition provides an anthropological… [More] ...
Masters of Photography - James VanDerZee
Photography © Donna Mussenden VanDerZee VanDerZee's portrait © Irving Penn "My Pretty Girl" by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher... ------------------------ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Va... James Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 - May 15, 1983) was an African American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee captured the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen. Van Der Zee was originally from Lenox, Massachusetts; he soon traveled to New York with his brother and father. He was a skilled pianist and an aspiring professional violinist, but hated painting. The five-piece Harlem Orchestra was created by Van Der Zee, in which he also performed. He discovered photography as a hobby in his hometown of Lenox. At age fourteen he received his first camera from a magazine promotion. His interest with the toy camera led him to getting a slightly better camera with which he would take hundreds of photographs of the town and his family. He was only the second person in Lenox to own a camera, and he developed the images himself. This early start led him to a vast and prolific career documenting each decade in his unique style. Moving to New York, music lessons were a prime source of income for Van Der Zee. At age 29, he worked as a dark room technician at Gertz Department Store in Newark, New Jersey. He would substitute as a photographer when his employer was unavailable. Patrons enjoyed his creative manner of shooting subjects. This encouraged him to open his own studio, Guarantee Photography, within two years, and he was immediately successful. In 1932, he outgrew his first studio and went on to open the larger GGG Studio, with his second wife as his assistant (since closed, but the building with its original sign can still be seen at Lenox Avenue and 129th Street in Harlem). In these studios, many visual techniques were employed using props, architectural elements and costumes in the tradition of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. So much time was taken in posing his subjects that he often only could do three sittings a day. During the Great Depression, and as the availability of personal cameras severely lessened the need of professional photography, the gap was filled by shooting passport photographs and miscellaneous photographic jobs to make a living. After World War II, he survived via commissions and in the field of photo restoration. National recognition was given to him at age 82, when his collection of 75,000 photographs spanning a period of six decades of African-American life was discovered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photos were featured in 1969 as part of the Harlem on my Mind exhibition. From the 1970s until his death in 1983, Van Der Zee photographed the many celebrities who had come across his work and promoted him throughout the country. He was known to have brought the spirit of Harlem to life. Works by Van Der Zee are artistic as well as technically proficient. His work was in high demand in part due to his experimentation and skill in retouching negatives and in double exposures. ----------------- According to the "Drop Me Off in Harlem" site: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ex... "Arriving in Harlem as an aspiring violinist in 1906, he formed—and performed with—the Harlem Orchestra. VanDerZee was equally skilled at piano; he often tickled the ivories with such jazz giants as Fletcher Henderson." ------------------ http://www.howardgreenberg.com/ http:/ /www.aaregistry.com/african_ame... http://www.biography.com/search/ artic... http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ex... http:// newartsweb.com/vanderzee/ http://www.artnet.com/artist/92718/ja... http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/%7Ewilke... http://www.agallery.com/ Pages/photogr... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage... http:// hamburg.k12.ar.us/hhs/Beck/Har... http://www.montmartre-virt.paris4.sor... http://www.sptimes.com/News/022201/We...
Flickr: Discussing (Back by popular demand!) Artistic Figure and ...
Latest: 73 minutes ago. (Back by popular demand!) Artistic Figure and Nudes Lighting Workshop - November 15, 2008 Latest: 3 hours ago. Todays photography too easy? Latest: 8 hours ago. Favorite Quote of the Year Latest: 8 hours ago ...
Art of Photography - André Kertész
André Kertész (July 2, 1894 -- September 28, 1985) born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer distinguished by his photographic composition and by his early efforts in developing the photo essay. In the early years of his lengthy career, his then-unorthodox camera angles, and his unwillingness to compromise his personal photographic style, prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Even towards the end of his life, Kertész did not feel he had gained worldwide recognition. The first photographer to have an exposition devoted to his work, he is recognized as one of the seminal figures of photojournalism, if not photography as a whole. Dedicated by his family to work as a stock broker, Kertész was an autodidact and his early work was mostly published in magazines. This would continue until much later in his life when he ceased to accept commissions. He served briefly in WWI and began to form dreams to move to Paris, which he realised in 1925, against the wishes of his family. There he was involved with the artistic melting pot of immigrates and the dadaist movement, and achieved critical and commercial success. The imminent threat of WWII pushed him to immigrate again to the United States, where he had a more difficult life and needed to rebuild his reputation through commissioned work. He would take offense with several editors that he felt did not recognize his work. In the 1940s and '50s he stopped working for magazines and began to achieve greater international success. Despite the numerous and awards he collected over the years, he still felt unrecognized, a sentiment which did not change even into his death. His career is general divided into four periods based on where his work was most prominent at these times. They are called the Hungarian period, the French period, the American period and, towards the end of his life, the International period. Read more in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%... http://www.dawsonbooks.com/viewgaller... Music: "Baroque And Blue", Claude Bolling http://www.amazon.com/Bolling-Suite-F... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_B... Official website: http://www.claude-bolling.com/