Milk, Fruit, Egg and Beer.
sobota, 24 stycznia 2009
czwartek, 22 stycznia 2009
niedziela, 11 stycznia 2009
Kishin Shinoyama
Untitled, 1968.
Kishin Shinoyama Twin, 1969
[C.E. 68]
Kishin SHINOYAMA
Twin n°6 - 1969.
sobota, 3 stycznia 2009
That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel’s final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead—Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel’s brilliant surrealistic beginnings.
Persona
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona. Written by Kathy Li
lust caution
Shanghai, 1942: The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei). With WW II underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min (Wang Leehom) Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupes new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences and Kuang.
He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yees trust by befriending his wife (Joan Chen) and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee.
Shanghai, 1941: With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong--having emigrated from Hong Kong--goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...
czwartek, 25 grudnia 2008
lalala,Sopot,Poland
LALALA: bistro-bar-guest house-wine house.
In short - a hybrid, a place for mavericks who look for a charming, airy space, infiltrating calmly into their bloodstreams, pulsing delicately. Before your eyes there appears a tenement with a wooden patio, a little idyllic garden and a hammock, slightly out of the way, where time flows in another rhythm. An original reshuffle of styles and forms, of wine, wine and wine; genuinely smiling and imaginative service, informal vibe and a unique, not only as for Tricity, arthotel with rooms created by artists… The threshold welcomes us with kitsch golden cats, straight from China, lamps made of tubes bought for a song, draped into a designer object of desire, a black piano in the corner, crystal chandelier over the bar interspersed with origami figures; a little altar paved with arabesque tiles takes us to Alhambra. A blend - or mélange if you wish: the multicoloured and unusual personalities of the owners are manifested on every step. Children love this place, as by coming here they enter the Wonderland in quest of colourful treasures and sounds of hidden musical boxes.
The kitchen serves creative dishes, concocted to order from high-quality products. We especially recommend the goat cheese salad, lalala-made ice cream, hot chocolate cake with chilli - a fantastic aphrodisiac, and our one of a kind home-made burger with brie for carnivores.
Lalala means also an exceptional vision of sit downs and spontaneous/unpredictable actions, such as jam sessions out of the blue, exhibitions, dancing parties or performances. Here you will not be exposed to clubbing pushing-and-shoving, never-ending queues to the loo, nor loud beat. Instead, you may unexpectedly discover alternative works of art or take part in a merry street action, practice yoga in Hopla, participate in "Sporty Sunday", togs' day (i.e. duds exchange) or wine tasting. In summer the patio smells sweet with herbs, a hammock is hung, talks resound and there is much fun and laughter. A cat nuzzles and Asia’s mare comes to art exhibitions. Everything for gourmands, fondlings, hedonists and experts in beautiful time-wasting. A rich mixture of forms.
Lalala Arthotel
7 rooms, 7 stories, 7 tastes going frisky on the eye, 7 spick-and-span artistic concepts, a conspiracy of free minds and imaginations, a wonderful alternative, hotel-nonhotel - no doubts an arthotel, Mecca of impression collectors, and for dessert - a Moresque apartment a la Zastrozna, i.e. a designer Bakhchisaray in foamy, marine Sopot… Welcome to the eclectic flea market of bliss of seven faces. Artistic souls often carouse here, rooms are packed with people, conversations and lights, cats come and go. The bar smells of coffee, cake and good wine, children pop in for dumplings and ice cream, good cheeses melt on the tip of your tongue and in summer an idle guest rocks in the hammock. Each room is a different novel, different world.
LALALA web
Gallery Pauza, Kraków , Poland
Carefully hidden at the first floor, it is an ideal place to spend time with friends and meetings - but find it is in itself a reward. Pause is located on the first floor of the nineteenth century style building at ul. Florianska 18, in Krakow. Three rooms, of which 2 are regularly presented exhibitions of photography, can even accommodate 300 people. Usually, if someone has already reached here, is. Subtle lighting, minimalist interior design, excellent music and regular exhibitions of photography. That's all together creates a combination that makes you pause is one of the best places in Krakow. Because Is not a nice variety - relax on the floor in the city of Basements? |
Pauza website
Święta Krowa, Krakow, Poland
This is one of the most pubs on the map of Krakow premises. With its compact design provides specific odrealniony climate, which has contributed to their peculiar floating in the air, the smell of incense. Indian, exotic decor premises and the ability to seat on the soft cushions or small pufach causes at the outset feels like another world ... Here you hear what most in modern music that is played live or on CD. Makes the whole Holy Cow object worthy of absolute worship poszukiwaczy something original and another in Krakow ...
Alchemia, Krakow, Poland
Alchemia has become something of a flagship in the gritty club world of Kazimierz. Packed to the rafters almost every evening, this place is more than just a pub/club - it has become a genuine place of meeting and partying for the Kazimierz crowd. Overflowing into several rooms, Alchemia is strikingly decorated with old paintings and furniture, but utterly without pretence. Popular with artists, most gallery openings throughout the district culminate in splendid bohemian madness at Alchemia - where dancing on the tables in the early hours in a fog of smoke, surrounded by countless burning candles seems simply the most natural thing in the world. Unmissable.
Alchemia website
niedziela, 14 grudnia 2008
Piotr Naliwajko
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Painting Leszek Bartkiewicz - a balance of opposites
Leszek Bartkiewicz jest twórcą, którego malarstwo wyraźnie wyróżnia się w malarskim środowisku Łodzi. Nie podąża za modnymi kierunkami, nurtami, konsekwentnie realizuje własną wizję sztuki.web
Hieronim Bosch
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 Hieronymus Bosch, Śmierć skąpca, olej, deska, wym. 92,6 x 30,8 cm, National Gallery of Art Samuel H. Kress Collection, Washington
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środa, 10 grudnia 2008
Rodchenko
Russian avant-gardist Alexander Rodchenko gained an international reputation as a pioneering photographer, painter, sculptor and graphic artist in the years after the Russian revolution. He was a member of INHUK (Institute of Artistic Culture) group of constructivists and a member of the “October Group “.
Even if you have never heard the name Alexander Rodchenko, you may well know that his 1924 image of Osip Brik, the husband of Lili Brik, who was the lover of the poet Mayakovsky. Osip Brik was the co-founder of LEF - a magazine whose acronym stands for Levy Front Isskustva, the Leftist Front for the Arts. Rodchenko’s iconic image shows these three Cyrillic letters in one lens of Brik’s spectacles. . Look some of his photos below.
Morning Gymnastics on the roof of a students’ hostel in Lefortovo, 1932
Degraus/Stairs - 1930
Torre Shukhov/Shukhov Tower - 1929
Edifício Mosselprom/Mosselprom Building - 1926
Olhando o desfile/gathering for the demonstration - 1928-32
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