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De 16 Julho a 30 Agosto Desenhos e Pinturas de Carlos Quitério, Centro Cultural e de congressos, Caldas da Rainha – Portugal- (English translation bellow)

Drawings and Paintings by Carlos Quiterio
Exhibition @ CCC Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. July 16th to August 30th 2009.

Paredes de Cor by kodap (Carlos Quitério) on Flickr.

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Flickr finally allows to upload and share video! A great reason for you to register this great tool and social network for sharing images and… video!

Video on Flickr! « Flickr Blog
Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and “soon” is now. We’re thrilled to introduce video on Flickr. If you’re a pro member, you can now share videos up to 90 glorious seconds in your photostream.

Vintage Logos – a photo-set on Flickr to inspire, specially graphic designers. bookmark!

My good friend Adriana has put up an interview with Eduardo Recife, also a good friend and a great artist / illustrator from Brasil. Worth a read!

Dear friends and visitors, sorry for the shameless self post, but I’m kinda stuck with nothing to do but silly drawings and browsing around on the web… and I’m looking for freelance visual work for advertising, editorial, products fashion… and I can also sell you some nice drawings and collages! How about some webdesign or graphic design? Please let me know if you need any services estimate or artworks. Email carlos()kodap.com, Thanks!

Flickr: The mid-century illustrated Pool.
Loads of inspiring images from the mid-century XX. browse browse browse… get lost here!

Graphic designer Saul bass’s classic kids book – Henri’s walk to paris. c 1962 published by Young Scott books.

Fertig by Sol Yurick. 1967. Cover by Harry Bennett.

Spread from “Kangaroo For Christmas”, Harcourt Press, 1962.
Written and illustrated by James Flora.

Fighters 1939-45
Attack and Training Aircraft by Kenneth Munson, Illustrated by John W. Wood, Norman Dinnage, Frank Friend, Brian Hiley, William Hobson, Tony Mitchell, Jack Pelling. ©1969 Blanford Press ltd.

I suggest some animations for this weekend! have fun!

This movie, Madame Tutli-Putli, will definitely collect a lot of awards and prizes in the future… According to NFB, this 17′ minute movie has been 5 years in the making, so judging to the trailer, I can’t wait to see it. Via Drawn.

Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.

She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.

The National Film Board of Canada presents a stunning, stop-motion animated film that takes the viewer on an exhilarating existential journey. The film introduces groundbreaking visual techniques and is supported by a haunting and original score. Painstaking care and craftsmanship in form and detail bring to life a fully imagined, tactile world unlike any you have seen.

Jungian thriller? Hitchcockian suspense? Artistic tour de force? The night train awaits you.

A few weeks ago, I was surprised while visiting my local news stand, to look at the price of a PRINT MAG, it was about 40€!! no lie! No I wonder where retailers and distributors get such percentage.
Today I was reading the regular newsletter from amazon, they are now offering a 6 issue subscription for only $37. I can save ± 80% if ordering through amazon. This is not easy advertising, a serious recommendation! Click the image to access the promotion (time limited).

Some new works on My FOLIO VISIT KODAP.COM

Memo board. 47cm X 37 cm – 16 hrs of work here… erhg..
Esquecer, Não esquecer by kdoap on Flickr.

I just Ordered this new and fantastic book that James Jean has recently edited. Click Image for more!

Process Recess 2: Portfolio showcases the illustrative work of Eisner and Harvey award winner James Jean. Each image will be printed in a grand 15″ x 11″ format that is suitable for framing. The book will also include editorial and annotated pages that give an insight into the working methods of Mr. Jean.

Yuxt is the ultimate and easiest way to bookmark, tag and organize your youtube.com and other video-community sites. Just register (very simple), drag a link to your browser tool bar and you’re done. simple and effective “theater view”. Try it.

The future of the internet radio is threatened, radios like pandora.com, or any other streaming service broadcasting is in danger due to a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC, something that can affect negatively our daily life and many broadcasters, radio stations and radio dj’s that bring us new artists and joy every day.

Act NoW!

Hi, it’s Tim from Pandora,

I’m writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora. The new royalty rates are irrationally high, more than four times what satellite radio pays and broadcast radio doesn’t pay these at all. Left unchanged, these new royalties will kill every Internet radio site, including Pandora.

In response to these new and unfair fees, we have formed the SaveNetRadio Coalition, a group that includes listeners, artists, labels and webcasters. I hope that you will consider joining us.

Please sign our petition urging your Congressional representative to act to save Internet radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/alert/?alertid=9631541

Please feel free to forward this link/email to your friends – the more petitioners we can get, the better.

Understand that we are fully supportive of paying royalties to the artists whose music we play, and have done so since our inception. As a former touring musician myself, I’m no stranger to the challenges facing working musicians. The issue we have with the recent ruling is that it puts the cost of streaming far out of the range of ANY webcaster’s business potential.

I hope you’ll take just a few minutes to sign our petition – it WILL make a difference. As a young industry, we do not have the lobbying power of the RIAA. You, our listeners, are by far our biggest and most influential allies.

As always, and now more than ever, thank you for your support.

-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)

This was in due to be posted at Fitacola for a long time, I’m always visiting to witness all that every single photo of hers has to amaze.

Sensitive, sexy, poetic, a bucolic poetry to my eyes. Tethereto’s photos are almost always described by her on a way every artistic photos should be. with poetry and imagination. This is a world to dive into and fall in love.

Hey you! Come unto me! Let the meadow march into my mouth!
I’m due for a moist trembling emotion, don’t you think? Well, don’t you?

– spencer reece

a different digestion
"Hours clot. Birds flap like passports. Fields explode with temper tantrums. Here comes trouble." by tetheredto on Flickr.

A Collection of Newspaper Masthead Clip Art on Flickr.

This is an outstanding collection of Cultural-Revolution era imagery and propaganda, made available with thanks to Webster University (for use of their scanning station) and Flickr.

So little time since we started together… We are now working hard to make our first exhibition happen! Next Saturday, March 10, our exhibition presenting small Collages in shape and form of Polaroids, plus a lot of Extras! – Opening is at 22:00, I’ll spin the records and there will be some nice drinks and snacks for you to enjoy!

Vanity Land, Lg Dr. Jose Barbosa, n. 20 Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Exact Location Via Google Map

Here’s a sneak of the ‘making of’.

Some (bad) photos of the Opening

Mouneer Al-Shaarani’s works are surely an inspiring source for graphic designers and typography lovers.

Click thumbanils to browse some of his magnificent works:

Mouneer Al-Shaarani’s arabic lettering experince is different and he is unlike many calligraphers who present and repeat traditional calligraphy in an upgraded from Al Shaarani’s research focuses upon introducing innovative works that respond to modern aesthetic requirments and, at the same time, keep intouch with, and form an extension of our calligraphic heritage. Al Shaarani has not taken our tradition as untochable sacred heritage. nor as an integrated on ewith no room to add or omit. He shapes his work according to graphic requirment of latest formations. Al Shaarani strictly adheres to the spirit of calligraphy in his omissions and additions.
He trends to transform arabic calligraphy into modern piece of art that is liberalised from old sanctities, he refrains from using stretched statments o rekiance on others, which remind us of the old days of laziness and depression, rather, he selects statments that convey meaningful messages and stimulating potentials and innovations. To consolidate his penetration of traditional sanctities, he resorts to using various colors with the intention of emphasising his departure from the closed circle of earlier artists.

Yousef Abdelki, Artist

Arte Contemporaneo – ARCO – 26th Contemporary Art Fair Guest Country: Korea

Madrid, 15th-19th February 2007
Arte Contemporaneo – ARCO

All the info needed for the fair is here. (pdf)

After commemorating its 25th anniversary in February 2006, the International Contemporary Art Fair of Madrid, ARCO, has consolidated its position as one of the world�s leading events for contemporary visual arts. Its international prestige, together with Madrid�s cultural appeal, turn the fair into an annual focus of attention for galleries, artists, art critics, curators, museum managers, experts and art experts worldwide. A large market platform with a repercussion borne out by the many sales it generates, as well as other figures registered: 200,000 visitors, 3000 accredited journalists, and over 4000 press clippings.

In 2007, ARCO begins a new phase, with a project combining continuity with the necessary innovation to face the demands of the contemporary art scene. A project inheriting an excellent reputation, and an enviable starting point from which to take on the new challenges opposed by the art market, and to responds to issues like the growth of collecting in Spain, the consolidation of ARCO as a marketplace, and the increasing competitiveness of international art fairs.

One of the leading figurative painters of his generation, Currin’s influences range from Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings to popular illustrations from the mid-20th century. Whether portraits of older women, buxom girls, nudes with elongated bodies, or group scenes of domestic life, his works are characterized by baroque gestures, loose brush strokes, unorthodox palettes, and detailed backgrounds that startle the viewer into a reconsideration of the tradition of painting. His “old master” techniques and individual style have earned him accolades from critics and collectors worldwide.
Reference: Amazon Editorial Review

What really makes Currin’s work interesting�and hard to dismiss�is the compelling weirdness of his imagery. He draws on an eclectic range of sources, both high and low, from ’60s girlie magazines like Modern Man to Tiepolo, Cranach, and Courbet. If you know your art history, it’s a lot of fun to parse the references. In his review of the Whitney show, for example, Kimmelman points out that while Nude on a Table immediately brings to mind Mantegna’s famous Dead Christ, the actual source is a more obscure painting of the same subject by Annibale Carracci. This art-historical guessing game may not add up to much in the end, but as Schjeldahl says in his review, “It is pleasant to know things.”
Reference: Mia Felman, in Slate

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More from John Currin at amazon

Joseph of Bookdesignreview (Nytimesbooks.blogspot.com) shares his favorite cover designs from 2006.

As Last year’s (2005) the 5 star’s Kanye West, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A., amongst other good ones were allover chosen to be the albums of the year, most likely if not in the first place, surely on the top 20’s of 2005 best, 2006 was, however in my point of view, a poor year in terms of quality, but the least ones chosen, are the proof that the artists and bands have still a lot to give and amaze in all genres and fusions, like the new born stars in the mainstream : Artic Monkeys, CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), The Knife, Tv on the Radio, etc, as well as the established ones like Tom Yorke of Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Beck, Red Hot Chili Peppers… Not to mention a lot more.

So, just for curiosity… I have been crawling, navigating and exploring around through many music websites, blogs, newspapers, etc, to witness which albums were voted the best of 2006… My conclusion: a diverse and wide range of choices, still there were some listed in all (or most of all) tops. I haven’t heard some of these in full to fulfill my joys or to share a concrete and conscious opinion, so I can’t list and share my concrete critical opinion but just a personal taste + statistics to make my humble top 10 alive without any criticism or hype associated… and with no special order.

Here they go:

• The Knife
  Silent Shout (Mute U.S.)
  
• Hot Chip
  The Warning (Astralwerks)
  
• CSS
  CSS (Sub Pop)
  
• Tv On The Radio
  Return to Cookie Mountain (4AD)
  
• Beck
  Information (Interscope/Universal)
  
  
• Thom Yorke
  The Eraser (XL)
  
  
• Gnarls Barkley
  St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
  
  
• Spank rock
  YoYoYoYoYo (Big Dada)
  
  
• DFA
  The DFA remixes (1 & 2) (DFA / Emi)
  
  
• Lady Sovereign
  Public Warning (Def Jam)
  
  

A Curious book illustrating 36 popular scam emails from Africa.

(Get it at Amazon)

German illustrator, Henning Wagenbreth, illustrates 36 scam emails from Africa .. not only are the illustrations amazing .. the emails are hilarious. I highly recommend this book!

- Nate Williams, in Illustrationmundo.com
illustrated by Henning Wagenbreth
Published by Gingko Press