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Metro Area - Metro Area

This record is the most refreshing, charming and down right electro-funking to have graced my turntable in a while. The Metro Area sound embodies the current climate of cool that the electro-clash scene has managed to generate around itself, without the makeup and obvious electronic motifs of the eighties. This is house music at its most experimental; the sound of Philadelphia, disco, R&B and electronica has been rolled with precision. Although minimal this record is deceptively detailed with nuances in the production that require repeated listens. Realplayer listen to 'Dance Reaction' and 'Soft Hoop'... then buy their album...

The Discovery of Heaven

This exhibition guides the viewer through the different stages of painting clouds and skies… starting in the baroque where paintings usually depicted massive clouds where the gods and kings would sit on. Then in the late 18th century the Dutch started to paint their landscapes with clouds and skies dominating up to 3/4 of the canvas… never though was the depiction of the clouds accurate. However, this was an age of great interest in natural phenomena, and at the very time many painters were on the observation and on their backs gazing into the heavens, scientists were also making their observations. Artists such as Johan Wolfgang von Goethe would react in their art to new scientific discoveries and findings. In France, Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first classification of clouds in 1801, but it was nearer to hand in east London that the Quaker factory owner Luke Howard took time from chemical manufacture to make the detailed daily studies. Larmarck's sank without trace, but Howard's 'cumulus', 'stratus' and 'cirrus' presented in his 1802 paper 'On the Modification of Clouds' form the basis of our current system of classification. In Britain John Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and John Constable (1776-1837) both in particular paid close attention to the weather and clouds in their works. The exhibition takes you right into expressionism with Emil Nolde and his cloud paintings. The Buccerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg is definitely worth a visit for anyone...

No scratch no art?

No scratch no Art? This is not the case in Hamburg's st. pauli artstore... this artist collective is producing cheap art for sale.... must admit that some are rubbish pieces but go through the gallery yourself and you'll find that some of the pieces are not too bad and good value for money.

TAXALI

Blek

Stenciling on camera. And more street art at Eltono.

wooster collective

COLLECTIVE \Col*lect"ive\: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a joint identity"; "the collective mind"; members of a cooperative enterprise
WOOSTER: a street in Soho, New York

Graffiti Weblog. Nice.

My Dark Horse Is Horny

I have no idea what is going on here and I'm not sure I want to. Link via Popbitch, a weekly email newsletter of dubious aspersions, otters, masturbation, celebrity gossip and plastic surgery. You have been warned.

bigactive.com

Jody Barton's illustration portfolio at bigactive.com. Neat Tshirts too.

potty talk

This somehow reminds me of vice magazine. You should know about the dos and don'ts.

stickernation.net

Stickers in the wild. Stickers you can download and print out yourself. There's stickers from all over the world, including Singapore.