i really love these pieces by a dutch artist who i’d never heard of before: kuno grommer, he is trained as a photgrapher but now makes these beautiful ‘trompe l’oeuil’ installations
some of them almost look like spatial typography to me (link via ‘nalden’)
last friday we had a shoot for the ‘amsterdam music theater’ jubilee campaign with photographer ‘jaap van den beukel’ in and around the building itself, the weather was merciful when we needed it to be and the images involved a young boy scout, a gospel singer, an opera diva, an orchestra conductor, various ballet dancers and irish/african/balkan dancers too, amazingly we finished even earler than planned, more news soon…
the current dutch government is certainly not one of a calibre that i would expect to be sympathetic to the arguments which the arts sector is giving in reaction to the draconian measures being put into to place to cut back funding, but at the same time doing nothing isn’t an option… the dance sector takes a silent bow, a large group marched from rotterdam to the hague last night, there are many petitions against arts cuts circulating and the mediamatic infographic is now also a poster campaign, enjoy the creativity while it lasts… welcome to the dark ages
…the video is about as perfect a visual accompaniment as there could possibly be for the song, there’s lots of ominous-looking machinery destroying shit in the rain in stark black and white, as you’ll see when you watch it…
well that is one way of putting it… i was just going to say, have a look it’s pretty good (link via ‘uwe’)