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sommer surf, youtube stars 13. June 2009 – 23:20

Semester is finally over and my head is cooling down while browsing around in the infowaves and all I find is lots of stuff I wish I had remembered to share when term was in full bloom. Anyway, have a nice summer, here is Lasse Gjertsen, Norway’s very own Youtube star (.. see Other films by lassegg)

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Paulette Philips 13. June 2009 – 18:03

Not only to vitalise a bit this forum, but also to post a link to Trine about an artist I think she might (and might not! like; Paulette Philiips. I guess the poetics of the floating house being based on research of the old murder made me think of Trines lonely house.

http://www.daniellearnaud.com/artists/artists-phillips.html

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For real? 6. May 2009 – 0:50

Although it IS good to see you guys in real time every once in a while.
Congratulations, Knud; go Niklas!

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OBL 12. April 2009 – 0:20

OBL

OBL

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Roberta Smith 12. April 2009 – 0:08

One sunny afternoon, New York Times Senior Art Critic Roberta Smith paid a visit to the home of Rail Consulting Editor, Irving Sandler, to talk about her life and work.

 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/04/art/…

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Cool things you can.. 20. March 2009 – 12:43

..only do at an art academy that does not have a fire alarm system that goes off when you solder an LED. The “Handsome Boy Printing Club” (Samuel Seger and Patrick Wagner) in full effect.

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creative genius 6. March 2009 – 0:04

a little “arm-rubber” for all of you, to take some of the pressure:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/453

(how do I put the video on the page here -and not only with a link??)

(This has nothing to do with what I just wrote -but I can hear owls outside! -strange..)

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det forlatte hus 4. March 2009 – 23:41

her er lidt dokumetation fra min udstilling i østre skostrede 5 der stod hele sidste weekend.

jeg er meget træt, men glad!

det er sgu hårdt at være kunstner!

 

 

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ARTSPA 4. March 2009 – 10:33

Intense days for local Ballroomers, I bet for everybody else as well.

At least I know Knud and Niklas are working really hard on their examns, Trine recovering from her great exhibition last weekend, Ånond working as a madman to finish his wooden pipe-organ jukebox for his opening on friday, a pneumatic manual recordplayer performing a selection of starmaps and other astronomical projections. Simon is writing his exchange applications and Anja is presenting her project in the MA1 seminar tomorrow, and even being intervjued by Dagbladet.

A great time for a Groupmeeting!? Yes. No. We could have hot choclate and rub eachothers right arms and blow some cool air on the hot brains.

Lets meet - those of us who are still walking - on saturday for a break - enjoy the sounds from the stars and have a cup of something hot.

SATURDAY At 12 O clock - at Galleri Fisk - in the Exhibition “Kosmos Wurlitzer”!

Afterwards those who want can go to the Bergen ARTMuseum and see Paul Klee and to HKS if you havent allready seen the MAweekend exhibition by Chloe and Andrew. Those with stress can run back to their work.

And, Good Luck everybody! Its fantastic work!

I stole this from KHIB web presuming Ånond is too busy:

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The joys of being an international student 14. February 2009 – 15:47

Dearest Ballroomers,
looks like I’ll be back by the beginning of the next winter semester in Bergen - my Academy had the grace to not transfer a single credit of ones I made in Bergen and Bucharest - thus failing me for this year. Makes you wonder how your Academy and professors manage to recommend you for various sholarships as one of the Academy’s most profilic and hardworking students, and at the same time fail you.
But anyway, since the Ballroom is sort of my second home anyway, I will apply to make my final year (again, but this time) in Bergen.

I’ll keep you updated.
In other news, Ivan has an interesting project in the Quarantine Gallery, and Ivan and me will do a show in Galway, Dublin this April. Will keep you updated on that as well.

Sometime last autumn

Sometime last autumn

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More Real Than Real 8. February 2009 – 16:34

A friend of mine sent me an sms the other day with this link http://www.holylandexperience.com (check out video).

I might be wrong, but isn´t this a fine example of hyperreality? Of an authentic fake? Hyperreality refers to a simulation of something which never really existed, or an image that is more real than the thing it’s supposed to represent. Since you are aware that theme parks are fake, they become more real than the world surrounding them.

I found this somewhere:

Boorstin cautions against confusing celebrity worship with hero worship, which is bad because “we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but who are famous because they are great”. He bemoans the loss of old heroes like Moses, Ulysses, Aenas, Jesus, Caesar, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Shakespeare, Washington, Napoleon, and Lincoln who didn’t have press agents to help construct a hyperreal image of themselves.

I guess, today, at least one of them has.

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Leningrad present and past 29. January 2009 – 17:20

Found some cool pictures that I want to share with you all. Photoshoped pictures of Leningrad during the second world war combined with photos of present Leningrad. It’s like seeing Ghosts!

To see more click one of the images or go to http://fima-psuchopadt.livejournal.com/2564781.html

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