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The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord It was the [South African] black majority that achieved political liberation in 1994. But whites experienced their own form of liberation. Their liberation was in the arts. Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. After apartheid fell, white artists were free to explore a wider range of personas. The comic artist Anton Kannemeyer depicted Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. “People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level,” Ninja suggested. They’re drawn to the burst of creative energy released by transformation. “I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better.  Die Antwoord’s Latest: I Fink U Freeky

The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord

It was the [South African] black majority that achieved political liberation in 1994. But whites experienced their own form of liberation. Their liberation was in the arts.

Under white rule, Afrikaans art was heavily sponsored by the government and presented a rigid image of Afrikaners as upstanding Christians — a natural ruling class. After apartheid fell, white artists were free to explore a wider range of personas. The comic artist Anton Kannemeyer depicted Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans. In “District 9,” the filmmaker Neill Blomkamp portrayed an Afrikaner transforming into something else completely — an alien — and emerging with improved moral character. “People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level,” Ninja suggested. They’re drawn to the burst of creative energy released by transformation.

“I feel sorry for people who need to ask us: Is it real?” Ninja told me. Changing identities is the point — the more total, the better. 

Die Antwoord’s Latest: I Fink U Freeky

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ableparris: In Oliver Payne’s collages stickers of Japanese Bullet Hell Games are arranged on torn out pages of an ancient Greek sculpture catalogue. Payne transforms the violent imagery of these videogames into psychedelic explosions of color. Greek statues serve as a background and a reminder of the fantasy worlds produced in Japanese arcade games, which often picture rural Europe. Sounds of an arcade field recording give a notion of manic playfulness towards the exhibited works. (via KEIICHI TANAAMI / OLIVER PAYNE : Studiolo)

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In Oliver Payne’s collages stickers of Japanese Bullet Hell Games are arranged on torn out pages of an ancient Greek sculpture catalogue. Payne transforms the violent imagery of these videogames into psychedelic explosions of color. Greek statues serve as a background and a reminder of the fantasy worlds produced in Japanese arcade games, which often picture rural Europe. Sounds of an arcade field recording give a notion of manic playfulness towards the exhibited works.

(via KEIICHI TANAAMI / OLIVER PAYNE : Studiolo)

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bliptv: If you’re an art nerd and you don’t watch VernissageTV, you’re missing out. Here are some the Blip staff’s favorite episodes: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern, London Murakami at Versailles Banksy: Village Pet Store Robert Kusmirowski: DATAmatic 880 Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting

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If you’re an art nerd and you don’t watch VernissageTV, you’re missing out.

Here are some the Blip staff’s favorite episodes:

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It’s Disneycember and The Nostalgia Critic is devoting the month to reviewing nearly all of Walt Disney’s animated films. It’s only the 6th, and he’s already reviewed nine of them! 

Watch: 

Bonus: Nostalgia Chick reviews Disney’s classic short animated films

I haven’t even heard of some of these. I’ll seek them out. And I really dig the Nostalgia Chick episode. 

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Ana Voog, circa 2004-2007, from a post on my old blog, circa 2007. 

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ICY SOT, Tabriz, Iran

ICY SOT, Tabriz, Iran

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Cindy Sherman reveals how dressing up in character began as a kind of performance and evolved into her earliest photographic series such as “Bus Riders” (1976), “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-1980), and the untitled rear screen projections (1980).

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Photographer Julian Wolkenstein puts together a mirror image of the left and right half faces of different people. The result is a very different person.

This is a series of photographic portraits completed in 2010. The subjects were specifically cast for their individual facial features. They were photographed front to camera and in the same position. They were asked not to express emotions or character.

This initial study focusing on facial symmetry, is part of a larger piece revolving around facial features, facial proportions and facial symmetry.

-Wolkenstein
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Ana Voog - 1997/1998 - Art, Performance, Personality, Community, Chance.

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by Tetsuya Ishida

by Tetsuya Ishida

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8 Ton Volkswagon Beetle Sculpture Joins 400 Other Objects in an Artificial Reef in Mexico

8 Ton Volkswagon Beetle Sculpture Joins 400 Other Objects in an Artificial Reef in Mexico

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kenyatta: The surrealist painter who forged his own work There are two copies of René Magritte’s The Flavour of Tears. One is the original. One is a forgery. René Magritte created both. When René Magritte painted The Flavour of Tears, he had survived the Second World War in German-occupied Belgium, but was unknown and broke. He had just come to the end of what is called his Renoir period, which lasted from 1943-1947. The art world had been unaware of the existence of both pictures because one had been shipped to the United States while the other remained in Europe. Experts are now certain that the paintings are both Magritte originals, and believe he faked his own work to raise cash.

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The surrealist painter who forged his own work

There are two copies of René Magritte’s The Flavour of Tears. One is the original. One is a forgery. René Magritte created both.

When René Magritte painted The Flavour of Tears, he had survived the Second World War in German-occupied Belgium, but was unknown and broke. He had just come to the end of what is called his Renoir period, which lasted from 1943-1947.

The art world had been unaware of the existence of both pictures because one had been shipped to the United States while the other remained in Europe.

Experts are now certain that the paintings are both Magritte originals, and believe he faked his own work to raise cash.

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