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Subdue yer noise, you humble creature!

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Cuban Haze

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JESUS2000 from jesus 2000 on Vimeo.

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Agi's beautiful girls.

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Veneam cu bici' de departe, la o viteza mica, fara casti. Trec pe langa un copac de care statea lipita in picioare, cu spatele o fata frumoasa care avea pe fata o mutra in pain. Ma uit in dreapta, pe banca era un mos la vreo 70 de ani care o sorbea urat din priviri. Opresc bicicleta, ma intorc 2 metri, parchez langa el, snappui usor din degete si ii cer un foc. Pana sa scoata focul din traista fata se uita la mine si imi multumeste cu niste ochi mari albastri, i needed that. Pana sa aprind si sa ma uit din nou la copac, fata disparuse. Vede si mosul si il iau ametelile: ). Ma tirez mai departe. La semafor ma ia un fel de bucurie trimisa de undeva.

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via mickey mouse

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Decebal, 13 ani, Brasov: "Daca ieri am fost Hitler, sa-l vezi pe Lynch."

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Let Me Kiss You

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Look!

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Sen Q.

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From Romania With LOVE

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La Radio Inferno, direct din Iad, Dante si Virgil aterizara la fix 7 p.m.. Orasul durerii eterne fu inghitit de ghitarile clovnului inghetat si atarnat sub calcaiul unei vaci nebune cu gripa porcina. Confesiunile reginei-mama in locul bondarului trimis la Zdup de Intermezzo. Super-fat? Who wants to be a pro-fat? In varful piramidei lui Maslow, infipte cu sus-n jos intr-un tort de plasma cu gust de gelatina, dormea beata o meduza neagra. Da, aia.
Natura Fortuna facea parte din Coorporatia Pietrelor care se rostogolesc si nicicum nu ii trecu prin minte ca ar fi putut sa se dea jos de pe Rotita scartaitoare la crepuscul doar.
Iadul lui Dante era de-acum inundat de pietre cu limbi atarnate dupa scopul comun, dictat de Mama CorpPorc. Se rostogoleau odata cu valul-corect cu pretul-corect al Piramidei cu susu-n jos. Nostradamus nu mai era doamna lor, iar razboiul se tinea la usile dreptei de aur, iar pestisorul nu avea sa se mai intoarca la lumina.
Simfonia lui Dan Black, cantata-n toate limbile Pamantului, la unison, falsetto, -n allegro, forte fu binecuvantata de Papa-Rapapa, asa cum se zice la Bucuresti.
Tu Da & HavaNaghila scoase din palaria iepurelui fara mustati, maini, picioare sau coada s-au inmultit si inghitit intre ele. Ne invadeaza evreii ascunsi in manusi. Haide, Lucifer, nu muri in noduri! Poporul de urmeaza. Pietroiul R.I.P. macina la 4 dimineata oasele celor care aveau sa fie tras pe nas in memoria lui James Brown. Raul sangeriu radea si carnea de pe Os. Stai frumos, nu merge la scoala.
Sufletul terorii statea ascuns printre boscheti si avea atasate la purtator 6 biberoane cu fum si foc. Tine-ma de mana ca am cu ce sa sting. Curajul sterge pata-pata-pata-pon!
In cercul protector infipt la baza Piramidei din praf si aur se ridica la numaratoarea inversa soptita de Luna. N-una. Luna se amuza asa: scuipa odata pe luna pana Iad. Asa se facea o clipa de pace mai buna decat cea a Vaticanului, Bidibaba-Bidibuba fiind mai puternic decat Tatal Nostru. Era mai tanar.
Stiu un tip care confectioneaza cravate si apa cu sare pentru lacrimi. Nu pot fi folosite in contra. Poate-o piatra de jad, daca nu-i prea grea. Cati de daca ar putea opri limbile din ceas? Corect, dar cui ii pasa.
Deja, Vulgar in ton cu Gura-satului se luara de mana catre Berea din Fantana Divina. N-aveau nicio vina, nici splina asa de fina incat sa scape din spirala proprie. Din cand in cand, liftul translucid mai functiona, dorinte tropicale pentru inimi mega-hertzi.ZzZ... Azi a murit Satana-n Rai. Andiamo!

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Turboweekend

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Sea Wolf

A gypsey woman spoke to me-mee-meee. 

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Goodies

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Monsters In My Head

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Romanian

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I Have Doubt

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Gr8!

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Injector designed by i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i: "puneai capete de chibrituri intr-o gaurica si apoi declansai cu un elastic un cui care le pocnea. ma rog, boy's stuff. cand il incarcai, scoteai cuiul care intra intr-o gaurica in injector si in gaurica puneai mai intai mucuri multe de chibrite. apoi bagai cuiul la loc care, fiind incovoiat, avea o pozitie in care nu ajungea pana la muc. doar daca apasai pe elastic, cuiul pica rapid in gaura aia si lovea cu putere mucurile sarmane si... POC!!"

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Zoologic

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Tasty and beautiful

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Beautiful Heaven and the Weird Tapes

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Jumpin' here, jumpin' there!

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One violet-turbanoed elder skater would make some cromatic difference in the kids' boiled in the sun area. Tennis like benched atmosphere would oppose the other group sheltered in the shadow of the Mighty Shire. German lil kid, Edy One Hat, would keep on smiling in and to the Sun who had a nephew that loved to call himself Karate Kid, the ultimate ninja hero on board. It all happened where the Tasmanian devils and mathematic formulae mingled in the sand.

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One tiny sea-horse got stuck in between the nets knit by the fisherman's wife. Her strong thin arms had the colour of coffee made in the sand. This old and wise couple of syamese twins that once had been connected by the hip used to laugh at the minute sand specks that hid in their belly-buttons, every evening, right after sunset.

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Bunny Holiday

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Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)
Fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon (1936)

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Mister Sinister

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http://www.myspace.com/fourtrackfrontier

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Scroll

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Alpha Beta Gugu Gaga porni la drum cu un fluier in traista spre Luna, Jupiter si Marte.

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The apprentice of the devil-in-chief was crying his sorrow out loud from the roof-top of a squat-house. Violins and trompets and celloes waiting to be ejected out of his diformed belly were once trees and mountains and mines, no longer his, but hers. Finding it hard to admit though. The roof standing on top of the silent house was waving hellos to one Hundertwasser naked drunken spirit who, accidentaly, happened to pass by that violent evening. The spirit, Doh, was smelling like cheap vodka, had a really small pecker and there was no Dr. Pepper in the house, nor fire in the water. He was, though, pretty much of a sporty one and loved to swim.

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Ray, man!

¨My mother told me I made my first man on paper when I was three¨, Man Ray wrote in his Self-portrait typed manuscript.

¨Man Ray - Unconcerned But Not Indifferent¨ exhibition presents drawings, photographs, paintings, sculptures, personal objects, and images from the Man Ray Trust collection founded by the artist´s wife, Juliet Browner in Long Island, New York. The exhibition at the Colecciones ICO in Madrid is comprised of nearly 300 items and it is the first one to place his art in relation to his personal objects such as the bowler hat and cane, or objects from his Rue de Ferou Studio in Paris.

Man Ray (Emanuel Rabinovitch, 1890-1976) was a photographer, a painter, a sculptor, and a Dadaist. The son of a small-time artist and photographer he started to be known by other artists around the end of the First World War, in the 20s. Man Ray had an important artistic relationship with Marcel Duchamp after meeting in 1915 in America. The two brought the School of Dada to New York and started to produce ¨ready-mades¨. Marcel Duchamp´s visit in the community of artists in Ridgefield, New Jersey, in 1915, started the beginning of a beautiful friendship between the two. One of the first objects on display at the Colecciones ICO is a blue heart signed ¨Man¨. The whole exhibition contains litographs, bronzes, gold pieces, rayographs, ready-mades, typed texts such as the ¨Self Portrait Manuscript¨.

He invented the rayograph, a new photographic technique or a photogram made by arraging objects on a sheet of light-sensitive paper in the darkroom and flashing a light on them. The results were often very beautiful. There was no intervening negative in the process and this made every original rayograph unique. Another process used in a creative manner, though not discovered by Ray, was solarization. This means that a print could be made in which part of the image is seen as positive and part as negative. He also enhanced or interfered with photos, as in his The Violin of Ingres, in which the rear view of a particularly voluptuous female nude, modelled on a painting by Ingres, has had the twin-f-shaped piercings of a violin added on either side of her spine.

¨The Man Ray - Unconcerned But Not Indifferent¨ exhibition displays ¨Le Violin d´Ingres¨ made in 1924 (1969), a litography. Some of the litographs the visitor can endulge with are: ¨La Logique Assasine¨ (1919), ¨Aerograph¨ (1918), ¨Revolving Doors¨ (1915), ¨L´impossible – Dancer-Danger-¨ (1920), ¨Le Rebus¨ (1938), ¨Adam & Even: Mithology with a Red Iron¨ (1966). The scultures to be seen are: ¨The Gift¨ (1921), a Dada sculpture or ¨Solitary¨ bronze (1972). Ray and Duchamp made films and continued to produce readymades: ¨Le fer rouge¨, ¨¨Phare de la Harpe¨. One of the films can be seen at Reina Sofia Los Cineticos exhibition until the 20th of August 2007.

Using the camera as a way of making art he was the first avantgarde figure to do so. Man Ray took up photography in a big way in Paris in 1921 when he became a society photographer. To make a living he worked as a professional photographer and collaborator for Harper´s Bazaar, Vogue, Vu and Vanity Fair. Some of the characters that posed for him were: Pablo Picasso, Rene Crevel, Tristan Tzara, Jaques Baron, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Bumpy (son of Ernest Hemingway), Ernest Hemingway, Igor Stravinski, Erik Satie, Dr. Alexander Alekhine (chess champion), Marthe Bibesco, Aga Khan and many many others. In the 30s, though, he dropped on photography and dedicated to paiting and other collaborations with different artists, ¨The Surrealists¨.

Man Ray was crazy about chess and he even designed chessboards. One that caught my attention was ¨Permanent Attraction¨ a huge chessboard with only three pieces: a big and tall one cornered by two other small ones. He is also the designer of ¨Magnetic Chessmen¨ project.

In 1945 Man Ray declared: ¨My work cannot be considered experimental. The pursuit of pleasure, my guiding motive, is not a science. Or, as I have previously stated, the desire not the necessity is the stimulant. [...] The experiment is with the spectator in his willingness to accept what his eye conveys to him¨.

The exhibition is the result of Juliet´s love for Man Ray. An ex-model, the last wife of the artist, she founded the Man Ray Trust to preserve the work of Man Ray, to promote world-wide understanding and appreciation of Man Ray´s work and to support Juliet´s efforts in keeping her husband´s talent alive.

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Rosangela Renno – The Memories Digger

Rosangela Renno´s exhibition can be visited at the La Fabrica Gallery in Madrid between the 7th of June and the 14th of July 2007 from Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 16:30 to 20:00.

The exhibiton was organized on two floors and at the first floor the viewer can see two works from the 2005 Apagamentos series, based on archive images of authentic criminal investigations, selected, combined, and then mounted in slide frames. In the basement of the gallery there were seven works belonging to the artist´s most recent series, A Ultima Foto produced in 2006. Fot this project she invited a group of photographers to take different pictures of the Christ the Redemeer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The guests used old cameras from the early 20th century, all part of the artist´s 15 years attempt of collecting them. I found it a very interesting idea for a little get-together.

Her project is homage to the death of the analogic photography in a digital era. All the images that can be seen at the La Fabrica Gallery in Madrid show people in the Christ the Redemeer statue in Rio de Janeiro position. They all have in common this particular detail, whether they were shot analogical or digital, on 35mm reflex film, with German, Russian, and Japanese old cameras.

Rosangela Renno used archive photographs and family albums, anonymous images in themselves, destined to fall into oblivion and abandon. In this manner she managed to focus on the cultural use of the image. Instead of producing images, she preferred to rearrange images usually bought from second-hand shops.

These are not photographs that are normally seen as art. Many of the art critics will give them a small artistic value, but the final result is indeed on a great from the artistic point of view. In the process of selection, retouching and exhibiting, the artist demonstrates how images depend on complex techniques of interpretation and elaborate ideas and stories about the way we view them, rather than on their historical significance.

As designer Rodrigo Alonso said, ¨Renno´s photographs are fragile yet strong at the same time¨.

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Mother Africa in Abuse

Sebastiao Salgado took his first photographs in Rwanda in 1971 when he was working as an economist for the International Coffee Organization. Two years later he became a freelance photojournalist. His strog compositions speak of sensitive subjects such as the life of workers in Brazil, the homeless, and the downtrodden.

Sebastiao Salgado photographed the African continent since the very biginning of his career. His first reportage, made in the 70s was on Nigeria. He then covered the independence wars in Angola, Mozambique and the Spanish Sahara and photographed various catastrophes that have opressed Africans: the drought in Ethiopia, Sudan and Chad or the guerilla warfare in Rwanda.

Sebastiao Salgado is the famous Brasilian photographer who captured on film the territory known as Southern Africa for 30 years. The exhibition at the BBVA hall in Madrid pays tribute to the third world. ¨The Africa revealed here is an example of hope won by force of arms, the troubled birth of an age emerging from the womb of time. The overthrow of apartheid, the collapse of the colonial regimes, the victorious guerilla war, the promise of a new start: that is what Sebastiao Salgado´s lens has captured, revealling that after the mourning comes the struggle¨. (Mia Couto, witness from Mozambique).

The exhibition at the BBVA hall is organized in three parts: Southern Africa, Great Lakes and Sahel. The collection of photographs consists of 56 images in a big format, black and white and it gives an idea of the artist´s activity over a period of 30 years.

The exhibition shows images of child soldiers in Angola, religious ceremonies of exorcization, Mozambiquan refugees, landmine victims, orphans, desert elephants, sand dunes, baboons in the dunes alongside the Kunene River, trees, altitude forests, volcanoes, a mountain gorilla in Uganda, exhausted Rwandan refugees in Zair, tea picking, cild workers, orphans awaiting for food distribution along the train tracks in Zair in 1997, malnourished and dehydrated woman in Mali, and nomands crossing the desert. The world caught on film by Sebastiao Salgado is cruel: boys fleeing from Southern Sudan to avoid being forced to fight in the civil war, heading for the refugee camps of Northern Kenya in 1993, the polio vaccination, the leprosy in Chad in 1985, or fishing in the marshes of Gel Canal.

The African continent revealed by Sebastiao Salgado is made of war, violence, poverty, cataclysms, and tradition. The ending photograph of the exhibition is the portrait of a Ger villager inside a traditional Dinka House. Dinka are representative cattle for Southern Sudan. Visible on the wall is the carved representation of cattle horns. This picture was shot in 2006.

One of the opening pictures is showing the Frelino troops welcomed by the population of Laurenco Marques, now Maputo, at the airport, coming from Tanzania. This is a witness image taken in Mozambique in 1974. There is happyness and hope, there are shy but sincere laughters. The soldier greeting the crowd has been captured on film with a black hand on his casket – the unseen hand that protected him, he is alive, the people are thankful, a perfect catch!

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Fontcuberta´s Googlegramas

Artist and photography filosopher, Fontcuberta, is in Madrid with several exhibitions but the one you can see at the My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery is called Googlegramas.

Googlegramas are a series of conceptual photo-mosaics confronting images with words. To create this mosaic, the software connected to the Google search engine locates all the images available on the Internet associated to the keyword chosen by the operator. The system makes the setting up of various types of relation easy (causal, poetic, political, random etc.) between the model-image, the keyword, and the localized images.

The photo-mosaic software is a digital illustration technique that has been used in design and adverstising since the mid 90s. A photo-mosaic is a graphic resource with which a model-image is reconstituted by means of a reticular structure of several minicell-images. From a certain distance the viewer can recognize the original model, but a closer look will let the observer appreciate the content of the multiple images. This perceptive palimpsest is not quite an optical technique, but the sensation the viewer gets when gazing at the image may have the character of an optical technique.

Joan Fontcuberta´s Googlegramas try to question the Internet utopia raising issues of universality, democracy, and the free accesible memory of the world wide web. It is the ¨noosphere¨ dream preached by Teihard de Chardin (1881-1955) who was a French Jesuit priest trained as a paleontologist and a philosopher, and was present at the discovery of Peking Man. Teilhard conceived such ideas as the Omega Point and the Noosphere. Teilhard's primary book, The Phenomenon of Man, set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the Cosmos. He abandoned the traditional interpretations of creation in the Book of Genesis in favor of a less strict interpretation. This displeased certain officials at the Roman Curia, who thought that it undermined the doctrine of original sin developed by Saint Augustine. Teilhard's position was opposed to his church superiors, and the Roman Holy Office denied his work during his lifetime. Pope John XXIII rehabilitated him posthumously, and, since then, his works have been considered an important influence on contemporary church's stance on evolution.

The Googlegramas photographic exhibiton can be visited at the My Name´s Lolita Art Gallery in Madrid until the 24th of July and it is open to the public from Moday to Friday from 10:30 to 13:30 and drom 17:00 to 20:30.

Joan Fontcuberta is a very active Spanish artist who had solo exhibitons at the MoMa (New York, 1988), The Photographer´s Gallery (London, 1988), M.I.T. (Cambridge, 1988), IVAM (Valencia, 1992), MNAC (Barcelona, 1999), ARTIUM (Vitoria, 2003) or at the Cervantes Institute (Paris, 2005).

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Magic and Kinetic Art

Los Cineticos (The Kinetics) presented at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia between the 27th March and 20th August shows works created since the late 19th century up to works produced in 2006. Visitors can view paitings, objects, chronophotographs, calotypes, serigraphs, digital prints, and films that have in common the concept of movement. The exhibition also tends to revive the importance of Latin American artists in the kinetic school, by including prominent figures that have already achieved international recognition by the critics and by redescovering those who did not participate in the movement´s major exhibitions (Jesus Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Julio Le Parc.)

In the late 1950s and the 1960s in Paris, a group of artists brought together by gallery owner Denis Rene laid the essential foundations of kinetic art. From that particular moment in art history the kinetic factor began to be viewed as a movement that sought to understand plastic creation in several ways: by giving the viewer the optical illusion of a virtual movement that does not really exist, by causing spectators to move about in space in order to mentally organise their interpretation of one or more specific sequences, or by using motors to produce real movements of images.

Kinetic art is defined as creations that move or generate a sensation of mobility. To achieve this, kinetic artists use optical techniques – light and shadow plays, contrasts of sizes, textures and colors – or introduce physical motion by adding motors and electromagnets. Motion can be also achieved without mechanical energy, by using wind currents, changes in temperature, and other natural means.

Constructivism, Simultaneism, Futurism or the Madi group are some of the ¨movements¨ including artists such as: Naum Gabo, Laszlo Moholi-Nagy, Giacomo Balla, Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp (whose Anemic Cinema, 1925, travelled from the Centre Pompidou of Paris for this exhibition) or Salvador Dali (Madonna, 1958).

Light-bulbs, mirrors, motors, optical techniques, huge, and tiny pieces, the space can be compared to a fun-park of the good-taste and art. One who sees Jean Tinguely Demier’s Collaboration Avec Yves Klein (1988), a humongous installation that can be manually activated once in 5 minutes, will find it magic and fun. It is the same with Jesus Rafael Soto´s Penetrable (1982), the only instalation that can be touched in this exhibiton, or Yellow And White Extension (1979) belonging to the same artist. There is magic, there is this sense of amazement in the kinetic art. The optical techniques are simply hypnotizing. Victor Vasarely’s Bora II (1964), Bridget Riley’s Fall (1963) or Toni Costa’s with Dinamica Virtuale (1961) are just a few of the works that have the hypnotic attraction towards the visitor.

It is that kind of an exhibitions that can be visited and adorred by children. The interactive character of Soto´s instalation, the magnetism of the optical techniques, the explosion of color, metal and mirror reflections, magic black boxes with little surprises hidden inside, Alexander Calder´s Merry mixed technique are just a few of the emotions I can recall from Los Cineticos.

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The Moon and Munoz

Lucio Munoz and his friends can be visited at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre in Madrid. The Spanish artist (the 27th of December 1929- the 24th of May 1998), born in Madrid, is one the most representative artists of the post-war avantgarde in Spain. He is also one of the greatest proponents of Spanish informalism.

Lucio Munoz received the National Prize of Plastic Arts in 1983 and in 1989 the currators at the Reina Sofia Museum of Madrid set up an anthological exhibition of his work. He got kicked out of college but later studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando as the disciple of Eduardo Chicharro. After his academic formation he met the realist artists Antonio Lopez, the Lopez Hernandez brothers and Amalia Avia, all from Madrid. In 1956 he received a scholarship from the French state to go study abroad. In France he met Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet. The latter came up with the term ¨Art Brut¨ which is the degenerate art created outside of the aesthetic norms, also known as the art of the mentally ill patients, prisoners or children. His French experience influenced Munoz´s work forever.

Entering the world of abstract art he dedicated his entire life to serenity, poetic expression and supernatural landscapes. It is the sensation one will get when gazing at the ¨Isla Verta¨, the paiting done in a mixed technique in 1989.

His informal art makes use of natural materials such as burnt paper and wood by manipulating these materials by perforating, ripping, tearing and incision making. The dominant remained black and as the years passed his art became less aggressive with the materials that he used. A nostalgic and poetic person, he was very aware of the expressivity of nature.

His art has been exhibited in the world´s most important museums: The Guggenheim and Museum of Modern Art of New York, The British Museum and The Tate Gallery in London, National Museum Reina Sofia of Madrid, Meseum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, Meseum of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Rufino Tamayo Museum of Mexic, The Vatican Museum of Rome and in many other places.

Some of the exhibits that can be seen at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre are art pieces belonging to Montserat Gomez Osuna, Antonio Lopez Hernandez (Rabbit, 1964, a possible homage to Beuys), Manuel Mamo (with a mixed technique on paper, ´76), all Lucio´s friends. The artist´s note-book is on display as well. Organized and colorful the piece gives evidence of a hard-working abd optimistic person.

¨La Visita,¨ painted in 1969, is a scene of one official visit at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Sofia, in front of Picasso´s ¨La Guernica¨. It may be a creative reaction to Franco´s dictatorship.

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Raymond Depardon from A to Z

It is the 10th anniversary for PhotoEspana in Madrid (30th of May and the 22nd of July). The international festival for photography and visual arts gathers almost 500 000 people a year transforming the Spanish capital into one of the world´s most important cutural knots. This year´s PhotoEspana is hosting 67 Exhibitions, debates on photography, photomarathons, installations, projections, concerts, workshops and master classes (with Sylvia Plachy, Anders Petersen, Antoine D´Agata, Eugenio Recuenco, Daniel Canogar, Peter Beard, Gilles Peress, Eikon Hosoe, Andres Serrano and Isabel Munoz) and Raymond Depardon´s photography exhibition - Photographs of Political Personalities.

This year the French Institute in Madrid brought to the Spanish public an extensive retrospective of Raymond Depardon, the well-known French filmmaker and photographer. The original pictures have been published in the ¨Photographies de Personnalites Politiques¨, Seuil, Paris, 2006. A premiere in Spain, the French Institute organized a double-event: a vast retrospective of Depardon´s films presented at the French Institute and the Photographs of Political Personalities exhibitions at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre as part of the PhotoEspana festival.

One photograph equals a thousand words. And since there is more than images and words to Raymond Depardon´s exhibition, those who will step out of the Conde Duque Cultural Centre would defenetely learn something about honesty and politics. World peace through a clean lence, with no distortion and no abuse since the 60s.

Raymond Depardon is the French filmmaker and photographer, born in 1942, who has been taking shots of political figures all his life. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1977, The Grand Prix National de la Photographie in France in 1991, The Cesare for the ¨Delits flagrants¨ in 1995, The Grand Prix in Yamagata for the ¨Afriques: comment ca va avec la douleur?¨ in 1997 and he was invited to famous international festivals in Berlin, Venice and Cannes. His sensibility, his accute observation spirit and his verticality made it possible for him to become the catching eye and witness for some of the most important political scenes of the 20th century. Therefore, his is best known as the portrait photographer for the head-people around the world.

His films are documenting various themes such as the rural world and the daily life of the peasants, politic figures, life in jail, life in Africa: Une partie de campagne (1974), Reporters, Profils paysans, l´approche, Profils paysans, le quotidien, Une homme sans l´occident, Empty Quarter (une femme en Afrique), Urgences, Delits flagrants, 10eme chambre, instant d´audience.

What makes him so special from the other photo-journalists of the world? It is his honest melancholy and sympathy for the human values of the Third World and his sincere humour regarding scenes and moments connected to some of the most powerful political figures of the Atlantic. It is laughter that bursts you when you see Alain Peyreffite´s, one of General de Gaulle´s young ministers, picture, and you can´t say that he was a known figure. A snapshot and a reaction.

The exhibition includes 46 pictures and fragments from his journal-book, with a tone so sincere that one can indeed say that Raymond Depardon is ¨the family´s photographer¨ for the world´s politics: J. F. Kennedy, Marthin Luther KIng, Edgar Faure, Tito, Nicholas Sarkozy, Nelson Mandela, Allain Peyreffite, Lionel Jospin or Goukouni Wedeye are just some of the portraits you can peep or stare at. There personalities were arranged in alphabetical order begining with Salvador Allende and ending with Goukouni Wedeye. The sustaining texts for all the photographs are important for those who need to go a little bit deeper into the photo-journalist´s views, opinions and tributes. It is so easy to recall the moment between Nelson Mandela and the photographer in the demnitary´s office in Johannesburg: the reporter had just explained Nelson Mandela that he wanted him ¨for a minute in silence. He agreed! Than he asked if he was ready. 59 seconds later he looked up and said: Fine, thank you¨ with a full-hearted smile. The photographer brings about the importance of being honest, a lesson he had learned from Goukouni Wedeye whose picture ends the book and the PhotoEspana exhibition.

Goukouni Wedeye was captired in one last picture. On a carpet, talking on an old telephone at the shade of a tree, wearing a white desert coat with a hood and an expensive watch, sorrounded by huge flies, with a gun in the second plan of the image. You can´t see his face in the picture, but the contrast is so sensitive that you won´t be able to ignore the fact that The Third World is not an illusion. He was the son of the derdei, which means the spiritual chief of Tibesti. The two had known each other since 1970. As to the photographer´s opinion he was an extraordinarily honest man, a remarkable military strategist, but not a good politician. A pure opposite to some of the people in the ministries in Paris who knew nothing about honesty, but lies and interests. ¨I am pleased to end with Goukouni Wedeye. [...] I wanted to pay tribute to him, here in this book.¨

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Twist and Shag

The artist of the rich and famous is at the Pelayo 47 in Madrid between the 17th of May and the 23rd of June 2007, therefore the aficionados are advised to shag that money and shag it with the hippest twist because Josh Agle is for the first time in Spain.

Josh Agle is ¨working¨ 7 days a week, usually early in the morning and late at night, while the rest of the day is left for being Shag, making phone calls, being busy with meetings and e-mails or collecting retro chic stuff for his house. As he declares, his residence in California is turning into a Shag painting with rock walls, iron railings and hanging lights added to the simple architecture of the mid-century modern house.

Do money making and art make a good-house? As long as it is a house almost as groovy as the house in ¨The Party¨, the answer is simply ¨Yes.¨
Born in 1962 in California, Josh Agle began to sign his paintings with Shag, a contraction of the last two words of his name and the first two letters of his name in full, in the late 80s. It was at this time that he started out as a freelance commercial illustrator but he was ignored by the fine art world. It was only in 1997 when he had his first gallery exhibition and he is now one of today´s best selling artists in America. Still the museums are not so thrilled about his art. Having worked in the advertising business can be one of the reasons. The artist´s portfolio is very impressive taking into consideration the fact that he designed a special print for Frank Lloyd Wright´s Enis House and created a gigantic mural (100 feet long and almost 20 feet tall) for the Georgia Aquarium. ¨Shag With a Twist: A Murder Mystery Told in Music and Dance¨ ran for 13 weeks in Los Angeles. The Enchanted Tiki Room´s 40th, Disneyland´s 50th and Pink Panther´s 40th anniversary have been left with his adult-oriented and sophisticated line.

Suave womanizers, femme fatales and metamorphosis
His paintings and drawings are based on the stylized ads of the 50s through the mid 60s combined with a nostalgic cocktail and tiki-style. All Shag´s drawings are stories about something happening in a mysterious manner and his fantasies include animal illustrations of cats, bulls, wolves, crows or apes which represent personality types. The Bull is one of the drawings that you can see at the Pelayo 47 and represents ¨that part of the male which is totally subjugated to the opossite sex¨.

Cocktail days, gin nights
It is controvertial how a commercial illustrator made it to the art world today just by paying attention to the cliches of the trends in the world of celebrities. Cocktails, parties, glamour, Val Girls, tiki-style, drinking, scooters and shopping are hip issues exploited and filtered through Shag´s artistic spirit. His cocktail and tiki-themed stories are clues of a richly-colored childhood back in Oahu, Hawaii where he spent his first 8 years of life. They are personal history moments of his family, wife, dog, or favourite films. ¨Three Black Crows¨ was indeed inspired by the film ¨Blow Up¨. Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Seth Green, Rob Zombie and Nancy Sinatra are some of those who own his paintings, but as he declares he is not a names-dropping pusher and he is quite uncomfortable around the ¨stars.¨

God made the numbers and Shag named the drawings
The specially made drawings for the Pelayo 47 Gallery in Madrid have sold like fresh fish within the first two weeks, with prices between 1000 and 1500eu. They were done with indian ink and acrylic on paper. There were 25 drawings numbered from 1 to 25, but drawing number 25 did not actually exist. This makes room for fantasy to take over and who knows, maybe there is a buyer for #25 as well. The first drawing to go was #2, a cat-woman drinking gin on a blue sofa in a calm, but sharp, elegant, but distant atmosphere. The drawing fled for England in the first week after the opening. The exhibition only stays at the Pelayo 47 till the 23rd of June and Shag will return in precisely the same spot in exactly two years. Make a t-shirt of that!

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http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/

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Brusli care mananca musli are un ochi mai mic si unul mai mare.

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Such a gr8 surprise to find such experimental post-rock live tunes in Bucharest the other Sunday night. Israel Lights and The Pixels brought sense and sensibility to the 3rd millennium. Pointless words for those who hadn't been there. Israel Lights - young and bald. A little genius at drums + an old wolf with a mature voice + Vali Chincisan pushing the visuals' buttons = The Pixels. Looking it forward to check on their project with Selfmademusic.

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Laptopul cel sfant inregistra toata miscarea si o stoca bine sub tastatura. Un urs agitat o arunca pe geam si sari dupa ea. In picaj si-a reamintit ca isi uitase lunchbox-ul in care avea asa: un mar verde, o ciorba de perisoare, 2 felii de paine, si o portie de gratar cu mazare, porumb si masline si pireu. Pauza de pranz se muta cu tot cu birou in intersectia cu semafoare.

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Makunouchi Bento cu delicii sonore

Muzica buna nu trebuie sa fie prezentata festiv sau exploziv. Facem parte dintr-o generatie noua - o generatie mult mai interiorizata si obisnuita cu “teleprezenta” si mai putin cu prezenta live. De aceea probabil ca suntem si cinefili amandoi si facem o muzica cinematica. Reusim sa “citim” si sa transmitem, sper, emotiile doar din si prin streamul sonor. --> http://www.myspace.com/makunouchibento

Makunouchi Bento este un proiect de sunet experimental si electronica, de ambient/idm/soundscapes pornit de Felix Petrescu a.k.a. Waka X si Valentin Toma a.k.a. Qewza la Timisoara in 2001.

Conceptul de Makunouchi Bento trimite spre cultura nipona si inseamna "cutia pentru pranz" in care sunt compartimentate deliciile culinare japoneze pentru pauza de masa. Cei doi timisoreni o umplu insa cu sunete culese si alese cu grija, exotice si rare, pe care le mixeaza in compozitii nemaiauzite, de obicei inspirate din literatura, fizica, metafizica, gastronomie, biologie, filozofie, lista ramanand mereu deschisa.

90% din muzica facuta de cei doi gastronomi de sunet poate fi downloadata gratuit la calitate buna. Cand iei de pe internet, este bine sa si pui inapoi. Este vorba despre o intelegere mutuala la nivel virtual. In plus, “arta-i buna sa o imparti, altfel ce sa faci cu ea! Iar cand nu ai label in spate care sa iti dicteze ce sa faci, cand si cum sa vinzi, esti artist liber, faci cum vrei. Arta nu este o competitie. Sau nu ar trebui sa fie.”

Colaboreaza cu netlabelurile Eerik Inpuj Sound, Miasmah, Metempsychosis si Ogredung. De asemenea, sunt prezenti cu live acturi la Festivalul TM01Base, TMBase Fused Series, Festivalul AVMotional. Printre ultimele aparitii se gasesc EP-urile “Balada unui creier mic”, “Lament of the Fishing Robot”, “Flika” si LP-ul “Trcutu” care a fost un proiect special pentru Festivalul AVMotional 2 si care contine interpretari electronice dupa compozitii clasice apartinand compozitorilor Satie, Ravel, Arensky etcetera.

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Cand pleca cu Transsiberianul lasa o dara lunga de abur albastru translucid si isi lua cu ea patru obiecte pe care le aseza in trusa de urgenta. Erau o scoica, o miozotis, un buzdugan si un frisbee.

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Razvan's neighbourhood moved to a centreless island and forgot to send reply to sender. Purple bear lost its path in the forest and ended up flying up in the sky taking GoogleEarth snapshots for the ones waiting for him in the twin-shaped house.

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Toata agitatia se intampla in parcul cu copaci de hartie. Soricelul de camp a ajuns la verisoriceii de oras. De pe un varf de musuroi un carabus verde de mai catre un alt varf de musuroi cu un tantar nordic striga: "Yo-dl-ay-ooo!..."

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http://www.divshare.com/download/2554056-2bc

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cosmo's cosmic suggestion: http://www.zshare.net/audio/5775638b415d1c/

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Porcul inghetat a sarit pe geam si la impact s-a spart in cuburi portocalii pe care Parcul Insorit le savura acum intr-un cocktail facut the oldskul way cu clini insiruiti pe o tabla de sah, gata de atac. Maestrul de Go, care zambea linistit si care vedea toata miscarea de la etajul 9, prevedea o noua glaciatiune in care oceanele si zapezile erau oranj. “Sa nu te spargi!” , ii zise Zucharbravo cel Nou in momentul impactului Porcului care s-a absorbit in vibratiile joase. In x-ul lasat de cele 200kg pe asfalt s-a cascat un tub care ducea in bunkerul analistului care lucra la un nou soft de indeplinit dorinte in timpul cel mai scurt. Era unui nou tip de programare, in care binarul era depasit si limitat. “Tri-tri-tri-tri…”ii ieseau din ochi si terminatii nervoase in culori noi de Siam inganau “Multumesc.” si “Juice!”

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Lucky shot in the kitchen with Sergiu's behind the door stare and George's gadget.

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Purple bear under a cherry-tree!...

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George's clowny session. So much fun when you've got a red nose.

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"Good morning!" with Anda. Happy & colors, joy! :D

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Sen Q Dd:).

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Man, Ray is gr8! I'm gonna turn it back to the rock. It is quite hard though. Open yer third eye, but close yer marginal 2. Si-a trimis ochiul drept la Polul Nord, iar pe cel stang la Sud, nu departe de Capul Verde. Drumul le fu, ambilor, prescris de un doctor cu nume de Jekyll sau Hyde, iar harta avea linia unui ekg facut de Meduza Luna piratului Casiopeea Andromeda. Un EKG intr-un sotron pe trotuarul din fata blocului cu nume de liniste melancolica dupa o strada fericita cu maci rosii si furturi de morcovi mositi de copilul fara nume, al lui Pascar. Sau Pasare? "Cand voi fi mare vreau sa ma fac astronaut, astrolog si visator," spuse pustiul amuzat in fata unei clase de ochi din care ieseau cri-cri-cri-uri de greieri gri, buni si usor intr-o ureche in care se ascundea pistolul lui Van Gogh. It will save ya! Tornada de curcubee ascunse in cufere rusesti pazite de KGB-isti convertiti in dolari americani. Cand vei ajunge in Madagaskar, insula care s-a desprins curios de Mama-Africa pentru ca nu vedea decat freedom in cap, te vei transforma intr-o raza de soare sudic cu idealuri nordice si ii vei mangaia pe toti cei care iti vor raspunde bland la orice semafor "I'm passing the time." Monede cazute in fantane vor da atunci tonul unei simfonii oceanice cu unde de ecou pana in galaxia vecina guvernata de un plesiosaurus indragostit de o archaeopteryx. Discretion...
Pe varful unui munte ascutit din Patagonia a aterizat un vultur plesuv si agitat de cautarea unei pasari flamingo cu care isi daduse intalnire in acel punct pe ceas. Erau deja sase luni, iar zborul plin de elan din Lanul de secara al lui Sotto cu gand latino-american si extrem. Trolul norvegian care isi pazea zana luminilor de foc alb dormea inca la baza muntelui vrajit de linistea stralucitoare a serii de echinoctiu. Fifty-Fifty era numele echilibrului care statea piatra de hotar in esenta fiecarui sambure de gand. Marturisiri de dupa usa cu i-pod in loc de ochi si urechi veneau in goana mare spre patul in care a crescut o padure protejata la baza de licheni care si-ar fi dorit sa fie alge. Podeaua, in care zac ascunse soapte si pasi, flori si vise, note si cifre dictate de un mic univers capturat intre patru pereti, a dezvoltat amprente si secrete mustite de timp si spatiu. Have patience...

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A Bela film.
The young designer from Brasov dug the Me, Myself & Everybody Else and came with this film of happyness, hamster fractals & EKG lines.

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I shoot the root at the making of the Hamster and the House. One gorgeous Sunday clay session for Razvan and Vladimir, two friends who decided to take on the Sighisoara mountain in the plastic bag.

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Vladimir's instalation at the Europe Gallery in Brasov. Supersmiley, Moldi as a snail with a BMW shield and the clock that took by surprise the visitors once in 2 hours sharp are just some of the personal memo/history elements that made the toy-story of the Me, Myself & Everybody Else exhibition.

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Sighi's fish-eye managed to get a roundy-twirly-wowly view on Me, Myself & Everybody Else event in Brasov. Vladimir is bound to be called a contemporary young and bald artist with a precious work for a 23 year old one. "Hamsterul se agita odata in univers foarte tare si la un moment dat m-a ales pe mine, iar eu l-am pus pe coala."

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George's side of the story.

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Me, Myself And Everybody Else imploded today at 2 p.m. Levitation forms of the universal integration in the hamsterdam's matrix with Vladimir's meditation in a public space. The battle between the dark and the good forces ended after 50 minutes of bliss and blessing of the artist to his visitors who gazed dreamy at his synthesized work sent by the hamsterdams, the spaceship lords and the god trinity.

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exorcization for the nation with tea and ciggarettes. how fun is passing the time late in the nite. friends, soon to be here and then get back home. god ows you too much therefore just help yerself without thinking of having to give back. in a white home gallery with white tropheys, milk cans, a huge pin, one lil light house sustained by a lil white lego lil man. danemark seems so far away, yet so easy to get dizzy with. scandinavian nostalgia of algae and snowy seas. lasa internetul, cum to zee darkside, come to reality, the voice whispers from behind the sofa.

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Ray, man!
¨My mother told me I made my first man on paper when I was three.¨

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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:37:04 +0100 (BST)
once upon a time on a tuesday nothing worked so i made up my mind to kick off for the street. am ramas fara cheie, si abia astept sa vina dan sa pot sa sail off the flat. man, just relax, coz it´s all game. have fun no matter what si loved to check on yer good spirit today!

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Once upon a time I went so see Bjork in concert. How Scandinavian of me! The Earth Intruders were playing their trumpets wearing fluorescent pink, green, and blue coats just like the deep-waters algae at the zoo.

My hibernation took me by surprise that summer evening and the pagan poetry had been hidding in a heathen place. I almost had to call the EMOtional EMErgency number coz I was sliced in pieces by Aurora Borealis sending her green ekg-lines in the Bull Ring. Had I lost my origin? Thankfuly, I was still part of the interstelar journey. EXperimental EXorcization, Northern-voodoo, and Imortality saved by the sound sent to space. ¨Sh...¨, said the killer-whale throwing the ash on her back, and bringing about childhood flashes of Inu with magic gazez in granny´s fireplace. How beautiful of her!

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Three tiny steps on a fun day. In search of the Mighty Bush I ended up making friends with a dolphin, a lemur and some luna jellyfish. I took the metro, then managed to jump into a Tornado, a Tarantula, and an Abiso. Lone-walker on a funful-pavement.

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Los Cineticos - a wonderful space to experiment optical techniques, movement, magic, and technology. An invisible force that magnetizes the eye and the soul.

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There was no beginning and there was no end to my trip to Wolfgang Laib´s exhibition at the Reina Sofia in Madrid the other day. I could just stay there without even thinking of endulging myself with the 33 brass plates with a small pile of rice on each. Fantasysing about climbing the six-metre high ziggurat made of blocks of beeswax, or taking a swim in the little milkstone would have been a blasphemy. So I stuck to gazing dreamy at the golden-pollen from hazelnut carefully collected from the Black Forest in Germany.

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TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction 25 May - 24 September 2007 Mudam Luxembourg catalogue with essays/interviews with and by including Dan Graham, Shane Carruth, Denis Santachiara, Kyoichi Tsuzuki, Paul Lesch, Peter Cook, Tim Armstrong, Dunne & Raby, Piero Frassinelli, Paco Rabanne and John McCracken) about design and science fiction in history, literature, cinema, architecture, and fashion will be published. Some of these interviews can be viewed as short films on http://www.mudam.lu/

fig.: View of the exhibition with André Courrèges La cité de Lumières, 1967-2000. Collection André Courrèges, Paris. Photo : Andres LejonaThe exhibition explores the links created between the two disciplines - "Design" and "Science Fiction" - from the beginning of the 20th century until today with more than 800 pieces by more than 100 artists. Luxembourg-born Hugo Gernsback, the inventor of the term “science fiction”, is the spiritual father for this presentation of creations by designers, architects, artists, science fiction authors and film directors on the subject of science fiction.

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William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose.

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Nemo s-a lasat destul de mult cautat prin oras. Era de fapt pe ape. Do not allow yer kids to get in there! Muzeul pentru copii pregateste infanteristi si artileristi de categorie grea pentru conditii de razboi. It's a scary place.

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Si cand Pitic se-ntalni cu Pitic-Pitic si incepu a-i povesti despre Pitic-Pitic-Pitic, Pitic-Pitic-Pitic-Pitic ateriza si el impreauna cu Pitic-Pitic-Pitic-Pitic-Pitic la marginea zbordurii. Un cor pe Pitic la puterea "n" voci despre cat de ciudat suna "puntanel" la Euro Jazz FM Radio.

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"Em anah eechoo..." was written on her t-shirt when she took a bite from that tuna-sandwich. A bank of free fish were swimming on her tongue now. The upper teeth and the lower ones were making them bits and pieces, then ejected them directly into her red-system which led to the huge one-roomed paradise, her stomach. Her rabbit and her hawk were standing next to her on the log in the garden. All of a sudden she remembered she had to feed the jelly-fish at the bay that evening. She choked when it came across her mind to give it some tuna-sandwich leftovers. Then she looked at her t-shirt and it was full of crumbles. She always forgets not to hurry when eating. By the time she had finished, her stomach was still making silly sounds. And then thought of making another one with chicken-meat. She'd always eat half and give the rest to her rabbit and her hawk.

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She took the pink soap into her tiny hands and started rolling it until it made 27 big bubbles and 72 small ones. The luke-warm water was running on her skin when she wondered: "What is the number of germs that are going into the drain right now?" She took a quick peep into the mirror while shaking off the drops on her hands. In each of the little round universe she saw islands, blue lagoons, waves and surfers. Then she killed them all in a towel right before checking her nails and the lines in her palms; there were clean and fit for placing them back in the pockets now.

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She brought her Emily Strange t-shirts to the shop-assistant's desk and took her credit card out of her left pocket right before being asked with a bored voice:
"Are you paying in cash?"
"No", she said. She couldn't bare carrying coins and papers in her pockets. She'd rather have her hands in there.
"Thank you",
"Good-bye",
"Adio", she uttered more to herself and walked away with the two Emilies in her bag.

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Hey you! Up in the tree… I saw ya at her win-door while Oasis were giving a concert under mine. “You’d better get on your knees and pray, panik is on the way…” What if I don’t feel like getting off the bed. The light so sweet and playful with that shubakiller plant which mom threw into my room. Such a responsibility! It takes more than water to water an exotic plant.

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One fine morning, the papyrus plants came up with the idea of beating themselves up in strips. This fine morning happened to be back in 3000BC in Egypt. After a while the gang of strips started to sell to ancient Greece and Rome, but they did not have much of a success in Europa since the parchment and vellum had a better collaboration with the sheep and the calves who did not require subtropical conditions to grow as the papyrus did.

Papyrus died dry after a while and slowly, but surely, electronic paper, sugar paper and blotting paper started to rule the world with E-ink, South Park and Dr. Albert Hoffman's experiments.