Getxophoto
This year's Getxophoto's arrived on awnings. In this photography festival, which dresses the town on the coast of Bizkaia with images and imagination, you'll be able to see many projects and exhibitions, like every year. This year, in line with the initiative's popular, street spirit, The balde is presenting its ¨argaznikiak¨ project at Getxophoto.
Don Herbert's Slow Hand 1975-2010
At the opening of the exhibition, when the commissioner defined him as a bohemian, Don Herbert had this to say: "I'm not a bohemian, I'm a frustrated bourgeois". For this sentence alone, he deserves the exhibition about him at Koldo Mitxelena Culture Centre. But there are dozens of other reasons too. In fact, it was because Herbert was the serigraphy and litography teacher of so many artists at Arteleku.
the green hornet
Michel Gondry's new film is about a super hero. Gondry won the independent cinema makers' medal a long time ago and, nowadays, he has his own place in the US cinema industry. This French director no longer amazes us as he used to, but we're still followers of this curly-haired man.
viral blog
This web site brings together innovative and special publicity campaigns. Publicity agencies increasingly use the opportunities offered by the Web, mostly because they are cheap and effective, and in this way the agency bosses can carry on buying their Chelsea tractors. There are many examples of these viral advertisements on this web site.
Senioritas
this urban contribution has amazed us. It's so simple, small and effective. Those posters under the windows of Lisbon women who spend all day gossiping about the people around them are enough to make anybody laugh. Using them, CC colective wants to encourage the city hall to reflect critically on the closed circuit camera networks used by security companies.
o campo
The Brazilian Joachim Schmid's beautiful project. Using Google Earth, he's brought together pictures of all the football fields all over Brazil. There are two things to be learnt from this piece of work. The first is that you don't have to follow all the FIFA rules and regulations to play football. The second is that no camera was used to publish this book, O campo. Imagination and a computer were enough.
blu
This isn't the first time we've mentioned this street artist and film maker. But we can't miss the chance to say that Blu's brought out a new piece of work. His latest graffiti film's called Big Bang Big Boom and, once more, he's left us open-mouthed. Words are superfluous ... once again.
Pasta book
In the world of gastronomy, as in many others, it's harder and harder to distinguish stupidity from genius. So many proposals, so many concepts, so many innovations, so many revolutions ... You can even get bellyache from the number of times they tell us about kitchen philosophies on the media. That's why we're recommending this extremely beautiful book about pasta. It may not be the highest cuisine, but pasta is cheap, healthy and offers many different options.
gardening guerrilla
We've mentioned gardening guerilla's initiatives more than once. This is probably because we keep a gardener's spirit in a fold of our heart (even though we're still waiting to see when that sick office plant is going to come out). Some time ago we published an article about these Japanese seed bombs. Now the US version has arrived. Seed bomb machines!
Mexican style video
Described as new illustrations of gentleness, ¨Mexican style videos, sex, love and humour" can be seen at Montehermoso until the 12th of September. The artists Maris Bustamante, Débora Carnevali, Monica Castillo, Eugenia Chellet, Paola Esquivel, Sarah Miner, Ale de la Puente and Pola Weiss'es proposals are based on three axes: video art, feminism and Mexico. If you want to find out what flavour the cocktail is, you know where to go.
