… I found two really outstanding mash ups: The heart melting Iron and Wine cover The flat yet touching Postal Service:
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (Postal Service Cover)
And Boards Of Canada mixes a pop jewel from Becks “Broken Drum”:
Beck - Broken Drum (Boards Of Canada Remix) (Download at the page bottom)
For the time being we got an artwork by friend and painter Alexander Waltner for our new apartment on loan. For me its the first time that I have the pleasure to live with such a spacious and beautiful piece of art. The untitled artwork is one of his more recent mixed-media collages and had to be assembled after it was delivered to our home. Here is the step by step guide on how we did it:
Step 0: Requirements
- A drill and some bolts (A standard screwdriver will do it too)
- Some kind of reference on how it looks when completed (In this case we used an exhibition catalogue)
- And of course the single parts of the artwork, which we are going to assemble in the forthcoming steps.
Step 1: Attaching the parts
We screw on the first part, using the supplied screws and the drill.
After completing this step, it looks like this:
Step 2: Attaching more parts
We add the second part to the bottom of the artwork, again using the supplied screws and the drill:
This part serves as the base to another freestanding part, this is how it looks when finished:
Step 3: Drilling holes
To hang the artwork onto the wall, we have to drill two holes into the wall.
After drilling the first one, we accurately measure the distance between the hole and the floor, in order to drill the second hole at exactly the same height.
We do not fully countersink the screws into the wall, because the artworks frame structure has to rest on the protruding screw.
Step 4: Add the last part, which itself is hanging on the frame
Step 5: We hang the artwork on the wall.
Finished!
Alexander Waltner is an artist living and working in the field of painting, collage and soft drinks in Vienna, Austria. To contact him, email me and I’ll forward your inquiry.
What art can be: define Art
So Flickr (whoever that is) decided that photographs that were taken to set the cameras white point should not be publicly visible, at least in the case of Flickr user rosa_ritter.
Because she exclusively published almost_white style photographs to the public, her account has been marked something the Flickr calls “NIPSA”: Not in Public Site Areas. In this case that means that her almost white photographs are counted to, but not visible in the group pool. Should this be seen as a decision by Flickr that represents their appreciation of non depictive photography or outsider art?