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2008-11-26T09:30:00.001+01:00

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new dawn, new day, new life

2008-11-21T10:16:00.016+01:00

a world leader in the TRUE sense of the word...

Barack's grandmother Sarah Obama in Kogelo, Kenya

At Obama's former school in Jakarta, Indonesia

Shanghai

Athens, Greece

Indonesia

Manila, Philippines

Jerusalem, Israel

Sydney, Australia

Japan

India

Paris, France

Dakar, Senegal

...

Free Burma !!!

2007-09-28T11:19:00.000+02:00

In the Quiet Land, no one can hear
what is silenced by murder
and covered up with fear.
But, despite what is forced, freedom's a sound
that liars can't fake and no shouting can drown.

(By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi)

Please, please support the people's protest.
Let it lead to freedom and peace for all.
Stop this horrible violence...

links:

* AVAAZ petition on Burma *
(AVAAZ is a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today)

* Democratic Voice of Burma *
(a non-profit Burmese media organization committed to responsible journalism.)

* US Campaign for Burma *
(organization dedicated to empowering grassroots activists around the world to bring about an end to the military dictatorship in Burma.)

* Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Pages *
(dedicated to Nobel Prize laureate and mother of all activists for the the Burmese case)

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EAT005, 006 & 007

2007-07-11T12:54:00.000+02:00

" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

~ Thelonious Monk ~

Imagine this independent little recordlabel from Holland... Founded by friends for the love of making records and releasing music they want to hear and get heard. Three releases determined their almost quixotic approach to modern day electronic music. Bootstrapping (EAT001 & 002), Sound Pure (EAT003) and Attention Spam (EAT004) made some noise amongst peers and contemporaries and echoe on ever since.
Receiving credit and acclaim for these projects, Eat Concrete already moved on to different grounds. Stretching their spectrum in global ways and paying dues to music they grew up on, Eat Concrete now adds a beautiful trio of releases to their catalog. Two double disk albums and one 12". Twin Earth Atlantic, New Deal and Eat 007 cover a spectrum of music subtly lining out Eat Concrete's perspectives and intentions. All of a sudden the little eccentric label turned into one of the most sophisticated and daring Dutch recordlabels today.

Twin Earth Atlantic (...) is kinship in music at it's best. A dream compilation to any musiclover interested in new leftfield electronics, experimental hiphop and downtempo beats, Daedelus, Low Res and TAKE are just a few of the names to grace the line up. Twin Earth is symbolic to the great universal connectivity in music, brought together through the platform that Eat Concrete is today. A daring project, an exciting release, and a particularly beautiful album.

Eat's sixth, New Deal is a fat collection of dancefloor filling, mind boggling, techno-inspired dance tracks. A new deal to an old school... Spinning off from a genre dominating dancefloors across the world, coming from some twenty years of techno electronic music history, artists like Maarten van der Vleuten, Sensory Overload, 69db and BlipVert preserve an experimental edge making New Deal into and elevating an refreshing compilation.

EAT007 is one of those little Concrete gems. Offering four new productions by some of the label's closest friends and allies, EAT007 is Eat's own mix of modern electronica, experimental but inviting.
This surprising little 12" can give a pretty good idea of how this recordlabel and the people behind it will not be forced into some stream, style or standard. There's something highly dynamic and progressive about their way of music.

Listen to clips from all records, read more on these and previous releases, the label and the artists at eatconcrete.net. Visit Eat Concrete's MySpace and say hi!

more:

Eat Concrete Discogs

Eat Concrete's Last.fm

Eat Concrete contact

Sixties Psychedelic Poster Art

2007-06-06T12:26:00.000+02:00

The psychedelic movement of the sixties changed it all...
Social culture, music, fashion, design. All revolutionised under the hands of the hippies.

The full coloured, graphically mindblowing musicposters, with their blown up art nouveau like letters have become gorgeous symbols of their era, uniting music, design, time and place in graphics surpassing the "concertposter purpose"

Linked to hippie hotspots like the Berkeley Theatre and the famous Fillmore Auditorium, the Avalon Ballroom etc., psychedelic poster art is mostly associated with San Francisco. Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and The Doors are just some of the names connected to the movement, symbolising a very special place & time.The American Poster Book (1988) is an overview of San Francisco's cultural and social milieu in the late sixties, devoting special coverage to five of the most influential poster artists: Mouse, Moscoso, Griffin, Conklin and Singer. Chronicled by Bill Graham, the designers and photographers themselves, this document is a true gem to the serious collector.

The Art of Rock (1987) is also a collector's dream. A compilation of over 1500 posters done by Paul Grushkin, the original artists and again Bill Graham. Grushkin's work is considered an authoritative source of rock poster art with its painstaking research of the Who, What, Where and When behind the pictures.

My favourites in the poster world are definitely Lee Conklin, Victor Moscoso and Wes Wilson, probably in that order. In Lee Conklin's work I love the styled lettering and the Hieronymous Bosch' feel. He did many posters for the Fillmore and the famous concert promotor Bill Graham. I love these very much:

More Lee Conklin

Victor Moscoso's work has an extreme visual intensity and maximum optical effects. Vibrating edges, contrasting colors and deliberate psychedelic lettering are demanding elements in his style. Moscoso designed a series of posters for the Avalon Ballroom, the Matrix and Family Dog. Perhaps due to his academic training he's sometimes mentioned as one of the few who managed to bring psychedelic art to formal art museums and exhibitions.

His "flower pot" (family dog 86) is a great example of his ability to "formalize" some of the visual aspects of psychedelic art, e.g. the contrasting colors or the apparent movement of still forms.

Victor Moscoso - Family Dog 86 aka "Flower Pot"

Some other fine examples of Moscoso's work:

More Victor Moscoso:

Wes Wilson is also part of the San Francisco "big ones". Creating the first Family Dog Posters and many many Fillmore posters for Bill Graham. I love his round flowing lines, psychedelic coloring and big lettering.

More Wes Wilson

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Major psychedelic gratitude goes out to the people @ POoter's PSycheDelic ShAcK & Wolgang's Vault !!! All images appear by courtesy of www.wolfgansvault.com.

More links:

www.professorposter.com

www.rockument.com

Finally: a little contemporary interpretation of a psychedelic "poster" ;)

Maneki Neko

2007-05-09T17:54:00.000+02:00

Lovely Lucky Cats.

Quirky and kitschy, traditional but also a great little gadget. I love the superstitious japanese culture of happiness & good luck charms.

Japanese Maneki Neko, the beckoning cat, brings fortune, welth and good luck to it's owner. Usually the lucky cat holds a couple of attributes like a red collar and a bell, and almost all hold a gold coin. You have plastic ones on batteries endlessly beckoning fortune in.

Some believe, the longer the paw the bigger the happiness, so you can find silly Maneki's with a real long arm. The "beckoning" is probably loosely based on a cat's washing gestures...

too long armed Maneki Neko

The asian gesture of beckoning is quite opposite to the western, holding your hand palm out, beckoning downwards instead of our way of beckoning "upwards"...

Maneki Neko brings fortune and prosperity, so you can often see them in stores, businesses, pachinko ♥ parlors and other merchant and moneymaking places. They are often made as piggy-banks as well.

Put Maneki Neko on a little red pillow or cloth in a prominent place, mine sits triumphantly on top of my desk. It makes me happy every time I see it, so the luckbringing works just fine...

ancient portrait of Maneki Neko
on a japanese woodblock print,
around 1850.

Huge Maneki Neko in Tokoname, Japan.

Maneki Neko Club

Maneki Neko Wiki

Spaceways Radio

2007-03-09T14:57:00.000+01:00

Carlos Niño might just be the Sound of LA.
Niño is the primary producer and conceptual mind behind AmmonContact (together with Fabian Ammon, a unique production duo, releasing mostly instrumental, jazz-influenced, soulfull hip hop) , the founder of LA based creative music ensemble Build an Ark, credited for bringing soul-jazz singer Dwight Trible to prominence as well as helping Daedelus develop his musical talents. Carlos Niño is one of the original DJ's and programmers at dublab.com and involved in the (LA) music scene for over 10 years as a DJ/producer/composer/musician/writer/arranger.

Starting out as a DJ/host for KPFK Pacifica Radio, it's kinda amazing he still finds time to do a weekly show at KPFK called Spaceways Radio. A little experimental, but always just about the music, this episode Niño digs up everything between obscure field recordings, Sun Ra, his LA peers and some of his new project with Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Fill The Heart Shaped Cup and much more.

Broadcasted every friday from 8 till 10 pm, you can listen online through KPFK.org.
If you're not on pacific time you can listen to the latest episode of Spaceways Radio online through kpfk's audio archive >> here<<

For more info on the show (playlists etc) go >> here <<

KPFK.org

Carlos Niño on discogs

♥ Daedelus' Clips ♥

2007-01-18T14:24:00.000+01:00

Sundown from Denies The Day's Demise on Mush Records.
Directed by Clay Lipsky .

--youtubelink--

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'Just Briefly' from Exquisite Corpse ( Ninja Tune)
Directed by Chroma*Fresh. Nice...

--youtubelink--

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'Something Bells' (of Snowdonia) on Plug Research, with Pigeon John & Busdriver. Directed by Ben Barnes.

--youtubelink--

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a little something extra:
Daedelus darling perfoming live @ 'Dim Mak Tuesday' 08/02/06, Cinespace, LA

Brother from Another Planet

2006-10-14T02:43:00.000+02:00

"What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth" -- Sun Ra

Today l saw Don Letts' great documentary " Brother from another planet : Sun Ra " (2005). Nothing about this mystic man can be called average. Celebrating his profound creativeness for over 6 decades through music, perfomance, poetry and film, mr. Ra has influenced countless musicians and touched many hearts with his unearthly presence.

Watch " Brother From Another Planet " on YouTube :

• Pt 1 • • Pt 2 •
• Pt 3 • • Pt 4 •

His Sun Ra Arkestra being more of a commune, bringing their eccentric music through their out of this world live shows. Many members (John Gilmore, Marshall Allen) devotedly following Ra's every move. June Tyson, loyal soulmate to Sun Ra and vocalist and dancer in the Arkestra once said that when she was on stage singing Sun Ra's lyrics, she thought of herself as a celestial being.

On his selfmade label 'Saturn' Ra released hundreds of records with all kinds of oddities, handmade artwork, titleless sleeves, wrong credits or no covers at all. The oddity of the label probably being a collectors' ultimate dream... (or worst nightmare)

Even when you get passed the weird costumes, the wild perfomances and the far-out-ness of this mysticus, you must feel the honesty. Sun Ra was the embodiement of a mysterious cosmic spirituality which probably only he understood. It can't be explained and it probably is crazy but it can definitely be heard when you listen to his music.

He once said: "I'm a spirit master. I've been to a zone where there is no air, no light, no sound, no life, no death, nothing. There's five billion people on this planet, all out of tune. I've got to raise their consciousness, tell them about the wonderful potential to bypass death."

We ain't never gonna see another phenomenon like Sun Ra again;
in this world that is...

-Excerpt from "Space is The Place" (1974)-

Sun Ra Links:

• • Official website of the Sun Ra Arkestra under direction of Marshall Allen • •

• • " Space is the Place : The Lives and Times of Sun Ra " • •
>> Review of the biography by J.F. Szwed

• • " Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation " • •
>> Prose & Poetry by Sun Ra

• • Sun Ra Arkive • •
>> Magazine dedicated to The Sun Ra Arkestra

• • Astro Black • •
>> Devoted to the music of Sun Ra (with extensive discography)

• • Saturn Web • •
>> On Sun Ra, the Arkestra & Free Jazz

• • Sun Ra Photographs • •

• • Sun Ra on YouTube • •

• • Sun Ra on IMDB • •

• • More • •

Album Cover Wars

2006-10-14T02:00:00.000+02:00

countdown

2006-08-30T13:41:00.000+02:00

Free Record Swap continues

2006-08-23T16:08:00.000+02:00

2006-08-22T00:50:00.000+02:00

I ♥ Paris

>>>album<<<

Stumble Upon!

2006-08-19T00:53:00.000+02:00

Everybody loves to surf the net.

Instead of coughing up random (yeah right) results in your search engine, StumbleUpon comes up with recommended sites by like-minded surfers. When you have time to surf it really does allow you to find some unique and relevant sites...

Just click thumbs up or down to rate the site you've been brought to.

To some the future of browsing; A nice tool at least...

Stumble On >> StumbleUpon . com <<

Attention Spam & Sound Pure

2006-08-18T23:08:00.000+02:00

With 2 releases in july, the concrete crew show off their skills.
Both records, existing of new and previously unreleased material, go completely different ways.

Attention Spam (EAT004) goes tekno and then some, with raw grooves from 'underground' favourites Mononom & Z-Bombs' Freek and others... Beats gone awall!!! Appears on silver vinyl.

clips004

Sound Pure (EAT003) is a precious collection/compilation...
Beautifully built up, this LP is an intimate listening in on the featuring artists' and thus Eat Concrete's 'musical landscape'. Collected over 7 years it's a fine piece of work for anyone who loves the listening kind of electronic music. Nice artwork too!

clips003

How typical of Eat Concrete's broad platform and unique style to release these opposite records at once... More power to them!

Eat Concrete . net & Eat Concrete @ my space (more info, clips & links)

Daedelus Denies The Day's Demise

2006-05-17T12:54:00.000+02:00

Sweet denial.

Pointing you out to Daedelus' space again. Get there and listen to his ' Denies the Days Demise'. Released in may, it took some time to win me over. More upbeat, more electronics, but the samba's man, those samba's....
Sundown's gone straight to my heart... I love what he does.

Check it out & Love it!

Harlem 1958

2006-02-19T18:32:00.000+01:00

First published in Esquire magazine in january 1959, this Art Kane portrait has to be one of the most lovely pieces of jazz history. Kane was asked to come up with a photo to open a jazz article, he just called every major New York jazz musician he knew of. It was his first professional assignment (...) On the steps of 17E on 126th street, some summer morning at 10 am, these 57 musicians showed up.

Click for large version

Harlem.org is a great site entirely dedicated to this photograph, which says something about the sheer history captured with it. You can scroll around and click the picture to pop up details like who's who and if you click on you'll be able to get individual artist info and so on. Learning some jazz history through one single picture.

This is probably my favorite part:

You see (from top & left to right) : Sonny Rollins, Lawrence Brown, Marian McPartland & Mary Lou Williams, Emmet Berry and Thelonious Monk. Behind the laidback ( hungover?) looking Monk are Milt Hinton & Vic Dickinson (in the back). I'd imagine Count Basie got tired of waiting for the shot and sat his musical self down on the curb amongst the neighbourhoodkids who were just in it for the fun, legendary moment in time or not....

As a hommage to Kane's A Great day in Harlem photographer Gordon Parks reshot the original still living artists once for Life magazine as well as this hip hop interpretation of the photograph on the same (!!) steps on 126th Street, titeled Another Great Day, for the cover of XXL magazine. In the picture people like Rakim, Busta Rhymes & Wyclef Jean. Great days in jazz and hip hop all on the same simple stoop in Harlem...

Great Day links:

A Great Day in Hip Hop
Harlem.org
Art kane
Gordon Parks

Bootstrapping 1

2006-02-09T16:37:00.000+01:00

'Bootstrapping' makes me think of starting without a beginning, creating something with nothing. As impossible as to pull oneself up by his bootstraps, reminiscent ofcourse of the Baron von Munchausen pulling himself up out of a swamp by his own hair.
- read & learn -

Bootstrapping 1 is Eat Concrete's first record release and there's 2 of them! Bootstrapping 1.1 & 1.2! Featuring 9 tracks, the records go anywhere from dark, spheric listeningmusic to seriously soulful dancetracks and beyond. ATeeze, Orgue Electronique, Evan Odd, Ro Lee, The Freak with Thousand E's, Sensory Overload, Mononom, Ricercar and Swonkdog are coming at you from all kinds of directions!

click individual pieces to check out tracklistings & artistinfo and have a listen right here

Eat Concrete is about providing interesting productions to and from the world of electronic music. Formed in 2005 as a network of friends disciplined in a wide range of styles, bound by the history of the dutch underground electronic music scene and their inspiration to spread the music, they joined forces and created these 2 EP's under the watchful eyes and ears of Pete Concrete, the instigator of this all.

If you're not anxiously waiting for the link to buy this record by now, you must be getting curious about it's music at least! Listen to some excerpts here and check out Pete Concrete's nicely selected, new and improved downloads page for sure! featuring mixes and sets from Banzaï radio, parties and other cool musical places...

Congratulations Eat Concrete!

Jaan Pehechaan Ho !!!!

2006-02-03T15:19:00.000+01:00

Remember the exhilarating Ghost World opening? Jaan Pehechaan Ho!!! Masked dancers go bezerk dancing to a high energy gogo-like song by Bollywood legend Mohammed Rafi. Ghost World's Enid just goes along dancing the crazy dance wich is highley contagious, I'm sure you'll find as well.

Jaan Pehechaan Ho comes from Bollywoods' first "horror thriller", Raja Nawathe's Gumnaam (1965). The story is completely hilarious though, involving a very funny drunken showgirl, a planecrash on a spooky island, a mysterious book and naturally a murdermysterie and a lovestory.

Topping it all off with drunken duets, extravagant beachparties and more psychedelic dancemania. If you ever get the chance: Watch It!!

Now, thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog I finally have the complete clip, instead of just the Ghost World excerpt. Much obliged, WFMU's Brian & others!!!

< Take it here >

Just watching it makes you wanna join! Please do so! Throw back your head, close your eyes and shake yourself to the ecstatic Jaan Pehechaan Ho!

The Ministry of Sound

2006-02-03T14:54:00.000+01:00

I like their site. It's very busy, packed with tunes, video's, mixes, games, reviews, a forum. One of the best features is their radiostream. Free (no signing up) and 'on air' 24/7. Also check the mixes and podcasts in the radiosection...

Their tvchannel requires you to register. It's free and you won't be spammed. I think it's video's only. Check out their photogallery too, partypics all round.

In the clubbers guide to life you can read all kinds of articles on all kinds of subjects from the clubbing perspective ;) from travel and work to sex and drugs, law and health. Nice section.

Birthday Hits

2006-01-22T17:48:00.000+01:00

What was the nr. 1 song on your birthday? Wanna find out?!
What were people swinging out to when you came into this world?

You can find the right weeknumber of you birthday here,
ISO weekdate calendar. You need it to compare to the chartlists which go by week.

Here is the Dutch one > Top 4000
Uk charts > Uk Charts 1950 - 2000
US & the rest of the world > Charts all over the world

My birthday hit : Spargo's You and Me.

The Forevertron

2006-01-19T23:21:00.000+01:00

I'm Loving this:

In 1983 the creator of the Forevertron, Tom Every, was reborn. After 3 decades of working as an industrial wrecker, Tom began to question his role in this destructive business of demolishing well designed but commercially outdated factories and machinery.

So, he gave up his demolition business and reinvented himself as Dr. Evermor. He adapted the identity of a Victorian inventor from Eggington, Britain to suit this new life. Now, as a child the fictive Dr. Evermore had been caught in a massive thunderstorm with his father, a Presbyterian minister. Evermore's father explained the huge force of the electric storm as an act of God. From that day on Dr. Evermor has made a life's work out of creating an extraordinary electromagnetically powered spacecraft that would ultimately deliver him to the celestial heavens above.

Dr. Evermor and the Forevertron

The Forevertron is a monumental sculpture weighing aproximately 300 tons and standing 50 feet high.
It consists almost entirely of iron, brass and stainless steel, welded and bolted together. A broad variety of generators, thrusters and other electromagnetic powersources are at the core of the Forevertron. The complete structure is capped by a glass ball meant to serve as space capsule.

The Space Capsule (upper right corner) in it's iron framework.

The Great Celestial Telescope

Secundairy components of the Fantastic Forevertron include a Celestial Listening Ear and the Gravitron, to reduce the doctor's body weight before take-off. At the north end the Great Celestial Telescope points to the heavens (in case someone would want visual proof of the doctor's spacetrip), while the south end holds a spiral staircase and a fancy vip-gazebo, originally reservered for the Royal Family on take-off day.

The Royal Gazebo

The Forevertron exemplifies Dr. Evermor's distinctive and deliberate creative priority; "to blend history with art". Each part of it consists and preserves some facet of early industrial technology or machine culture, now often disappearing underneath the wrecker's ball. Components such as Edison's late 19th century bipolar dynamos appear naturally linked to the Forevertron. Logically put together, imaginatively transformed or magically conceived, this industrial artifact of artifacts honors and recalls inventors and inventions of an age we have departed.

Dr. Evermor explains:

"These forms were made in a certain time frame and we can pick up the energy of whoever the creator was, whether it be a small blade or something else. That unique form comes along again and is put in that place, so that you always have that energy. That little piece may have a very historical connection to other things and beings of a certain time frame."

"If you look at this thing, it is all curved arches and circles. It is built on the principle of odd numbers -- sets of 3, 5, 7, 9. Given the historical make-up it seems appropriate that its essentially profuse, buoyant, undulating lines recall late Victorian aesthetics, from World's Fair architectural follies to Art Nouveau."

"form before function"

Forevertron Links:

roadsideamerica.com

drevermor.com

heart2art2hear

Making records

2006-01-06T18:20:00.000+01:00

Vinyl is dood

Digigarden

2006-01-06T17:57:00.000+01:00

Totally pointless ♥

Click the spinning tree and all kinds of gardenstuff will happen...

click tinygrow

Happy New Year

2005-12-31T16:35:00.000+01:00

Yearmixes 2005

Zoom in ...

2005-12-27T16:38:00.000+01:00

f you look closer you might discover the little fruitpeople in your own food from fresh 99.com, zoomed in food.

I knew it.. the legopotheads take my weed!!!!
from magicmushroom.org

For some really strange lego you have to see the brick testament.
The 'Rev.' Brendan Powell Smith gives you a lego illustrated bible, the uncensored version.

= nudity = sexual content = violence = cursing

Kid Beyond

2005-12-19T02:34:00.000+01:00

He's got the music!
Beatboxer, vocalist, singer, one man band...

Live looping and multitracking his own voice Kid Beyond creates
his own multilayered music. If you watch the clip,
he'll explain a little bit of how he works.

It's just one voice, but he creates complete songs with it.
Watch the clip here, read more here

Abandoned again ...

2005-12-19T01:26:00.000+01:00

I already posted a link to an abandoned places site by Belgian Henk van Rensbergen.
He knows the stories of the buildings and areas he explores and together with his beautiful,
mystique photographs you can almost smell the abandonment...
His site

photograph © abandoned-places.com

But... even though textually this abandoned Japan site here leaves me clueless, the images tell plenty! Luxury hotels, looking like they've been abandoned on the spot, with complete interiors left. Ghostly amusementpark with rollercoasters still standing by.
It's crazy really, but very beautiful.

photograph © home.f01.itscomnet/spiral

The site is huge, although some files didn't seem to work here.
There appear to be a number of categories, but my japanese just isn't that well ; )
Abandoned Japan

I also found this abandoned britain site, I didn't really check it our quite well.
But here you do get to understand the stories around these ghostplaces
and if you enjoy them as much as I do, you want to explore more.
Abandoned Britain

Feeling a little destructive, are we?

2005-12-01T04:41:00.000+01:00

Shred it! Wanna kill a washing machine or computer?
Watch it go down this horrifying shreddingmachine

There's a whole variety of objects to be destroyed on SSI's site!
But they even have a Shred of the Month!
Watch it shred!

U B U W E B

2005-11-30T01:42:00.000+01:00

An infinite platform for Art!

Contemporary, Historical, Sound, Poetry, Music, Visual, Film.

From classic stuff like Buñuel's Chien Andalou to obscure performances
like the Manopsychotische Ballet by Otto Muehl in the filmsection

From Huge databases filled with classic art in Film, Writing & Sound to all kinds of contemporary projects by new artists like the 365 days project

From their site :

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated
to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for
noncommercial and educational use only.
All rights belong to the author(s).

UbuWeb is completely free.

◘ ubuweb ◘

Conclave Obscurum

2005-11-28T06:33:00.000+01:00

A very, very artistic project this site is!
I can't really figure it out, some russian artists collaborating on this for sure.
It's not a portfolio or anything like it.
I only know it's one of the most beautiful sites i've ever seen!
Nice 'n Vague... play with it...
turn up your volume and freak out!

Conclave Obscurum

David Firth

2005-11-28T05:07:00.000+01:00

Meeting Saladfingers was a mixed pleasure.
Disturbing little nightmarish cartoons they are ♥ And it doesn't stop there....

Watch and shiver by the cartoons of David Firth. You'll probably want to know more about it's creator and his work. Check fatpie.com but don't expect to be comforted.

Natalie Ferstendik

2005-11-20T17:36:00.000+01:00

I Just love her illustrations. Specially these oldschool fashion kind of ladies!

The site hosting them, unit.nl is great to just browse portfolios by all kinds of artists

Tokyoplastic

2005-11-16T20:53:00.000+01:00

Just a cool site. Tokyoplastic.com

The Polyphonic Spree

2005-11-15T16:37:00.000+01:00

Quest for the Rest.

Another nice way to showcase
a new album.

Aim of the game is to help the little people get home, by clicking all things clickable you'll find out how. Guide them through 3 different 'worlds' and you'll be rewarded. Nice atmospheric music and sweet graphics, game itself is simple but cute ♥

Play Quest for the Rest

Bellyfull.tv

2005-11-03T13:45:00.000+01:00

New Jersey's Boy in Static showcases his debut album Newborn through bellyfull.tv...

He created the subtle, serene graphics himself.
Turn up the volume before you click, sit back and see for yourself

1st Avenue Machine Inc.

2005-10-23T23:49:00.000+02:00

Cat watching a cat watching a cat

2005-09-17T20:18:00.000+02:00

. . . and it's called the infinite cat project

Tasha watching Duma watching '99' watching Snowball :)

Abandoned places

2005-09-16T21:52:00.000+02:00

Today, the pyramids of the industrial revolution just uselessly stand in the way,
they're a scar in the landscape. The deafening noises have been replaced by silence,
but if you listen carefully they will tell you their story.

Abandoned hospitals where you can still smell the anxiety of the ill,
where you can hear the coughing of the TBC infected and where once doctors
and nurses walked through the shiny corridors.

A 100 years old hotel, standing proudly at the waterfront, arrogantly overlooking
the beach and fiercely withstanding all the storms of the past century,
a decayed symbol of wealth for the rich.

These are abandoned places . . .

Dutch Slang

2005-09-07T03:16:00.000+02:00

Droengo of appa? Zoek 't op!
'Slang'woordenboek

GraffitiCreator

2005-09-06T22:34:00.000+02:00

Tag like you know how with this funny graffiti creating application.

Ok, it's only got 3 styles and you can only use 8 letters but you can tweak the
colors quite nicely and in just 3 easy steps you can make your own graffiti.
click

Don't use the Gadwin-thingy to save your tag, just printscreen it into Paint or PS

Whale Song

2005-09-03T16:11:00.000+02:00

Listen to 'live' whale songs from maui .
This is the Whalesong Project.

click picture

Horror Art

2005-08-28T12:57:00.000+02:00

Gunther von Hagens is a professor of pathology & anatomy who
invented and uses a plastination technique to preserve human tissue
and complete corpses to exhibit them as works of medical art.
His exhibitions have raised eybrows across the world and are an
extravagant bridge between medical science and experimental art.

The Bodworlds-pages are packed with information on his projects
(among them a dvd called anatomy for beginners, a series of anatomical
lessons by him and british pathologist J. Lee), information about the
plastination technique and off course pictures of the preserved bodies
and bodyparts, beautiful as well as disturbing sometimes, see for yourselves !!

Googlemontage

2005-08-25T13:39:00.000+02:00

Make your own collage using google images.
Enter some keywords and this tool will montage all found images
into a nice collage.
Funny little tool

click

Webtoys

2005-08-25T13:05:00.000+02:00

From BBC's Clickonline I found Zefrank's.com !!!
A really nice, really huge collection of flash animations to play with.
Webtoys, not games really, but they'll keep you busy.
You should definitely try the interactive toys, especially
the kaleidoscopemaker and the string spin !!
Enjoy.