doych

Forget the BFA

Spend $800 on some real earthy schooling.

The The Rocky Mountain Hand-Made Filmmaking Camp will take a group of people for a week, throw them together into the mountains guided by an off-beat professor, shake them up and stir vigorously,and come out with a bunch of filmmakers who can make movies without cameras and properly mix chemicals while sniffing D-76.

That actually sounds like my high school.

I'm just wondering how they pin up their prints for critique. The camp's website boasts an "outdoor classroom tent for classes and discussions."

Social Polski

A few days ago I sat in on a lecture by Susanne Altmann, an Art Historian and Independent Curator. Based out of Dresden, she presented many exhibits she curated - mostly dealing with contemporary art and issues of society.

A name of an art group she worked with drew my attention simply because they were Polish and their works all boldly displayed their URL. I committed the name to memory and looked it up the following day. (If I wrote it down, I'd feel confident I had the information and would then proceed to lose the paper.)

twożywo.

Easy enough. With the aid of Google I landed at http://www.twozywo.art.pl - a site representing artists who seem to master the use of public space as a field of social communication. Beautiful typography, thoughtful phrases (if you look at the English version or use Systran) and a wonderful project on a character called Kapitana Europy.

After I spent quite some time on their site, I saw a little piece on Kapitana Europy that made me laugh and say WTF? I soon realized that I was watching what I thought to be a twożywo billboard chasing after me in my dreams.

Look for yourself - Turn on your sound, take a brain break and go directly to SZYBCIE — spieszmy się kochać ludzi bo czas to pieniądz.

These brilliant designers make me proud to be a Polock Pollok Pollack Polak.