Posted in barcelona on Jun 30th, 2010
Artist Pipilotti Rist is almost a rarity in the contemporary art world, creating installations and videos that win awards and inspire long articles on their theoretical bases, yet simultaneously, are colourful, cheerful and well, fun. They deal with issues surrounding feminism, psychology, love, hallucination, myth and pop culture, and are accessible to a variety of [...]
Posted in berlin on Jun 29th, 2010
Arrests, scandals, outrage: Not everything is rosy in the world of animated porn. The grey area with Lolicon is that it is a genre aimed at the teen market, and is often not explicitly sexual, but more erotically romantic. Some adults who collect Lolicon claim it is an outlet for paedophilic tendencies, and prevents crimes [...]
Posted in barcelona on Jun 28th, 2010
Recently I commented on the surprising case of singer-songwriter Javier Krahe, who has been involved in a surreal trial for “attacking the religious sentiment” of viewers who in 2004 watched a fragment of a short film filmed in the 70´s caled “How to cook a Christ” . This is not the first time [...]
Posted in madrid on Jun 25th, 2010
A busy housewife in the kitchen pulls a Christ from his cross, washes it under running water and puts it in a baking tray, accompanied by potatoes and butter. The voiceover explains that after three days of cooking at moderate temperature, the Christ will walk out of the oven all by himself! This short film [...]
Posted in berlin on Jun 23rd, 2010
Cartoon erotica? Isn’t that kind of a contradiction in terms? Well, yes and no. Cartoon erotica, or illustrated porn, has been around since before Christ. One antique example is the illustration of the – still-popular – Japanese tentacle porn picture created a few centuries back. Given the slightly odd title The Dream of the Fisherman’s [...]
Posted in barcelona on Jun 22nd, 2010
In a TV ad for a famous alcoholic beverage, a beautiful brunette (or a muscular gentleman in another version) stares at the camera while whispering, “ I won’t tell you now how I got this scar, or what I was doing for several years in Africa, or what serenades I like to hear… You’ll have [...]
Posted in berlin on Jun 21st, 2010
After several years in exile, a victim of its own success, Bread & Butter, the international benchmark trade fair for urban fashion returned to its hometown in 2009, when they were made an offer they couldn’t refuse: to hold the show at the historic Tempelhof Airport. The event attracts between 40,000 and [...]
Posted in barcelona on Jun 18th, 2010
Call them Will. I. Am, Apl. De Ap, Taboo and Fergie or simply the Black Eyed Peas, the important thing to keep in mind is that this group will continue their European tour, and luckily for visitors to and residents of Barcelona, will offer their first solo concert in Spain. To this end they have [...]
Posted in paris on Jun 17th, 2010
A living legend, rock iguana and godfather of punk, Iggy Pop, returns to the stage with the Stooges this summer. One of rock’s best known and loved figures, Iggy Pop has been steeping in the history of rock and punk for nearly 50 years, and at age 63 continues to move with the same [...]
Posted in berlin on Jun 16th, 2010
You know that walking in the sand makes your feet happy, that children love playing in it and that its has a special way of getting into each and every nook and cranny of your body, and hiding shells … but perhaps you didn’t know that it can be used to create giant [...]
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