I have fallen in love with a blog that is probably already really well known but i just feel like I need to tell people just how much I love it.
iGNANT is the most beautiful blog I have ever seen, I could just easily sit for hours and look at all the amazing and genuinely interesting things they put up.
The fact that it's based in my favourite city Berlin makes it even better, i really really want to go back there just to explore all of the galleries.
EVERYONE needs to look at this blog
Until I came to Australia I didn't know what Tropfest was and after going, I feel it is my duty to educate the rest of the world. Tropfest is a short film festival that has been running for 22 years. Its probably the most popular and succesful short film festival in the world. I work in the Domain in Sydney which is where it's held, so me and two friends went (its free!)
You dont realise how much you can fit in a seven minute film! These films were amazing, some of them were so sad, like 'Time', the story of a boy who thought he could time travel and he found a rock from 'the future' and all the other boys bullied him, until his mum drove into a lake and he used the said rock to free his mum from the sinking car. EMOTIONAL STUFF. You dont even realise how emotionally attatched you can get to someone in 7 minutes.
Some films were heartwarming, like 'We've all been there', which actually turned out the be the winner.
Tropfest is going to New York soon! Globalising!
Below is a picture of me thoroughly enjoying Tropfest as well as the winning video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpkjGqYJxos&feature=youtube_gdata_player
There is always going to be that fine line in between amazing and weird when it comes to contemporary art and thats exactly what i found at MoCA. The building itself is beautiful, with a direct view of sydney opera house and the harbour bridge, and the outside exudes art, from giant flashing arrows to words scrawled on the pavement. It is a gargantuan gallery, with walls made of thick cement and nothing else to give it a minimal feel.
As you make your way through the gallery the work skips between odd to beautiful - a wall full off pencil drawings of faces is amazing, i loved how the drawings were slightly off centre. However just before you get to these drawings you walk past of model version of spider man facing a hairy face that is morphing out the wall (see pictured below with james, rightfully looking bemused). Whos to say that isn't art though? Personally i wouldn't have it in my living room but that doesnt mean its not artistic.
One of the most frustrating things about contemporary art is that its hard to see any message. When it comes to older art, take the Renaissance, the messages are almost always clear, but nowadays I feel like curators are desperately needed as a gateway between the artist and the viewer as a sort of translator. As much as i LOVE looking at a room full of objects painted yellow, I want to know exactly what I'm looking at.
The museum was interesting to say the least, and after going it's made me associate CONTEMPORARY with COLOURFUL, which i think is understandable given the pictures below!
Oh, the photos were taken by my wonderfully talentes friend James, who runs the blog The Final Cut. Go!
