THE BLACK SWAN

one of many resolutions, this one is easy to fulfill. on top of our list there's written "black swan" in big fat letters. we've waited long enough. in january natalie portman is going to lead the "swan lake", but delight about the role is only short-lived. innocence and beauty turn into pain soon, misery and confusion. it seems that the white swan, slowly loosing its mind, becomes more and more like the evil twin sister, the black swan. what a thrilling and moving way to start the new year. we won't miss it!

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SNOWY KISSES FROM RAURISER URWALD

 a dreamy snowshoe hike with edward sharp and the magnetic zeros in our heads.

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NO SMOKE WITHOUT A FIRE

new year is coming pretty close and of course we´ve got loads of wishes and dreams for 2011. wishes and dreams we didn´t even know before we made our skyballons in elaborately handicraft. after hours we were ready to send our good intentions and thoughts to heaven.

somehow thinking about future always ends in this love and happiness thing, hahaha

come on! just a little bit ... for us!

in the end our wishes didn´t fly up high into the sky. they were burnt down and arised in smoke. but hey, everything is gonna be good.

we wish you a relaxed time full of joy and all the best for 2011!

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AN ELAPSED VOICE-OVER

we were between them. between the vampires and their victims. they came around in sound documents from past times. they abducted us to deep places, masked them as ovid, karl marx or jean baudrillard and appeared at the same time as four actors posing questions about the dissappearing of utopia and ebbing dreams.

with "vampires of the 21st century or what to be done, then?" theatercombinat created a sound scenery which soaked in every slash and overwhelmed. 

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LENGTHEN TIME

imagine...fast pace leads to slow motion, tension turns into ease, gravity into weightlessness, sorrow into joy and stagnation becomes flow. linh thuy trinh's pictures appear to unite them all. let's enter linh's dreamy world!

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DANCE WITH...ANGUS AND JULIA STONE

no matter if they take you on a ride on a big jet plane or down the yellow brick road...angus and julia stone take you on a musical journey through life with all its advetures, hopes, dreams and past memories accompanaied by a soothing sound of acustic guitar and gentle piano playing. well we guess this weekend we'll take a trip with angus and julia. do you believe that there are treasures in the ocean?

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DESIGN FOR HUMANITY

take some fresh bikinis and models, add bands like the vines and operator please, strew some cool djs and mix it up with paintings and installations from claudio kirac ... and there you got an unforgettable night full of fashion, art and music. billabong brought all these ingredients together and delighted not only the party crowd in sydney.

more than 18 million people, including eight million children have been affected by pakistan’s worst floods in living memory. 100% of the proceeds of design for humanity benefit go to unicef’s pakistan flood children’s appeal. we like brands who care and mingled with the crowd.

 

operator please, a great band from australia, if we could choose a little brother he would look like their drummer

 the long awaited fashion show

yes, the vines! we enjoyed their version of mrs. jackson, uuuuuh 

what would a party be without its terrific guests

girls wearing the two finalist bikinis of the bikini showdown design contest

flight facilities at work

as if claudio had customised this installation 
just for us

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CLUB DER TÖCHTER GOES FITNESS

balance, flexibility, core and power training. over the last three weeks the girls of nike's club der töchter worked out at bigsmile place. they streched, bent, ran, jumped and exercised with support of pros like fabienne nadarajah or andrea mayr. let's hear it also for the peppy trainers! ambassadors elisabeth, nastasja and johanna complete our babble over sport in daily life, club der töchter and describe their favourite practice.

 
sport is . . . 

elisabeth . . .  a good balance for everyday life

i'm in balance when . . .

nastasja . . .  body and soul are equally challenged

the best thing about club der töchter is . . .

johanna . . .  teamspirit

my last muscle ache i had . . .

nastasja . . . last week when i had to shovel snow.

movement means to me . . .

johanna . . .  to riot

my favourite training of the last three weeks was . . 

nastasja . . .  the exhausting power-training

i run till . . .

johanna . . .  i achieve a goal
the best about the last three weeks was . . .

elisabeth  . . .  to see the steady progress one can achieve

 
your favourite practice . . . 

it's a tension exercise. you lay down sidewise at the floor in a streching position. then you lift the pelvis so that the only bodyparts touching the ground are one foot and your ellbow. you tense your belly and bottom and hold the position for the next thirty seconds. afterwards you change the side and do it the other way around. if you're very ambitous you can move your pelvis up and down in the air, while you're in that position :)

we'll try out that one and are looking forward to the club der töchter parteey.

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ABOUT A GIRL – BEX MASSEY

bex designs, makes furniture and public art and works for a design firm in south london called based upon. her professional practice stems from an overlty figurative use of graphite and oils. bex gave us an insight into her work as an artist.

hi bex, you're an artist in southern london. please tell us a bit about your artwork and where you get your inspiration from.

my work is based on current affairs, social issues and the way in which they are documented in the media. at present we are bombarded with so much unfiltered information that crucial issues are often overlooked. likewise, we view such a plethora of depressing imagery and shock tactic headlines that we have become almost dehumanised to an individual's tragedy.  with such a volume of statistics and crude data being continuously thrown at us – is it just easier to overlook the harsh reality of the facts? too frequently are we told what to think, feel and do.  i therefore try to pose questions to viewers, and offer a platform for them to readdress this through the use of ambiguity and omission. i enjoy obscuring what the audience would "normally" view as the salient part of a scenario or scene.  likewise, i leave areas unfinished, blurred or blank for the audience to fill in themselves.  this shift in structure and emphasis often leads to a sense of unrest within my pieces, and a distinct feeling that there are much more sinister undertones lurking beneath the surface.

in what way would you describe your connection to art?

my connection with art was instilled at  an early age.  my parents are both architects and i have been very fortunate to have been taken to many international galleries, been surrounded with support and great feedback and discourse about critical theory and art history.  after my degree it was a bit of a struggle to maintain jobs and keep the drive to continue making and exhibitng my own work due to time restraints.  i was lucky enough to be signed by an east end vyner street gallery at the beginning of this year, so all those late nights and isolating studio moments seem to be finally paying off. it is because of this awareness about how though it is for aspiring artists that ellie green and myself set up VV. VV is our collective and is the title that we exhibit duo shows, zines, art reviews etc. what we are trying to concentrate on at the moment is creating a platform for other female artists. we are in the process of cultivating a broad contact base to create a skill sharing network. we aim on setting up a frame work in which women artists will find it easier to create, exhibit and publicise. in short giving them all the aids we wish we had when we started our professional practice.

are there any exhibitions in the near future we can look foward to?

i  formulate two future exhibitons next year: duo show march/april with my art collective partner ellie green, and the launch of our collective VV.  As well as a solo show towards the end of the year.

we can't wait to visit your exhibition!

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FROM SNOWBOARDING TO ART TO 100 % CHARITY PT.III

april by dennis tiege 

we are just around in warmer regions but won´t miss to call your attention to this project about snowboarding, art and a good cause. for the third time cappuccino club created a charity calendar in collaboration with artists and snowboard brands. if you are around innsbruck these days take all your friends and support the cappuccino club at weekender club on friday, 3rd. by dropping by and buying a calendar you will help to finance projects in kirgistan and maybe be the lucky winner of incredible tombola prizes.

march by permanent unit

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