It start to look better

sixth try - a composition (detail) for a painting 

 ink and pastel 

And again drawings-colored?

fifth try - it start to look promising, but scary

more drawings?

forth try - can we really call this a drawing? 

Drawings?

There is that time in life when you have to stop lying to yourself and admit things that can be quite rude, painful or disappointing for you. Today is such a day for me - in between of million other things I realized that I forgot to draw, probably also to paint and to sculpt, so I restarted drawing and hopefully one day I will do something even good as I did before. 

 first try

 second try

third try

best artist ever

Do not worry, I am not talking about me - it would not be true and I do not even consider myself as an artist. But the best artist ever and ever was, is and will be "THE NATURE" - at least for me, since you cannot even imagine that kind of richness and surprises that nature can do. Put something in the ground, add some water and it is amazing what kind of colors, forms, combinations come out, sprout, grow, change , appear and disappear and re-appear. Sometimes you not even need the ground - the nature is beauty the water is richness anything else is just in our sometimes tortured minds.

this is a spring onion regrowing in water after being eaten (once) - it takes five days before the new green leaves appear on the top (the right plant)

Johnny boy art construction

this is just a shadow on a wall - quite easy to make :)

You actually need just few definitions and here we go - how art is made and what is actually ART?

(The definitions you can also look up completely in wikipedia by tipping the word "art", "humans" "idea" and so on)

ART 

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, usually involving imaginative or technical skill. (it is simple - NO?)

HUMANS

Modern humans (Homo sapiens or Homo sapiens sapiens) are the only extant members of the hominin clade, a branch of great apes characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; manual dexterity and increased tool use; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies. (so to make art you have to be human - OR?)

IDEA

In philosophy, ideas are usually construed as mental representational images of some object. Ideas can also be abstract concepts that do not present as mental images. (you have to have an idea - a research alike- what, why and how??? but mostly why)

SKILL

A skill is the learned ability to carry out a task with pre-determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both together. (or you do a crappy scratch and pay someone to do it for you)

ACTION
An action is something which is done by an agent. In common speech, the term action is often used interchangeably with the term behavior. In the philosophy of action, the behavioural sciences, and the social sciences, however, a distinction is made: behavior is defined as automatic and reflexive activity, while action is defined as intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful activity. (in other words you have to start doing your work or working on it so art will be made)

DOING IT

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise") is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes. (your idea and your skill involving you and your action has to be something let's say new or at least new in your country - something that will tinkle the reactions of as much people as it can be to be recognized on Internet - for example) 

so taking that together you get an artwork done :) but there is something more important than ART HUMAN IDEA SKILL ACTION and DOING IT - it is the presentation and publication and also SELLING IT - and today it is called WOLF.

The "gray"(has to have some color)  wolf is the most specialized member of the genus Canis, as demonstrated by its morphological adaptations to hunting large prey, its more gregarious nature, and its highly advanced expressive behavior. (that is how you get to be "exposed" in the "big" and "good" galleries - sells guaranteed - what works also is to be "very nice" with some owners and influence people or to just merry them - but what really works is if you really do a great job - and what you do not need is talent - it can help but it is not necessary the success) 

good luck. 

the conception of "this is not art"

once you get familiar with any concept (logic or not) you start to use it once you get adjust to something and got to use to it it will become logic and anything else will disturb you but what is great about our tiny brains is that we get used to actually anything we just have to get any kind of confirmation for example i am writing this only with small letters and without any points breaks or other symbols we use in our writing language this is the same with art at some point everything is art it just have to be pronounced and to be accepted at least by one other person than the artist himself and there we go the stone is rollin but to be honest a lot of things out there are just the emperors clothes and my conception about this is not art is actually the same at the one from people claiming to do art so in the end everything is art and it is not at the same time 

To get to normal - 

The image you see my dear Julian (expression used in some Michelin kitchens between chefs as Gordon Ramsay or fuc*in Jamie Oliver - even if I have no proof of it)... so the image you see my dear Julian is just me, holding a masque made of wood, taking as photo by using the photo booth of my macbook, than adjusting the contrast in Photoshop, copying it, rotating making some more copy paste clicks and adding some render lens flare filters - adjusting everything on a black background and that is all - my personal 5 minutes mandala that can be printed on any object as paper, t-shirt, mug, bottle, flag and so on. Is this art? NO - this is the conception of me having 10 minutes off and since it rains I thought why do not do some "art" and write about it on blogger - I agree I could also go out and take some photos by flipping my camera in the rainy neighborhood and pretend to be a street photographer - nope I decide to be just a blogger and podcaster and sometimes even human.   

Have a nice day!      

chain reaction

can you get away with that? 

can you call it art? a concept? 

I do not know what s about you, but this is the chain reaction of an orange and me and my knife and my love to eat oranges - at least my opinion, but (there is alllllways a but) - if you do anything as a result of a concept (also called concet - since the P is quite not used so often) - of corse it is art - at least you die trying or you have the chance to get away with it.

So here is my latest art work - I will call it:"the blue chain reaction of inspiration part one" or "superplidodium" - for example ;)

where the magic happens

ambassadors lounge

It is almost 7 AM - boarding time, fist class, place number 3 at the flight to the beautiful city of Vienna. Today you do not have quite much companies that are not in some alliance with some others. So my Lufthansa was actually a Tyrolean flight, the stuff beautiful as always  and the uniforms as usual not fit to the stuff, so it looked quite disturbing. But who cares, we spend some hours together and that is all.
Normally I do not fly first class nor with the ambassadors badge but this time I do. So at 7:30AM the fly begins, breakfast for the first class - salad with eggs and corn. Second class - just a small cake that actually looked better than my fancy salad and who actually eats salad for breakfast? And than they brought me some bubble water also called champagne but at almost 8AM ??? We were 3 people in the first class and I was the only one not drinking my bubbles - okay maybe the other two started the day like 5-6 hours before me, I was to shy to ask.

Ambassadors lounge - it is actually a dark and at the same time shiny bar with great chairs and strange decoration. I took a pastiche tea - what a mistake - the last time I tried in some airport bar a tomato orange juice with campari (that was just scary).

So I write this since I have to kill 3 hours and here I have free wifi so I bother my friend on Fb and per mail and you guys the few who bother to read my blog. Maybe one day I will write again smart stuff but at the moment I got to the age where I start to go back and become a child again. So what I will do next is dancing in this ambassadors lounge listening to the song happy from Pharrell Williams and it will be funny to sea the reaction of the seniors around me - who knows maybe they will try to trow me out, but there is not one NO DANCING sign... We will see,
greeting from Vienna

Servus
your Wiz of AV

very cool - very happy - very crazy people

very shiny people, very dancy people, people who never sleep, have fun, move like the wind, very water alike people, very of any or everything people, very stylish people, very best of the best people, very today s people, very fashion people, very intelligent people, very romantic people, very lucky people...

 

very computer alike people!

you are all of that - you just need the right plug-in and the right software update (in the human case the hardware update cost to much), but what do I know. I am just one of the every s day people standing somewhere under the highest waterfall in Europe near Sarajevo and it is not a selfie - when I took this once upon a time the selfies did not exist yet...

cheers   

A puzzle and the hipster pseudo coca-cola take 2

A puzzle is just one piece devise in more than one pieces and once fit together it will show us an image - an answer - a solution - or the end of a crime movie. The bottle of hipster pseudo coca-cola was quite a puzzle. It did look like the original, the brand, the almost first one ;) if you get my point. It smelled different, It tasted funny, but still it looked quite very much as the very known product colored in red and white. So I did what I always do - I compare the what kind of stuff is inside, still the same question  - what is the missing piece of the puzzle?

Once a 2D puzzle is finished you can glue it together and frame it and put it on your wall,
once a crime puzzle is solved you can write a book about it or make a movie,
but once the puzzle between the real and the imitation is (let me say) closed you still have the big question in front of you - even more than one:
1. which one is the real
2. the most important - which do you prefer…

To be clear, on here I do not care about any kind of drinks except the one I love to drink, but a drink is like the life - means - you drink it and it takes it’s effect, or you drink it and try to solve the mystery how it is made and here we go with the puzzle and with the life again. The bottle of hipster pseudo coca-cola was quite interesting and I will continue to use it since I liked it and since it is 3 times cheaper than the pseudo « original » - maybe it is made from the same factory for people like me :)

cheers and this time not quite about art (again).
your wizard of Avignon…

Schrödinger's cat i

Like the legend of the phoenix - one of phrases of Daft Punk (not only them).
How deep can we fall and why is falling deep always negative? why do we have this perception about what is positive and what not - falling down (negative - because we can heart us, even die), standing up (positive - because we are now up) - what a bullshit - it is like mind washed - you are down, so you loose, you are hight, so you win.
First of all you cannot reach the bottom - to put it that way if there is a bottom, it is death and when you die you have reached it. If you are a believer in anything there is no bottom, death is just a some kind of rebirth, resurrection, transformation, a continuation and that is all. When you are rejected by everyone you might say I got to the bottom or when your only friends are the people serving you whatever you take at all costs you can say you have reached the bottom - but do you know what - you have not.

I refuse this kind of lebeling. There are so many words that describe a situation and Daft Punk describes it very well:

So like the legend of the Fenix, All ends with beginnings. The most difficult part is to reach that point and start over - means to realize it and to take action.

Life is same as art - you cannot reach the bottom, sometimes you are just not aware how much you suck at it. The good thing is that once you get aware of what you do, you get to the point where is not important what others think about your art or your life. The secret of all success is to reach out to the right people. Unfortunately this does not count for the real stuff as being ill, injured, loooooosing someone and so on. I talk/write about the time when we are WE, GOOD, OURSELVES and with our so pretend problems ;)

hipster pseudo coca-cola

 

A bottle of hipster pseudo coca-cola in front of me - do I still think about art? The real question is do I really want to drink this? In blog posts, podcasts, radio shows, tv shows, books (nice to finish with the books), or whatever else we share, publish and so on WE the authors decide what it has to be, with or without influence. No-one is ever objective. No-one!!!!! And Never!!!! Yes we can (pretend) but otherwise everything we say or do or judge is subjective even if we have got to the point to believe that we are objective - sorry to say this but we are not and that is because we are people. We can be professional but it does not mean 100% objective… The most of everything WE publish is about us, our impression, our opinion, our whatever else - or what we have seen, experienced or what we want to…bla bla bla not to continue in endless about the "we" and the "our"… if you got so far to read all way long you probably got my point. So why am I completely different from all the others? It is quite simple - actually I am not at all. The only small little difference is that I am aware of being not the one, important or whatever subject-person here and-or today. But the real and very important question still remains - should I or should I not drink this hipster pseudo coca-cola drink? Hmmm…. Let’s say to be continued!
your wizard of Avignon…

63% of the battery

63% of the battery on my macbook pro, hmmm and I am listening to some strange music, probably I should change it.  « Done » like Mr.Gordon Ramsay would say. At least one thing I did today, if you get what I want to say. But it is almost 6AM so I have the day let us say in front of me. My hands are a little bit shaking but the coffee has not yet takes it’s effects and I am also tipping on a French keyboard. What do you do at 6AM except of sleeping, exercising or drinking or watching TV?

In the last time I think more about art than I ever did. I do quite less art myself, but I gain my living with conservation of artworks and writing books. Have to do podcast again as well. On a French keyboard it is difficult to write and look at the screen at the same time, even to use all of your fingers - have to get used to it I guess… So I think art - not only contemporary artworks - all art all the time is still I think a question of perception. The most of the people I know if they  do not understand or recognize something it is not art. So if we would be all like « them » the art would be cows, buildings and nature, maybe flowers or naked people and so on (a pipe) :) . But like always the art hat to evaluate and even if we do not understand it at first we have to take a closer look. If you understand what I am talking about continue to read otherwise do not waste your time and go otherwise (quite arrogant to say but if you think about it it is truth)

Art has changed
Art change all the time and we never get used to it.
Art is also sometimes bullshit and it is to « some of you » to make the difference between what is actually worth to see and what is just the Emperor's New Clothes. As Kimya Dawson would say: « We would not stop until someone call the cops and even than we will start again and just pretending that nothing ever happened » So THE art is like that and it is quite simple - the artist have an idea, he/she try to realize it as best he/she or she/he (however) can and you have to try to get it and that is all, but as you are influent by the media, by your friends, next to, the music you listen to, your education…etc… by everything to get it short, you have to try to filter out all the influence and to try to see what was the influence for the artist and to get actually what he/she want to tell you with the piece - so in the end art is and has always be about perception. But everything in the end is a question of perception - the person you met for the first time, the food you try for the first time, the artwork you see for the first time - you get the point I guess.

If I would be a philosopher (and I am surely not) I would not be a materialist, neither a idealist but a « perceptionist » I guess. And speaking of me, what makes me different from other people is actually exactly that - nothing. We have other, similar or same perceptions and ideas about everything - otherwise we are all (no exceptions) the same - we eat, drink, sleep, have been born, « think » / feel and die - except of the part with thinking / feeling  we are like a water heating boiler (water goes in, it heats and it goes out, until it stop working). So why is it important to make art, to express ourselves and to get most of the time just bad feedback and sometimes a good one? Probably because that is what makes the difference between the boiler and a human, but to be honest the most of us remains more boilers than humans and I say this because I have listened to many comments at, on and about quite thousand of exhibitions from people just not getting anything. Do not get me wrong, there are a million artist and people I do not like - but it is not about liking - it is about the respect for their work and the most difficult difference is to filter out the posers and fake from the real artist. To close this long thought of nothingness - it is up to your perception to get it or not, but try not to be disrespectful even if you do not understand or like something - not only art.
Cheers
your wizard of Avignon…

About Life

happy after ever - life is as simple to made as a cake
just ass a lot of chockolade in it ;)

the Madiran effect

The Madiran wine is produced around the village of Madiran in Gascony (you know Gascony because the ugly poet with the big nose comes from there - Cyrano de Bergerac - also known under his real name and with a smaller nose Hercule-Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac - just "wikipedia" it)...

So what is the Madiran effect and why is it there?

It is hard to say it ;) but I have to say it (like Sting) it is probably me (to say it). 

In a strange country,

There is no labels to put on,

In an ordinary country,

it is not only me,

but I need someone to set me free,

like I want to be,

as jazzy and it makes no sense,

but I had to say it,

open mind and no defense,

but I have to say it,

it is just probably me 

and of course some of the Madiran effect and some Sting...

Me against the universe

Me against the world (2Pac song) - I did 2 posts on it... Me against the universe is something new. at the moment I am like a black hole (even if they say "today" black holes do not exist or something like that) - so I am like on of these fellows who travel around somewhere and suck everything in. Do not worry it is just a speech or a telling, what I mean is the news, the media, the Fbook, the real world and so on - I suck every information and I have the big problem that actually I can not do just listen (one ear in - the other out), my brain want to think about everything and that is quite boring and it takes me a lot of energy.

So there are few solutions - if we take out alcohols, drugs and whatever, there are just few left - meditation, sport, hmmm (who knows) and gardening.

so to beat the universe I do some meditation, some sport (not a lot - once a while), some gardening, some private stuff ;), some chatting with the people I know and some alcohol and it work sometimes.

In the end the universe is almost always the winner...So what to do?
Smile?
Try to understand?
Accept?
Hmm?
I just go with it and to lose against the universe it is not so bad, since in the real world of today I almost never lose ;)

Got it

I am thinking of writing little bit more - let us say again. Since my first post on blogger there are few things that have change, or let us say quite a lot of things :
- I got weight (loose some and still loosing it)
- I lost some hair and still loosing it, but not to fast (at the moment)
- I write and speak much better English since than (the old times)
- I changed from PC to Mac
- I do less art, more businesses, less poetry, more gardening, less going out - more parenting - to cut it down I got married and "we" got pregnant...

do not worry at this point - I will not start a blog about parenting, kids and so on... It will remain the same I just hope and "pray" to have more time, the ambition to post more often again, since I actually like writing - even if there is nobody to read this stuff - but who knows, maybe in the future there will be the famous eleven - like the last time and on my TO DO LIST after work is written - PODCAST again and again and again...

So cheers
your
wizard of Avignon...

wax ingravings