Watching this with you would have been so much better

Here is what I imagine:
I invite all of you to my house (Warsaw, Poland), and together we sit and watch I Love Alaska. Maybe it's not because this is the perfect work to be enjoying with a group of people you've only just met. (It probably isn't). Maybe it has more to do with how surprizingly far this blog has led. In many ways.
One of them is you. Right now, there are hundreds of you coming to this blog every day. There is over a hundred people following New Art "formally" via blogger.com, plus many many others via feeds and such, plus the hundreds of people who drop by every now and then... I've been receiving your kind e-mails, and enjoy visiting all the blogs, portfolios, sites that you publish or recommend. Some of you have been coming here nearly since the beginning, but it's also very exciting for me to get feedback from newcomers. I've come to know you a little, and, so to speak, enjoy your company on this ride. Many of you are in the arts, others are students, for many of you I suppose this is more of a curious entertainment. All this means not only that you enjoy the art I showcase, but certainly, to some extent we share a common sensibility. Wouldn't it be delicious to have just a part of us meet and enjoy some of this art together? Sit down, have a glass of wine, watch the film, then talk about art and life and simplicity and complexity, and how the mountains are majestic, and America does or doesn't influence the world, and share other references (all the Brokeback Mountains, Into The Wilds, Cremasters that come to mind...), ideas, passions. (You know, meeting in real life someone you've hardly even known online ;))
Not a festival, but a get-together.
And then of course we would party all night, and probably go to the shore of the Vistula river, and maybe make a field trip the next day. But the moment of a genuine and common esthetic experience, together, would have been ours.
This is what I imagine.
And you know what? - we actually could do it.
(To be continued)

Two works by Christiane Löhr

Oh were this the universe!
Were it but a combination of lines, a simple picture of perfection, were the universe a set of twigs and seeds with their mathematical omnipotence!
Oh were there nothing else, nothing but the point where everything meets, nothing but the shape it all embodies. And the shadow of the reflection of a shadow of the Work, just to outscore its very depth of space, just to give us the distance we need to be closer.
Oh were it all we need, the joyful meeting of vectors, the unswerving presence of fragility.

Oh were there no shadow in the top left corner, coming from elsewhere.

Both pictures are of sculptures by Christiane Löhr.

Impostors

Guys, it's simple.

Justin doesn't have or ever will have any accounts on the internet to chat with fans unless it's listed on his kidrauhl description on YouTube.

That means no backup accounts, no behind-the-scenes accounts, no secret, private or hidden accounts.

If you see one, please send a message to the fansofjustin account on YouTube.

List of known impostors coming soon.

Robin Hood Above

The artist going by the name of Above made this stencil in Lisbon. (I actually know the lady sitting on the right - she is one of Lisbon's classic characters). In a gesture the artist herhimself admits robinwoodesque, Above is selling prints of this picture and will give all the profits to two charities she has previously selected. More info here.

The Actors - Reconnaissance, by Wojtek Ziemilski

This is a short fragment of my work called The Actors. The first volume - Reconnaissance lasts 50 minutes. You can see this excerpt in sort-of-HD here.
Any galleries interested in showing this work, write me, and I'll send you a DVD.

Flash from the past - Justin at 12 years old

Don't forget to check out the New chat room!

80,000 subscribers - Just how many people IS that?

It's official.

Justin Bieber has just reached 80,000 subscribers on YouTube.. 89,500 if you include his justinbieber account.

Just how many people IS 80,000? How can we relate to such a huge number?

• If Justin took an hour out of every day and spent just 60 seconds to talk to every one of his subscribers on the phone, it would take him over 3 and a half years to talk to everyone. Of course, if his accounts keep growing like they are, he would never be able to catch up.

• If all of Justin's subscribers lined up in single file, it would take about half an hour to drive past them all at highway speed.

• If Justin was to have a party and invited all his subscribers, he would need an area of over 3 and a half acres if everyone only had 2 square feet of space.

What does 80,000 people look like?

Take a look...



Now don't you feel special when you get a reply?

What are some other ways you can relate to 80,000 people? Leave a comment! And don't forget to bookmark and memorize

TinyURL.com/fansite

to keep up with all the latest Justin Bieber news.

~ BieberTeam

A Heart-felt Thank-you from a Bieber fan

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My New Art

I've been very very busy with the opening of my video installation.
Today is the opening night
I won't tell you much, and will leave you with the small text that accompanies it instead:


THE ACTORS
Part 1: RECONNAISSANCE

reconnaissance. or: finding oneself. or: recognition. the recognition of someone else. someone is recognized. or: recognizing. you are (this) someone. this is (this) someone. or: meeting again. discovering again something one knew already. electra's paradox: electra knows, and does not know, that it is her brother standing before her.

reconnaissance. checking. how far. how far one can go. how far one needs to go to. where are the borders. when do i fall into something else. and whatwho is this something else.

i like knowing so little about them.
i like that they remain actors.
and that they are actors in a way no different from all the others.
i like what they're able to do because of how we called them: actors.

The Actors opens (link in Polish) at the TR Warszawa in Poland.
Hopefuly I'll be able to post a short excerpt of the video soon...

Justin's first Shoutout Video - The Real Justin Bieber

Justin gives a shoutout to some fans from his "lil bra's" account, christianbeadles. See Justin like you've never seen him before.




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Justin Bieber's 50,000th friend on MySpace

Today Justin Bieber's 50,000th friend was added to his official MySpace account.

Justin now has more than 86,000 combined subscribers and well over 32 million video views between his two accounts on YouTube and still ranks in the top 25 most subscribed musicians in the entire world.

This means that besides just a handful, Justin has surpassed nearly every major label artist in the industry, including Beyonce, Leona Lewis, Metallica, Avril Lavigne, Michael Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Jessie McCartney, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Usher, and many, many more.

All of the above channels have had accounts longer than Justin.

Watch for a new singing video on the kidrauhl channel soon.

~ BieberTeam