Welcome to Top 10 Dec 11.
For this week I got as usual the best bits and bobs that i found floating around the Internet,
but I also wanted to share with you my favorite Music Albums of 2009, hope you will enjoy it.
Top 50 Albums of 2009
50. Casiotone For the Painfully Alone - Vs. Children.
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49. Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay.
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48. Volcano Choir - Unmap.
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47. Baroness - Blue Record.
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46. Doom - Born Like This.
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45. Girls - Girls.
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44. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career.
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43. Clues - S/T.
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42. Dan Deacon - Bromst.
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41. Yacht - See Mystery Lights
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40. Woods - Songs of Shame
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39. The Fiery Furnaces - I’m Going Away
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38. Kylesa - Static Tensions
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37. Handsome Furs - Face Control
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36. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
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35. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today...
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34. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
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33. St Vincent - Actor
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32. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
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31. Real Estate - S/T
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30. Taken By Trees - East of Eden
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29. Wavves - Wavves
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28. Mi Ami - Watersports
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27. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
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26. Passion Pit - Manners
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25. Oneida - Rated O
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24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz
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23. Wildbirds & Peace Drums - The Snake
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22. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
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21. Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
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20. Circulatory System - Signal Morning
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19. Dinosaur Jr - Farm
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18. JJ - N° 2
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17. Zu - Carboniferous
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16. Fever Ray - S/T
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15. Atlas Sounds - Logos
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14. The Antlers - Hospice
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13. Mount Eerie - Wind’s Poem
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12. The pains of being pure at heart - S/T
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11. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
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10. The xx - xx
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9. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
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8. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
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7. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus
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6. The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa
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5. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
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4. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
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3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
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2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
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1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
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Cheers
Mr. J
Friday, December 11, 2009
1. Szymon Roginski
Polish photographer Szymon Roginski has been inspired by cubism for the the 2009 spring/summer collection of Ania Kuczynska. He wanted to break the two dimensional sense of photography as well as cubist painters in 20's tried to break two dimensions in painting. The first part of work was a photo shoot and then Szymon Roginski finished with a final photo shoot, rebuilding original frames with hundreds of hand made solids.See more work by Szymon HERE
2. Digg Labs 365 Project
Digg celebrates its 5th anniversary with Digg 365 [labs.digg.com], the newest incarnation of the ground-breaking data visualization interfaces available at Digg Labs, next to the well-known Arc, Big Spy, Stack and Swarm variants. Digg 365 surfaces the top 10 stories on any given day, month and year. The ability to view past stories this far back has not existed until now. One can also explore the top 10 stories by category or per year. Users can roll over the colored arcs to show display the months. Clicking on it brings an outside arc to choose a specific day.
Check it out HERE
5. Christina West
b. November 27, 1980Christina West is an avid people watcher with a dry sense of humor, active imagination, and an innate impulse to create with her hands. If you meet her and she stares at you a bit too long, she's probably just picturing you naked.
Check out more work by Christina West HERE
8. Charlotte Delarue
Interview With Charlotte in Vice Magazine:The French edition of Vice shares an office with a “creative company” called Surface to Air (we call them Surface to Gay behind their backs). But one good thing about them is that they employ the most beautiful, feminine creature ever to walk the earth. Her name is Charlotte Delarue, and she is an artiste. It’s too bad this issue is all illustrated because a picture of Charlotte would show you barbarians in other countries what French charm is all about. Oh well. C’est la vie and shit like that.
Charlotte’s work focuses on the sweet, the cute, and the adorable. Let’s talk with her now. (You can’t hear it, but her voice sounds like a magic fairy bell.)
Vice: Do all these strange and pretty little things that you draw come from the imagination that is inside your brain that is inside your beautiful little head?
Charlotte Delarue: No. I mostly work from pictures I find on the internet. It could be an old image, like the one with the two bears and the girl. It has a cute 1970s erotic edge. Then I print it on tracing paper and I fill in the blanks.
Oh, so you cheat. Well, who cares? You’re still really pretty. So how much time does this take?
It depends on the quality of the picture. If it’s good quality, there isn’t much contrast so it takes me a few hours. If it’s a really small picture, which is often the case with the ones I find on the internet, it can take days.
The guys from the office wanted me to tell you that you smell good.
Really? Who told you to say that?
Mathieu.
He’s cute.
He also wanted to know if you use a no. 2 pencil.
Ha. I don’t really know what I use, actually. I have a lot of mechanical pencils—anything with soft lead is good. But I’m also starting to paint oil portraits in a fan-art style. I work from a photo and I use paint I found in a dollar store.
You know, I just love watching you work. It’s so relaxing. Especially on days when I have a horrible hangover, like today. Does it relax you too?
Yes, it’s very soothing. It’s only reproduction, you know. It’s not like I have to invent something. So it’s very relaxing, yeah.
Do you stick your tongue out like kids do when they draw?
Maybe I still do, I’m not too sure.
No, I don’t think you do, you just kind of curl up your nose like that. It’s supercute.
You know, for us you are the new Brigitte Bardot. Except nicer and smarter. We want there to be a sculpture of you in all the town halls in France.
I think I’d like that too.
See Charlotte Delarue's blog HERE
10. Michael Zavros
Michael Zavros was born in 1974. He graduated from Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1996 where he has subsequently worked as a sessional lecturer in painting and printmaking. Since graduating he has taken part in numerous group exhibitions including Primavera 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Sebastian: Contemporary Realist Painting, Quiet Collision: Current Practice/Australian Style, Associazione ViaFarini, Milan, Italy 2003 and New Nature at Govett Brewster Gallery, New Zealand in 2007.Solo exhibitions include Everything I wanted, for which he was awarded an Arts Queensland Development Grant, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in 2003/2004 and Egoiste at Wollongong Regional Gallery in 2007.
Michael Zavros is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the 2002 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award. In 2004 he was awarded the Primavera Collex Art Award through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and in 2005 he won the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize through Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was a finalist in The Archibald Prize. In 2007 he was awarded the Kedumba Drawing Award and was appointed to the Visual Arts and Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
In 2001 Michael Zavros was awarded the Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Fund, Milan Residency and more recently, the VACF Barcelona Residency in 2005. In 2003 he was awarded a Cite International des Arts Residency in Paris through the Power Institute, University of Sydney. In 2004 he was the recipient of a residency at the Gunnery Studios, Sydney, from the NSW Ministry for the Arts.
Forthcoming projects include solo exhibitions at Sophie Gannon Gallery in October 2007 and Gold Coast City Art Gallery in 2008 and a show with Nell at Gertrude St Contemporary Art Spaces in 2008.
His work has been included in the Craftsman House publication Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, featuring 50 Australian contemporary artists. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Artbank, National Portrait Gallery, Collex, ABN AMRO, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Grafton Regional Art Gallery and TMAG (Tasmanian Museum and Gallery).
See more of Michael Zavros HERE
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