planet axel

mcgruff

2011-12-16T00:56:00.001-08:00

heavy d - r.i.p.

2011-11-09T02:30:00.000-08:00

zurich prices

2011-11-02T01:23:00.000-07:00

been to zurich earlier this year but wasn't prepared for the prices. i started to take photos of some menus - fyi as of today 1 swiss franc equals 0.85 euro or 1.15 us-dollars - and here are two examples:

festival

2011-09-01T09:40:00.000-07:00

still alive

2011-08-31T03:26:00.000-07:00

culinary travel

2011-08-30T03:46:00.000-07:00

had a great time on holidays in croatia ..

timelapse drawing

2011-08-06T02:52:00.000-07:00

ha - have you seen the new volkswagen commercial?

they use the same concept as me for the wawel projection mapping in cracow (see last post - video @ 6:00) - they even use the same markers! as both projects were developed during april/may we obviously didn't know about each other ..

wawel illumination

2011-06-06T05:10:00.000-07:00

just came back from cracow where i illuminated the royal wawel castle with my projections. sounds by dj funkee flow ..

.. and some stills

Here are some more links to pages with Photos from the projection:

Gazeta Wyborcza

MMKrakow

Dziennik Polski

Krakow.pl

Flickr

InfoKrakow24

Marek Lasyk Blog

Krzysztof Gurszynski Blog

arte polska

2011-02-08T00:10:00.000-08:00

the german-french tv programme arte will become a german-french-polish tv programme in the future. i'm looking very forward to it.

painting a portrait

2011-01-28T00:06:00.000-08:00

sinn machen

2011-01-10T00:07:00.000-08:00

.. means 'making sense'. normally, in german you'd say 'sinn haben' or 'sinn ergeben' but 'sinn machen' came from english language and now german speaking people love using it. here you can find a nice essay about this phenomenon (in german, though).

blooom

2010-11-01T03:30:00.001-07:00

so i took part in the blooom award competition and ended up on the art fair as one of the finalists. it was a great experience (although i didn't win one of the prizes) - among us contenders we had a very friendly atmosphere. i also liked the concept of finding ways to integrate young and independent (i.e. not gallery-represented) art into an established art fair. this is usually not an easy thing to do as the generation of customers/collectors are too old to relate to topics we work with. well, at least this is the case with my work there - who, at the age of 50 to 70 years, has any connection to big ghettoblasters? for people of my age it is a symbol of the early hiphop-culture which we all somehow witnessed (at least everyone grew up with beastie boys, right?). this doesn't mean they all have to like it but it is at least nothing completely unknown. art is always an expression of the zeitgeist and the feeling of a generation and for this reason also a key to understanding the latter. i can't wait to see the art of the young people born into a facebook-world, for sure they will have other focuses than us being born into pre-mobile-phone world. i was feeling already a little bit old when someone told me my work felt nostalgic to him. fortunately there are always those existential things in art everyone can relate to because at the end of the day life holds in some kind of sense the same challenges for everybody. with that wisdom being dropped, greetings to all the blooom award finalists:
anna kubelik (congratulations!), stefan fromberger, marius leneweit & rocio rodríguez, azusa kuno, simona petrauskaite, lesley schulze, katrin elsen, andrea horezky and last not least the boys jan glisman, steffen kraska & david rival
this is the official video about us:

ol' dirty (RIP)

2010-10-29T11:15:00.000-07:00

egoshooter

2010-07-23T04:24:00.000-07:00

here are some photos from my solo show 'egoshooter' in schwabach:

catholics beware!

2010-07-23T04:10:00.000-07:00

this is the last shot my old digicam did before it died. but it is an interesting one. i found it outside a church in poland. it says: 'catholics beware! dangerous signs.' you will find signs you would expect on a list like that but also some that you wouldn't:

r.i.p.

2010-06-11T07:15:00.000-07:00

... sigmar polke!

party

2010-04-17T11:49:00.001-07:00

brand clash

2010-04-11T03:35:00.000-07:00

paris photos

2010-03-09T03:15:00.000-08:00

thanks to the man dash for accomodation and food and to michi for the comfortable mattress!

megumi ishibashi, megumi ohguri

2010-03-08T08:29:00.000-08:00

during my visit at the cité in paris i got to know two artists from japan, both named megumi.

at first glance megumi ishibashi's sculptures reminded me of niki de saint-phalles' but probably my european perspective might be the reason for this. unlike in japan we - or maybe better: i - don't know too many sculptors working in such a colorful/comic-related way. megumi ishibashi's work has a very positive attitude, her works in public space brighten up the area e.g. abandoned playgrounds, hospitals or landscapes spoilt by concrete. she loves the colors of the rainbow. her favorite medium is some traditional plastic-like material which is made from a japanase tree - unfortunately i can't remember what it's called.

megumi ohguri's photography is both very surrealistic and poetic. it's all analog and mostly black and white but very experimental. ghosts, shadows and colorly reduced overpaintings serve as her means of expression but she also uses projections in a black box to combine two photos. megumi ohguri has made a beautiful book called 'a make believe diary' combining her photographic work with self-written poems.

jack wolfskin

2010-02-18T08:27:00.000-08:00

everybody and their moms is wearing jack wolfskin gear these days - it is starting to drive me crazy. a friend of mine who spent some time down under told me germans are infamous there for their outdoor/functional dress code. sometimes i get the impression those people go shopping, thinking 'screw trying to find something that fits me - let's just wear what everyone else does', not sure if this is a typically german attitude. i found a nice article on this topic (in german though) where it's already called the new 'deutsche uniform':

link

interview

2010-02-15T07:47:00.000-08:00

last year i was interviewed by the federal employment agency for their info-brochures which are supposed to help kids in finding the right job. they asked me what it's like to be an artist. the brochures are out now in job centers nationwide.

overview

ruste juxx and marco polo interview

2010-01-13T01:28:00.001-08:00

ruste and marco speak about their new project 'the exxecution' coming out this year. plus ruste kicks some killer rhymes. can't wait for this one!

thirsty monkeys

2009-12-08T12:13:00.000-08:00

dog snack

2009-12-08T12:05:00.000-08:00

cat tape

2009-12-08T11:51:00.000-08:00

cats cannot walk proper if you put tape on them.

tour de space

2009-05-26T14:44:00.000-07:00

here you can see videos of my lightshow which the nuremberg castle was illuminated with on 23 may 2009 during the 'blaue nacht'-event:

director's cut (by andre debus):

and a slightly shortened version:

grzegorz wnęk

2009-05-03T02:09:00.000-07:00

grzegorz is a colleague of mine from cracow. we got to know each other during my studies in poland in 2005. born in frysztak in 1974 he studied at the asp cracow from 1994-1999 in the class of prof. rodziński and is now taking care of the first-year students' drawing class. he is also co-founder of the group "kontrapost". grzegorz already had many solo and group exhibitions (also with wilhelm sasnal in former years) and last year he won the "young poland"-scholarship which also enabled him to make a nice catalogue of his work. his always realistic and mostly figurative paintings can be divided in different series, having been becoming more photo-realistic in the last two years. they can be found in many private collections but in museums as well e. g. the frissiras museum in athens. he is working like a madman, tearing down one huge format after the next. you can see some of his paintings here.

in grzegorz's studio: rafał pacześniak, grzegorz wnęk, jacek pasieczny and me

julian turner

2009-05-03T01:05:00.000-07:00

on the web i got to know julian turner, a young artist studying at the academy in vienna. i like his photographic work very much. the pictures are always well composed and in their different atmospheres they are very intense and on point. Browse through his flickr photostream to find great pictures ranging from urban scenes to ironic statements. hope we will meet in real life soon.

talin lopez

2009-04-02T00:47:00.000-07:00

talin lopez is a soon-to-be-famous actor. i've been knowing him for half of my life now. he already appeared in commercials, short films and feature films. take a look at his showreel:

all the best bro!!

perception games

2009-01-25T12:51:00.000-08:00

ok lets start up with this one - what do you see? (continue below)

experiments have shown that little kids are not able to recognize this 'intimate' couple because they don't have something like that in their brain. what they see is 9 dolphins. if you're having a hard time to recognize the dolphins in max. 3 secs your mind is already tainted.

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concentrate on the cross in the middle:

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what is it? a circle or a spiral?

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the red horizontal lines, are they parallel or not?

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just enjoy those:

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concentrate on the cross and move your head to the front and to the back:

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many thanks to my mother for always supplying me with nice things like these.

marek pasieczny

2009-01-25T09:23:00.000-08:00

marek pasieczny is the brother of my partner jacek pasieczny. he's a famous guitar player and composer. here you can see him play with some chinese orchestra:

the video below shows a friend of his, playing a composition of marek pasieczny. is it just me or does this guy look somehow similar to me?!

skillz - crazy world

2009-01-11T08:34:00.000-08:00

brain test

2008-11-23T09:25:00.001-08:00

If you see this lady turning in clockwise you are using your right brain.
If you see her turning the other way, you are using your left brain.
Some people do see both ways, but most people see it only one way.

See if you can make her go one way and then the other by shifting the brain's current.
BOTH DIRECTIONS CAN BE SEEN.

Experimentation has shown that the two different sides or hemispheres of the brain are responsible for different manners of thinking. The following table illustrates the differences between left-brain and right-brain thinking:

Left Brain: logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective, looks at parts

Right Brain: random, intuitive, holistic, synthesizing, subjective, looks at wholes

Most individuals have a distinct preference for one of these styles of thinking. Some, however, are more whole-brained and equally adept at both modes. In general, schools tend to favor left-brain modes of thinking, while downplaying the right-brain activities. Left-brain scholastic subjects focus on logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy. Right-brained subjects, on the other hand, focus on aesthetics, feeling, and creativity.

If you look away, she may switch from one direction to the other.

cracow exhibition

2008-09-16T14:22:00.000-07:00

in july i did an exhibition with jacek pasieczny in the otwarta pracownia gallery in cracow, here are some pics ..

portrait

2008-09-05T08:31:00.000-07:00

this is a commission i did in july
oil/canvas 50x40

pleinair

2008-05-21T09:09:00.000-07:00

i painted those during a 2-week workshop in poland. all are oil /canvas 40x50 cm

graffiti

2008-03-10T13:44:00.000-07:00

me and three friends did a graffiti job yesterday ..

.. and been on tv as well (the red arrow points at me):

new painting

2008-02-25T12:54:00.001-08:00

oil / canvas 50x60cm

munich exhibition

2008-01-21T11:16:00.001-08:00

today i finished the installation of the paintings .. vernissage is on friday

nürnberg hip hop documentation

2008-01-13T10:42:00.000-08:00

new year ammo

2007-12-30T13:19:00.000-08:00

again, this year i am loaded:

it must be a lot of fun designing stuff like this:

me and the minister

2007-12-28T12:06:00.000-08:00

new paintings

2007-10-18T03:35:00.001-07:00

i've been very busy lately .. so here is some of the recent stuff:

50x70 oil/canvas

50x70 oil/canvas

120x60 oil/canvas

70x50 oil/canvas

40x50 oil/canvas

smif n wessun - gotta say it

2007-10-10T10:23:00.000-07:00

skillz and ruck

2007-10-06T02:24:00.001-07:00

i just finished two small paintings of two of my favorite rappers - skillz and sean price .. both are 30x40 cm and oil on board

doing laundry

2007-10-06T02:22:00.000-07:00

this is a good way to fold your t-shirts ..

youtube

2007-10-04T14:07:00.000-07:00

on youtube you can have a lot of fun searching for 'weightlifting accident'

graff

2007-08-23T03:21:00.001-07:00

yesterday i did a graffiti job for mcdonald's (for the childrens' corner)

ruste juxx - vic flair

2007-08-14T08:08:00.000-07:00

manchester

2007-08-07T02:47:00.000-07:00

beer garden

sign @ construction site

industrial buildings

new portrait

2007-07-22T06:30:00.001-07:00

yesterday i finished the portrait of my homeboy

oil/canvas 80x60

louvre

2007-07-19T15:23:00.000-07:00

me and dürer

pleinair venice

2007-07-18T13:44:00.001-07:00

i painted those in venice
both are oil/canvas 45x40 2005

paris metro

2007-07-18T02:07:00.001-07:00

some photos i took in the metro during my stay in paris earlier this year

tour 4/1

2007-07-17T09:59:00.000-07:00

i painted this yesterday

"tour 4/1" oil on board 30x40

tour

2007-07-17T09:48:00.001-07:00

the astana team is watching him

pleinair continued

2007-07-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

painted some at the river regnitz - none of the spots is more than a 5 min walk from my house

"regnitz 1" oil/canvas 40x30

"regnitz 2" oil/canvas 45x35
love painting dead trees

"regnitz 3" oil/canvas 35x45
camping site and some canoe obstacles

visiting my mother

2007-07-17T09:14:00.000-07:00

these were painted around easter 2007

"in the garden 1" oil/canvas 50x65
here you can see my mother sunbathing

"in the garden 2" oil/canvas 55x45
plein-air portrait of my mother with her beloved tulips

"castell" oil/canvas 45x40
this is some kind of hommage to c.d. friedrich. it is the view from the top of the vineyard hill you can see on the first painting of this post ..

pleinair 2007

2007-07-17T08:57:00.001-07:00

i did those in spring when it was very hot for three weeks ..

"banana building" oil/canvas 45x35
the building i live in

"balcony" oil/canvas 50x40
view of my balcony with my satellite dish

"factory" oil/canvas 40x50
a factory in bubenreuth - they produce sand and stuff like that