HANNE'S ART AND CULTURE BLOG

This is exactly how I felt after seeing Avatar, both times. It's the opposite of what I felt after seeing New Moon. I was very happy when New Moon ended.

Come join us at the opening on Sunday!

CHARLES IRVIN:
WUV
IS THE
WAW

January 17 – February 21, 2010
Opening reception on Sunday January 17, 4 – 7 p.m.

Art Since the Summer of ‘69
195 Chrystie Street, Suite 303, 3rd floor
10002 New York, NY
www.artsince69.com

Art Since the Summer of ’69 is proud to present Wuv is the Waw, Charles Irvin’s premier solo show in New York.

Los Angeles-based Irvin works with a wide range of media, including video, performance, drawing and painting. For Wuv is the Waw, Irvin has produced two series of new drawings, depicting conflations of opposing concepts: birth and death, masculine and feminine, inner and outer space, organic and inorganic, the spiritual and the obscene. The drawings depict mystical states where all is one, visualizing the alchemical concept of the union of the opposites. Carl Jung compared this to the psychological process of individuation, where the personal and collective subconscious join with consciousness. Since Irvin’s imagery is intuitive, the work depicts the process that creates it, the subconscious and conscious working together.

The drawings in the series Wuv is the Waw were inspired by a quote from Aleister Crowley; “Love is the law, love under will”. The drawings seek to represent the fun, light-hearted, and perhaps even cute and cuddly side of the complex, multifaceted Crowley. In tribute to Crowley's meditations on the multivalence of symbols, the drawings contain an image that evokes light and dark sides of our contemporary visual culture. Crowley loved riddles, so Irvin refuses to reveal what these sides are.

Charles Irvin’s work was recently included in exhibitions at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, White Columns in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg. He is a member in the artist’s collective/men’s group Dude Dogg.
[www.myspace.com/mooddogg]

For more information and image requests, please contact the gallery by email info@artsince69.com or by phone 347.208.5437.

Players of the two Russian youth ice hockey teams, Penguins and the Northern Star, are trying to keep pace with professionals in all aspects. 9-year-old stars have proved that ice hockey is one of the toughest games to play no matter what age you are. A regular game between Russia's young Penguins and Stars turned into a massive fight on ice. The result: 707 minutes of penalty!

Is it just me getting older, or has Saturday Night Live become better lately?

Now this is something that everyone should watch every night before going to bed. My brother's ten months old baby told me about it. He's hooked. Youtube users share similar thoughts that I have had after watching: "the makers are on crack" and "How stoned were the makers of this program when they thought of this?" and "my son loves this, god help me". In the Night Garden, produced by BBC, is aimed at babies and toddlers (and me). The creators say "We wanted to explore the difference between being asleep and being awake from a child's point of view: the difference between closing your eyes and pretending to be asleep and closing your eyes and sleeping". Although Youtube user dharvell has a piece of advice: "Never heard of this, until today. Thought I would check it out. Bad mistake. You should NEVER watch this show, after taking a Morphine pill (legally, mind you... it's for chronic pain). Just take my advice... don't do it..."

For 500 images and live updates, go to Engadget.

Pre-Youtube, cats, dogs and kids, i.e. cuteness, was already the thing to put on tape. This extract comes from Claude Friese-Greene's 'The Open Road' - originally filmed in 1925/6 and now re-edited and digitally restored by the BFI National Archive. Britain seen in colour for the first time was heralded as a great technical advance for the cinema audience - now we can view a much improved image, but one which still stays true to the principles of the colour process.

Makka Pakka is the (my) star on In the Night Garden. And of course this had to happen:

Happy birthday, J! Luckily, Youtube user GOLDRAINFEATHERS made this video so I didn't have to: