HANNE'S ART AND CULTURE BLOG

BREAKING NEWS: AN ART STUDENT ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING USEFUL IN THE WORLD

2010-03-04T14:13:57Z

HANNE'S TV TIP OF THE DAY: PARKS AND RECREATION, RON'S OFFICE

2010-02-11T18:45:48Z

HITLER LEARNS THAT THE MOCA JOB GOES TO JEFFREY DEITCH

2010-02-09T16:23:10Z

TRAVEL TIP OF THE DAY: CALICO THE CAT CAFE

2010-02-03T20:53:44Z

Are you on your way to Japan? Make sure to stop by Calico, the cafe where you can hang out with cats. According to CNN (who's news coverage has a constant increase in seriousness): "Cat Cafe Calico, despite breathless reports by foreign media as yet another example of just how kooky Japan is, actually works. It's all part of the recent "cat cafe" trend, and it isn't anywhere nearly as weird as it might first sound. Cat Cafe Calico is a combo of pet store and coffee shop where visitors pay an entry fee to hang out on low sofas in a room filled with a pack (19, to be exact) of super-people-friendly cats. In a city where space is at an absolute premium, cafes like this are among the only places where many of the chronically cat-less can scratch their itch for feline companionship. And the lattes aren't half bad, either. The Cat Cafe Calico in Kichijoji is one of two in the chain (the other being located in Shinjuku.) ¥900 gets you an hour with the kitties; every fifteen minutes thereafter run you ¥200 a pop. Those with a need for more quality time can spring for 90, 120, and 180 minute packages". Some of the working cats above. For more, including videos of the cats, visit Cafe Calico's website.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IS ONLY 29

2010-01-31T18:17:34Z

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

MY CURRENT FAVORITE TV CHARACTER: MAKKA PAKKA!

2010-01-31T15:53:56Z

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

PRE-YOUTUBE

2010-01-31T15:47:58Z

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.

WHAT'S GOING ON ON THE INTERNETS?

2010-01-31T15:27:43Z

BREAKING NEWS: THE HUGE IPHONE HAS FINALLY LAUNCHED!

2010-01-27T20:32:42Z

For 500 images and live updates, go to Engadget.

HANNE'S TV TIP OF THE DAY: IN THE NIGHT GARDEN

2010-01-27T05:05:11Z

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..."

HANNE'S TV TIP OF THE DAY: SNL

2010-01-23T17:46:37Z

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

KIDS MASS HOCKEY BRAWL

2010-01-23T13:53:43Z

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!

BREAKING NEWS: WORLD'S TALLEST MAN MEETS WORLD'S SHORTEST MAN!

2010-01-23T13:48:07Z

OPENING AT ASS69 THIS WEEKEND: CHARLES IRVIN: VUW IS THE WAW

2010-01-15T22:55:27Z

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.

'I AM KING'

2010-01-13T00:46:02Z