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The Saatchi Gallery

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selected new works from China at the Saatchi Gallery in London

Shi Xinning, Royal Coach

Feng Zhengjie, Chinese Portrait L Series No. 11

Shen Shaomin, Unknown Creature - Three Headed Monster

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Posted: December 22nd, 2006
at 11:22am by Koookiecrumbles


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‘children of Chernobyl’

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I couldn’t really find any information on these works…but, they look pretty ill [although a lil unsettling] so I threw them up here. Work by Klynia, located in Belarus.

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found at woostercollective

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Posted: December 1st, 2006
at 1:44pm by orangemenace


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Anthony McCall: step into the light

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Your looking at the work of Anthony McCall. Above is his installation ‘Line Describing a Cone’ [1973, 16mm film], and below ‘Doubling Back’ [2003, 16mm film] at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Check out his recent/current exhibitions and his publications too.

‘from 1973 to 1975 Anthony McCall produced a series of films that challenged the filmic materialism exemplified by so-called structural film and high modernism’s ethic of medium-specificity with which those works were associated. The best known of these is Line Describing a Cone (1973), which rejected two-dimensionality, typically taken to be a defining characteristic of film art by advocates of medium-specificity, for a new kind of film-viewing experience’

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‘…films like McCall’s might be seen as negotiating between the relative autonomy of an artistic tradition like avant-garde cinema and the intermedia sharing that has always gone on between art forms (particularly during the moment-the early seventies-when McCall began making films). Such a perspective seems especially important when considering a figure like McCall, who experimented with ideas about process, time, artistic materials, and audience activity in a variety of sculptural, performance-based, photographic, cinematic, and conceptual works all at the same time’ [link]

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Between You and I [2006]. Installation drawing

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‘Long Film for Four Projectors’ [1974, 16mm film] - def my favorite…

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Posted: December 1st, 2006
at 12:01pm by orangemenace


Categories: art,film,contemporary

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Sally Cummings Shisler

It’s ART DAY! people; act your age, not your palette.

Sally Cummings Shisler is described on her artspan webpage as contemporary realist painter. We here at myninjaplease would rather show you the art than do reviews or verify the veracity of such claims, but we’ll get into a little of that too. Let me just say this: I saw her in the new artists category and this self portrait caught my eye. Both of them.

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For some reason, I can’t not like that. Here’s a couple more pictures from Sally, followed by a statement from her.

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The perspective in that last one, "Cape Cod Haze" is crazy. We got love for the Cape too! A little bit, anyway.

What keeps me going is the challenge to paint a picture that shares my personal experience with the viewer. "Aren’t those tomatoes luscious!", "Doesn’t Dad look peaceful?", or "Can you get over how amazing the Florida clouds are in the summertime?". Commentary like this is what you’ll have to hear over and over again if you spend any actual time with me. For me, painting "lively" images that connect best with viewers requires painting from life. When the moment is right, I don’t worry much about content because I trust my gut reaction to what I’m seeing and how I’m responding. But I better have my supplies and skills ready to go! If the right ingredients are there, my focus can be on the basic but crucial elements of shape, color, value and composition. If I’m lucky, all things jibe and I hit my mark. That’s the moment of truth when I can say to myself "Yes, you are going to be a painter." Sometimes I even indulge and say; "Nope, you ARE a painter!" Whatever the subject, the process involves being ready for the elusive moment when all things might actually come together. For me great painting is a perfect mix of planning and spontaneity.

Sally Cummings-Shisler

I don’t know about all that, but I like it. Maybe not, "dont those tomatoes look luscious?," but definitely, "don’t those tomatoes look hella cool!?"

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She lives in Florida and mainly uses oil on board. She’s also got an impressive resume including custom medical art.

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Posted: December 1st, 2006
at 11:00am by black octagons


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Blair Thrall

Yes, artspan has captivated my attention and held captive much of my time over the last few months. And I’ve definitely abused the new artists category over there today, shamelessly at that. Anyoldways, check out Blair Thrall.

Blair Williams Thrall grew up in Shreveport Louisiana, among a family of artists. She studied art at University of Southwestern Louisiana, but considers herself mainly self taught and continues to evolve as an artist. She has been a parent, homemaker, horsewoman, dog show enthusiast ,antique jewelry dealer and for eleven years she especially enjoyed nurturing young children’s love of art as a Montessori teacher.

Wipe those silly smiles off your face ninjas, nothing’s funny!

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Those are both Giclee prints. I’m not sure if I need to comment on the ironic Manet in that second one, but I will if anyone deigns to ask a silly question like, "why is that ironic?"

But what the people want to know is, what does the artist have to say? What say you, artist?

My paintings and jewelry pieces are the manifestation of an innate desire I have to create. It makes me happy to produce something that others can enjoy. For me it’s all about sharing a feeling or the beauty of a moment.
Recently my paintings have been an exploration of two themes, the first being nocturnal diversions and the entertaining people that inhabit that world. The other being a day-lit look at some of my favorite places and special moments in my life.

Blair Thrall

I said stop laughing, ninjas. Those prints, especially the rest of the ones on her page, are pretty damn tight.

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Posted: December 1st, 2006
at 10:30am by black octagons


Categories: art,mnp is for the children,contemporary

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Magali Cadieux

gallery of works by Magali Cadieux, Quebec

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Posted: December 1st, 2006
at 2:23am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: contemporary

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Sidewalk Art

sidewalk art gallery at moronland

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Posted: December 1st, 2006
at 2:18am by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: hood status,art,weaponry,contemporary

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myninjaplease turns 1000!

We’re 1000 posts old, my ninjas, but, how old is that in dog-posts?
Anyway… Congrats to us.

1000 post at mnp

Will the blogosphere ever be the same? Na. Is mnp even in the blogosphere? Hell naw!

As you can see we changed the grid of madness again. Just a quick rundown: the bottom two rows in that there crazy grid are all the categories here on myninjaplease. At any time you can click on the ninja and be taken to the main page. The rest of the grid is empty right now, as we are reorganizing or smattering of random posts (so stop with the hate mail, ya ninjas). [Ed: you might have to clear your browser cache to see the changes]

Things here tend to relate whether or not anybody likes it because of our sequencing- we will be working on getting posts a,b,c from past, present and future more integrated in the next few weeks. You know its not even about the numbers cause I’m pretty sure there’s something for everybody- this is just another post.

It’s amazing how we’ve grown over the last five months and we’d like to thank everybody and stuff. A bunch of ninja-lovers out here. OK, enough of that, let’s get to what you really want. The content.

Don’t forget to send any and all correspondence to suggest@myninjaplease.com

Our first story is courtesy of a regular contributor of ours, Pheezatron. Followed by a kookiecrumbles cinema extravaganza. Some architecture from orangemenace and a writeup of our friend and ninja Jason Krugman.

Bruce Lee gets own Theme Park!

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A Bruce Lee-themed park is to be built at the late kung-fu star’s ancestral home in China, the president of his Hong Kong fan club has said.

The park will feature a statue of Lee - who died 34 years ago - as well as a memorial hall and martial arts academy.

Newspaper reports in China have put the estimated cost of the park at 200 million Chinese Yuan (A£13m).

But fan club chairman Wong Yiu-keung told The Associated Press he was not sure who is funding the planned park.

Well that could be a little problem, you know, the funds and stuff. Still, in all, we’re glad to see one of the grand ninjas of all time get his own theme park. He’s no Bruce Leroy, but that’s OK. Those are big shoes to fill.

A ceremony to mark the laying of foundations at the park in Shunde, near Hong Kong, was held on Sunday, attended by Lee’s younger brother Robert and actress Betty Ting Pei.

Lee was born in the US but first shot to fame in Hong Kong, where he had moved as a child.

His most famous films include Fist of Fury, Enter the Dragon and Game of Death.

He died aged 32 in July 1973 from a cerebral edema - a swelling of the brain.

A statue of Lee was unveiled in Hong Kong last year on what would have been his 65th birthday.

Originally From: The BBC

The Rube Goldberg Machine: Part III (mnp is kinetic)

Japanese kinetic art.

Kinematics as demonstrated by a world leader- soon to be implemented.

Cinema ii.0

top 50 indie films of all time from empireonline

Phare: Paris’ New Eco-Tower

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This new ‘eco-tower’, ‘Phare‘ in ParisLa Defense district has been designed by Thom Mayne [previously of Morphosis, for y’all ninjas in the know], which will actually rival the Eiffel Tower in height.

"There’s a fluidity, a sensuousness, a softness to the form as it reaches to the sky," he said, describing the asymmetric twist of the building, which swells out over an elevated lobby in the lower portion before tapering off to a thicket of wind turbines on the roof. Mayne says it will be "a prototype for a green building" with a wind farm generating its own heating and cooling for five months of the year and a movable "double skin" to cut the heat from direct sunlight through the windows.’

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via Treehugger and Marvelous Architectures

Jason Krugman - Ninja in our Sidebar

Well. there’s a few things we can say about Jason. For one, we actually know this dude. His art is dope, his attitude is crucial and we can vouch. What else can we say about the man? His website is nascent (and ill), it’s about to blow up… And did we mention his art was dope?

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What’s cool about his art, as you can partially see from the gallery on his "journals" page, is that he experiments with a lot of mixed media. His art has the quality of being raw and fresh out of a book. That’s why the journals format works so well on his page, because his art already gives you the feeling of being inside of (as opposed to outside) the artist’s life and train of thought. A lot of the stuff literally jumps off the page at you. I’ve seen some of his art in person and, needless to say, I was impressed.

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I could obviously say a lot more but, a picture is worth a thousand words. Go check out the man’s site, going forth with the knowledge that this is not the last you’ll hear about him from us.

This has been a thousandth post extravaganza. We’ll see you at 2000!

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Posted: November 29th, 2006
at 12:54pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,art,web,business,film,architecture,contemporary,fo' real?,real life news

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DNA Art!

The process begins with the DNA being collected using a patented, non-invasive technique: using a special swab (much like a Q-tip) to painlessly collect cheek cells. The whole process is simple and takes less than 30 seconds. This sample is then sent to our highly secure, certified laboratory, where the DNA is extracted to create a unique genetic fingerprint, using a technique that takes advantage of the variation that occurs among the DNA sequence of every individual.

You submit your DNA sample or your fingerprint and they send you back a piece of art that looks kinda like that.

DNA11 originally via: Reluct

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Posted: November 27th, 2006
at 11:16am by black octagons


Categories: art,contemporary

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