Image above linked from Wikipedia.

Our apartment has been having some problems with mold. This drives Tinet crazy. The door you see here connects our room to the rest of the apartment. In previous photos, specifically the one with Tinet wearing the tank hat, there was a very nice fabric that covered up the window panes. Somehow the mold got hold. After the clean up Tinet decided it was better to just paint them. And so we did. Tinet painted red wild piggies. In my usual bizarre fashion I painted a six eyed something with hairy legs.

The mold battle is also taking place in the bathroom and the main kitchen, dining area of the apartment. It looks like we’ll have to consider moving out sometime this year.

Was approached by VJ Kolouch (aka Jan Sramek) to do a video piece for a Cafe in Brno, Czech some months ago. Actually lost track of it was to be video or drawings or videos of drawings or none of them. Ideas floated around and then here comes the deadline. Around this time, maybe a week or so, Bleepstreet took an interest in having some existing drawings come together for some cover art for an upcoming maxi single release. I decided to combine the two. Any interesting shots from the video will end up being the cover art and then the single itself will be the unheard sound track of the video to be displayed in Brno. The result will be that on the interwebs there will be a video with the track that will match the cover art.

Video is due soon as it is supposed to go up on Feb. 14th. A pdf that is an online magazine for this project in Brno has been release today. The designer took a lot of liberties, changing the color of some of the drawings to orange, changing orientations. In short, I love it for several reasons. The use of color anticipates drawings I made last summer using color. Somehow the figure in the center looks like a fantastic prince with a dunce cap. Very inspiring.

Meneo: Berlin from ilan katin on Vimeo.

Notes:
00:10 – Singing/screaming from his soul.
00:15 – Looking directly at the camera momentarily.
00:22 – Casual causality.
00:56 – Pants at feet.
01:12 – Laptop dis.
01:31 – Floor butt hop.
01:55 – Inner reflection amongst the chaos.

I love it too much.

Photo by Iwo Gospodinow at fashionfreaks. The link will take you to a nice shot of Raquel Meyers, Computadora of Bleepstreet and Claudia Peña De Silvestri.

Last weekend Tinet and I attended a party. The main reason was to see my good friends Meneo perform. Always good to see them. Rigo in his ever radiantly in the moment self, Raul always with a lovable wasted look. The event was actually an after party for the Bread & Butter Festival. Big fashion thing. It took place in an underground venue called Villa. Very much my kind of place. Graffed walls, crumbling ceilings. The invitation noted that people should dress to be interviewed and photographed. So I could not just go to see Meneo. I had to also see if I could make myself a spectacle. And so a plan was devised. I actually don’t know why I am so surprised with the outcome.

A photo of Rigo. There is some video as well that faithfully captures the energy that Meneo put on. The room was packed.

The stairwell to the second floor had some beautiful, illegible writing and the white light dots complimented them nicely.

Interferenz part 4 @ Usine, Genève, 16.01.2010 from André Joye on Vimeo.