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Category Archives: life

Lest we forget that collecting could flood its particularities.

June 25, 2013by J.A. Vas 1 Comment

Several days ago I wrote about Béla Balász’ thoughts on silent movies and promised to discuss them. That they discovered non-verbal communication (not to be mistaken with sign language) as expressing […]

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economics, hobby, life, philosophy, politics, thoughts

“The Playboy Club Bunny Manual”, 1968

June 24, 2013by J.A. Vas Leave a comment

The top job in the country for a young girl. – – – Or rather being in the Aloha Spirit?

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beauty, life, lifestyle, work

Sam Chirnside’s illustrations.

June 19, 2013by J.A. Vas 4 Comments

Looking at Sam Chirnside’s wonderful illustrations reminded me of Kierkegaard’s thoughts about repetition.

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illustration, life, philosophy, thoughts

“Mailles” by Vaïana Gauthier. Meditating on one’s own life.

June 12, 2013by J.A. Vas 2 Comments

Life as a thread composed of many fibres to meditate on.

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art, film, life, meditation, movie

Live life in the face of death or in the face of promise and changing?

June 4, 2013by J.A. Vas Leave a comment

Weellllll, maybe you know the wise advice from self-management trainers. That it is promising for one’s own successful und fulfilled life to imagine one’s last breathes when staring into Gevatter Tod’s empty orbit who is reaching out his hand to take yours. Is that really some wise advice.

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animation, film, inspiration, life, movie, opinion, thoughts, wisdom

The Choir and their beauty

February 18, 2013by J.A. Vas 1 Comment

I listened to The Choir’s “Mr. Chandler”. What ease they have in handling such a situation, in which most of us, including me, would probably have gone berzerk…

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life, music

“Weeeeeeee!” :))

February 9, 2013by J.A. Vas 1 Comment

Just breaking my outer-spacious silence – this time just with some pink side of life…

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art, dance, disability, extreme sport, fun, handicap, life, lifestyle, show, sport, wheelchair

Humorous African wisdom and proverbs in Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

July 21, 2012by J.A. Vas 3 Comments

 Aya is a fictional character of a comic book series of the same title. She’s a teenager living in Ivory Coast. In this series of graphic novels we meet her […]

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Africa, citation, comic, humor, humour, life, proverbs, wisdom

“Fucking and getting beaten – that‘s the livable in Berlin.” – For the log: What the “Bayerwaldjugend” is thinking about life in the city and Berlin.

July 18, 2012by J.A. Vas 1 Comment

 Is it for laughter or for tears?  There is a youth meeting place in Bischofsmais (a town where I used to be regularly at winter holidays when I was a […]

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culture, humor, humour, life, lifestyle, local, society

Getting started in Berlin

July 8, 2012by J.A. Vas 5 Comments

 Everyone’s going nature. Organic food, green guerilla, gardening boom, contextualized local energy supply, city exodus, even Hollywood cannot resist: »Into the Wild« or »127 Hours« are just two examples. Nature’s […]

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life

Revealing the logics of scandal (Skandal im Sperrbezirk!)

May 15, 2012by J.A. Vas 6 Comments

In order to put attention on themselves, so as to increase their own popularity, once in a while artists make use of the logic of scandal. And to be specific, by provoking. — However, I found my self being bored to death by this. Why?

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aesthetics, art, ethics, life, morality, thoughts

Wulffmorgenthaler: Laughing about the serious

April 28, 2012by J.A. Vas 3 Comments

Why is black humour funny? I cannot answer this question. Rather I try to describe some of the black humour experience and show ways of its justification.

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black humor, black humour, comic, humor, humour, life, thoughts

Anne Lindberg, »raume yellow«

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 When, for the first time, I saw this photograph of the installation »raume yellow« by Anne Lindberg, it seemed to me as if it had been digitally manipulated. But I […]

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architecture, art, drawing, installation, life, sculpture

Red lips. (From sex to clownery to vilification.)

April 9, 2012by J.A. Vas 3 Comments

 Recently I introduced the “Fashion Fetish”-Project by SHOWstudio. They announced to accompany the artistic creations with essays by female journalists. So, here we go. The really interesting “Unpicking Fetish – Lips” […]

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beauty, fashion, life, lifestyle, thoughts, woman

Fashion Fetish

April 4, 2012by J.A. Vas 3 Comments

 Some weeks ago I wrote about SHOWstudio’s exhibition “Selling Sex” (22 March – 1 June 2012), which only promotes artworks made by women about their view on women; trying to […]

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art, fashion, film, life, photography, woman

Drunkorexia?

March 30, 2012by J.A. Vas Leave a comment

 Today I’m going into logic. I’m going to enter the field of rational choice theory. 😉 The subject is eating and drinking in modern Western society by referring to this […]

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beauty, drinking, eating, free will, health, life, lifestyle, thoughts

»Can’t Say Goodbye« by T. Raminoson (somewhat like a critique)

March 11, 2012by J.A. Vas 1 Comment

Love makes you great. — Could that be the corny and namby-pamby slogan for the no less shoddily and sentimental short film »Can’t Say Goodbye« by T. Raminson?

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film, kitsch, life, love, movie, romance, thoughts

Strangification (Supplement to Edwards, Vandekeybus and Foucault)

March 8, 2012by J.A. Vas Leave a comment

After I wrote about Edwards, Vandekeybus and Foucault I was confronted with Foucault’s idea of the world’s plentitude. Namely, I fell prey:   This text is supposed to show that […]

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art, life, thoughts

Selling Sex & Power Dressing

March 5, 2012by J.A. Vas 2 Comments

The self-declared internet “home of fashion film” SHOWstudio enters the gender debate. They’re starting with an exhibition and with a fashion story. While the exhibition is supposed to be serious, […]

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art, exhibition, fashion, gender, life, lifestyle, woman

Blush for One’s Life As a Work of Art.

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Creative demolition of a hyper-controlled conduct of life and risking blush by living one’s live as a work of art. How? A conversation between David Eugene Edwards, Wim Vandekeybus and Michel Foucault.

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aesthetics, art, christianity, dance, ethics, homosexuality, life, music, philosophy, thoughts

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