Nothing much to say about this stack of bricks seen outside
Mister Minit in Budapest, other than that they were quite beautiful in the dusk...

Tamas Szabo's studio

"sometimes you just need to let the phone keep on ringing..."





this is a guitar body in its infancy


(the circular things are improvised clamps made
from steel rods sharpened at both ends)


...speakers for different ranges...


...EVIL receiver!


chair awaiting reupholstering


note the filmic representation of catching fish...


another really nice fish painting near the music and sleep area

I meant to project this photoscramble on a wall in Budapest
but never got to it so I'm posting it here instead.

Técsői Banda

"The Técső Band – playing the traditional Russian music of the Máramarosians – is one of the best-known bands of the crown town, which lies on the upper part of the river Tisza. The accordionist Jóska Csernavec and his brothers are the descendants of a reputed gypsy dynasty, but the band’s violinists are not family members. Somehow playing violin was not inherited within the family. All of them learnt the musical style from their ancestors. Their diverse repertoire – because of the strong interethnic influence – features local Romanian, Gypsy, Jewish, Russian and Hungarian songs. I made my first recordings with them at the beginning of the 70’s. At that time, the legendary father Jura Csernavec “Manyo” played the violin.

Unfortunately, his virtuoso performance survived only on a single cassette in bad quality. The band often performs on weddings, on funerals, on Christmas and on the fest of “Misána” (sheep clipping). Their instrument kit includes violin, neckwear cimbalom, bajan (that is an accordion with buttons) and drum equipped with cymbal. The drummer uses a plastic sheet called plonka. He operates this by pressing it between his lower denture and his gum, playing tunes or sometimes playing only to enhance the rhythm of the dance.

Present recordings were made on two occasions with two different primates. On the first part of the album, we can hear wedding music on the second part dance music. During the editorial work, my ambition was to have the band record the most interesting pieces in our studio. I was hoping that many others would love the music of the “unknown land” as much as I love them."

- Ferenc Kiss

birds

they made their nest from wet newspapers

Pater Nostra (The Perpetual Elevator)

stills from a video project at the BKV building in Budapest, using
their antique open-construction elevators, which are quite thrilling to ride.
full video coming soon to the youtube channel.

(click to see better resolution)

Events around Budapest

from the top:
1.makeshift sundial
2.specialists are called in to resuscitate an automobile
3.Hungarian door-propping device
4.code for "this parking spot is reserved"
5.green corner
6.handle display
7.handlebar display
8. ?????

Neo-gothic...scaffolding

House of Parliament, Budapest

Tent Rotterdam

you'll need to click on most of these to be able to read the text clearly,
which is well worth it (don't miss the trumpeting gnomes!)
many of these are pamphlets or publications
from Gerard Bellaart's Cold Turkey Press archives from the early 70's.

www.tentrotterdam.nl

Wall-drawing, Travis Day residence

My friend Travis let me do this wall-drawing at his house over the past few weeks
while he was away. It's on a wall next to the main stairs entering the apartment,
so I tried to keep in mind the changing perspective of the passerby, - and similarly
what happens to flat images when they are drawn into a corner. Some of the
squares left blank are where he previously had pictures hanging.

Peter van Agtmael

Not sure how I got on the Daylight Magazine mailing list,
but once in a while these leads are worth following:
up on the site this month is a visually stunning podcast by
the photographer Peter van Agtmael, describing
his experiences in Iraq. "The only truth I found" he
narrates, "is that fear corrupts everything". I have to
say- before seeing this work, I couldn't imagine what kind
of existence soldiers over there must lead, - but these
pictures are so pointed, and not without the ephemera,
the humor, and the rawness that must accompany daily
toil, that they bring the usual perspective on the
war to an entirely new level.

www.petervanagtmael.com

"9 times in 800 years"

http://activerain.com/blogsview/433200/A-rare-coincidence-that

http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/Uniqueevents.htm

AND there was a full moon. Woo woo.

ensemble

links here
and here

studio light clock

the period of daylight savings time powering drawings above
to water-powered version below

Vasia Markides at Space Other

An excellent portrait of a politically and culturally anomalous
city, this short film has some of the most beautifully uninhibited
camera work/visual passages I've seen in ages...well worth a see.

"Hidden in the Sand" chronicles the story of Famagusta, a city in the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus that was evacuated during the 1974 invasion. Since then, a large portion of Famagusta has been encircled by barbed wire and kept under strict surveillance by the Turkish military, which uses the territory as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Cyprus government. Over the last 34 years, Famagusta has become a deteriorating ghost city; its former inhabitants watch their houses decay from outside the barricades, waiting for the day when they can return. The film examines the tragic and absurd nature of this “hostage town,” while simultaneously exploring issues of loss, ethnic identity, and the ugly effects of nationalism and propaganda in the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities.



(from artist's site: www.vasiamarkides.com)


Somewhere Felt
March 6- 22
Space Other
63 Wareham St.
Boston, Ma