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Luchs...
Alle Geheimnisse kennst Du,
Über Traumzeit und Magie,
Aber du schweigst.
Damit ich lerne, die Zunge zu zügeln,
Beobachten, still wie die Sphinx,
Mächtig, doch schweigend.
(aus "Karten der Kraft")
Artist Julia Antonia and writer/poet Chetan Akhil worked together to create this beautiful Kolo book now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. They chose a red Kolo Newport to display their work, “Letter to Snow-Woman.” The fairy tale book is brilliantly illustrated by Julia and narrated with the haikus written by Chetan.
Along with their contribution, they added a small book using a Kolo Essex Insert expressing their interpretation of the big city. The haiku, written by Chetan, is translated to say, “Haiku. The small in the big. The big in the small. Times and tides. Big city code.”
Both Julia and Chetan are celebrated artists in the creative community. Julia studied at Berlin University of the Arts and was distinguished with an assortment of awards and scholarships. Chetan’s TV production “Nicht wunschlos werden” (“Not to Be Perfectly Happy”) won the prestigious German Journalist Award in 1996.
Julia Antonia and Chetan Akhil’s works are on display at Aarven at Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse 2, one of five fine retail shops celebrating Berlin’s creative community through this three-week event.
Light. The word conjures up so many phrases and images we hold in common. It can signify life and death, hope and the final end. Is there light in this city? Over the past few years it seems what little light remained was fading and failing to poke through the economic gloom. Spending much of my life as something of a contrarian, I think that is an indication the light might be at its brightest. You see, once all of the experts and the pundits declare something as settled and final, change is afoot. Detroit is dead, a relic of the 20th century, is how many of these experts would have us believe. They back up their position with reams of data and trend analysis. The problem with all of their facts is they are backward looking. They do an excellent job of placing context around what has happened, but their value in predicting the future is limited, if useful at all.
What cannot be accounted for in economic models is innovation and emotion. I figure if these models offered any type of reliable method for predicting innovation and the next big thing, their work would never be published. Instead they would keep their formula secret and get in on the ground floor of these new industries before the pesky public runs up the price. This all leads to the contrarian in me to say when all seems lost the turn around is probably near. Of course I offer no insight as to the nature of that turn around other than this; at some point housing and real estate in Detroit will become so cheap as to make it a no brainer for a variety of investors and entrepreneurs. We are already witnessing some this as Detroit is becoming something of a magnet for the creative class. This is a good thing. Innovation is often spurred by the renegades amongst us. Innovation leads to new opportunities, new businesses and new jobs. There is a light peaking through the Michigan gloom, it is a creative light.
Aleksandra Pavlovic moved to Berlin this year to work as a freelance artist after several years studying at three different universities. She chose to portray her impression of Berlin using a ruby/mandarin striped Kolo Newbury photo album.
Aleksandra on her Berlin-themed Kolo book:
"It is Berlin through my eyes, through eyes of an immigrant, a newcomer, a new citizen, and my personal emotions towards it. I depict my impression with life, joy and euphoria of the fall of the wall, crossed boundaries and social life after the fall. The wall is no more, yet will never be forgotten, it is remembered in the daily celebration of freedom.
The physical wall is gone, however, as an artist, I still question; what other walls are there? Are there blurred or invisible walls between the people in this great city, between long time inhabitants and those coming more recently, between the various nationalities and cultures in Berlin, between the generations? Or are the invisible walls nonexistent?"
koloist.com/index.php/2009/12/23/through-eyes-of-an-immig...
Shepard Bliss, Poet
To Know the Dark...
To go into the dark with a light is to know the light
To know the dark, go dark, go without sight
And find that dark, too, blooms and sings
And is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
- Wendell Berry
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Photographer Karen Stuke created a beautiful opera house stage design now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. Throughout the city, residents have been discussing the subject of the public financing Berlin opera houses. She used a red Kolo Havana photo box for the model base of a proposed opera house to be built in the working class district of Berlin-Wedding. Her model includes a well-designed floor plan, lights and a background displaying her unique pinhole photographs.
Karen’s passion for opera and theater started at a young age, leading her to become an influential stage and theater photographer. She believes that theater is an art form and her cause is to keep the play alive long after the curtain falls. She developed the idea of a camera obscura theater photograph, combining multiple exposures into one single photograph, to capture the essence of the play.
Karen’s work is on display at Monochrom, Ackerstrasse 23-26, one of five fine retailers participating in the three-week walking tour celebrating Berlin’s creative community.
For more information on this project: koloist.com/index.php/2009/11/23/karen-stuke-s-opera-stag...
NeochaEDGE is a daily-curated, bilingual website and discovery engine dedicated to showcasing leading-edge creative content and emerging youth culture in China.
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* free for your creativity - please add a link of your work at this picture -
many thanks and have fun :)*
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China.
Photographer Karen Stuke created a beautiful opera house stage design now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. Throughout the city, residents have been discussing the subject of the public financing Berlin opera houses. She used a red Kolo Havana photo box for the model base of a proposed opera house to be built in the working class district of Berlin-Wedding. Her model includes a well-designed floor plan, lights and a background displaying her unique pinhole photographs.
Karen’s passion for opera and theater started at a young age, leading her to become an influential stage and theater photographer. She believes that theater is an art form and her cause is to keep the play alive long after the curtain falls. She developed the idea of a camera obscura theater photograph, combining multiple exposures into one single photograph, to capture the essence of the play.
Karen’s work is on display at Monochrom, Ackerstrasse 23-26, one of five fine retailers participating in the three-week walking tour celebrating Berlin’s creative community.
For more on this project: koloist.com/index.php/2009/11/23/karen-stuke-s-opera-stag...
June 8, 2018 hosted by Art Gym Denver.
Thank you to our global sponsor Adobe. And our local partners Finberg Law and AdClub Colorado
Photos by Justin LeVett
With thanks to Chris Dorley-Brown for the "heads up".
In my twilight I keep a watching brief on what I like to think of as my locality. Is Hackney Wick my locality? Four stops on the Overground put it into “local territory" rather than “local patch” but I’m going to include it in my loose embrace of creative London places.
So what is happening in the shadow of Olympic Park? Whilst I was there I picked up a free copy of The Wick. As a retired urban designer it’s the most interesting read that I’ve had for a long time, plenty to think about, grist for the mill . . . so I’m going to give myself time to think. Meanwhile I’ll leave myself a hook to come back to, I quote: “Having been a local for over two decades, I can tell you this: Hackney Wick, once a beloved asylum of misfits, runaways and creatives, is nowadays slithering down the slippery slope of gentrification stagnation. Little uproars like Hackney WickED give the community some much needed traction.”
Some background from Hackney Citizen
Photographer Karen Stuke created a beautiful opera house stage design now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. Throughout the city, residents have been discussing the subject of the public financing Berlin opera houses. She used a red Kolo Havana photo box for the model base of a proposed opera house to be built in the working class district of Berlin-Wedding. Her model includes a well-designed floor plan, lights and a background displaying her unique pinhole photographs.
Karen’s passion for opera and theater started at a young age, leading her to become an influential stage and theater photographer. She believes that theater is an art form and her cause is to keep the play alive long after the curtain falls. She developed the idea of a camera obscura theater photograph, combining multiple exposures into one single photograph, to capture the essence of the play.
Karen’s work is on display at Monochrom, Ackerstrasse 23-26, one of five fine retailers participating in the three-week walking tour celebrating Berlin’s creative community.
For more on this project: koloist.com/index.php/2009/11/23/karen-stuke-s-opera-stag...
Anna Adam, freelance artist and stage designer residing in Berlin, constructed this Kolo book representing Berlin’s history versus her new vision of the city today. This work is currently on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. Anna chose to construct her work using two disassembled Kolo Newport photo albums, in sage and red. She took both of the covers off and reassembled them, constructing one book. She then cut a frame shape into the entire book, leaving a stage that can be viewed from both sides. She chose to combine different themes all displayed on the one stage seen from either side.
The sage side represents “old” Berlin, from 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. This side includes topics such as, “Rosinenbomber” (planes during the 1948 airlift), East-Berliners longing to travel and the “currywurst” (a type of Berlin sausage).
Anna’s art is exhibited in numerous museums and galleries throughout Europe. This work can be found at Hauptsache, Rosenthaler Strasse 32, one of five fine retailers celebrating the creative community through this event.
koloist.com/index.php/2009/11/29/anna-adam-s-berlin-kolo-...
Old house in the village of Madrid nestled in a narrow canyon in the Ortiz Mountains. Once a historic coal mining town and ghost town, Madrid is now a creative community with over 40 shops and galleries, several restaurants, a spa and museum.
Artist Julia Antonia and writer/poet Chetan Akhil worked together to create this beautiful Kolo book now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. They chose a red Kolo Newport to display their work, “Letter to Snow-Woman.” The fairy tale book is brilliantly illustrated by Julia and narrated with the haikus written by Chetan.
Along with their contribution, they added a small book using a Kolo Essex Insert expressing their interpretation of the big city. The haiku, written by Chetan, is translated to say, “Haiku. The small in the big. The big in the small. Times and tides. Big city code.”
Both Julia and Chetan are celebrated artists in the creative community. Julia studied at Berlin University of the Arts and was distinguished with an assortment of awards and scholarships. Chetan’s TV production “Nicht wunschlos werden” (“Not to Be Perfectly Happy”) won the prestigious German Journalist Award in 1996.
Julia Antonia and Chetan Akhil’s works are on display at Aarven at Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse 2, one of five fine retail shops celebrating Berlin’s creative community through this three-week event.
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
Artist Julia Antonia and writer/poet Chetan Akhil worked together to create this beautiful Kolo book now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. They chose a red Kolo Newport to display their work, “Letter to Snow-Woman.” The fairy tale book is brilliantly illustrated by Julia and narrated with the haikus written by Chetan.
Along with their contribution, they added a small book using a Kolo Essex Insert expressing their interpretation of the big city. The haiku, written by Chetan, is translated to say, “Haiku. The small in the big. The big in the small. Times and tides. Big city code.”
Both Julia and Chetan are celebrated artists in the creative community. Julia studied at Berlin University of the Arts and was distinguished with an assortment of awards and scholarships. Chetan’s TV production “Nicht wunschlos werden” (“Not to Be Perfectly Happy”) won the prestigious German Journalist Award in 1996.
Julia Antonia and Chetan Akhil’s works are on display at Aarven at Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse 2, one of five fine retail shops celebrating Berlin’s creative community through this three-week event.
A new apartment building under construction in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, called Via Sol by PLACE (Projects Linking Art, Community and Environment). The development project is a "mixed-use, mixed-income creative community" along the Highway 7 frontage road near the Southwest Light Rail (SWLRT) Wooddale Station, with 217 apartment units, renewable energy sources, and 220 parking spaces.
Artist Julia Antonia and writer/poet Chetan Akhil worked together to create this beautiful Kolo book now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. They chose a red Kolo Newport to display their work, “Letter to Snow-Woman.” The fairy tale book is brilliantly illustrated by Julia and narrated with the haikus written by Chetan.
Along with their contribution, they added a small book using a Kolo Essex Insert expressing their interpretation of the big city. The haiku, written by Chetan, is translated to say, “Haiku. The small in the big. The big in the small. Times and tides. Big city code.”
Both Julia and Chetan are celebrated artists in the creative community. Julia studied at Berlin University of the Arts and was distinguished with an assortment of awards and scholarships. Chetan’s TV production “Nicht wunschlos werden” (“Not to Be Perfectly Happy”) won the prestigious German Journalist Award in 1996.
Julia Antonia and Chetan Akhil’s works are on display at Aarven at Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse 2, one of five fine retail shops celebrating Berlin’s creative community through this three-week event.
Diner in the village of Madrid nestled in a narrow canyon in the Ortiz Mountains. Once a historic coal mining town and ghost town, Madrid is now a creative community with over 40 shops and galleries, several restaurants, a spa and museum.
Artist Suzy Van Zehlendorf, born in 1980 in the working district of Berlin-Wedding, chose a Kolo Newport photo album to create this work. Suzy faced some difficult challenges growing up, but Suzy always knew she was an artist. It took time for others to notice her artistic talent. Today, she has been named one of Germany’s most influential mentally challenged artists.
Suzy on her work displayed in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition:
"For Kolo, I looked at Berlin from a historic perspective; the planes that flew food into Berlin during the 1948 airlift, Marx and Engels, and Nefertiti, whose bust recently was relocated to the New Museum in Berlin. The poultry, of course, are the people, the masses of people living in Berlin. It's like one big chicken coop. That is my perspective of Berlin."
koloist.com/index.php/2009/12/14/suzy-van-zehlendorf-s-be...
Photos by: Toño Paczka
Thanks to Huerto Roma Verde, Frutos de Vida, Bové, Zoé Water, A de Abeja, Candy don't Cry, Pámpiri, Bokeh, W(H)EALTH Nutrition, El Nevado, La Aldaba.
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
Photos by: Toño Paczka
Thanks to Huerto Roma Verde, Frutos de Vida, Bové, Zoé Water, A de Abeja, Candy don't Cry, Pámpiri, Bokeh, W(H)EALTH Nutrition, El Nevado, La Aldaba.
Artist Eugen Buchner has two Berlin-themed Kolo books now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. The album duo, collectively named “Berliner Sehenswürdigkeiten” (Berlin Sights), artfully expresses his vision of the city.
Eugen used both a chartreuse Kolo Luxury Cortina and a red Kolo Vineyard to display his delicate ink drawings. The drawing titled “Ku-Damm” shows Kurfürstendamm, the main boulevard of West Berlin, and two of the city’s sights. He included Gedächtniskirche, a church located on the street, and “Berlin,” a sculpture that was constructed in 1987 symbolizing the division of West Berlin and East Berlin.
Eugen Buchner, originally from Nizhny Tagil, Russia, now resides in the city of Berlin and is currently working in light design and new media art. He studied interior and fashion design at multiple schools throughout Russia and Germany.
Eugen incorporates intricate patterns, as seen in his Berlin drawings, into his interior design work. He has had his artwork distributed internationally, including in the United States. In 2008 he was selected for the Americas Biennial Exhibition and Archive.
The “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition is a free three-week walking tour celebrating the city’s creative community. If you are in Berlin before November 30th be sure check out each diverse interpretation of the city displayed throughout five fine retail shops.
For more information: koloist.com/index.php/2009/11/12/eugen-buchner-s-berlin-s...
Sonnen- und Apothekergarten, Gütersloh
* free for your creativity - please add a link of your work at this picture
- many thanks and have fun :)*
Artist Julia Antonia and writer/poet Chetan Akhil worked together to create this beautiful Kolo book now on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. They chose a red Kolo Newport to display their work, “Letter to Snow-Woman.” The fairy tale book is brilliantly illustrated by Julia and narrated with the haikus written by Chetan.
Along with their contribution, they added a small book using a Kolo Essex Insert expressing their interpretation of the big city. The haiku, written by Chetan, is translated to say, “Haiku. The small in the big. The big in the small. Times and tides. Big city code.”
Both Julia and Chetan are celebrated artists in the creative community. Julia studied at Berlin University of the Arts and was distinguished with an assortment of awards and scholarships. Chetan’s TV production “Nicht wunschlos werden” (“Not to Be Perfectly Happy”) won the prestigious German Journalist Award in 1996.
Julia Antonia and Chetan Akhil’s works are on display at Aarven at Rosa-Luxemburg Strasse 2, one of five fine retail shops celebrating Berlin’s creative community through this three-week event.
The "Berlin Through My Lens" Exhibition, a self-guided walking tour in Berlin Mitte, kicks off Monday, Nov 9.
Kolo and 5 participating Berlin shops are celebrating this fair city's creative community of fine artists, writers, poets and photographers by exhibiting their finished Berlin-themed Kolo books. The works will be on display for a free, three-week exhibition, starting Monday, November 9th, in five renowned specialty shops that focus on the fine art, paper and photography worlds. The exhibition will then tour internationally.
Brochures with a map for the walking tour are available at each of the five participating shops: Aarven at Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 2; Hauptsache at Rosenthaler Strasse 32 ; Leporello at Rykestrasse 46; Monochrom-Berlin at Ackerstrasse 23-26; and Sieben Wuensche at Tucholskystrasse 45.
Thanks to Chris, Kolo's manager in Germany, for these sneak peek photos of the exhibition at Sieben Wuensche, a fine papeterie in Berlin Mitte. He emailed these with a mention that the finished Kolo books will be displayed under glass.
If you’re in Berlin this month, be sure to check out these unique, creative interpretations of the city.
Stay updated by frequently checking the Berlin event page on Kolo's website, here:
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Anna Adam, freelance artist and stage designer residing in Berlin, constructed this Kolo book representing Berlin’s history versus her new vision of the city today. This work is currently on display in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition. Anna chose to construct her work using two disassembled Kolo Newport photo albums, in sage and red. She took both of the covers off and reassembled them, constructing one book. She then cut a frame shape into the entire book, leaving a stage that can be viewed from both sides. She chose to combine different themes all displayed on the one stage seen from either side.
The red side represents her vision of “new” Berlin. The city is portrayed as a party and event location; however, it also represents her hope for Berlin in the future.
Anna’s art is exhibited in numerous museums and galleries throughout Europe. This work can be found at Hauptsache, Rosenthaler Strasse 32, one of five fine retailers celebrating the creative community through this event.
koloist.com/index.php/2009/11/29/anna-adam-s-berlin-kolo-...
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
A design exhibition organized by NeochaEDGE (http://edge.neocha.com/) and Jellymon (http://www.jellymon.com/), originally curated by We Are Plus (http://weareplus.com), sponsored by Vedett and Aerial7, and held at the SOURCE in Shanghai, China. Photo by Elaine Chow (Shanghaiist.com)
Artist Suzy Van Zehlendorf, born in 1980 in the working district of Berlin-Wedding, chose a Kolo Newport photo album to create this work. Suzy faced some difficult challenges growing up, but Suzy always knew she was an artist. It took time for others to notice her artistic talent. Today, she has been named one of Germany’s most influential mentally challenged artists.
Suzy on her work displayed in the “Berlin Through My Lens” Exhibition:
"For Kolo, I looked at Berlin from a historic perspective; the planes that flew food into Berlin during the 1948 airlift, Marx and Engels, and Nefertiti, whose bust recently was relocated to the New Museum in Berlin. The poultry, of course, are the people, the masses of people living in Berlin. It's like one big chicken coop. That is my perspective of Berlin."
koloist.com/index.php/2009/12/14/suzy-van-zehlendorf-s-be...