May 9, 2013

The Residents live show

Small clip from the opening song by The Residents, yesterday 2013-05-09 at Södra teatern in Stockholm. I enjoyed the show a lot, despite some weird in between talk about King dongs and failed porncareers. Meant to be artistic statements I guess, underlining the cheesyness of the Paul Mccarthy-figure like singer and alter ego Randy. It was funny when he encouraged willing groupies to contact the tour manager outside, given the fact the audience were 95% men with a minimum age of 40 or so. I beleived they would balance the male chauvinism by singing their hit song and James Brown cover It,s a mans mans world in the end - but no, that would probably have been below the dignity line of Randy's. (Swenglish expression?)

I found the music great, the performance tight and the remarkable voice and voice effetcts of Randy is still ringing in my head. Go and see if you get the chance.

May 8, 2013

Ray Harryhausen R.I.P.

Hard choice between Talos or the skeletons from the 'Jason and the argonauts' movie so here's both.



April 19, 2013

New Golem Clay models

I wasn't pleased with the looks of my current Golem figure, it was far to good looking, almost athletic and too easy to like. I wan't it to be more monstreous and it really doesn't have to be so humanoid at all, so I started making new models in clay trying to forget about human anatomy and instead thinking purely functional, e.g. it needs two legs to walk with, but instead of muscles Golem is made of clay, so I make the legs according to the physical laws of clay, that is rolling two straight tubes and bending them at the bottom so it can stand.
Golem is made to be a helping hand for the maker, so it needs to have long arms and big hands. In my last two figures I made it with one large hand and one penguin like paw. I personally like the third version best, it is more of the clay creature I wan't it to be. If you don't agree and think one of the others are better as Golem, please let me know.


First version

Second version

Third version

April 5, 2013

Baba Yaga laid an egg


Baba Yaga, another creature from the eastern european mythology I might populize my game with, who was first known to me reading Dubravka Ugresic great novel 'Baba Yaga laid en egg'. A witch often described as living in the woods in a hut standing on Chicken legs. A lot of different versions of her seems to exit in Romania, Russia, Croatia, Poland etc.

Below on the left, is the heroine Vasilisa outside of the hut of Baba Yaga as depicted by Ivan Bilibin (1902). On the right, a Sami Storehouse on stilts, displayed at Skansen right here in Stockholm where I live. 

March 13, 2013

Exhibition I'm part of in ID:I gallery, Stockholm

ID:I Galleri
presenterar

INGÅNG NÄSTA DÖRR

15.3–31.3 2013
Vernissage fredag 15 mars 17–20

Öppet ons–fre 12–18
lör–sön 12–16 


Inger Andersson
Åbi Berglund
Cecilia Elde
Linus Ersson
Märit Runsten
Christian Sandell
Per B Sundberg
August Sörenson

Konst handlar ofta om att se något annat än det omedelbart uppenbara. Konsten kan vrida och vända på begreppen och skapa bilder som vid första anblicken kan verka obegripliga men om man som betraktare hittar den där dörren på baksidan och kliver in köksvägen…
Christian Sandell

INGÅNG NÄSTA DÖRR är en grupputställning producerad för galleri ID:I. De sju inbjudna konstnärerna har valts ut av en av galleriets medlemmar, Christian Sandell, som också deltar med ett verk. Var och en har bidragit med upp till två verk, som förhåller sig till utställningens titel/tema. Inspirationen till titeln är hämtad från de skyltar som restaurangägare och andra näringsidkare sätter upp när de tröttnat på att folk går och rycker i fel dörr för att försöka komma in i deras lokaler. En vardaglig företeelse. En vänlig tillrättavisning. Ett trött pekfinger. En pil som visar den rätta vägen?


Tjärhovsgatan 19116 28 Stockholm, Sweden

February 21, 2013

The great mighty poo gonna throw %*&! at you


Hilarious and classic boss-fight from Conker's bad fur day, and what a great song. This is the original and uncensored version.

Mi Mi Mi Mi....


I'm flushing, I'm flushing!!!