Sunday, December 5, 2010

3D Book Presentation

V torek, 7.12.2010, ob 19.00 bo v Mestni galeriji Nova Gorica, v okviru festivala Pixxelpoint, predstavljena knjiga "3D od točke do upodobitve, druga izpopolnjena izdaja", katero sva letos napisala s Heleno Gabrijelčič.

Knjigo bo moč nabaviti po promocijski ceni 32 EUR (redna cena je 38 EUR).

Vabljeni!

Tuesday, Dec. 7th 2010, at 7 p.m. in Mestna galerija Nova Gorica, there will be presentation of the book "3D od točke do upodobitve, druga izpopolnjena izdaja", which was written this year by me and Helena Gabrijelčič.

You will be able to purchase the book for promotional price of 32 EUR (regular price is 38 EUR).

Come in many!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Dangerous Plastic

At the University of Taupo in New Zealand researchers made an incredible discovery. When testing 113 people, they found out that ones who use plastic packaging for toothpaste, are 0.5% more inclined towards the breast cancer. Men included.

"I'm thrilled," says Dr. Raikniewitz from the same university. "We should seriously think about packagings we use daily," he continues.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Sub720

Today I have put online some samples and initial text for my new series Sub720. There's also an extended bio on the website. Finally.

Check that out at www.erzetich.com/artdepartment

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

One Man Road Trip

A road trip is always a healing activity. I enjoy road trips big time.

An ultimate experience would be Bufalino - a Piaggio Ape motorized tricycle converted into an one-person camper.

Excellent to be on your own on the road and take a nap or cook a meal wherever you want. A turn off might be the 50 ccm engine on this vehicle. This means you may run as fast as 50 kmh or so. Make a calculation of how long an 8h trip would be...

Cute idea for a weekend fishing, thou.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Back From Bulgaria

I returned yesterday from Bulgaria attending Computer Space 2010 festival where I won 3rd prize in category electronic music. Great, I'd say. On the musical topic there was also my presentation/lecture entitled Visual Rhythmic in Music Videos. People enjoyed it... at least this is what I've been told. Lies? I fool myself it was the truth.

More about the festival at www.computerspace.org

I have no idea what's the building that I took picture of (see above), but it's cute. Fountain included. It's not my first visit in Sofia and I will always enjoy this city because of its wild and spontaneous beauty. The city has changed, thou. Compared to my first visit nine years ago it has renewed soul. I liked more the one from the past. It was even more sincere.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

John

One of the personalities I admire in the world of art (in this case music) is John Lydon (sometimes known as Johnny Rotten), great text writer and musical innovator. Although his irascible character may often put him in trouble it seems like he's having a good purpose regarding folks, government staff excluded. His way of behaving puts him therefore in some specific role of "a difficult one". But what I love about (especially famous) people is their auto irony. In his case the commercial he did for a brand of butter. Good move.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Animated Debate

This Saturday (2nd Oct. 2010) I will be host at Fanima Tu festival (www.fanimatu.org) on a debate about animated music videos in Slovenia. There are other two artists invited: Dušan Kastelic (one of the most renowned Slovene illustrators and animators) and Matic Majcen (writer for Ekran magazine).

Here is one of my animated videos from 2004:

Monday, September 20, 2010

Gothique on Video

I managed to put some images from the series Gothique together on a slide show video in HD720 resolution.


Music (Long Dead Autumn) is taken from the Amateur God's album Xenofeelia. Something I wrote about five years ago.

Links to prints are available on www.erzetich.com.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Religion in the Shadow

A shadow play has done a big leap forward since the old China (parchment & candles). "Thanks god" we have 3D printers... and creative people.

"A shadow cloud is a three-dimensional object, consisting of multiple shadow-casting elements semi-randomly arranged in three dimensions. A shadow cloud can be viewed as a generalization of shadow casting panels, but of course the basic idea is already present in the so called GEB-triples."


Well, this is a practical proof that we can throw all of the religions in the same box... three at a time of course.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

What About Left Column?

... talking about my website's index. There is my artwork available to purchase in various formats. For example, CDs you can buy only on eBay. Follow the link on the index on my website (www.erzetich.com).

Next: original prints. Those are signed and numbered and they come along with COA (certificate of authenticity). They are available on eBay, Etsy and Fine Arts America.

Prints only. Those prints that don't have COA, signature etc, but are much cheaper and you can choose to get them framed, printed on various supports and so on. Just follow links on my website's first page (www.erzetich.com) to Fine Arts America, Imagekind or Red Bubble.

Friday, September 3, 2010

About Music Reviews

If you're a musician, you know that reviews are kind of medium to let your work heard of by wider audience. Of course you then have some incredibly vast rang of comments on your work. I have once seen gathered reviews about latest Smashing Pumpkins work entitled Zeitgeist, for example. Surely Billy Corgan did something very different here and somehow he got reviews ranging from 2/10 to 10/10.

It is the same (or at least similar) for almost every album around. Mine included (El Soter - Appletree of Discord). Mostly bad reviews are fault of not understanding fully the work or just listening to it in a very superficial way. I was a reviewer too, so I know what it means to have a big pile of CDs waiting to be heard, which is not an excuse. But yet might some readers change their mind upon purchasing badly reviewed work, although they would like it if they've heard it on their own.

Here is what I received few days ago by a German reviewer for Metal1 and I was glad to read what he said: "I just finished writing the Review for Appletree of Discord, and I have to say that it was not easy. I personally LOVE the CD: Its such a realistic display of Society and the music is really great and full of details. But I can also see how people may not link your CD because they can't accept this style of music or they just don't understand the concept. Also, it is not easy to gain full access to the power of the songs. So in the end I decided to mention that I really love the CD, but also to say that it is not music for everyone. Because of this, I decided that it is better to not give it "points" at all (not 0 of 10 but "-" of 10, we often use this if a CD is to specially to give it a rating for everyone) but nevertheless suggest that everyone should listen to it."

Another one that made my day (OK, week) was by Komodo Rock (www.komodorock.com) where El Soter album was rated 8.6/10: "... The album is a concept within a concept, and needs to be appreciated not by the individual tracks on the album, but as with anything similar as the overall product, and in this case that also includes a visual DVD which accompanies the release. Allow yourself to be challenged, allow yourself to appreciate what is on offer here, and you are going to have found something very special that many who are perhaps not so open minded with their music, or less willingly to challenge themselves are going to miss. This is a superb release."

On the other hand you might read something pretty bad like this one (Global Domination): "The pointless intro (sigh?) contains an Emily Dickinson poem, which is read only slightly louder than the four chords that accompany it. Once we get to the real music, the build up begins to sound promising, with some nicely distorted guitar riffs fading in before suddenly hitting a stunning anti-climax. It's quiet, it's relatively slow, and the synth is bad. I suddenly start to feel embarrassed ? what if someone hears me listening to this? Fortunately dire opener ?Initiation? is soon over. Unfortunately, eight similar tracks follow and I soon find myself listening to some ska instead..."

If you allow me comment on this comment, the "reviewer" is not very familiar with what ska is. :)

This CD is available on my Ebay store.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

(F)utile Machines Revisited

I wanted to put out of the dust a series of graphics I made four years ago. Might be that I am attached to this series for various reasons or maybe because I recently (OK, I did it today) uploaded the video of these machines in movement (see below).

One more. There is an article about them on Squidoo with some extras: few suggestion how to throw away your money by buying stupid devices. My suggestion, your choice.

Here's the article link http://www.squidoo.com/futile-machines-at-the-edge-of-usefulness

...and here's the video:




Prints are available to buy. Signed and numbered. Just follow the Squidoo link to find more about those prints.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Welcome Home

I couldn't avoid that. Now I have a blog, too. OK, first only a couple of words just to set up this blog properly and then I might add stuff on it very often... this time I will.