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Welcome to the twilight zone
Welcome to the twilight zone!
For the next 2 1/2 hours you will be trance-ported to the 4th dimension. Eric Staller, MissT and friends present an interactive evening of music, film, live acts and special effects. New York artist Eric Staller is known in Amsterdam for his wacky inventions: "we're going to take you to a laughing place. You will feel like you are in a wonderful film, surrounded by sights and sounds."
So buckle up boys and girls. It's gonna be a wild ride!
Arrive at 21.00. show begins at 21.30 SHARP!
www.sugarfactory.nl
Nostalgic takes off in the Netherlands
Nostalgic is the first provider worldwide of incentive tours with its own fleet of classic convertibles and is the leading full service supplier of classic car incentives for companies home and abroad. Nostalgic incentives are available all year long.
Connie Fluhme took on the function as Managing Director for Nostalgic Benelux and is convinced this product will have great success in those countries. A lot of big companies and international press already got the taste of the amazing Nostalgic incentives. Recently journalists from the Dutch Avantgarde, Elegance, Playboy, GTO Magazine and Highprofile enjoyed learning more about Nostalgic. You will read more about this new incentive product in the Netherlands during the coming months. If you would like to book an incentive trip to Tuscany, Sicily or Lago Maggiore with classic Alfa Romeo's from the 50's and 60's, don't hesitate to contact us and we will organize an unforgettable trip for you!
www.nostalgic.eu
Eric Staller - Out of my mind
Eric Staller (1947) is an American artist. He grew up in New York and studied architecture at the University of Michigan. Settling in New York City in 1971, he exhibited his art in galleries and museums. He has been commissioned to build large-scale projects for public spaces in the US and Japan. In 1985 he began a series of ‘urban UFOs’, mobile public artworks, ‘breaking down the gallery walls’ and taking his art to the streets. The first in this series, ‘Lightmobile’ (on the cover of the book) was a beloved fixture in New York in the 1980’s and is known worldwide through the media. Since moving to Amsterdam in 1994, Staller has shared his magical art with the people of Paris, Berlin, Brussels and London. Always trying to top himself, Staller invented the circular 7-person ConferenceBike (there are now 150 of them in 10 countries). His recent artworks have become increasingly political and reflective of current events. out of my mind tells the story of a man, always ‘pregnant with an idea’, on a mission to delight and challenge the world with his optimistic vision.
Eric Staller is a Willy Wonka-type inventor, building what he calls “urban UFOs”, fantastic mobile artworks that he takes to the people of New York City. He is guided by deep subconscious impulses, an obsession. He is also guided by a deep need to share his creations with the public. He toils alone in his studio for months, carefully crafting these hi-tech toys. When he emerges into the city with a finished artwork, it is as if a powerful alter ego takes over. He is welcomed everywhere! He’s a rock star, the star in his own film. Smiles, waves, thumbs-up, photos flashing, people shouting their approval. The art and the people’s love of it make him fearless and extroverted, and he takes them all over town, even to the poor and dangerous neighbourhoods. Says Staller: “It’s like a powerful drug, this giving and getting of joy from my work.”
Then September 11 shakes loose in Staller a need to make art that is darker and more political.
These works don’t get the same universal reactions of joy. The times have changed too, and Staller is now confronted in the streets by an undercurrent of pent-up tensions and angers.
Staller: “9/11 shook loose in me a need to write this memoir.
I wanted to give the reader an intimate look at my creative process; to show how my life and loves, my places and times, have been inseparable from my 35 years of art making. Take this book to bed!”
From the book:
“I didn’t choose to be an artist; it chose me. It is a calling, a religious feeling, and a compulsion to peel away layers of a subconscious onion. It’s a mystery to me where the ideas come from. It is the idea that initially appears the most absurd that I am ultimately compelled to build. The idea that makes me laugh and say” where the hell did THAT come from?!” is the one that becomes an obsession over the coming months. I become pregnant with an idea, a voice within becomes louder and louder saying: ‘You must build that thing!’”
Eric Staller – out of my mind
Publisher: Staller Studio Nederland
Netherlands 2006 * ISBN 978 90 811494 1 9 * 275 pages * full color illustrations *
€ 29,95
Distribution: Nilsson & Lamm (www.nilsson-lamm.nl); Amazon.com
More information: Connie Fluhme, fluhme@pr-us.com
www.ericstaller.com
YDU - Young Designers United welcomes new designers
YDU is a shop where the collections of young and upcoming fashion designers are sold for affordable prizes. With this point of sale YDU helps young designers who are starting their own label. Every 6 months YDU welcomes some new and upcoming talents. For the summer season Linda, Pricci, Hazelnut and Charles and Ron joined from the fashion part. Glitter and Twisted, Myong-Yoo and Kauri enrich the accessory corner!
YDU creates an absolute fashion highlight for fashion lovers, who are always looking for exclusive, customized and individual clothes.
Not every random fashion designer fits in the concept. YDU carefully selects the designers, who determine the image of the shop. YDU looks for designers with a lot of creativity, who are able to translate their visions into wearable and affordable collections. The result is a varied offer of exclusive and high-quality clothes and accessories.
Are you a designer and interested in joining the crowd? Send us an email!
Fotos: Anouk Morgan
www.ydu.nl
