Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Talented Jeremy Geddes


Jeremy Geddes: The Street - for fans of JG's work that happen to be in New York- watch out for his show at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in 2012. Ripe will for sure!!




Jonathan LeVine Gallery @

529 West 20th Street, 9th floorNew York, NY 10011

Thursday, December 9, 2010

MJC Portfolio Update












Ripe Member & Co_Director Marcus Jan Csomor Recently updated his Motion Portfolio.

Paying Homage to the Extra-Terrestrial, Helmet Headed, CyberPunk, Frenchtastic, Duo.

DAFT PUNK.......

PLAY IT LOUD!

ENJOY http://www.marcusjancsomor.com

Lake Eucanbine












The Beauty Of The Bine, Seen Through Contextual, Hyper String, Flip Flops

Thank You Julian






Thank you Julian, you say it as it is

But according to some governments, that is not on!

In this day and age, it is more common for those governments to freely feed their public the crap that they dish out, day in and day out.

As freedom of speech and information is not to be tolerated! Understand?

When it comes to information, we may be guilty of letting our governments lead us down a blindfolded path, and if we do not demand free-dom of dissemination - if we allow governments to dictate to us the content of what we should be informed about, we may well be guilty of self stupidity.

We should be so lucky! It is not often that we are privy to the kind of detailed factual information about the comings and goings of governments, full of facts and embellishment free of the government media press releases.

Now Julian Assange is being hunted down by governments that simply want to shut him up ... the question is – why? And why is Australia included in that?

Assange is an Australian citizen, the internet is a vehicle for information dissemination, and it seems even more incredible that the Australian government, under the guise of Julia Gillard and Robert McClelland, want to have Assange’s passport canceled! What, for publishing information, on the internet?

In Australia, and not that long ago, the former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and his office were accused of leaking a document on Iraq war whistleblower; and now federal MP Andrew Wilkie to conservative columnist Andrew Bolt? [1]So, Mr Downer and his staff, and Mr Bolt for that matter, should also have had their passports cancelled if they were all proven to have been involved in a leak of a sensitive document!

I love and enjoy the freedom of speech and freedom of information afforded to everyone in Australia under our democratic system. The day this is no longer available, I might as well immigrate to Russia.



[1] http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/41736.html



Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Gottfried Helnwein




Ripe has just stumbled across the official website of Gottfried Helnwein and now we are breathless.... the sheer technical skill and talent = Mind Boggling.

A serious recommendation is for you to check out his mixed media (acrylic,oil) works 'The Murmur of Innocents' the hauntingly provocative works are thoroughly mesmerising and deadly beautiful. Ripe totes covets the perceptive, poignant work of Gottfried Helnwein.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Peking duK





Rueben Styles and Adam Hyde

Take two young lads, add a pinch of the habits of nocturnal creatures, and a dash of passion for turntables and you’ve got the ingredients that make up Canberra DJ duo, Peking duK.

Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles have been fueling the Canberra nightlife’s energy since January this year and have already supported a number of artists including DJ Falcon, The Ashton Shuffle and recently played with Raw City Rukus at the Foreshore Festival.

Check out these talented youngsters as they present Young Blood this Friday 3rd December at Academy Nightclub.

Be there. It’ll be bangin. And Ripe doesn’t just mean the bass.

(http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/photo.php?pid=3616125&id=249620729432)





Hiroshige Fukhara - Japan


From “Still in the depths of night” Hiroshige Fukuhara 2010




From “the night became starless” Hiroshige Fukuhara
2009

Emerging after an eight year absence from the art world, Japanese artist, Hiroshige Fukuhara, recently exhibited at the Ai Kowada Gallery in Tokyo, with a solo exhibition entitled Binary. He presented two collections of works entitled The night becomes starless and Still in the depths of the night.

These hauntingly beautiful works highlight Fukuhara’s main question when creating these pieces: what exists and what doesn’t?

Take some time to view his work at: http://www.aikowadagallery.com/web_e/site.cgi?mode=main;newno=9


And for some insight into the artist and his vision, read this interview with Fukuhara on Art Radar Asia: http://artradarjournal.com/2010/08/19/japanese-artist-hiroshige-fukuhara-reappears-after-8-year-absence-%E2%80%93-art-radar-interview/