Now and then

Miss J has got two shadows.

Mister B has got a polaroid.

Miss M has got a flower-power past.

As Baba Ganti and Soja I had also the same skill at school and these are my prints.

I had really difficulty doing this kind of "handicraft". But despite the stress I like them. 

The pictures don't go together. But I show them all because each has been made with another technique: Intaglio print (1), dry point (2) and aquatint (3).

Miss B.

FROM ME TO YOU

Here I tried to use motives that go well with the visual language that is somewhat given by a specific intaglio technique.

As a result these two motives don't really go together, but I guess thats why I like them as a pair. There IS a link in content between the two motives though. I wonder if you see it...!

(the above picture is a drypoint print and one below is a etching combined with aquatinta)

Prints by Soja

lonely way home - hands reaching out for me

An intaglio print I made in my printing course at school. I was kind of under pressure when making it. Could be an explanation for the numerous hands...

by Baba Ganti

WATCHING STRANGENESS

As an intro for our new project month circling around the theme "strange/foreign pictures", everyone class was asked to bring an image, which personally disturbed them or seemed foreign or weird in some way.

The collection that was brought together turned out to be extremely diverse and opened up a lot of new perspectives, so I thought I'd post an outtake of it for you.

Can an image this famous still be disturbing or are we 

already too used to it?

(This could've also made an exquisite Ugly Monday)

Ridiculous or awe-inspiring?

What was the person who made this montage thinking?

This is a judicial drawing of a mass murder made in court.

This is actually the portrait of a child-abuser put together out of childrens hand prints. Unethical?

 

And last but not least (weird). I found it quite interesting how disturbing it would be to a person who knows nothing about Christianity, to see a bleeding man hammered to a cross on, let's say, someone's kitchen wall.

by Soja

In between

I was your puppet but I was dancing.

Decide for all or nothing.

This is a part of a work I did for school. The theme we were given was called "In between". 

I don't like to describe what is meant to see in my pictures. Look at it and think of your own story. Feel free to decide if you see a provocation, a picture which has to do with "In between" or what ever you like.

Miss B.

UGLY MONDAY 4

Question:

What do these pictures here tell you about swiss farmers?

Not too much. But whats worse is they tell you swiss photographers suck. To be honest, I'm a bit let down...I quite liked last years calender! 

NEW YORK I LOVE YOU - BUT YOU'RE BRINGING ME DOWN

I took these pictures during the time I lived in New York. It is in fact one of the most inspiring cities and there is always something new to discover. But at the same time it can be very exhausting and really suck the life out of you. So it is almost like a love-hate relationship. But whenever I go back to New York it just feels like home.

Photos by Imi Loa

Mugshots

I've once started drawing portraits of friends and family members and by and by this little series of pictures came into existence.

-Illustrations by Baba Ganti-

AAAAOOOUUUUH!

So this past Saturday we all went to see "Howl" at the Zurich Film Festival.

"HOWL" described in one picture:

Nah, just kidding.

But this couple does in fact fly across the screen a respectful number of times. (For example through a forest of animated cocks!!!)

Yepp, genitals reoccur periodically in the movie about Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl", which, amongst other things, was why it was indicted for obscenity in 1957.

Other than that the movie is a smart mix of big speeches at court, biographical outtakes, re-enacted interviews with the poet himself and animation sequences, but we must admit the real reason we went goes by the name of James Franco.

Yes, if you count yourself to the francophile, this is a must-see. Not only because we think he's hot;) He actually managed to give a truthfull performance. Every little movement was being studied in detail.

And plus, this movie teaches you the important lesson, that hipsters in Ray-Bans aren't just a plague of the 21st century. So just before you go a-hopping to your next cinema, one word of caution: Ginsbergs man-candy all look alike, so pay close attention to who is who and what their names are!

Obscene Illustration by Soja

UGLY MONDAY 3

Seriously now, does anybody in this universe really want to know how many sugar cubes are in a candy bar or in a coke? 

Never thought there'd be so many. You can actually build a pyramid out of them...

post by Baba Ganti