A cheesy metaphor
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More about food. Sort of.
The Gad cheese grandfather
Carpet tiles (Photo credit: Tchochkes)
But the point of the video, says one commentator, is to recognize the metaphor of the movie. The peak in life, is not necessarily the refrigerator shelf, where it appears that everyone should be situated. But rather, the garbage pail, which may represent the margins of society or a greater mix of products, may offer more self-expression, and, more happiness.
It’s good to get the inner meaning, but you can just appreciate the clever aspects of this student project that has already been viewed more than 30,000 times.
Walkable by Kobi Levi
I’d been meaning to write about shoe designer Kobi Levi for some time, and you’ll understand as soon as you see his designs. But sometimes you wait and for good reason. As I was walking into a favorite Jerusalem shoe store today, I noticed a flyer on the door, advertising an upcoming — read, now — exhibit of Kobi’s designs at The Guild, a school for shoe designs and accessories.
Kobi graduated from Bezalel and after working for Skins Footwear, a revolutionary orthopedic footwear company that has since been liquidated, went out to work on his own designs. For Kobi, the shoe is his canvas. The trigger for a new design comes when an idea, concept or image comes to mind, and the end result is a “wearable sculpture.”
See Kobi’s works at The Guild, 25 Derech Menachem Begin, Tel Aviv, 03-516-3032/9
Thursday-Saturday, January 13-15
Thursday-Saturday, January 20-22
Doors open each day at 11 am
Foto Friday – Face, Body at Bezalel
Filed under: Art, design, Foto Friday, General, History and Culture, Life
Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art & Design will be holding a conference this coming Tuesday entitled “Face, Body”.
Bezalel is Israel’s oldest and most prestigious academy of art and design whose students in the arts, design and architecture become leaders in their fields in Israel and the world.
Photo by David Adika
The conference, hosted by Bezalel’s photography department, will deal with the ways in which the face and body is presented in the plastic arts, in poetry, film and video, as well as in philosophy and science.
Photos by Eyal Ben Dov
The long explanations put forth by the organizers: “The face and the body are material and likeness. The face and the body are both real and the presentation of the real or the similar that enables the existence of the self and the other (everyone is both self and other) in various spheres as well as in discourse about the matter. The face and the body can also be addressed in the context of space and time, power interactions, as concepts and perceptions, as a covering and as what is contained within the cover.”
In a word: verisimilitude.
Image by Reuven Kuperman
Speakers include some of Israel’s leading art photographers and videographers, including department head Micha Kirshner, Reuven Kuperman, Simcha Shirman, Miki Kratsman, David Adika, Eyal Ben Dov, and videographer Alona Friedberg.
Click on the links to learn more about some of Israel’s premiere photographers. More information about the conference can be found on the Bezalel website.
Adam Adama
Filed under: Art, design, General, History and Culture
I’ve always admired the street exhibits that seem to proliferate in Tel Aviv, with sculptures and prints placed along the tree-lined boulevards of Rothschild and Chen.
Now we can boast something similar in Jerusalem, with the Adam Adama exhibit of photographs by students from various Jerusalem schools, both Jewish and Arab, portraying their vision of Jerusalem.
Sponsored by Hadassah College, the municipality and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the photographs are hanging along the pedestrian walkways of Schatz and Bezalel (named for the school, which is returning downtown from Mount Scopus) Streets in downtown Jerusalem. These car-less streets have been recently refurbished with cobblestone pavements and benches for easy sitting and viewing, and both Schatz and Bezalal boast two good cafes, Noni and Cafe Bezalel, so you can sip a hafuch, and enjoy some art in the shade.
Making art even more accessible
Art is more accessible than ever with the advent of the interweb. Recent graduates of the prestigious Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem have been uploading their projects to social networks. Both flickr and YouTube are being uses as canvases for photography, design and animation projects. Here a few videos that caught my eye recently. The first one is a simple and cute animation project, the second is a design project that makes some sort of statement, I’m just not so sure what that statement is….
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