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We really wanted to make May a somewhat more laidback month, leaving our peripatetic leanings to the heart, and to lull through the mania of Spring in readiness for the experiments and adventures of the coming Lomographic Summer. But despite all of our efforts, there's plenty of fish on May's ample menu of Lomographic affairs - in Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Milan and Toronto with the new Lomographic Fisheye camera, where it has already inspired many a soul, plus a large helping of serious partying (the Lomography VJs are transforming Cairo's nights into fairytale worlds full of eye candy), and a worldwide call from the filmmaker and Lomographer Bady Minck to reflect on the Mozart phenomenon. |
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Bady Minck's LoMozart Project
International online contest
April 28 to May 28
Bady Minck loves the unexpected. And she loves Lomography. The Luxembourgoise-Austrian experimental filmmaker (www.badyminck.com) has been commissioned to make a 1-minute film for the Mozart Year in 2006, when 250 years since the composer's birth are being celebrated with numerous projects and events (www.wienmozart2006.at).
Bady Minck has passed on this challenge to Lomographers all over the world as, according to Bady, they are the most predestined to interpret the global dimension that interests her in the mystification and commercialisation of the Mozart phenomenon. She would like to incorporate as many Lomographic Mozart variations shot in as many different locations as possible in her upcoming film. She plans to work in the images so that they follow an (inaudible) Mozart tune.
So it's about everything that can't evade the Lomographic gaze that has something to do with Mozart, whether kitsch or revered as a figure. The complete images of the real/historical, spiritual, graphically represented, associative, classical and modern testimony to a cult figure. Bady is particularly interested in the local angle, the different forms of Mozart appropriation around the world.
Name-plates, coffee cups, chocolate, graffiti, road signs, statues, operas, powder puffs, neon signs, building facades, dolls, musical scores, costumes, silhouettes, hurdy-gurdies, coins, art treasures, airports, legends, concert halls...
The best lomographs will win a prize and be shown in Bady's film, which is to run in 2006 on TV, in cinemas and at events relating to the Mozart jubilee festival. Bady Minck is also planning to complete a longer version of the Lomographic Mozart Variations in 2006. Important: quantities of uploads a.s.a.p. Deadline: 28 May, 2005.
For further information on Bady Minck's Mozart Lomography Rumble:
www.lomography.com/upload
www.lomography.com/events/?sub=0&evid=281 |
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Lomography VJs performance in Cairo
Friday 27 May & Tuesday 31 May, 9pm
Latex & Ka3b 3ali, both at the Nile Hilton, Cornishe el Nil, Cairo, Egypt
Cairo is an exceptional city. All chaos and beauty, desert and metropolis, glamour and simplicity, poor and rich, clatter and music, culture and kitsch, Mediterranean/Red Sea and Nile, farmers and intellectuals, politics and lifestyle, faith and principles, party and catharsis, superstition and humour, mosques and monasteries, reality and film. But the most exceptional of all are the Cairo nights. And Nisha Sursock, who supported the very first Lomographic projects in Cairo in 1997, is without doubt the king of the Cairo nights, the creator and entrepreneur behind as many as nine prime spots in the city.
Nisha is inviting the Lomography VJs to Cairo for the opening of his newest extravaganza, the Ka3b 3ali, a modern Ottoman paradise, a bar/restaurant designed by Karim Mechtidjian with a Sultan's and a Harem corner, a Shisheria and an Omar El Khayam tent. For two nights the Ka3b 3ali and the absolutely funkiest club in Cairo are going to be transforming the Latex into breathtaking fairytale worlds with live performances of Lomography visuals to music by DJ Elektronische and avant-garde Arabic tunes. Also on the line-up: A female Takht group performing to Shehrezad compositions.
Lomography Ambassador to Cairo Helga Sursock will also be present.
Want to know more about Cairo? More about the Lomography VJs? Contact us. |
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The Amsterdam Fisheye Launch 'People and Fish'
Friday May 6, 5-8pm
451°F, 19 Leidsestraat, 1017 NT Amsterdam, Netherlands
After a long period of relative calm for the Dutch Lomographic community, it's now time for a dose of new pizzazz. The growing number of Dutch LomoHomes online and the advent of the new Lomographic Fisheye camera and our designated Ambassador to Amsterdam, Hanneke Metselaar, are behind the updrive. For the launch of the event 451°F, a LomoWall is going on show for which ten artists from Amsterdam experimented around with the Fisheye camera: Ebisse Wakjira, Giovanni Scheer, Giulia Laura, Hannabel, Lambrecht Wessels, Nicole Monnen, Aiko, Galman, Boghe and SNAR.
Plus, Fisheye sculptures are going to be made live and there's a presentation of all the Dutch LomoHomes to sounds by DJ Elmar aka 'geepje'.
May 6 is also the date of the kick-off event to the Amsterdam Fisheye Challenge, where all Lomographers are called on to take a Fisheye camera and let their eyes dart wide open from left to right in an exhaustive search for the most exciting, clever, insane, sexy, heart-pounding PEOPLE AND FISH! The best lomographs are going to be continually added to the LomoWall on show at 451°F; the photo competition runs until 10 June. A Lomography jury will select the 10 winners, to be given their awards at a suitable ceremony (t.b.a.)!
See you at the opening party! |
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The Fisheye View @ DESIGNMAI Berlin 2005
Friday May 6, 7pm
Galerie Shop, Neue Schoenhauser Strasse 19, Berlin 10178, Germany
The Galerie Shop is the new premises of the Lomography Headquarters in Berlin. For this year's Designmai Festival (www.designmai.de), the interactive Lomography Project FISHEYE VIEW will be presented along with an excellent and intense programme: a LomoChallenge around the new Lomography Fisheye camera (come and get yours!) and a growing Festival-LomoWall exhibition, 2 LomoParties and daily film projections, including Love & Motion by Christian Schmid-David (2005) and The Lomo Camera by Alex Graham, BBC (2003), also featuring a presentation of the Berlin LomoHomes! The contest runs until May 13; at the final garden-party event on May 14, from 7pm, special guests as well as participants in the exhibition will be judging each others' work and selecting the winners. |
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'I Fisheye You' in Milan
Friday May 20, 5 to 9pm
Alive, 11 Via Burlamacchi, Milan, Italy
The off-the-wall hairdresser, designer and fashion store Alive (www.alivemilano.com) in Milan is both the in-place for Lomographers to meet and an experimental venue. Milanese Ambassador Alberto Prandoni is organising his Fisheye competition from here, and extends a heartfelt invitation to the launch party with a Fisheye exhibition and a presentation of Milanese LomoHomes to DJ soundz. Participants to the contest will receive their sealed mission brief for the 'I Fisheye You' challenge on the same evening. You can borrow a Fisheye camera at Alive and also present your best Lomographs on the topic until June 3.
Details for presentation of all submitted entries and award ceremony to be announced. |
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Fisheye Pic-Nic with Peter in Paris
Saturday May 21, 2pm
Artazart, 83, quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, France
The beloved eccentric Lomography Ambassador in Paris Peter Boesch has his very own version of the Fisheye challenge: he is simply inviting all Lomographers to come along for a lazy Saturday afternoon Fisheye Picnic in the Park at Canal St. Martin. First everybody is to be welcomed to the Artazart Bookshop (www.artazart.com) with a cocktail and a presentation of the first fresh-from-the-market French Fisheye shots. Equipped with Fisheye cameras and some SuperSampler sushi boxes for lunch, the Lomographers are heading to the nearby park (corner of Rue des Recollets/Quai the Valmy). Peter has not revealed all the details of the Fisheye Picnic Challenge but he has promised to report further on the big autumn competition at Artazart and a new Parisian monthly Lomographic rendezvous! |
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The Burro Fish-Eyeing in London
Monday May 9 to Thursday June 9
Burro, 44 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9EP
And another one: The team behind the Burro fashion label (www.burro.co.uk) does not see fashion as an isolated art. They try to combine all elements of culture in their products and projects and have now also fell in love with the Fisheye camera. The Burro store in the heart of Covent Garden will be housing the curious cameras for curious participants who will have a spontaneous 48 hours to shoot till they drop and then enter their best Fish Eye photos into a competition (details for participation, lend-cameras, shooting list at the store: deadline June 2). Winners will be awarded at the final event at Burro on Thursday, June 9
Note: Following the success and good cheer of the April London Lomographers Summit, the speedy London Lomography Ambassador Ladies are already calling the second gathering. Programme to be announced in the event section soon.
On Tuesday, May 17, 7.30 pm at The Griffin, 93 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4RD |
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The St.Petersburg LomoWall & a Fisheye Master Plan in Toronto
May 7 to June 20
National Film Board Canada, 150 John St., Toronto, Canada
Michael Meyer, the Toronto Lomography Ambassador, is paying tribute to the origins of lomographic exhibitions. In 1991, invited to bring their best snapshots for a spontaneous exhibition, the first Lomographers all came along with over-sized images. As the gallery did not provide enough space they were asked to bring their Lomographs in the smallest size possible.
This was the birth of the first democratic LomoWall. The St. Petersburg LomoWall was originally created after one of the legendary Lomographic trips to St. Petersburg in Russia, and has travelled the world since then. The St. Petersburg LomoWall will be on show at the National Film Board Canada during the Contact Toronto Photography Festival (www.contactphoto.com), where Alex Graham's BBC film ‘The Lomo Camera’ is also being screened on May 14, 9pm.
Michael Meyer is also using the occasion to cover the whole city of Toronto with special Fisheye programmes. Check the details. |
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