MASKER
mask |mask|
noun
1 a covering for all or part of the face, in particular
• a covering worn as a disguise, or to amuse or terrify other people.
• a covering made of fiber or gauze and fitting over the nose and mouth to protect against dust or air pollutants, or made of sterile gauze and worn to prevent infection of the wearer or (in surgery) of the patient.
• a protective covering fitting over the whole face, worn in fencing, ice hockey, and other sports.
• a respirator used to filter inhaled air or to supply gas for inhalation.
• (also masque) a cosmetic preparation spread over the face and left for some time to cleanse and improve the skin.
• Entomology the enlarged lower lip of a dragonfly larva, which can be extended to seize prey.
2 a likeness of a person’s face in clay or wax, esp. one made by taking a mold from the face.
• a person’s face regarded as having set into a particular expression : his face was a mask of rage.
• a hollow model of a human head worn by ancient Greek and Roman actors.
• the face or head of an animal, esp. of a fox, as a hunting trophy.
• archaic a masked person.
3 figurative a disguise or pretense : she let her mask of moderate respectability slip.
4 Photography a piece of something, such as a card, used to cover a part of an image that is not required when exposing a print.
• Electronics a patterned metal film used in the manufacture of microcircuits to allow selective modification of the underlying material.
verb [ trans. ]
cover (the face) with a mask.
• conceal (something) from view : the poplars masked a factory.
• disguise or hide (a sensation or quality) : brandy did not completely mask the bitter taste.
• cover (an object or surface) so as to protect it from a process, esp. painting : mask off doors and cupboards with sheets of plastic.
DERIVATIVES
masked adjective
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French masque, from Italian maschera, mascara, probably from medieval Latin masca [witch, specter,] but influenced by Arabic mas k ara ‘buffoon.’
▲ ◢ the pier by marcii goose ▲ ◢
▲ ◢ the pier by marcii goose ▲◢
music from ‘never let me go’ - Rachel Portman
⩜⩝ CL▲N ⩜⩝
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if actual lineage patterns are unknown, clan members may nonetheless recognize a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be merely symbolical in nature, whereby the clan shares a “stipulated” common ancestor that is a symbol of the clan’s unity. When this ancestor is not human, it is referred to as an animalian totem. Clans can be most easily described as tribes or sub-groups of tribes. The word clan is derived from ‘clann’ meaning ‘children’ in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages. The word was taken into English about 1425 as a label for the tribal nature of Irish and Scottish Gaelic society.[1] The Gaelic term for clan is fine finɨ. Clans are located in every country; members may identify with a coat of arms to show they are an independent clan.
In different cultures and situations, a clan may mean the same thing as other kin-based groups, such as tribes and bands. Often, the distinguishing factor is that a clan is a smaller part of a larger society such as a tribe, a chiefdom, or a state. Examples include Scottish, Irish, Chinese, Japanese clans, Rajput clans, Nair Clan or Malayala Kshatriya Clan in India and Pakistan, which exist as kin groups within their respective nations. Note, however, that tribes and bands can also be components of larger societies. Probably the most famous tribes, the 12 Biblical tribes of Israel, composed one people. Arab tribes are small groups within Arab society, and Ojibwa bands are smaller parts of the Ojibwa tribe in North America. In some cases multiple tribes recognized the same clans, such as the bear and fox clans of the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes.
Apart from these different traditions of kinship, further conceptual confusion arises from colloquial usages of the term. In post-Soviet countries, for example, it is quite common to speak of clans in reference to informal networks within the economic and political sphere. This usage reflects the assumption that their members act towards each other in a particularly close and mutually supportive way approximating the solidarity among kinsmen. However, the Norse clans, the ätter, can not be translated with tribe or band, and consequently they are often translated with house or line.
Polish clans differ from most others as they are a collection of families who bear the same coat of arms, as opposed to claiming a common descent. This is discussed under the topic of Polish Heraldry.
Clans in indigenous societies are likely to be exogamous, meaning that their members cannot marry one another. In some societies, clans may have an official leader such as a chieftain or patriarch; in others, leadership positions may have to be achieved, or people may say that ‘elders’ make decisions. There are multiple closely related clans in the Indian sub-continent, especially south India.
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Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work
Thank you to my friend Waldo Muller for introducing me to this arcane photographer and enigma: Vivian Maier. Her work was hidden away in a locker for a very long time, her stark yet innocent but passionate eye observed line and form in the most ‘platonic’ and quite obscure way, but beautiful… just so seamlessley captivating… Her composition and subject matter grabs me, travels with me and wants me to want more… of that moment… I wish I could meet her. She could have been a good friend to Diane Arbus. Maybe they shared the streets ? Vivian you had a hungry heart, I hope we can but celebrate a single moment of you!
Here is more on this mysterious woman, a piece I quote from a website dedicated to her:
A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
Piecing together Vivian Maier’s life can easily evoke Churchill’s famous quote about the vast land of Tsars and commissars that lay to the east. A person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City. Someone who was intensely guarded and private, Vivian could be counted on to feistily preach her own very liberal worldview to anyone who cared to listen, or didn’t. Decidedly unmaterialistic, Vivian would come to amass a group of storage lockers stuffed to the brim with found items, art books, newspaper clippings, home films, as well as political tchotchkes and knick-knacks.
A free spirit but also a proud soul, Vivian became poor and was ultimately saved by three of the children she had nannied earlier in her life. Fondly remembering Maier as a second mother, they pooled together to pay for an apartment and took the best of care for her. Unbeknownst to them, one of Vivian’s storage lockers was auctioned off due to delinquent payments. In those storage lockers lay the massive hoard of negatives Maier secretly stashed throughout her lifetime.
Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.
In Jest Or Earnest
In Jest Or Earnest from Marcii Goose on Vimeo.
When words cannot describe music and pictures will have to do.
Urbanism ˈridiˌkyoōl
“Ridiculous Urbanism” from dodeckahedron on Vimeo.
Collages made using abandoned urban studies slides found in St Philips (an LSE building about to be demolished). The sound is a collage of different lectures on architecture and urbanism. Exhibited in “Students, Patients, Paupers: the many lives of the St Philips building”, May 2011.
Toffie Popular Culture Festival 2011
Toffie Pop Culture Festival and Design Conference
toffie.co.za
24 — 26 March 2011
Cape Town City Hall
…
The 2nd annual Toffie Pop Culture Festival brings you the best in international pop culture with a design exhibition, a 2-day conference, workshops and an after-party.
BOOKINGS:
- 100 STUDENT TICKETS RESERVED AT R500
- STANDARD TICKET PRICES R750
E-mail toffie@thepresident.co.za
Speakers confirmed:
- Alex Trochut: Designer (Spain)
- Daito Manabe: Artist/Programmer (Japan)
- Brecht Vandenbroucke: Artist/Designer (Belgium)
- Jürg Lehni: Inventor/Designer (Switzerland)
- Michael Spahr: Norient Musik Film Festival (Switzerland)
- Andrew Putter (Artist, South Africa)
- Javier Lourenco/Flamboyant Paradise (Filmmaker: Argentina)
- Brandt Botes (Graphic Designer: South Africa)
- Tumi Molekane (Musician: South Africa)
- Frauke Stegmann (Designer: South Africa)
- Francis Burger (Artist: South Africa)
- Kobus van der Merwe (Chef: South Africa)
- Richard de Jager (Fashion designer/Stylist: South Africa)
- Conn Bertish (Creative Director: South Africa)
- Sean Mahoney and Pierre Swanepoel of studioMAS (Architects: South Africa)
- Smiso Zwane (Musician: South Africa)
Exhibitions include:
Inspiration tables curated by Peet Pienaar
(Liam Mooney, Angie Batis, Shane Durrant, Jacques Erasmus, Kobus van der Merwe, Superella, Porky Hefer, Dokter n Misses, David West, Coley Porter Bell, Brandt Botes, Conn Bertish, Elle Decoration, Michelle Son, Frauke Stegmann, Black River FC, /A Word of Art, Marcii Goose, Dave Pepler, Adi en Cornelia Badenhorst, Jenny Ehlers, Julia Raynham, Andrew Putter en Barend de Wet)African Hair Design posters by The President
Daito Manabe installation
Papergirl by Marcii Goose and Ricky Lee Gordon
/A Word of Art exhibition room
What if the World exhibition room
Richard de Jager’s new fashion collection
Music and parties:
- Best of Norient Music Film Festival (Switzerland)
- Tumi Molekane, Peach van Pletzen and Braam du Toit collaboration with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sailors and sluts after party featuring Dirty Paraffin
Extras (shopping & eating & drinking):
- Church, The President’s gift shop
- ⋃ restaurant and bar
- You & me & everyone we know market
- Small talks by Marcii Goose and Ricky Lee Gordon (/A Word of Art)
Fourteen Actors Acting
See them act here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#index
Sofa Set by Kai Kristiansen
4 Piece Sofa Set by Kai Kristiansen
Denmark
1960’s
Love the curved lines in rosewood.
You can buy it here http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=212661
Let’s fly away
Last night I had the most amazing dream. I can’t remember much… but I was all ‘dressed up’ to go somewhere special and this morning my head were filled with images of arial landscapes, they weren’t static but somehow I had motion memories of these places… yes like I was flying. It was only when I looked out of my kitchen window over the ocean that I realized I was in a hot air balloon. I’ve always wanted to go in one of these flying machines and this is the closest I;ve ever been. It was a long journey, I can’t remember the destination but by the look of my ‘outfit’ it was definitely in the past and somewhere quite spectacular. Has anyone else out there been in a Hot Air Balloon before ?
So here is some info I didn’t know before. Thank you Wikipedia.
The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On Nov 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered[1] manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes in a hot air balloon created on Dec 14, 1782 by the Montgolfier brothers.[2] Hot air balloons that can be propelled through the air rather than just being pushed along by the wind are known as airships or, more specifically, thermal airships.
A hot air balloon consists of a bag called the envelope that is capable of containing heated air. Suspended beneath is a gondola or wicker basket (in some long-distance or high-altitude balloons, a capsule), which carries passengers and (usually) a source of heat, in most cases an open flame. The heated air inside the envelope makes it buoyant since it has a lower density than the relatively cold air outside the envelope. As with all aircraft, hot air balloons cannot fly beyond the atmosphere. Unlike gas balloons, the envelope does not have to be sealed at the bottom since the air near the bottom of the envelope is at the same pressure as the surrounding air. In today’s sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex. Recently, balloon envelopes have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as hot dogs, rocket ships, and the shapes of commercial products.
Slideshow
Technical illustration shows early balloon designs: “Lana’s aeronautic machine,” Montgolfiers’ balloon,” “Blanchard’s balloon,” “Garnerin ascending [and] descending” in his parachute, the “Charles & Roberts’ balloon” being inflated, the “form of the wings employed by Lunardi,” and the “form of the wings employed by Blanchard.”
TODAY#1
“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.”
Henry Miller quotes (American Author and Writer, 1891-1980)
“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” Alan Alda
You & Me & Everyone we know in the Sunday Times
Back to retro
Feb 5, 2011 11:45 PM | By Nadine Botha
A new, intimate market in Cape Town offers an authentic experience of designed nostalgia, writes Nadine Botha
MARKET VALUE: You can find art, sunglasses, frocks and retro stuff at the You & Me & Everyone We Know Market at the Labia Cinema in Cape Town
Emos, hipsters and cool kids might be more frequently spotted in their nocturnal state, but drawing them out into the Saturday morning sunshine is the You & Me & Everyone We Know Market.
A mostly fortnightly jaunt in the courtyard of the historical Labia Cinema, the market is a haven for all things vintage, retro and the like. Frocks, jewellery, sunglasses, shoes, clutch bags, T-shirts art and rosettes make up most of the fare. “Vintage and retro” should not be mistaken for second-hand or the Milnerton Market boot sale. While some wares might be pre-owned, this is not the impetus of You & Me & Everyone We Know.
Rather, the market sells a certain aesthetic - the sunglasses are certainly not pre-worn, although they could have been taken out of any episode of Mad Men.
The market is based on “designed nostalgia” and the desire for an authentic experience rather than the mass-produced consumer one.
As co-founder of the market Marcii Goosen says: “It is small and intimate. I think people feel like they belong; it’s almost like they are hanging out in my back garden with a visual feast and beautiful people around them.”
An artist, designer, art director and self-described “creative networker”, Goosen was inspired to start the market when she realised her super-talented friends had nowhere to share their work.
The first market was just an informal gathering in her studio in 2009. Having spearheaded the Labia’s 20-year anniversary celebrations earlier that year, Goosen knew this underappreciated cultural gem was the ideal location for expansion.
Using Facebook and word of mouth, the first market at the Labia drew a crowd that included Adel Snyders, the other co-founder of You & Me & Everyone We Know.
As managers and curators, Goosen and Snyders balance the diversity of the exhibitors, continue introducing new talent and keep the face-paint and crystal stalls at bay. The biggest challenge, says Goosen, was to not compete with Whatiftheworld’s Neighbourgoods Market in Woodstock.
“We wanted the city kids to have a local hangout under the mountain, and we wanted to give exposure to the Labia Theatre, which is the oldest cinema in the country. We also wanted something intimate, small and manageable. We are influenced by subcultures, popular culture and things of the street - the real and the now, the old as much as the new that we create in Cape Town every day,” explains Goosen.
Usually the market runs every two weeks on Saturdays, with the next two on February 12 and 26. W atch the website for news: www.youmeandeveryoneweknow.co.za
Nadine Botha is the editor of Design Indaba magazine: www.designindaba.com
Arizona Dream {1993}
I stumbled upon this Gem the other night. Thank you DSTV & my parents house… This took me back to a time when I was still dreaming of marrying johnny Depp & writiing my way to a dream world quite accurately captured in this movie.
If Sarajevo-born director Emir Kusturica’s only film in English feels at times as if something must have been obscured in the translation, it’s no less memorable in its own way than his Balkan masterworks Underground, Time of the Gypsies, or Black Cat, White Cat. From the Eskimo dreams that bookend the picture to the tropical fish that periodically comes swimming through the air, Arizona Dream has a surreal quality that you accept on its own terms or not at all.
Dust Project : Marcii Goose
A recent blog post on the Dust Project by Contributer and good friend Ricky Lee Gordon.
“As a contributor to DUST, I am proud to start featuring some really cool creative friends who are doing some inspiring work in Cape Town. The first, Marcii Goose. She has been described as a “artist, designer and interior monkey” and I couldn’t agree more. Her portfolio is extensive from film, design, print-making, fashion, interiors, styling, art direction, events, installations, curating and more. Her approach and attention to detail makes her someone in demand to work with. We have have worked closely as a creative duo on Papergirl-SA, Spier/Contemporary 2010, and adidas Three Stories. We both have a passion for building and celebrating creative community in Cape Town and put an emphasis on the artistic value of every project we collaborate on.”
Papergirl Ride Day#1 by Robert Nicholls
Papergirl is an art project which, in the style of american paperboys, distributes rolled art pieces by bicycle to random passers-by in the streets. It consists of an exhibition, the action (distribution of the art) and a party.
The project was founded in Berlin by Aisha Ronniger and has been carried out once a year since 2006. Now Papergirl has spread and also took place in our City, Cape Town, this is a video clip of the first Ride day, 26th June 2010 in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Papergirl is, in short: participatory, analogue, non-commercial and impulsive.
Directed, Filmed & Editied by Robert Nicolls
Music by Tiny Tim, ‘Tip Toe Thru The Tulips’
Papergirl Ride Day#1 from Marcii Goose on Vimeo.
▲ Papergirl-SA Ride Day ▲ Woodstock ▲ 26/06/2010
So this was our first Papergirl Ride Day in Beautiful Cape Town. We decided to give art to Woodstock. It was an unthinkable experience…
driving through the streets of vintageville
amazement
gathering faces
all together
peeling street art
bells & whistles
past facades hand painted in type faces
clouds with sunshine
downhill giggles
slow moving traffic
we were children of the wind / kinders van die wind
it was one of the best days of my life!
Papergirl is an art project which, in the style of american paperboys, distributes rolled art pieces by bicycle to random passers-by in the streets. It consists of an exhibition, the action (distribution of the art) and a party.
▲ Papergirl-SA Ride Day ▲ Woodstock ▲ 26/06/2010 from Marcii Goose on Vimeo.
The project was founded in Berlin by Aisha Ronniger and has been carried out once a year since 2006. Now Papergirl has spread and also took place in our City, Cape Town, this is a video clip of the first Ride day, 26th June 2010 in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Papergirl is, in short: participatory, analogue, non-commercial and impulsive.
Photography by Mareli Esterhuizen
Motion by Marcii Goose
Music by Tiny Tim, ‘Tip Toe Thru The Tulips’
Art+Watching II
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready, be ready to get confused
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so, yet so irresistible
And there’s no map
and a compass
wouldn’t help at all
They’re terribly moody
And human behaviour
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so, ever so satisfying
Millinery
I am busy with the CI for Christine Shaw. She is an artist and makes hats and more specifically, fascinators. A fascinator is a headpiece, a style of millinery. The word originally referred to a fine, lacy head covering akin to a shawl and made from wool or lace. The term had fallen almost into disuse by the 1970s. I stumbled upon these beautiful images while doing research and simply… had to share…
Isabella Blow
Isabella Blow (19 November 1958 – 7 May 2007) was an English magazine editor and international style icon. The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
✝ ICE LAND
ANDRI ÁSGRÍMSSON X MUNDI
The Icelandic musician Ásgrímsson soundtrack ‘Harmabót’, a Dazed Digital film featuring Mundi’s AW10/11 collection
DD: How old are you?
Þórður Ingi Jónsson: I’m 16 years old.
DD: Where were you born and where do you live?
Þórður Ingi Jónsson: I was born in Reykjavik and have lived on the west side, in 101 Reykjavík, since I was born, in the cold, harsh, volcanic wasteland of Iceland. It’s a hard-knock life what with all the passages to hell that spew toxic fumes and melt faces all day. We’re getting good at annoying Europe by means of economic terrorism and stopping flight traffic. Everything is going straight to hell over here, I predict full scale rioting and anarchy…
Original article |||HERE|||
This is iceland at its best… music, design and fashion combination, riding the after effects of volcanic wasteland. Im so ready for their hard-knock life.
Here is more on local fashion designers & the Reykjavik Fashion Festival |||HERE|||
The Iceland Design Center also organised a design event in Reykjavík called Design March, which covers all sides of Icelandic design (product, graphic, architecture, fashion etc.) You can read more about it here |||HERE|||
Digital bird book found: OWLS. Family Alucondidae
OWLS. Family Alucondidae.
I’ve been influenced by these birds lately. Not sure if it is the colour palette they so contently wear or the nature of their presence. While taking a closer look at these beautiful creatures i found this book about birds and there is quite a nice section on OWLS. Family Alucondidae.
Poetry Dinner Party
We(Myself & Mareli) are hosting a poetry dinner party at our house this friday. We have asked everyone to bring along a poem to share at the dinner party. Ill be sharing these with you later. For now here is the invitation I made.
Poetry by Candle light, what a delight.
Marcii Goose for Mariah & Andrew
Mareli Esterhuizen
Caleb Pedersen
Megan Blankendal
Andrew Breitenberg
Anton Viljoen
Mariah Breitenberg
Robin Scott
Art+Watching
I went to the opening of Anton Kannemeyer: A Dreadful Thing is About to Occur; Zanele Muholi: Indawo Yami; [FOREX] Glenn Ligon: Neither Here nor There; SIDE GALLERY Nare Mokgotho: Someday Today at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town. And found looking at the people quite magical. Not that Anton Kannemeyers comments on society did leave a smile on my face.
