French born artist, Joey Villemont, moved to Glasgow in September 2009 to do his Masters in Fine Arts at Glasgow School of Art.

Joey considers himself as a “shaper” or a “builder”, in the way he crafts and builds things with a non-standard idea producing artefacts that in a way talk to each other, questioning and answering their own shared activity, presence and value.

Joey has alot ahead of himself in the near future: “I’ll have one fresh artwork (LES REVEURS) exhibited as part of the MFA degree show at CCA opening on the 14th of June (in Oliver Braid’s display).

NATURE BOY is my new project which will be on display at Mulhouse 010 art fair in France starting the 13th of June, Which I could describe as ‘the meeting between Kurt Cobain, Eden Ahbez and Henry David Thoreau and animals under a bridge in Aberdeen.’

I’m in the process of opening a wild exhibition space in Glasgow with my partner Camille in 2010, to bring French and European and international blood in our city along with locals !

(I am also) launching a brand new way of curating on the internet in the first half of june 2010, another surprise !”

Be sure to enjoy more of Joey’s folio at: joeyvillemont.net

↑ Tomasz Szpaderski

I heard this mix of 80s/90s dream pop, synth lushness and textured heavenly tracks over at the ever reliable ISO50. I’m a real sucker for music like this. I love the impurities in the recordings, the early experimental confidence and that nostalgic path which was firmly laid into a new and unknown place in music.

The mix is by The Sight Below and was recorded for Fact Magazine.

slowdive – slowdive (1990)
chapterhouse – treasure (1991)
franke – jag älskar dig (2003)
joy division – isolation (1980)
echo & the bunnymen – do it clean (1980)
spacemen 3 – take me to the other side (1987)
cocteau twins – lorelei (1984)
kate bush – hounds of love (1985)
iggy pop – nightclubbing (1977)
teenage filmstars – loving (1992)
seefeel – more like space (1993)
clan of xymox – no words (1985)

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The Sight Below – Fact Mix 149

At first, this may not seem like a creative photograph, worthy of Image Of The Day. It’s what’s captured which makes it so impressive.

This image is taken from a Christian Dior fashion shoot in Soviet Russia in the late 50s. The contrast between the beautiful and elegant Parisian models against the bland and restrained style of the locals is quite impressive. Further in the collection you can see the wonder and disbelief of the Russian woman as they watch the Dior models and the lifestyle they embody. Quite sad really.

Very nice video by Mishu Shyukin for Maps and Diagrams’ track, Ensa

Nick Van Woert is a sculptor from Brooklyn, NY. His astute interpretation of contemporary sculpting has produced some impressive and striking works. He has exhibited all over America in the past five years and has a solo exhibition in Amsterdam this year.

Sundays at the Sub Club will now be the home of HUNG UP! a new weekly event curated by Optimo – deejays JD Twitch and JG Wilkes.

HUNG UP! has been born out of the extraordinary explosion of affection that greeted the final ever Optimo (E!spacio). An evening where Twitch and Wilkes experienced the admiration and sheer, sweat-blinking euphoria of the Glasgow clubbing community for 12 years of dedicated, genre-defying clubbing. Inspired with that energy, filled with fresh ideas and a renewed excitement, this brand new night launched on Sunday the 16th of May.

Keen to inject their new energy and ideas into a fresh Sunday venture, Twitch and Wilkes intend to hand over the deejay duties and the direction of the party groove to a series of their contemporaries. Hung Up! will be an event based primarily on a rolling billing of guest djs drawn from Optimo’s djs friends and peers in the Glasgow clubbing community and augmented by live performances from bands selected by the Optimo team.

The intention is for Twitch and Wilkes to curate and cultivate a new event, one which will rarely include the two of them djing together. HUNG UP! will evolve through a looser, varied and rotating line up of guest djs and live performers where Optimo drop in individually to play with – or indeed hand over the night entirely to – these guests.

↑ Chrome Hoof

This will include not only regular invitations to well known faces of the club scene:- including in the opening month Jackmaster (Numbers/Dress to Sweat), David Barbarossa (Fun Size/Night Dreams) and Hushpuppy (RPZ). The “no guest djs” policy of the previous Optimo (E!spacio) years gives way to a desire to invite some of the friends they have met all over the world back to Scotland to host a sunday night Glasgow party, so expect a line-up of exception British and international guests in the coming months.

The music, the decoration, the image, the sounds and the ethos will be changing on Sundays as Optimo explore the possibilities and opportunities that creating a fresh start brings. But the one thing that won’t change is the quailty of what will be on offer. The party lives on.

“Fuck shit up!”

Sunday May 23rd – JG Wilkes & Hushpuppy (RPZ)

Sunday May 30th – Chrome Hoof (LIVE) & JD Twitch.

***PLEASE NOTE – prices will vary from week to week for live shows and guest dj promotions.

Coming soon – KXP, Peter Digital Orchestra, MMM and many more…

On Thursday 27th May 2010 RPZ present DOBLY ANOL for a special guest dj set! No strangers to the RPZ dancefloor (or most other glasgow club nights), Dolby Anol are one of Scotland’s most inventive and respected electronic producers.

Hailing from Glasgow the duo have carved an enviable reputation for themselves with a series of blistering EPs that demonstrate a devious and imaginative approach to dance music. Their releases – including Puppies, Tender Touch, Macaroon/Cameron and most recent Sandy Bitches (which you can hear below) – take a particularly skewed but wildly inventive approach to the business of delirious dancing, jumping from genius cheesy 80′s MOR disco samples to thoughtfully skeletal and superlative techno. This playful diversity has won them a varied collection of admirers ranging from BBC radio populist Annie Mac to kings of belligerent beats the Boyz Noise.

As always RPZ residents Bonjour Boi and Hushpuppy will be spinning out their own brand of sweat inducing digital disco delirium, grinding together electro, rave, jerky bassline, italo, synthetic disco, French sound, gay hi-NRG, Oz-matic punk-house and delinquent techno.

Glowing pop-art projections and über gay-cosmic visuals are provided by one-man videoteque Joe Crogan.

tbass19 Dolby Anol-Sandy Bitches EP by Tigerbeat6

Maria Zaikina collection “Landschaft Mit Haus” examines the effect of viewing scenery and landscape during high speed travel. When you view her full collection of paintings the horizontal lines mimic the blur of movement and the different choice of colour palettes bring to mind the isolation of lonely homes we pass on our travels.

Local gallery, Recoat is hooking up with new promotions company, Pigeon and Dr Sneaker to put on a collaborative exhibition from two heavy hitting UK artists in Warsaw this summer.

It’s very hush-hush just now but there will be more info to follow soon, and it will be well worth it…

In the late 19th and early 20th century, enigmatic photographer T. Enami (1859-1929) captured a number of 3D stereoviews depicting life in Meiji-period Japan.

Stereoscopy is the enhancement of the illusion of depth in a photograph, movie, or other two-dimensional image by presenting a slightly different image to each eye, and thereby adding the first of these cues (stereopsis) as well. It is important to note that the second cue is still not satisfied and therefore the illusion of depth is incomplete. Originally, there would have been two images side by side viewed through a Sterescope to recreate a 3D image. Now if we alternate the two in a quick animation we can acheive the same effect.

You can view more animated steroviews over at pinktentacle.com