RAZZLE DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE

  The German U-Boat: Sinking your Battleships

 

THE SITUATION 

You’re the Fleet Admiral of the Navy in World War I. Your ships are being sunk at an alarming rate by the devastatingly effective German U-Boat. The traditional camouflage isn’t working because your environment (sea and sky) changes with the weather. What do you do? 

HIT THEM WITH THE RAZZLE DAZZLE

Forget about not being seen, that only solves their first problem. Focus on confusing them so they don’t know where you’re going. Then their torpedoes will be shot in vain because they thought you zigged when you really zagged.

British Artist and naval officer Norman Wilkinson had this very insight and pioneered the Dazzle Camouflage movement (known as Razzle Dazzle in the United States). Norman used bright, loud colours and contrasting diagonal stripes to make it incredibly difficult to gauge a ship’s size and direction.

It was cheap, effective, and widely-adopted during the War. Check out the incredible photographs below
 

 

The Father of Dazzle Camouflage Norman Wilkinson

 

  

  

 

Original article here

FUCKIN' WEATHER

 

My thoughts exactly these days.. NEED SUMMER

TACHELES SQUAT

 History on a legendary squat

The Kunsthaus Tacheles, simply known as Tacheles or Tacheles Gallery, is a former department store which now houses a self-organized collective of artists on Oranienburger Straße in Berlin-Mitte.

 Entrance gate

 View from the back

Origin of the name

The word "Tacheles" (Yiddish word for "plain, honest, straightforward talk") is based on censorship problems in the GDR (the squat is located in the former east side of Berlin). As a result of limited freedom of speech, musicians, directors and artists were not permitted to openly express themselves, and they were forced to conceal the true message of the work. The use of Yiddish is probably a result ofthe building's location in the old Jewish quarter (now the Scheunenviertel).

 

Spiral tribe & mutoid waste

Tacheles was originally occupied by a number of international artists, performers and musicians before becoming an art centre with a cafe, cinema, performancespace, workshops and exhibition space. In the beginning it was run by well-known curator Jochen Sandig who expanded the building considerably. In its early days, Tacheles provided both housing and work space for its artist residents. In 1991, the associated housing burnt down, and there was considerable suspicion that the fire was started deliberately in order to pave the way for a new art centre. 

Among the early exhibitors were artist of the Mutoid Waste Company.

 This squat became their home, after they were forced to leave the UK.

Also Spiral tribe gave a legendary party in Tacheles, on their european tour!

Check out the flyer below.

This party also featered the legendary mig jetfighters of mutoid's waste company! They used to hang against the backside of the squatted church as decoration for a few years later on. Now they are gone sadly.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 The lease with the property owner expired with the end of 2008 and the future of the art house is uncertain. Still, if you're in Berlin, this squat is a must see! I have been there once, even after all those years you can still see the remains of that legendary spiral tribe party..

Read the full story on wikipedia right here

The stuff we collected on the mutoid's can be found here

Learn all about Spiral tribe soundsystem here

RANDOM FREE ART PIC

KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Old spiral tribe flyer - 16.03.1992

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RANDOM PHAT TRUCKS

 

  

  

 

AM I FREE?

5 = 2+3

 

For those who ever wondered why the number 23 is used a lot in our scene?

< The number 23 enigma explained beautifully here   >

TIME MANAGEMENT FOR ANARCHISTS

Time Management for Anarchists by Jim Munroe, a comic based on a slideshow Jim does

In Jim’s slideshow, he talks about how important it is for a creative person to keep a day planner/calendar and write things down. It seems a stretch to move on to prayer, but really, all prayer is is a daily recitation of your hopes and dreams—it’s a way of verbalizing your desires and organizing your thoughts, which is exactly what writing is.

NOT JUST FOR ANARCHISTS!

 

GRAB IT HERE (via archive.org) 

DJMIX - ANNA WOOD PRESENTS _ NO DTOXX FOR HER

Oldskool , Hardcore , Gabber mix 

by D-toxx (DOD, Re-load, Distortion Cunts, BE)

Contains tracks of : De Klootzakken, Neophyte,

Dj Repete,Rob Gee,Nasenbluten,

SimStim,Lenny Dee....

-- 01:32min --

--   43,25 MB --

! Download HERE !

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Read the story on anna wood here

VALENTINE'S FREE ART PIC

By the porg

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INT. CONSPIRACY FOR A GLOBAL SOUND

SUBWAY ART

During the 1970s and 80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the environment and the imagination of a generation by documenting the burgeoning New York City graffiti movement.

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With 70 additional photographs, and a fresh introduction and afterword, this collector's edition illustrates the passion, creativity and resourcefulness of unlikely kids inventing an art form destined to spread worldwide and spawn the present-day street art movement.

Martha Cooper is a documentary photographer who has specialized in urban vernacular art and architecture for more than twenty-five years. Cooper worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post from 1977 to 1980, when she left to follow the emerging hip hop scene. In 1984, collaborating with Henry Chalfant, she published Subway Art (Thames & Hudson), the classic book showcasing the best painted trains of the era, which has been dubbed "The Bible" by graffiti writers.

RANDOM MUTOID WASTE

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

The full story on mutoid waste company can be found here