#transcendence
8 years ago (2014), on this day (April 6), Johnny Depp attended the Press Conference of “Transcendence”, at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.
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Lovely Moments: Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany, 8 years ago (2014), on this day (April 6), through the lens of Vera Anderson during the Press Conference of “Transcendence” at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.
AND NEVER FORGET:
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Johnny Depp, 8 years ago(2014), on this day (April 6), through the lens of Vera Anderson during the Press Conference of “Transcendence” at the Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.
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8 years ago, on this day (April 1), Johnny Depp attended the “DMG Creative Home” dialogue at the 798 Art Zone, in Beijing, China.
On that day, Johnny attended the event with the actor, producer and director Zhang Guang Bei, the Couture Fashion Designer, Guo Pei, the Director, producer and CEO of the DMG Company, Dan Mintz, the photographer Chen Man, and the singer and songwriter Liu Jia and talked about his life, acting and musician career, his relationship with arts and answered some questions for an audience comprised of students of the Beijing Film Academy.
The interview ended up becoming a 3 episode documentary of 40 minutes, featuring Johnny visiting dozens of places of the arts district in Beijing, such as arts galleries, a record shop, and visit to the studio of the sculptor Ren Zhe, where he did clay modeling.
The DMG Creative Home is a film and art creative platform provided by DMG Entertainment and Media Group Company (who released Transcendence in China) where interviewers share a new creative perspective and method for the vast number of creative talents.
> Behind the scenes: So many things for so little time.
Unfortunately, Johnny’s first visit to China was not properly organized. There were so many schedules that ended up becoming a problem. On the day before (March 31), the Press Conference started too late and the Premierewas so long that stipulated the original contract. On the next day (April 1), Johnny was invited to meet some places in Beijing which was filmed for two documentaries, and was the special guest on the DMG Creative Home interview, but again the time didn’t match, once both took too much time of Johnny’s 48h in China. Due to that a special meet & greet scheduled for later that day, ended up being canceled leaving hundreds of fans who traveled from different places in China in tears.
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Lovely Funny Moments: Johnny Depp taking selfies with Chinese celebrities during the Chinese Premiere of “Transcendence”, on March 31, 2014, at the 798 Art Zone, in Beijing, China.
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8 years ago, on March 31, 2014, Johnny Depp attended the Chinese Premiere of “Transcendence”, at the 798 Art Zone, in Beijing, China.
> Behind the scenes: One of biggest premiere Johnny ever had.
Johnny’s first visit to China can be considered one of the biggest and busiest he ever had. Although Johnny was only going to stay two days in China, both days were filled with activities.
Just on the first day, Johnny had a Press Conference where he talked about the movie, showed his tattoo and was gifted with a huge abacus (the China’s oldest computer, which Johnny instantly shook as a tambourine) and a huge ticket for his movie.
Later he attended one of the longest invite-only premieres ever, where he had a talk session, signed paintings, wrote in Chinese, met quadruplets who had their had cut to form numbers from 1 to 4 - and who sang for him -, took selfies, and even performed on stage playing guitar with the Chinese rock star David Tao for a cover of the ’90s Chinese rock classic “Yi Wu Suo You” (“Nothing to My Name”) – a powerful anthem song made famous by the Chinese godfather of rock, Cui Jian Yi, for China’s younger generations, with some political overtones.
On the next day, Johnny continued in Beijing and specially invited for dozens of activities as well. And everything during those two days was filmed and became a 60-minute TV special which was broadcasted across China by the Zhejiang TV, in order to celebrate the exclusive release of “Transcendence” in 3D, on April 18 2014, making this the only country to screen the movie in this format.
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8 years ago (2014), on this day (March 31), Johnny Depp attended the Press Conference of “Transcendence”, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, in Beijing, China.
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TBT: Johnny Depp, being cute as always, 8 years ago (2014), on this day (March 31), during the Press Conference of “Transcendence”, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, in Beijing, China.
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Liz Nielsen, Ring of Runes, 2016
Analog Chromogenic Photo, Unique, Printed on FujiFlex, 39 7/16 x 40 inches © Liz Nielsen, Courtesy of Danziger Gallery, New York
Exhibition from Apr 8 to May 7, 2016 at Danziger Gallery, Paris Fair Exhibitor
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Danziger Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Liz Nielsen. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Its title “The Medium” refers both to the ever expanding reach and potential of the photographic medium as well as art’s power as a mystical intervening agency delivering spaces of transcendence.
Liz Nielsen’s work joins and adds to the historical tradition of the photogram – one of the medium’s earliest processes - but one which has enjoyed a renaissance in the worlds of contemporary art and color photography. Simply described, a photogram is an image created without a camera by placing objects or shining light directly onto photographic paper and developing the paper. Each picture is by nature unique - a record of the moment or event created by the artist.
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julie and moi (transcendence) bw photo by @missmondragon @lacma #juliemehretu #transcendence #inkandacrylic #painting #rickowens #felttop #rickowenssphinx #sphinx #jilsander #pleatedskirt #skirt #degenderfashion #nonbinary #drkshdw #hoofdunks #kuboraum #art #femaleartist #femalepainter #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #lacma #bw #bnw #bwphotography #bnwphotography #blackandwhite #artkills #artkillsgallery #georgeregout (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Ndr08gqJC/?igshid=ewiqumpekhv3
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julie and i (transcendence) bw photo by @missmondragon @lacma #juliemehretu #transcendence #rickowens #rickowenssphinx #felttop #jilsander #skirt #pleatedskirt #degenderfashion #painting #femaleartist #femalepainter #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #art #musrum #lacma #bw #bwphotography #bnw #bnwphotography #blackandwhite #artkills #artkillsgallery #georgeregout (at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7NcVmLgWGx/?igshid=126mdn7wzjnmb
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Whispers on the Wind by Edward Robert Hughes, 1911
Cradled in the Dark
I am in the midst of a mystical transcendence, filled with the dark and the light. I am charged with flashes of insights. It feels like consecutive shot guns of raw ancient bitter bush medicine. Frightfully nasty, disgusting but good for you. (Picture the look on my face.)
This is the darkness, the trenches of it, the potent deep dark dirt shit that has eyes with dripping fangs, steel sharp claws and the incredible strength of the Hulk that rips your heart apart. Those who have made some pact with the dark go on to try to describe and express it through fictional writings, blogs, books, memoirs, biographies, movies, documentaries and more. Others get swallowed, chewed up and fucked by it, never returning to sanity. But in the end no outsider really gets it, from the vantage point of looking from the outside, until their own passage arrives. And we can sit on the fence scared to jump, but eventually we each must plunge in and be devoured. We can not avoid it, as it is what comes with being human. It is the other half, the partner within the sacrament of LIVING. It is what makes life one big indoctrination of ALL THAT IS!
With fear-winged thoughts flying out of my dark abyss, I sat in wet, moist, dark discomfort of my own darkness (last night) more consciously than ever with the background of the sea playing the harmonics of its soothing, but passionate dark waves. I have sat in the darkness alone before. Quite a few times, often kicking, fighting and screaming. But this round, I responded and reacted differently. I held back my punches and refrained from kicking and then running. With no entry nor exit, I just sat there and received it. Respect to the Dark! The Funk was with me! And it was a much needed soul operation that seem to pull it out of me.
It’s the day after, and I can’t find the needs nor reflex to re-act (re-enact the past) any more. It yanked that out of me. I am in the midst of a growing listening, an expanded waiting, long extended breathing, an orgasmic silence, even, and a crystallizing awareness of incessant thoughts buzzing around my third eye - like flies dancing and teasing each other. Today, even the flies are messengers bringing guidance and fresh ethereal understanding of what’s really going on underneath.
This Pluton Effect objectifies the soul’s mission and its aim is to overthrow and destroy the former regime that ruled my life. When we welcome it, it changes its form. When we resist it, it takes on another form.
The father of bereavement is active in my life choices- consciously, subconsciously and unconsciously whether I like it or not. It is necessary to dig up all the dirt, crap, garbage and shit; the funk, skunk and dunk zombie humans cover up, avoid, run from, deny, hold on to and literally die from. An old world order.
Life ain’t fully lived, nor truthfully described nor can be spoken for until we each (I and you) face the perpetually generated darkness and demons - names we call them. Its not about a war against anything, its about learning to dance with what you created. That’s all it ever wanted and that’s what we are instinctively, intuitively looking for. Our lost, dark, other half - stolen away from us and converted as our enemy- for far too long!
I’m cradled in the darkness of my mourning and grieving of the past and the old, with my spirit animal guides animating the details of my story along the way.
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Before Our Ribbon Ends
-Acrylic, 16x20” - 2020
NOW OPEN: (....): on view at GAVLAK Palm Beach through February 21st!✨
A big THANK YOU to everyone who came to the opening yesterday, and for those of you not in Palm Beach, an exhibition preview is available; please email inquiries to [email protected] or click the link in our bio!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CKcF3aDFnZB/?igshid=8sq42pjfc88f
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During everybody’s life there is a moment when we acknowledge the fact that we’re mortal. It might be caused by the death of somebody close to us. Going through dangerous illness. Almost dying yourself during an accident.
We look up to the sky and we see the universe that, from our perspective, seems so old it’s almost eternal. We are surrounded by trees living hundred years. Even art we produce has a chance of outliving us.
Therefore it’s not that strange to think about immortality. Finding the sense of life and dreaming about surviving beyond death has its reflection in most of religions and system of believes around the world. The concept of immortal soul is a perfect example of trying to conserve “us” - we don’t want to be terminated in our existence after just few years or living.
In the era marked by replacing religions by science it’s not surprising that we create theories using technology development without the need to recall metaphysical beings. It’s not the god or gods’ job to make us (or our souls) immortal. We can do it ourself. At least we hope so.
The transhumanistic movement takes in consideration the theories of prolonging existence and improving human race. Scientists within the movement are postulating an option to replace our actual body parts with implants, that would be able not only to replace the absence but also improve the work of our body (eg. the lack of possibility of sickness).
A great part of transhumanism is the transfer of mind (I will be writing about it in following posts). Long story short the point is to take our mind and put it in a computer capable of enough computing power to function on it (the controversial thing is what would happen with our consciousness - can we keep it in a computerized mind?). That’s why the mind transfer and possibilities of consciousness are the hardest and most distant postulates right now.
Transhumanism is a movement that not only uses the subjects of science and technology but also considers the issues of ethics, religions, philosophy and law. From the perspectives of different moral views everybody has their own opinion on transhumanism.
That’s why I would love to give You space to safely discuss and get to know the concepts of the movement. Feel free to ask questions and comment on this and every other post about transhumanism.
“Wonder” by Alex Grey. His events in NYC were enlightening, too bad that center closed down. His The Mission of Art is a must-read.
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