The War of Art:
“Break through the blocks and win your inner creative battles”

Aren’t we all fighters? You dig, you search, find and research field of your interest just to get the right amount of information that you require to satisfy your urge to progress…

But, there is always a catch. You find your self hopeless to all your projects because of yours resistance … well I know that you can think of something that prevents you to finish or even start to materialize you thoughts, we always do…

As a guide to defining, understanding, fighting against and getting a hunch what lies behind resistance I recommend book The war of Art by Steven Pressfield. If you need engine to keep you going you should get one ^^

Unlock your inner creativity!!!

Enjoy :)

Written by  Csapello

Action-sport film “The Art Of Flight” with iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and his chosen colleges beside him (Rice, Müller, Landvik, Blauvelt, Moore, DCP, Lago, Niemela, Jackson, Jones, …)  have the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. It’s a hi-budged film with maximum usage of its funds.

You are probably  asking your self why is name of this post so abstract, well it’s shoot with HD cameras and added some slow motion to it so you can’t miss a thing. Definitely should watch movie.

“The Art of FLIGHT” as “anything but a snowboard movie”

Enjoy in compilation of epic scenes  and sounds witch are all merged together in this piece of art.

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Written by  Csapello

I could’t pass this piece of art without posting it on die without ART.

It have simple look, creative shortage of every artistic epoch and it have educative character :) what could you ask for more? ;)

You can recognize every artists style, I think that commenting on every style is not an essence of this post, so we will just skip that.

There are many artist in same epoch as one of these represented, but as you can see these are representatives according to artist of this piece of art…

Write a comment, give us response if you have something interesting on this subject…

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Written by  Csapello

Everything started right after my second solo exhibition, exactly one year ago. In that moment, I just wanted to introduce myself and my creative work to the crowd. Exhibition “We are not alone” was opened on Thursday January 14. I bought this awesome domain name on Saturday, coded a very simple WordPress theme during that afternoon and my adventure has begun in the morning January 17.

Die without art was such an amazing experience for me. I’ve met many cool peeps, made lovely friends and had a lot of fun in general. Hooray!

I’d like to pick out some of my favorite posts. So, let’s go back in time a little bit. Stephen Morris made us crazy with his amazing creativity. You must see his jumps and standing-on-head’s. Incredible sisters Mirna and Martina told us their life stories. I felt a big responsibility to bring their story, amazing, must read. During the Stockholm Fashion Week I’ve presented Balkan-inspired clothes by Lamija Suljević. Her main inspiration was the Balkan traditions. Feeling when art makes you younger is very familiar to my dear friend Marta Lamovšek, I simply couldn’t believe she is older than thirty.

I’m very proud of two amazing interviews I did during the first year of Die without art—with professional fashion and portrait photographer Lindsay Adler and lovely Erin Loechner of Design for Mankind. Three guest bloggers helped me while I was away. Sky Nash wrote about five books she loves, Giulia Scifoni showed us photography in the opposite direction and Yamille Marmont presented an exclusive preview of 500 Seconds Of No Breathing, her most personal work ever and a collection of 20 years of images. Thank you girls.

I was dreaming about my studio, my own huge creative space where I can work on visual art projects with my friends. I was official blogger at my favorite regional photography festival Rovinj Photodays. That was awesome!

Thank you all for reading this blog, this is 110th post here. Happy first birthday Die without art! Cheers people, love you.

Is this time when kids are watching Home alone? I’m not worried about idiotic burglars Harry and Marv, because Kevin always wins—he was my hero when I was little. It usually snows around Christmas time, which makes the holidays much more idyllic. What about this year? Where’s the snow on Christmas? Somebody is playing with us.

My family is far away, Google Maps calculates more than 600 km. I’m kinda feeling like Kevin on Christmas. Hah, not really! I will see them right after New Year’s Eve. Otherwise, student life is awesome. New town, new country actually, new friends and so on. Everything’s really cool.

Die without art wishes you a Merry Christmas & Happy 2011.

My friend Goran Škofić has new crazy stuff for you, again. The human figure is shown as a sign on the white surface without objects, set on the ground with no support, within a rectangular cut of the frame in the abstract field of the world of image. It just looks simple!

Hybrid composite image makes it possible to create a world that is perfectly convincing and real, but at the same time incredible, full of scary visions, phantasms, nightmares, fears, and anxieties, with contours that are precise and inexplicable. — Branka Benčić, text from catalogue

This is totally his style, loop videos connected through the exhibition set-up. Get the full experience of Goran’s set-up in MK Gallery in Zagreb (Croatia), watch the video below!

Haven’t seen you in a while. How’s it going my friend?

I’ve blogged about this amazing guy before, his name is Darryl Richardson and he brought this interesting prison story to us through photography.

Nothing To Lose is a series of photographs documenting the Angola Prison Rodeo. “Once deemed the bloodiest prison in the south, the Louisiana State Penitentiary (nicknamed Angola) has transformed into a criminal safe haven thanks to efforts put forth by Warden Burl Cain. Angola is home to 5,200 inmates and 9 out of every 10 prisoners will die there.” – Darryl said. The rodeo is held every Sunday in October and it provides the way to escape the daily drudgery. On the other hand, it also gives them the opportunity to make an income while in prison, by selling various handmade arts and crafts, or by winning an event in the actual rodeo.

When inmate Michael Lewis was asked to provide his thoughts on Angola, he simply started, “if you have to be in prison this is the place to be”.

This set of the frozen moments explores the brutal reality of America’s mass incarceration culture. Once you are incarcerated, society treats you as an inhumane object, no matter what the crime may be. The restoration process for criminals returning into the real world is virtually nonexistent. Unfortunately, all of your rights as an actual human being are detracted.

With each photograph captured, I attemped to delineate the combative livestock as society and the views in which the majority of society has towards convicts.

In this set you see the inmates put their lives on the line as they fearlessly struggle with the aforementioned “society”. It is easy to risk everything when you have nothing to lose.

Thank you for sharing this with us Darryl, the story is much more interesting through art.

Let’s move to abstract world of metal captures. This creative submission came from Seattle, USA. Guy who sent me this beautiful textures, Josh Martin is a fairly new photographer who grew up in Southern California. He had parents that were deeply involved in the art world as both professors and critics. He never really saw himself as an artist until he moved to Seattle 6 years ago. When Josh did something about the climate and its effects on metal and concrete sparked his creativity and imagination came out the camera.

Thank you Josh

I was writing about Joshua Stocker before and you probably know he’s a graphic designer based in UK. This post is about his new film. He sent me some more information behind the scenes.

I wanted to explore the relationship between time, location, and memories, and felt this open briefed university project entitled “I Am Here” would be the perfect time to do so. I called up my Dad and my Brother, and the next day in the early morning sunlight we set off to Wales.

Growing up, Joshua’s family would spend every summer in Wales, and he remembers vividly the cliff edge roads, the huge magical forests, and the wondrous sound of a waterfall. Even the Lake spurred all sorts of thoughts in Joshua’s head as his dad explained how the reservoir was in fact once a town. And that in the mid 1800′s they built a damn and flooded it. So there is in fact a whole village built underneath that water.

With such vivid memories, but having not been back there for 10 years made the day an emotional experience. There are only a few times in life where you can re-visit somewhere so significant to you, and share that with the people you love.

Joshua put the film together a few days later. He knew the sort of music he wanted to use, and ended up picking a piece by Max Richter. Joshua managed to relay some of the emotions he felt on that day, and the relationship he share with his brother and father, which is in fact what this piece is really about.