Here are some pics in the Museum of Ethnography + my classmates Nora and Fruszi

Museum of etnography

http://www.zelnik-collection.com/mask/general_en/index.html

The collection
Liṅga with four heads

The Zelnik Collection was founded by his father that has been enlarged since by Dr Zelnik continuously by artifacts from Europe, Africa and Asia. At present it contains some sixteen thousand Southeast Asian items, including more than two thousand gold and silver artifacts; most of them have come from eleven countries of Myanmar/Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines and Timor Leste.

Dr. Zelniks’s aims are both to educate the general public and to encourage academic research on the objects accumulated during his adult life. These have been carefully and patiently selected over the past forty years. Four pillars of the Zelnik Collection that are unique in the world are golden artifacts of the Cham kingdoms, the Khmer Empire, the tribal chiefdoms of the Vietnamese, Indochinese and Southeast Asian Highlands and gold masks of Asia. Future publications of the Zelnik Collection will include individual books on Cham silver and bronze. There will in addition come out soon publications on Đông Sơn bronzes.

GUEST-Lorinc Racz

Today we had a guest, who is an interior designer(actually he is a sociologist and also a furniture maker). He spoke about the new trends in organizing an interactive exhibition, for instance, he showed us how the QRCode works.
It was quite a new feature in 2008 and created a real sensation, but nowadays it became affordable and simple to get it.
So, a quick response code can be today used by any designer or any curator of an exhibition.
Another interesting point, Mr. Racz mentioned, was about the Project planning software. It is called Microsoft Project, also easy to get and manage. It can be for a huge help, as it designs flowcharts.

Mr. Racz, also had a speech about how to plan an exhibition. My conclusion was, that it is always better to have not just a creative curator in the team, but also an interior designer (who will help you with the space and lists of objects issues) and a graphic designer (who would do the flayers, posters, web design, subtitles).
Every small part of this kind of work is important and if you miss smth from it, it can spoil all your huge project...
Some other advices:
- take care of the new trends, be always informed
- know very well the buyer and the context behind
- draft questions, find the answers; about what?/ for who?/ target group/concept
- time and money determines the rest :)

Our Deak-Oktogon Gallery tour

We started with Godor...

Today we made a tour in the Deak- Oktogon- Kiraly utca and visited several galleries.
All what I saw, made me think that we have too many galleries, too much art and too high prices for it :)
Well, this is life we live in...
It was interesting to see galleries as 'closet' rooms, in which you can even do some sports, play ping-pong for example, and also see big galleries, in which curators will want to explain (with a very sharp British accent :))why all the pictures were arranged exactly in that way.. funny differences..
The other curious things we discovered, is that the most of the galleries are sharing their profits 50-50 with the artist..that's a bit not fair I would say, but at the same time, fair enough to survive (in the gallery case).
Another thing that i noticed (already not the first time) is that all this ARTnetworks are build on trust and contacts and it is very important for an Artist, to be promoted by a gallery; in other cases, that might be very difficult.
So, Good news for us - Artists will always need Art Managers :))

First shot we made

It was at Oktogon, in a dancing school. While we were climbing the stairs, we noticed this nice image, that in 5sec transformed into our first shot with the camera :)

FIRST MOVIE PROJECT

We have the task. We'll do our Music Video most probably for this song:
Beautiful Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMLyYa9T7E

The idea is to show our every day life..with funny and sad stuff but at the end, anyway it ends up with a Beautiful Day :)
A guy is walking..but the guy is the camera and the only real part of his body, that can be seen by the spectator is his footsteps.
So, the main character is walking; different life moments he sees..then another shoes, another legs..again other every day moments: kids playing, old people, students..etc etc..and again and again different shoes and steps
Periodically we insert some dancing movement(of different style: ballet, flamenco, jazz, etc ) and the funniest part is the play with different faces, different races. Close ups of different eyes: blue, green, black..and different smiles..
In a word - it s a very optimistic song, with a funny video showing how different we are but how beautiful life is :)