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Guy Willems (SplendorSolisXIV)

Guy Willems (SplendorSolisXIV)

About Me


Hi there !!

Why this Myspace site ? First of all I'll use it as a free forum to show some pictures I have made, and to check some other photographers, artists, musicians, designers,..., and maybe to communicate with them, or even meet them, if possible,...

Which are my interests and activities ? In short : photography, arts, music, philosophy.

Philosophy :

    Reading and collecting books : literature, philosophy, history, art, poetry, omnivorous reading Philosophy of life, phenomenology and time diagnosis, existentialism, cultural, aesthetics, semiotics and worldviews Emotions and psychological states, cultural phenomena, ideologies, thematics, metaphors, symbols,... non- and anti-conformism, anarchism, libertarianism, ideas of freedom, cynicism, freethinking, life art

On my blog (in Flemish) : www.willems-guy.typepad.com , I try to bring together the most diverse information, points of view, texts, articles, essays....

Art :

    Interested in art and art history in a broad sense... I like to follow up some arts and artists, to read about, to visit some expositions and musea, and, if it is affordable to me, to collect.

Music :

    My musical taste : there is in fact no specific genre that I like the most of all, so I am very eclectic. However, I mostly listen to ambient, elektronika and IDM. But there is music I like in all kinds, such as early, old and classical music, contemporary classic and experimental, minimal techno and other electronic genres, industrial and noise, funk, jazz, soul, folk, and so on. Music I don't like is mostly very commercial, crappy or low profile, this can be of all genres. In general, I don't pay much attention the actual scene of commercial music and entertainment... It is what it is... From time to time I experiment with sounds and images, and to compose some soundscapes with the help of some software and electronics (Reaktor, Ableton, Logic, Doepfer, selfmade stuff,....) And I occasionally play DJ (who doesn't nowadays...)

Photography :
Photography, to me, is close associated with philosophy... Photography, like philosophy, is based on observation, the art of seeing, feeling and listening, exploring and experimenting, travelling, reading, writing, creating,..., and, first of all, on the statement "nothing is self-evident"...

My subjects could be very divers, for instance persons, atmospheres, structures and patterns, light patterns, graphics, macro, travelling pictures, landscapes, clouds and meteorological observations, architectural constructions, nude and erotic, fetish, nonsens,... The point is to make them express some feelings, emotions, ideas, narrative, aesthetics or beauty..., in fact to let them express themselves as they are...

Themes are for instance : surfaces, radiations and currents, desolation, uncanny, ennui, melancholy, complexity, knots and wires, shadows and light, Lichtung, Vexierbilder, fuzzyness, layered reality, rhizome, networks, body, labyrinths and ruins, cynicism, patchworks, intoxication, ways and movements, contradictions, spheres and centers,... If possible, in co-operation with other media such as sounds, graphics, arts, design, video, text, audiovisual media and experiments,... or in thematic or more applied sense, for instance artistic nude, glamour and erotic photography,...

From time to time I'll put some new pictures on the site. You can find my pictures also on the following blog : My photography blog : Guy Willems' Fotoblog

Some of my pictures :

















My Interests

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Photography and everything around it, philosophy, art, history , music, literature and non-fiction, design and architecture, science, musical technology, travelling, dj-ing (sometimes), experimenting with sounds and images, collecting, biking, going out sometimes, food and wine (French, Italian, Asian), ...


Photography

Portraits, atmospheres and impressions, observations, graphics, macro, patterns and structures, city and landscape, light- and colorscapes, sky and nature, artistic nude, the better erotic and fetish, the better fashion and glamour,

I'd like to meet:

Everyone who has something to do with photography, art, music and sounddesign, philosophy, literature,.....

Some more of my pictures :


































Music:

contemporary non-mainstream music going from ambient to soundscapes, from IDM to electronica, from experimental to the better dance genres, jazz, funk and soul,... However, I dont like to use genres because otherwise this myspace would be to small to mention them all... I have a very broad taste going from old and classical music over jazz and folk to techno... It depends only whether I like it or not, and in which mood I am.

Sometimes, I like to spin some turntables...

Fascinated by musical technology and experimentation (sounds, images,...). So, I have a small audio-visual studio, equipped with some stuff such as computers (Mac and PC), software (Ableton Live, Reaktor,...), synthesizer (Nord Modular) and electronics (modular synths such as Doepfer).

Movies:

Historical, classics, non-commercial, documentary, psychological, philosophical, experimental and short film, a good action film, a good comedy,... no american super commercial plastic crap,...

Television:

I don't watch much television, it's such a waste of time, so much crap...


Philosophy interests and reading

In brief, I try to understand the ideas, ideologies, themes, images and attainments that made our (post-)modern world and culture, and how they appear in art, literature, in the audiovisual and other kinds of art. According to my photography interest, I am interested in the theories and foundations of photography, images and sounds, worldviews and semiotics, and so on... This not only by books but also by experience, experiment, travelling, visiting musea, concerts, expositions, film etc.

Books:

Literature with historical, philosophical or ideological meaning or content. Collecting and reading them... Some names of my book collection who influenced me somehow :

Nietzsche, L.F. Céline, Baudrillard, Houellebeque, Sloterdijk, Safranski, Jünger, Hesse, Komrij, Onfray, Barthes, Heraklitus, Heidegger, Arendt, Deleuze, McLuhan, Leopardi, Dostojevski, Lichtenberg, Kafka, Borges, Musil, Montaigne, Lampo, Jean Ray, Louis Paul Boon, Eliade, Panovski, Praz, Wittgenstein, Sontag, Meyrinck, Daisne, Homeros, Tolkien, Mahabharata, Edda, Bible, Voltaire, Hermans, Breton, Orwell, Fallaci, Ortega y Gasset,..............


Art and artists

Promising innovating artists

Interested in photography and new media art, the use of technology and science in art and music, interaction between art, images, music, sound, text, video and other media,...
Sometimes collecting art if it is affordable.


Collecting

Books, art, design, graphics, music, rarities, naturalia


Travelling and wandering

Italy, France, mediterranean and alpine Europe, Scandinavia, Iceland, Kakania

Skandinavia

Lonesome street in Sorrento

Tree at the river Dender

Schelde in Antwerpen


Studies

Electronics at high school with specialisation computer and digital electronics (1986). Afterwards some courses on engineering, philosophy, art history, languages, literature and media studies, management, music, photography, video and multimedia...and much by autodidactic studying and by experience.


Languages

Read and speak Flemish (native), English, French, German, besides a bit of Italian, Swedish and Spanish.


Some other fascinations, pastimes and interests

Mathematics and physics, astronomy and cosmology, the brain, the ocean and the earth, clouds, volcanos, mineralogy, entomology, cross words, sudoku, spider and solitaire, fitness, walking, biking, swimming, obsolete electronics and radio equipment, laboratories, musea of medical history, musea of war and marine history, pataphysics, nonsensicology, kakanian absurdity,...


Heroes:

Mapatiplena and Iannis Plattis Visplatinatis (??????)


Some more of my photographic absurdity explorations In Kakania :