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| British Human Easel |
Kake
Broek is one of the most imaginative, surreal, funny, poignant and prolific photographers
I know of in SL. He is absolutely one of my favourite artists.
I
first met Kake at last year’s Annual
WarBug Air Show where I acted as the Official War Correspondent. Kake was dressed in his ‘Cockney Cowboy’ guise
and contacted me with an vaguely flirty exploratory IM. I zoomed in and thought “what
the blooming heck is this”! However, it was pretty obvious pretty quickly that
this “ugly” avatar had been thought out and created with care and attention. I
was of course immediately reminded of my dear friends The
Puddlegums and Old
Lar. Kake had sufficiently piqued my interest to read his profile - and most
significantly - follow the link to his flick stream,
named “Adolf Chaplin”. Immediately on seeing the first picture I added him
as a contact and have been following his work since.
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| Das Signal |
Kake’s
pictures are funny. They make me laugh. But like many of the finest comedians,
underneath that easily digestible sugar-sweet coating is a more bitter-dark
interior. These two complimentary sides of Kake’s work are perfectly amplified in
the name he has chosen for his account - Adolf Chaplin – the icons of political-evil
and comedic-silliness, respectively.
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| Cockney Cowboy |
Integral
to the visual images Kake creates are the titles he gives his pictures. The
titles almost always give background information about the image and sometimes
can change entirely how you perceive the image. The title sometimes make a hard
picture lighter, and other times change a light, fun image into something dark
and edgy.
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| Londonistan |
Politics,
religion, topics of the day, Second Life, TV programmes, movies, celebrity culture and much more are given
the Kake treatment of light and darkness. In fact, many of the themes Kake presents
can also be found here on my own humble blog. This is not entirely surprising –
we both currently live in London and, we discovered, share a number of SL
friends. Notable among these friends are Phillip Sidek – whom I made a fun film
with and Kake a number of photos – and Arduenn Schwartzman – who created the
V-2
Rocket WarBug with me as his Muse and with whom I created two WarBug machinima.
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| Stop Drama |
Add
Kake Broek as a contact on flickr and you’ll quickly find you’ll enjoy his combination
of irreverent light-dark humour and weird and wonderful creativity as much as I do!
Pixie xx
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| Noblesse Oblige |
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| Black Cat Under A Ladder |
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| Auschwitz Side By Side #2 |
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| Mutatis Mutandis |
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| The Secret Adventures of TinTin #4 |
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| Walking Class Hero |
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| How Noir Of You To Ask We Go Through That Dark Alley At This Time Of Night |
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| Jawohl Mein Meister |
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| This Is Not Art |
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