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Culcha Candela at the WBF 2010

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One of the music highlights at the World Bodypainting Festivals 2010 are now defenite. The german pop-raggae-dancehall band "Culcha Candela" (translated hot culture) will celebrate their first gig in Austria with their new album including the no.1 hit  "Monsta"

 

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The group of seven have all different cultural roots coming from Columbia, Korea, Uganda, Poland and Germany. Culcha Candela is fun, makes you dance and just simply enjoy life.
Culcha Candela stand for a mulitcultural life together in peace - its the perfect band support for the world's most colorful event, the World Bodypainting Festival.
The program schedule is not published yet, but we can tell you that this band will perform on the first main day, Friday July, 16th, between the World Award main presentation and the World Fluoro Award.

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DJ Line up for the side event BodyCircus published

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“Body Circus”, the fantasy ball
within the historical walls of the castle

presented by Snazaroo

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The fantasy ball ‘Body Circus’ presented by "Snazaroo" will be back also in 2010 in the festival week. On July 14th the medieval castle “Burg Sommeregg” will transform into a mystical fairy tale location with guests arriving in costume ranging from Bodypainting, body decoration and masks, to extreme make-up and fantasy fashion.

BodyCircus Music:

  • Floor 1 - by Ministry of Sound London  with Scott Langley & Shane Kehoe
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  • Floor 2 - by ForceFM London with Matt Emulsion, Stuntman Lee and many more
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  • Floor 3 - by Denon DJ with Lords of House
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HD Make up class with Jos Brands

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The WBF Academy is able to add another great workshop class to the program 2010. High-Definition Make-up and the new make-up techniques are presented by "Kryolan"  with Jos Brands [Belgium] www.kryolan.com


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WBF Academy finalized

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We have finalized the program for the WBF Academy 2010. Bookings are open now and please notice that our special discounts for multiple bookings:

  • When booking 2 workshops, we offer you a discount of 15 % on both from the full price.
  • When booking a 3rd or more workshops, we offer you a discount of 25 % from the full price off all.
  • Not to be used in combination with other discounts.


The following classes were added in the last days:

Monday:

  • Special Workshop: Highlights & Shadows - Bringing Realism to your Work with Raphaelle Fieldhouse [Wales]  >> details
  • Nail Art, 2 days workshop with Beatrice Belluzzi [Itay]  >> details
  • Fashion Make up presented by "Venus Images" with Sarah Bull [Australia]  >> details

Tuesday:

  • Free Photo Lecture & Demo: Nikon Recording set up & Adobe Workflow with Christoph Kaltseis [Austria] - presented by "Nikon" und "Adobe"  >> details
  • Photowokshop - Focus "Point of view" with star photographer Joachim Bergauer [Austria]  >> details
  • High Fashion Bodypainting presented by "Venus Images" with Sarah Bull [Australia]  >> details

Wedneday:

  • Airbrush Bodypainting Workshop for Beginners with Janny Cierpka Bodypaintingcrew.com [Germany] presented by "Senjo-Color"   >> details
  • Free Photo Lecture & Demo: Nikon Recording set up & Adobe Workflow with Christoph Kaltseis [Austria] - presented by "Nikon" und "Adobe"  >> details

Thursday:

  • Free Photo Lecture & Demo Nikon RAW Power & Adobe Lightroom with Christoph Kaltseis [Austria] - presented by "Nikon" und "Adobe"  >> details

New program highlights for photographers

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  • Photoshop tricks will be presented by "Adobe"

The specialist and Adobe developer Christoph Kaltseist will show tricks on Adobe's Software Photoshop within the WBF Academy as well as on the festival main days in Bodypaint City. The demonstration on the main days will take place in the "Denon DJ Tent" daily from 11.00 am - 12.30 with a variation of different programs. The program is sponsored by "Adobe"

  • Anton Klocker presents a new photo workshop "Body landscapes - from the idea to the perfect contest photo"

WBF Academy Program details can be found here.

World premier of the workshop Paintloons

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The WBF Academy 2010 celebrates the first workshop of its kind  Paintloons - 3D Effects Paint Loons - Balloon Art meets Paint 
- presented by  Illusion Magazine.
In this workshop Guido Verhoef [Netherlands] & Bella Volen [Bulgaria] combine the best of two art disciplines.

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New classes

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We added some new workshop classes within the WBF Academy 2010:

  • Charles Fox London presents an airbrush body painting workshop with Alex Hansen.
  • Diamond FX will bring the twins Nick & Brian Wolfe back to the festival. They will present a 2 days workshop program.
  • John Vargas is teaching an exclusive spanish class, presented by Royal & Langnickel.

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[Photos: Alex Hansen | John Vargas | Nick & Brian Wolfe]

WBF Academy Program

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The WBF Academy will present again a hughe program in  classes and lectures within the festival week 2010.  You can find an overview of the program offers in the menu "WBF Academy". We are working currently on the schedule and description, but some of the workshops can be booked already.

A special offer this year is the multiple booking discounts for individuals:
We offer special conditions to individual participants when booking multiple full day workshops.
When booking 2 workshops, we offer you a discount of 15% on both from the full price.
When booking a 3rd or more workshops, we offer you a discount of 25% from the full price.

 

Christmas present idea - our new brush holders

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A new product is available in the festival shop just in time for Christmas.

"Love for Brushes" by Karala

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Decadent brush holders to pamper your brushes, roll them up tight and carry your creativity everywhere you go. These brush holders are all hand made one of a kind pieces created with a genuine care for detail. Some are punk, some are delicate, feminine and masculine, pearled or feathered, snake skin print, faux fur or satin and all with unique character. Every brush holder carries a silver plated World Bodypainting Festival badge.

Show your brushes you love them and give them a hug today.

Artist Information in different languages

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The artist information for the World Bodypainting Festival 2010 is now available in the following languages:

  • € 36.000 // US$ 52.000 Cash & Products prizes in total


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Themes and artist information 2010 published

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From today we have the full artist information for the  World Bodypainting Festival 2010 available. Other languages such as french, spanish and italian will follow soon.

The themes for 2010 are:

  • Friday and Saturday: “Sub Cultures“
  • Sunday, Final day: “Sources of Power”

Bodypainting Model of the Year 2009

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What would be the photo without the expression of the model.
Thats why each year we award the "Bodypainting Model of the Year".

The award goes to the model, that expresses and represents the bodypainting artwork the best. That includes the modeling on the main days, on stage as well as in the photo shooting area.

This prize is awarded within the photo competition.


This year the award goes to:

Jay Cloud from Canada

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Photo: Iwo Winterhak

 

DVD 2009 available

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From today we have the official World Bodypainting Festival DVD 2009 available in our online shop.
The DVD contains within 141 minutes:

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- Artist and model presentation
- World Awards in all categories
- Night Contest for UV Effects
- World Facepainting Award
- Special Effects Make up Award
- Amateur Awards
- Winners presentations
- BodyCircus, the shrill fantasy ball
- WBF Institute of Sound Music Highlights

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New: the Hall of Fame for photographers

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Having the  World Bodypainting PHOTO Award for 11 years now, we searched for the old results from the beginning of the photo competition of the festival. We tought it might be also nice for photographers to see the results since 1999 in a  "Photo Hall of Fame" .

Special Award from the Photo Jury

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The following photo was awarded with a special prize during the jury process of the World Bodypainting PHOTO Awards:

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This photo by the Austrian Thomas Froehlich was the favourite of the jury.
But the jury all agreed that the work was to digitally worked upon for the category "Photo classic" where it was entered.
The jury decided to give him a special jury award for that extra ordinary great photo.

Report from the photo contest published

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Now we finished the report from the giving of the World Bodypainting Photo Award. All photos and results are online.