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Kim Høltermand

Sun, 27 May 2012 20:30:17 PDT

photointerview: How popular is architecture photography in Denmark and the world in general? What spheres is it applied in most often? Is it easy to make a living as a full-time architecture photographer, comparing to other genres?

Kim Høltermand: It is a very tight area with a few very talented photographers dominating the stage of architectural photography — and I’m still trying to become one of those great few. Also worldwide. I’m not working as a fulltime photographer and don’t intend to at this time but who knows. I am becoming more and more famous so you’ll never know what this craze will bring me.

source: photointerview: The Architectural Symphonies in the Photography of Kim Høltermand

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Ken Jacobs - Window (1964)

Sat, 26 May 2012 20:28:03 PDT

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior scene. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes apart and slapping them together, contracting and expanding in concurrence with camera movements to impart a terrific apparent-motion to the complex of the object-forms pictured on the horizontal-vertical screen, its axis steadied by the audience’s sense of gravity. The camera’s movements in being transferred to objects tend also to be greatly magnified (instead of the camera the adjacent building turns). About four years of studying the window-complex preceded the afternoon of actual shooting (a true instance of cinematic action-painting). The film exists as it came out of the camera barring one mechanically necessary mid-reel splice. Ken Jacobs
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Ken Jacobs - Window (1964) (09:35)
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Semiconductorfilms - Magnetic Movie 2007

Fri, 25 May 2012 20:30:43 PDT

The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?.
source: Semiconductorfilms

Magnetic Movie 2007 (04:47)
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Eric vande Pitte

Thu, 24 May 2012 20:31:43 PDT

De beelden, de woorden, de geuren en kleuren, de mensen met hun gebaren, de straten met hun huizen en winkels, al dat wat komt uit het verre en vergeten (?) verleden van mijn kinderjaren, borrelt bij gelegenheid op en vormt dan nieuwe stromen van beelden, woorden, geuren, kleuren… Die herinneringen aan vroegere dagen lijken onuitputtelijk te zijn. Nu ja, de hele wereld om mij heen was vervuld met gelijksoortige onverklaarbare dingen, zo veel mysteries. Het verschil was echter dat op school en in de klas de indruk werd gewekt dat men er antwoorden op zou krijgen; dat de meester het wel zou weten… In schoolboekjes werd alles, in tegenstelling tot de directe omgeving, gepresenteerd als zijnde ‘evident’. Dans le jardin il y a des fleurs…’ In mijn tuin stonden er geen bloemen. ‘In mijn tuin staan geen bloemen’. Ook niet in het Frans. (Eric de Kuyper, catalogus ‘Dans le jardin il y a des arbres et des fleurs’)Eric vande Pitte
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Opera Mecatronica - Olimpia 2010

Wed, 23 May 2012 20:30:45 PDT

Opera Mecatronica is created in close collaboration with the robot constructor Magnus Lundin and the lighting designer Anders Larsson, as well as with KTH R1.

The Installations of Opera Mecatronica has been developed in collaboration with Luleå University of technology, Mälardalen University, The University College of Opera, The Royal Institute of Technology and The Dance museum, financial supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee the Swedish Arts Council, The region of Stockholm, Längmanska kulturfonden, SAMI, University College of Dance and Asea Brown Bovery.
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Olimpia 2010 (05:04)
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vintage sideshow banners

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:32:18 PDT

In 1998, Carl Hammer Gallery loaned a large number of vintage sideshow banners to the renowned photographer, William Wegman. Based on his creative interpretation, the artist photographed his favorite subjects against these banners in his inimitable style and titled the newly developed series of color Polaroid photographs Strange But True. We are pleased to pair this remarkable body of work with select examples of vintage sideshow banners by master banner painters Fred Johnson and Snap Wyatt in offering up a summer exhibition by the same title. The resulting effects achieved in this pairing not only portray Wegman’s brilliant sense of humor, but display an aesthetic kinship with the imagism of artists uniquely outside of the mainstream and pushes beyond the constraints - formal, social, and personal - that weigh on Western art and society.
source:wegmanworld

Ted Davis - confaBOT

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:31:25 PDT

Ted Davis - confaBOT explores the relationship between text and image by exploiting how images are currently dealt with on the internet. through the use of metadata [keywords + tags] our digital media and images are obsessively annotated with text in order to retrieve them in the future. this data is typically queried through the use of a search bar to find the particular content. confaBOT works in a similar way, however through the medium of an online chat where each line of conversation queries and displays the single most relevant image. the current version uses a rendition of ALICE chatbot – hoping that it would help keep the conversation flowing while providing surprising feedback and thus surprising imagery.
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confaBOT (03:27)
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Simone Giordano

Sun, 20 May 2012 20:48:22 PDT

The oil paintings by Simone Giordano are highly inspired by the digital field and electronic devices. Simone works focused on this digital aesthetic recreating some ones from the digital interfaces such as the transparent background and the selection tool both from Photoshop, texts zoom in, pixelate images and even his painting present some great glitches and errors. “Ideas, images that evolve and out from my laptop, grainy, fragmented, transformed in a graphic editing program and then finally transferred to canvas; belong to my memory, found them recognized in that extension of our own consciousness, but which ‘collective well’ that is ‘the network, objects that acquire a new value in my representations, the one of medium between us and our deeper self, the root on which to build a just ethical, technological develop consciousness on which our the future.”
source:triangulationblog

Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain (1973)

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:13:53 PDT

Breaking down the internal barriers that keep lucid cohesion and tactical reason from emancipating the mortal soul, The Holy Mountain is a majestic masterwork of unmoderated magnificence–a reticulated joy symposium that makes every other movie ever made seem like a mangled washing machine rusting on the side some nondescript highway. Saturated in a blinding array of evangelical colours (every scene is a gleaming banquet of iridescent shades and fucked up textures) and organic configurations (the carnal flesh of every species imaginable is unabashedly on display), Alejandro Jodorowky has manufactured an all-encompassing spiritual extravaganza, one that made me want to gingerly impregnate every inanimate object within eyeshot.
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The Holy Mountain theatrical trailer (02:29)
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The Holy Mountain (Full Movie) Multi Subs (1:55:33)
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N55 - Walking House 2008

Fri, 18 May 2012 22:05:06 PDT

This house can hustle. The Danish art collective N55 teamed with MIT to make a walking house. Standing 10 ft. high, it is both solar and wind powered, and features a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bed, wood stove and a computer for its leg control. They are hoping that the legs can be mounted under any structure and that modules can be linked for larger living spaces. One of the designers, Øivind Slaatto, plans to live in it in Copenhagen. What a great thing it would be if this prototype became real and could get out of the way of tornadoes, overflowing waterways, and nasty neighbors.
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N55 WALKING HOUSE Walks Along Copenhagen Harbor (03:21)
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Hasisi Park - Kant's Taste

Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:35 PDT

2011 Seoul Fashion Week:

The Centaur by designer Ye Ran Ji, is one of the week’s most eccentric, creative womenswear designers, and with the highest concentration of true to form hipsters.
The show kicked off with an experimental film entitled
‘Taste of Kant’ by Hasisi Park, depicting an intense, playful friendship between two girls; as for the clothes, they mixed retro lines, with vintage fabric, denim and a hint of rock n’ roll.
source:elle

Kant’s Taste (03:30)
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2011ss seoul fashion week
the centaur 4th collection by Ye Ran Ji
filmed by Hasisi Park
song by the books
cast : Ana, Lee Sun, Kae Soon, pony-DdollDdol
thanks to Ed and Jamie
3:30mins / colour / Full HD

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Goin

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:31:13 PDT

Goin, a french stencil artist with a deep-rooted punk legacy, introduces the atmosphere and values of his artistic domicile, the famous Abode of Chaos to Bristol. He mixes graphics and typography with violent and chaotic panache to produce stunning results.
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(notes on) biology - San Francisco 3D Films 2011

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:29 PDT

Danny Madden, Will Madden, and Jonathan Silva of Ornana Films have truly captured the timeless experience of daydreaming and sketching in class.

(Notes on) Biology uses many different techniques to draw us into the story, and the use of actual classroom notes creates an authentic experience. Further displays of the filmmakers deftness, is that they don’t rely on just one style of animation. We see traditional hand-drawn animation, but also pixilation (the live-action form of stop-motion). Furthermore they are not content with the simple joy of the flip book motif, the real treat is when the speed of the pages actually increase and decrease to highlight the action. There are so many dimensions and textures in Mr. Ellis’ classroom animation that you may find yourself wondering why he is even in Biology class in the first place.
source:shortoftheweek

(notes on) biology - San Francisco 3D Films (05:39)
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Hugo Crosthwaite

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:31:00 PDT

Artist Hugo Crosthwaite learned to draw from Gustave Dore’s drawings of Dante. The artist was born in Tijuana, Mexico and now lives in Brooklyn, which gives his work the quality of being in two places at once. His latest exhibition, titled, “Tijuanerias” combines the mythical and real dangers of his homeland, rendering it as a place of extreme transitions. His baroque cartoons combine Francisco Goya’s “Capricho’s” with street art and graffiti iconography to create modern day nightmares.

Tijuana has in recent years risen to a nearly mythical status, with images of drug circles and cold-blooded murders being the first thing people often think of when they hear the word uttered out loud. Its cultural influence in areas such as drawing and graffiti are far overshadowed by these reports from the edge, and these drawings exploit that association in order to upend our knee-jerk reactions.
source:huffingtonpost 03/27/2012

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How to Sweep. By Tom Sachs

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:31:46 PDT

Tom Sachs x Nike Craft: Space Camp The recent release of the Nike Basketball Galaxy Pack has spurred on a sudden interest in space inspired kicks. This summer, artist Tom Sachs has teamed up with Nike for the Space Program: Mars exhibition, which opens on May 15th. Stay tuned to Nice Kicks for additional details regarding the project and check out the teaser video below, entitled How To Sweep.

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How to Sweep. By Tom Sachs (03:30)
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Yvette Mattern - Analog

Sat, 12 May 2012 20:31:07 PDT

Kira O’reilly performs a reconstruction of Vito Acconci’s 1974 seminal final performance work - ‘Command Performance’ for ANALOG durational live performance with Yvette Mattern at Baltic Gateshead, UK. 2006.

Analog Live Kira O’Reilly (04:28)
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Analog - excerpt (10:00)
An excerpt of a video performance by Yvette Mattern created during a residency in 2005/6 at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art England. British artists and performers in Gateshead/Newcastle are invited to audition for a reconstruction of Vito Acconci’s 1974 seminal final performance work - ‘Command Performance’. They are asked a series of questions from the canon of Performance and Video art mixed in with the audition as they read the text from ‘Command Performance’ and respond in unique ways to the process.

Mary Reid Kelley

Fri, 11 May 2012 20:31:29 PDT

Employing formative animation techniques, artist Mary Reid Kelley creates haunting videos that revisit the physical and psychological impact of early-twentieth-century times of war on civilians and non-civilians. Entrenched in scripts of euphemisms, clichés, riddles, and puns, her characters (often performed by the artist herself) embody men and women working as sailors, soldiers, nurses, prostitutes, and factory laborers in Europe. Influenced by German Expressionism, she paints herself with line and shadow to blend into the illusionistic space of constructed sets and props. Her poetic performances blur fact and fiction, ultimately destabilizing reality and the possibility of meaning. source: salinaartcenter

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Straylight - Graeme Taylor

Thu, 10 May 2012 20:31:41 PDT

Graeme Taylor:
I have also become interested in the camera’s ability to capture scenes that the eye cannot, be they tiny fractions of sporting action or multi-second cityscapes. Relatedly, I’m also experimenting with slow-motion video- although it’s very much a side hobby, one of my experiments went viral and continues to be the main source of traffic here to Straylight! As such, you may be interested in my YouTube channel.

Bath Upchuck 2012 Slowreel (07:46)
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Edward del Rosario

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:31:12 PDT

Edward Del Rosario meticulously paints and draws figures in fascinating webs of stories and events that are subtle, and enigmatic.The paintings, oil on linen/board, consist of an imaginary cast of strange expressionless characters staged on flat beautifully toned mono color backgrounds.The characters ornately painted are caught in curious comedic or dramatic action, suggestive of power plays, games, or conflicts, events that are seemingly in their beginning, ongoing or ending stages.

The paintings are executed with rich gorgeous color, and a delicacy and refinement of an indian miniature or fine china painting. The paintings at quick glance appear as benign lovely figures however on closer scrutiny there emerges a surprising interaction engaging the group. The small single figure works, either painted or drawn, are executed with impeccable detail and are similar in subject matter to his painting. These works are often the starting point or studies for the more complex narrative in the larger paintings or may be stories that stand on their own.
source: nancymargolisgallery

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Boris Petrovsky - The Global Pursuit of Happiness, or: The Army of Luck

Tue, 08 May 2012 20:31:39 PDT

The Maneki Neko (jap., literally Beckoning Cat; aka Lucky Cat, Money Cat) is a common Japanese figurine which is believed to bring luck, attract customers and bring prosperity. The Lucky Cat waves with the raised left paw and holds a historic coin in front of itself with the right one. The Lucky Cat as talisman and selling product is wide-spread in Asia and meanwhile almost all over the world. Luck is associated here with monetary and material prosperity. As talisman it is spread all over asian countries. For tourists the Lucky Cat became a kind of pop style Manga character which appears in growing numbers in western private households. As kitschy-petite like exotic souvenir it refers to a certain idea of western lifestyle.

The material element of the installation»The Global Pursuit of Happiness, or: The Army of Luck« is the »Lucky Cats’ Matrix«. It contains 520 shiny golden XXL Lucky Cats made of plastics which are arranged in 40 rows and 13 columns on a ramp-like stand made of aluminum (W 8 m, H 3 m, D 2 m).

Visitors experience the Lucky Cats’ Matrix as a dot-matrix display which consists of 520 waving paw grid points as its »pixels«. In each cat a servomotor is built in to control the paws move exactly in position and speed.

The visitors are requested imaginarily by the cats to interact as users: “Your concept of happiness is our lucky command. Write it on the keyboard”.

source: Boris Petrovsky

The Global Pursuit of Happiness, or: The Army of Luck (07:05)
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