May 27, 2007 • 1:59 pm 0
( via ursi’s blog )
Amazing footage … nature is incredible!
| Who: A a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles.
What: A battle over a baby calf. When: September 2004 Where: At a watering hole near Pretoriuskop Camp, Mpumalanga in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. |
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Filmed by Jason E. Schlosberg
Check also his matched Photo Gallery.
Filed under: films
May 27, 2007 • 1:48 pm 0
( via ursi’s blog )
Around 8.4 million children around the world are enslaved today. Now, in a remarkable journey across three continents, five of them tell their stories. This documentary is presented by reporter Rageh Omaar.
See also at BBC:
Child Slavery with Rageh Omaar
The world of modern child slavery by Rageh Omaar
In graphics: The scale of slavery
This World: Child Slavery with Rageh Omaar
was broadcast on Monday, 26 March, 2007 on BBC Two.
Runtime 88 minutes.
May 26, 2007 • 12:55 pm 0
( all images and text via Pentagram’s blog )
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies opens today at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station.
Lisa Strausfeld and her team, in collaboration with the author and architect James Sanders, have designed the exhibition Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies that opens today in Grand Central Terminal. The month-long multimedia exhibition, based on Sanders’ classic book by the same name, relates the hundred-year plus history of filmmaking in and about New York City in a display of original scenic backings, film footage, production stills, and exhibition panels complete with quotes, location shots, art department drawings and renderings.
At rear, a backdrop of the old Penn Station from The Clock (1945).
Large rear-projection screens play signature scenes from films like Manhattan (1978).
Celluloid Skyline was designed to create an environment that recalls the cinematic experience, and the exhibition takes full advantage of Vanderbilt Hall’s dramatic interior, a space itself so representative of New York and one of the few rooms in the city large enough to hold the exhibition’s contents. “This is not a conventional museum-style exhibit, but rather a vast, immersive, magical environment that allows people to walk into the ‘movie New York’ of their dreams,” says Sanders.
The highlights of the exhibition are the four gigantic “scenic backing” paintings used in such films as Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Vincente Minnelli’s The Clock. These meticulously rendered cityscapes, some more than 25 feet high and 60 feet long, have never been publicly exhibited and are hung on scaffolding around the perimeter of the room. The result is a space in which visitors feel, in Sanders’ words, “as if they are actually inhabiting the various environments of the filmic city—streets, skyscrapers, rooftops, theaters, waterfronts, interiors—allowing viewers to come away with a greater understanding not only of the moviemaking process, but of the urban character, texture and significance of the real city.”
Filed under: architecture, art, films, space/place, urban
May 26, 2007 • 5:00 am 0
( via networked_performance )
Cool media hot talk show : D.I.Y. talk show on art & media ::
TOPIC: New Media Art Mythologies ::
SPEAKERS: Geert Lovink and Armin Medosch :: QUESTIONS: ask-it-yourself now and during the show here :: June 5, 20.30 CET :: Video stream and interface for online participation :: Location: De Balie, Amsterdam (bring your laptops and mobiles)
New Media Art Mythologies…to be questioned… :: Recent discussions about (new) media art concerned a wide range of issues: starting from the validity of the term itself and ending with questioning the very premises of the modes of distinction through which the (new) media art field constitutes itself as a form of art, cultural practice, social context, institutional domain, and discourse. The feeling of a certain Rubicon, provoking self-introspective reflections, was expressed by many.
The coming edition of Cool Media Hot Talk Show on the topic “New Media Art Mythologies” will welcome persistent critical voices of the media art scene – Geert Lovink and Armin Medosch. They will present their judgements and arguments regarding the current critical stage in the development of new media art. The debates will address socio-cultural position of new media art in a historical perspective, which both speakers are discussing extensively in their writings. Preliminary suggested focal points are:
– The marginalised position of new media art within the broader cultural context.
– New media art vis-`-vis changing trends of cultural policies.
– Discursive troubles: in search for mediatory theories and media art criticism.
– New media between aesthetics and politics.
Filed under: art, design, DIY, films, new media, social, space/place, technology
May 25, 2007 • 3:48 pm 0
( via stashmedia.tv )
Love them or hate them, these HP spots are sucking in big names, big money, and getting progressively more elaborate each time. This latest HP spot features nutbar dream director Michel Gondry doing what he does best, which is everything, including talking about himself. Directed by his brother Olivier Gondry for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. It was the last commercial produced by Partizan New York before Gondry switched to Paranoid for US representation.
CD: Steve Goldblatt, Mike McKay, Rich Silverstein, Steve Simpson
Director: Olivier Gondry
Producer: Ian Bearce, Valerie Romer, Magali Selosse-Bishop
Editor: Olivier Gajan
Agency Producer: Josh Reynolds, Vicki Tripp
DOP: Tim Ives
Production: Partizan USA
Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners
Original music: Michel Gondry
Filed under: art, films, technology
May 25, 2007 • 3:19 pm 0
( via stashmedia.tv )
Two new spots from Dinamo Digital in Brazil for an innovative language company that promises to make learning English fun. Response to the studio’s twelve characters has been so good the client is making them into toys.
Watch Cultura Inglesa “Lift”
Watch Cultura Inglesa “Save”
May 25, 2007 • 3:12 pm 0
( via bldgblog )
I’m still reeling from the announcement of Postopolis! – but the good news keeps on coming.
To make a long story still rather long…
Back in January, Alan Rapp, the art, design, and photography editor for Chronicle Books, attended a BLDGBLOG event hosted by the Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Alan and I met, kept in touch, had a pizza, talked about David Cronenberg; and then, last month, we organized an event together in San Francisco.
Somewhere in there the idea of a BLDGBLOG book came up – which I soon turned into a formal proposal… and now it’s official: Chronicle Books will be publishing a BLDGBLOG book in Spring 2009 – and my head is spinning!
BLDGBLOG: The Book! The BLDGBLOG Book!
I just can’t even believe how many possibilities there are with this thing. It’s a little crazy.
In a nutshell, though, it’ll be divided up into three major sections – Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, and Landscape Futures – covering everything I’ve already covered here and more…
From plate tectonics and J.G. Ballard to geomagnetic harddrives and undiscovered New York bedrooms, by way of offshore oil derricks, airborne utopias, wind power, inflatable cathedrals, statue disease, science fiction and the city, pedestrianization schemes, architecture and the near-death experience, Scottish archaeology, green roofs, W.G. Sebald, flooded Londons of the climate-changed future, William Burroughs, Andrew Maynard, LOT-EK, Rupert Thomson, The Aeneid, shipbreaking yards, Die Hard, Pruned, Franz Kafka, Rem Koolhaas, tunnels and sewers and bunkers and tombs, micronations, diamond mines, Mars, Earth, lunar urbanism, fossil cities, sound mirrors, James Bond, the War on Terror, earthquakes, Angkor Wat, robot-buildings and the Taj Mahal, Archigram, the Atlas Mountains, refugee camps, Walter Murch, the Maunsell Towers… and about nine hundred thousand other topics, provided I can fit them all in.
There will be interviews, essays, quotations, photos, original artwork – and hopefully even a graphic novel, strung throughout the book. And it will be well-designed and affordable! And it will put all existing architecture books to shame. Every single one of them. Except maybe a few…
Filed under: architecture, art, design, films, space/place
May 25, 2007 • 5:58 am 0
Design a feature film poster for our open source movie.
Fame/riches to follow…
Palla has released his latest stunning image for A Swarm of Angels visualisations under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0), so we can use it as the main photographic element of our teaser poster for The Unfold.
We’d like you to make the final design.
Brief:
The image explores one of the main visual effects of the story — the idea of the world splitting, fracturing, and unfolding. The poster should showcase this using the photograph as a core visual, but with additional typographic and illustrative elements as the designer sees fit. This is an opportunity to indulge in classic and artistic poster design free of the usual commercial imperatives and informational clutter associated with many modern examples.
Posters format:
Final size – A2 (16.5 x 23.4 in — 420 x 594 mm). Portrait or landscape aspect ratio.
Submissions should be preview jpegs no more than 1500 pixels in length maximum.
All images submitted must fall under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license, with the winning image able to be used in all ASOA activities.
The winning design will be decided through discussion at The Nine Orders forums, alongside Palla and myself. Besides the poster being printed, as well as featured in future publicity and exhibitions, the designer will be entitled a revenue share of any proceeds from the poster.
Submissions are welcome from members and non-members of the Swarm. You can enter by posting a link to your poster image in the comments (contact us for any questions).
The final poster will be made available for purchase so please join the swarm or sign-up to the mailing list to be kept informed and register your interest.
Elements required for poster
– Download Posterpack (Palla’s 964 Cityscape image + A Swarm of Angels logo files)
– Creative Commons image presskit page
Please post your poster link in the comments below (moderated).
Deadline: June 1st, 2007
May 25, 2007 • 4:20 am 0
Lucia Leão
:: jun 14.2007 :: 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.
The relationships between art and nature have always been present in the human history. Since pre-historic times, draws of animals in caves reveal the aspiration to represent and/or control nature. Enigmatic pre-historic monuments and planetary observatories are also amazing samples of man interventions in order to understand the surrounding environment and its movements. From the Egyptian frescos, passing through moments of the Renaissance and 18th century art, the landscape becomes the environment for building narratives and, often, it takes an ornamental or symbolic character. The landscape paintings, not by chance, are very frequent and popular in the colonialist expansion periods and show very clear relationships between the territorial conquest and the aspiration of representation.
In the 20th century, starting in the 60’s, a radical transformation happens: the art stop seeing the nature only like an object for representation and the artists start interacting directly in natural spaces. In that period, artworks emerge pointing to several readings of the environment, among them: nature and space problems (Richard Serra); light transformations, time effect and visitor’s interaction (Robert Morris and Nancy Holt); environment and consumption (Christo); actions and incisions in the environment (Michael Heizer and Alberto Burri), among others.
Lucia Leão is interdisciplinary artist, PHD in comunication and semiotics from PUC-SP and post-PHD in arts from UNICAMP. Author of several articles about art and new media and of the books “The Labyrinth of Hipermedia: architecture and navigation in cyberspace” (1999) and “The Aesthetics of the Labyrinth” (2002). She organized the Interlab collections, with international papers: Labyrinths of the Contemporary Thinking (2002), with nomination for the Jabuti Award; Cybercultura 2.0 (2003); e Derivas: cartography of the cyberspace (2004). Lucia is professor at PUC-SP and SENAC. As artist, she has exhibited, among other places, at ISEA 200, Paris; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas (MACC); XV Biennial of Sao Paulo; II International Biennial of Buenos Aires; ArtMedia, Paris; FILE -SP (2002); Arte Digital Rosario 2003; Cinético Digital, Itaú Cultural (2005); Mostra SESC de Artes (2005) e FILE Rio 2006.
Filed under: architecture, art, consciousness, design, fashion, films, locative, new media, physical computing, research, social, space/place, technology
May 25, 2007 • 3:14 am 0
Virtual hub of mobility experiences on Nokia Trends Lab Beta.
Filed under: art, design, fashion, films, graphics, mobility, music, new media, social, space/place, technology
May 24, 2007 • 8:27 am 0
May 24, 2007 • 6:54 am 0
Video here >
Her Noise – The Making Of
Authors: Electra with Emma Hedditch
Duration: 60 minutes, 2007
Her Noise brochure with full liner notes (PDF)
Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The exhibition included newly commissioned works by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld. A parallel ambition of the project was to investigate music and sound histories in relation to gender, and the curators set out to create a lasting resource in this area.
Throughout the development of the project, the curators conducted dozens of interviews, whilst also compiling sound recordings and printed materials which would eventually form the Her Noise Archive. The Her Noise Archive is a collection of over 60 videos, 300 audio recordings, 40 books and catalogues and 250 fanzines (approximately 150 different titles) compiled during the development of this project. The archive remains publicly accessible at the Electra office in central London.
Much of the material available in the archive was shot specifically for this project, and is uniquely available as part of this archive. The documentary ‘Her Noise – The Making Of’ was commissioned by Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen on the occasion of the ‘Sound’ festival and ‘SoundAsArt’ conference at University of Aberdeen.
The video documents the development of Her Noise between 2001 and 2005 and features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show’s curators, Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset. The documentary also features excerpts from live performances held during Her Noise by Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata), Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline, Marina Rosenfeld’s ‘Emotional Orchestra’ at Tate Modern, and footage compiled for the ‘Men in Experimental Music’ video made during the development of the Her Noise project by the curators and Kim Gordon, featuring Thurston Moore and Jim O’Rourke.
To find out more about the Her Noise Archive, or to make an appointment to visit the archive please go to www.electra-productions.com
May 24, 2007 • 5:48 am 0
Metastasis is Iannis Xenakis’ first major orchestral work, inspired by Einstein’s conception of time, the composers own personal experience of war, and the mathematical ideas of Le Corbusier [whom Xenakis worked with as an architect]. The work calls for an orchestra of 65 players: 12 winds, 7 percussionists, and 46 strings, though no two performers play identical parts. The sound mass that defines the piece is thus created by each player performing a glissandi at different pitch levels, durations, and points, with the resulting score, followed in this video sequence, supposedly serving as the basis for the hyperbolic paraboloids of the Philips Pavilion.
Filed under: films
May 24, 2007 • 5:37 am 0
Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City; The urban experience in India through the lens of popular Bombay cinema by Ranjani Mazumdar.
Cinema is not only a major industry in India, it is a powerful cultural force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In Bombay Cinema, Ranjani Mazumdar takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Bombay cinema as the unofficial archive of the city in India.
In this analysis of the cinematic city, Mazumdar reveals a complex postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and transformed by the experience of globalization in the 1990s. She argues that the upheaval of postcolonial nationalism led to Bombay cinema’s articulation of urban life in entirely new terms.
Specifically, the place of the village in the imaginary constitution of anticolonial nationalism gave way to a greater acknowledgment, even centrality, of urban space. Bombay Cinema takes the reader on an inventive journey through a cinematic city of mass crowds, violence, fashion, architectural fantasies, and subcultural identities. Moving through the world of gangsters and vamps, families and drifters, and heroes and villains, Bombay Cinema explores an urban landscape marked by industrial decline, civic crisis, working-class disenchantment, and diverse street life.
Combining the anecdotal with the theoretical, the philosophical with the political, and the textual with the historical, Bombay Cinema leads the reader into the heart of the urban labyrinth in India, revising and deepening our understanding of both the city and the cinema.
Ranjani Mazumdar is an independent filmmaker and associate professor of film studies at the School of Art and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
May 23, 2007 • 1:03 pm 0
Call for entries
deadline 1 August 2007
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CologneOFF III
3rd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
Festival theme:
Toon! Toon! – art cartoons and animated narratives
After the successful launch of CologneOFF – Cologne Online Film Festival and the organisation of the first two editions in 2006 CologneOFF I – Identityscapes, CologneOFF II – Image vs Music, VideoChannel is preparing now edition III of CologneOFF to be launched in October 2007: —>Toon! Toon! – art cartoons and animated narratives
VideoChannel invites artists and directors for submitting animated films/videos telling a story in form of a cartoon or other forms of narratives by using the new digital technologies.
Rules: http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=25842&page=1#48287
Originally by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne from Rhizome.org Raw at May 22, 2007, 02:00, published by Ana Otero
Filed under: art, festival, films, technology
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