nick and chloe

Little New York

memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AihTDl5R4&feature=related

crewdson & duchamp.

I'm researching Gregory Crewdson for my photo class and I'm totally blow away by his work. More so because I learned that Duchamp was one of his biggest influences. I didn't even know that this installation by Duchamp existed:

"Étant donnés"
It was an installation that he created out of mostly found or created objects and viewed through a peep hole.

Crewdson creates photographic images from scenes in his imagination, sometimes on site using real neighborhoods or designed in a studio. His earlier work was very diorama-esque but seemingly real.


His more recent work has become more eerily realistic. Always portraying a scene before or after an action, confusing and intriguing the viewer, but always very voyeuristic.


Crewdson's work becomes classified as more than just photography. Months of preparation go into these images, using equipment and people you'd often find on a film set. His scenes are living installations and sculptures all working towards an end result- one photo.

info on duchamps installation.
some of crewdson's work.

work it, make it, do it..

daft punk thing thats pretty cool!

jane frere -- return of the soul
about palestinian diaspora

matthew pillsbury

dulce pinzon

http://dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htmyoung Mexican artist living in the US

Frye's Installation & Collage from the Lation House

To continue my series of documentation photo's of Josh Frye's installation work I snapped a bunch of photos from the Intermedia Graduate Open House on Friday:

















And I created this while hanging out at Ally's place tonight:

erika yamashiro

website

#1) I was planning on using this kind of stuff in my next project

#2) Animated recreation of the Hundson River plane landing

Tim Mearini

found via http://idiotmusic.wordpress.com/

Mark Jenkins

http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/


EDIT: whoops i forgot we already covered this dude acouple times sorrryzzzzzzzzz

Groovetube

Going against the trend of high-resolution images, the Groovetube dynamically translates your TV channels into low-res aesthetics.

The Groovetube is simply a translucent plastic box that suction cups to the screen of your television. It has a grid of dividers inside it that diffuse the colors from your TV producing colorful abstractions.

sticker madness!

Appeel is a virus spreading through interacting individuals.

Surfaces are covered by thousands of coloured stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, people hence start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be sticked somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people, they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.

Appeel inherits basic principles of interactivity and generativity applied to purely analogous means. Its immanent potential of penetrating regulated public and private space counterpoints its apparent plainness. The dot spreads with the promise to ironically mark its carrier as a symbol of sale and possession.

Copyright Criminal

apparently they are pre screening this at ui april 3rd

Meet Erika Iris Simmons

i can't get over how crazy awesome this is..

found this on the jux website.

Fake Signs

Someone who puts fake signs up. HERE

Re: Cycles

accumulation & cycles, accumulation & cycles, accumulations & cycles...





proving form & function are important.. cuz really it's just a pile of trash!

Youtube your Name

I can't find the name 'Zegler' anywhere in this video, but it popped up in my search. I beilive the footage is from the movie Fatso (1980) in which an actor named 'Paul Zegler' has a role. This video is creepy and I am happy that my family name is associated.

"paper thin" @ cognition

Thank you Lisa for the pictures!

Me and things of others'

Hello,

Thanks Lisa for snapping photo's from the Cognition show. Sadly, I have yet to figure out an effective way to to record the projection due to the differences in frame rates of the projector and the video camera. Hopefully this and an in-class demo will suffice:



I also threw together the title card for the FEMA-TV (and sorry again Megan, I still owe you an 'n'):


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Last Friday, I went to a small film festival/ folk concert melding in Chicago.
The Muddy River Film Festival as it was called, exhibited 7 shorts and 2 bands performed.

It was the organizer's first attempt at the format and it needs a little bit more work, but here are 2 pieces that really stuck out to me. The first is an incredibly interesting look at the loss of "Sacred Texts" in our internet age. The second is a music video adaptation of a short that was screened. The original video was 16-minutes long and very comedic, and the music video strips a lot of its charm out, but its the only version I could find posted online.


High Quality QT Version

food party

Were we supposed to post over Spring Break? I guess I will

Louis Wain
I really like all the work this guy did. He worked from the 1880's to the 1930's. I don't feel like organizing these images, but there is sort of a chronology. He really liked cats and starting in his mid 20's would only make cat art. He started off with realistic stuff but then got notoriety for his anthropomorphised cats, who play sports, go on dates, have parties, etc. Then in the 1920's he started to shows signs of schizophrenia, and thats when his paintings got really weird and wild. People try to organize these ones in orders to try to show his schizophrenia getting worse, but the truth is that nobody knows exactly the chronology for these ones. After these weird ones though he went back to regular anthropomorphised ones for the last part of his life like he was doing earlier.







H. G. Wells said of him, "He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."


VS.

To me, these are two completely different songs. Whitney Houston definately delivers this song a lot more powerfully. The way the backing music is used in the different versions changes things a lot, especially with the acapella intro in Whitney Houston's. Whitney's is presented like the type of thing you would want to slow dance to with somebody, which is deceiving because the content is not something you want to celebrate in. Its arranged to be very epic, big crescendos and things.
Dolly Parton's is a lot more subtle and does not rely on the big dramatic changes to give you the chills. The arrangement is a lot more straight forward and simplistic. This version feels a lot more honest, especially with the spoken word section in there. The lyrical content comes out a lot more in this version, which makes it a lot sadder. Definitely not a couples song.
For me, Dolly Parton's version wins by a landslide.

=youtubz your name=

i dont know what her deal is since alot of her other posts are just her staring at the camera and waving at the camera
i know we all love talking about the state of youtube and vloggers and yaddadaddadaaaa
i was mesmerised, maybe it is only because i have no idea what she is saying, perhaps maybe i would think the mandy and miley show would be more entertaining if i didnt understand it
i am making a comparison with deep thoughts and meaning here somewhere

sheep art.

this is hilarious and impressive..

i am so doing this!!

make your own fisheye photos for 11$!!!!

-.skate.-

and then i noticed they had the entire film uploaded




excerpts

flip/sound/cans/smash

i was mesmerized as my roommates and i put in hundreds of cans of the deep clunk as the machine smashed them, it is only a 30 second clip because i had to help them but i want more

jeezy: put on

here is a better quality of this video

speaking of music videos....

i really love jeezy's low dirtysouth quality of voice, and i am especially inspired by this video. every camera shot feels like a photo, i really feel the presence of each person. every word jeezy spits feels intense, immediate. the images capture the feeling of life in the hood.

i want my musical work to be intense like this

Lil Wayne

This is a great article on Lil Wayne that I read before his last album came out.  

 Lil Wayne Article - SFJ/New Yorker

Links

This was done by some Germans, they call it "Urban Camouflage." These are some costumes they made to blend into things. Their website has some videos of these in action, plus another costume.






I have no idea who made this, I just found the picture. A cutting board, and the crumbs fall through the tube and into the bird's food tray.