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Video

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:26:07 -0400

Video

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:21:20 -0400

Caught this on Tagbanger today. I wonder what it feels like to...

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:01:32 -0500

Caught this on Tagbanger today. I wonder what it feels like to have your eyes pointed upward all the time.

I came across this sort of randomly. I’m not sure what to...

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:44:04 -0500

I came across this sort of randomly. I’m not sure what to make of it, but these “virtual bumps” have a few characteristics which might be interesting to play around with.

This is a video by Kate Moross (who does awesome & really...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:27:00 -0500

This is a video by Kate Moross (who does awesome & really punchy work) & Alex Sushon for Simian Mobile Disco. It’s really spare & geometric stuff - mostly just black & white circles but what I like is how the room that it’s staged in is being lit up so that we glipses of where its being shot. I also like how they shift the camera angle around so it’s not always straight on the projection - again giving us a little more information about the room.

You Never Know What You’ll Find in a Book

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:01:53 -0500

You Never Know What You’ll Find in a Book :

Rob sent me this nice essay by Henry Alford in the New York Times about why people leave things in the pages of books.

Nice example of reduction of sight. The band’s all decked...

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:53:00 -0500

Nice example of reduction of sight. The band’s all decked out in black body suits and what looks to be a giant snow globe.

"The writer Marshall McLuhan liked to point out that of all the modes through which the human..."

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:39:39 -0500

“The writer Marshall McLuhan liked to point out that of all the modes through which the human organism is endowed to participate in the world, only that of vision and its corresponding apparatus, the eye, has the capacity to focus. Our other senses are panoramic, prodigal, continuous and integrated; they overlap, seep into one another’s synapses and always deliver a world that is single and woven- an organic totality. The capacity to isolate, to intensify one element in a field at the expense of the others, to establish hierarchies by actively molding and truncating attention, lies at the root of the dissociative habits that make our modern culture of analysis- and its linear, sequential processes- possible.”

- taken from Sanford Kwinter’s book “Far From Equilibrium”

Some quotes about seeing that my friend Jed sent my way… One sees great things from the...

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:00 -0500

Some quotes about seeing that my friend Jed sent my way…

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
- G. K. Chesterton

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don’t even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
- Colin Neenan

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-William James

The human doesn’t see things as they are, but as he is.
-Racter

Phil passed this along a few weeks ago right after the election....

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:44:29 -0500

Phil passed this along a few weeks ago right after the election. It’s a great example of how repetition & juxtaposition can go a long way in telling a story.

Quickly threw together an animated loop from the photos I took...

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:07:00 -0500

Quickly threw together an animated loop from the photos I took today in the lighting studio. Used some grids to highlight small portions of typeface. The loop is comes from Andrew Thomas - Fearsome Jewel (9) off Kompakt Records.

I’m starting to notice that if I shoot as close to...

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:37:28 -0500

I’m starting to notice that if I shoot as close to overhead as possible, it becomes difficult to tell if the space is extending or receeding. Except for the shadows being cast to the bottom left of each character…

Testing materials and lighting for the 3d face I’ve been...

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:09:00 -0500

Testing materials and lighting for the 3d face I’ve been working on. Tried illustration board and chipboard painted with acrylic to no avail. I’m going to take my samples into the lighting studio and see how it looks with strobes.

"Since its inception Basic Channel has become a byword for a certain kind of minimalism, where tracks..."

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:50:57 -0500

“Since its inception Basic Channel has become a byword for a certain kind of minimalism, where tracks evolve from the basest of sounds, and the records themselves continue to draw attention to their format by dissolving the distinction between recorded and realtime scratches and distortions. They remind you that these records are there to be played, not archived and cherished.”

- Taken from “Underground Resistors” in The Wire (#150, August 2006)

A motion sketch for a 3d face that i’ve been working on.

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:50:06 -0400

A motion sketch for a 3d face that i’ve been working on.

Music Reference 001

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:25:00 -0400

These three tracks are representative of the kind of music I’m drawn to; bare, analog yet electronic and repetitive. If you take the time to listen carefully, you’ll notice that’s its more than just a loop repeating over and over again. Keeping in mind the phrase that’s being repeated over and over, you’ll notice a subtle interplay between the all the parts of the song.

One random graphic design observation - I think all of Basic Channel record labels were made so that the text was as close to illegible as possible.

Basic Channel - Radiance III

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:21:00 -0400

Basic Channel - Radiance III

Maurizio - M4

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:21:00 -0400

Maurizio - M4

William Basinski - Melancholia

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:17:25 -0400

William Basinski - Melancholia

"In essence, Basinski is improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument,..."

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:14:11 -0400

“In essence, Basinski is improvising using nothing so much as the passage of time as his instrument, and the result is the most amazing piece of process music I’ve ever heard, an encompassing soundworld as lulling as it is apocalyptic. A piece may begin bold, a striking, slow-motion slur of ecstatic drone, and in the first minute, you will notice no change. But as the tape winds on over the capstans, fragments are lost or dulled, and the music becomes a ghost of itself, tiny gasps of full-bodied chords groaning to life amid pits of near-silence. Some decay more quickly and violently than others, surviving barely 15 minutes before being subsumed by silence and warping, while the longest endures for well over an hour, fading into a far-off, barely perceptible glow.”

- Pitchfork review of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops by Joe Tangari