February 2012
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humble arts foundation: marget long
Via Scoop.it - Camera Arts The representation of history is the driving force behind artist, Marget Long’s practice. She works in a wide range of mediums including, photographs, video and text. Most of her projects explore the history of photography, such as “Bad Light,” which considers how we experience the use of flash in photography over the years through its technological advances. “$pooky...
January 2012
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Behind the Lens : Photographing the Invisible...
Via Scoop.it - Camera Arts Scientific and special-purpose cinematography helps reveal what would otherwise be invisible. Via archive.org
Anne Frank: The Only Existing Video Now Online
Via Scoop.it - Camera Arts There’s no sound, and the clip only runs 20 seconds. But this is the only known footage of Anne Frank, and it’s now online. Via openculture.com
São Paulo Alternative Networks | La Lettre de la...
Via Scoop.it - Camera Arts Focused on the convergences between East European and Latin American artists during the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition Redes Alternativas (Alternative Networks) recalls how photography was used as a strategic practice to overcome the censorship… Via lalettredelaphotographie.com
December 2011
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MIT's Trillion frames per second camera
Via Scoop.it - Camera Arts MIT researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion exposures per second. Via youtube.com
October 2011
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June 2011
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“Museums have fueled the destruction of far more knowledge than they have...”
– What Went Wrong at the Getty by Hugh Eakin | The New York Review of Books
Close Distance →
A group show at the Mills Gallery I’m involved with (a video installation) — I rarely show at galleries and let me point out that I don’t think there is anything special in this decision. Yet it’s been a reluctant, uncomfortable journey for me to approach the white cube again. Let’s say something wise about questioning your own dogma and let’s finish by...
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Michel Gondry vs. Hollis Frampton
“La Tour de Pise”, directed by Michel Gondry (1993) vs. “Zorn’s Lemma” (1970) by American structural experimental filmmaker Hollis Frampton. (Early last month, the Harvard Film Archived screened Hollis Frampton’s “Hapax Legomena” cycle but alas I have yet to see Zorn’s Lemma projected in Boston.)
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Petition supporting L'Abominable →
A petition of support for L’Abominable, the artist-run DIY Super-8, 16mm and 35mm film lab which is in danger of being evicted. #film
recentering
After a hiatus of many moons I’ve finally knocked the cobwebs from this space. Let’s begin a conversation shall we.
June 2010
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May 2010
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April 2010
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WatchPantha Du Prince Documentary (by Rough Trade Records)
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March 2010
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February 2010
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January 2010
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December 2009
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October 2009
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“The nature of crocodiles is as follows. For the four winter months, it eats...”
– Herodotus description of a crocodile, The Histories 440BC.
Nothing enters the mind that wasn’t already there. This is why I photograph.
“[…] The most dismal, most unnerving, most expensive imaginable. The...”
– Hollis Frampton “Some Propositions on Photography” (1965).
September 2009
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“I sometimes imagine Caracas as a living breathing animal. Obscured by the...”
– Magnum in Motion: “Capitolio” a photoessay by Christopher Anderson.
Three photos at Charlie's Kitchen
I found these three old photos on a backup hard drive while searching for some lost footage. That perverse tungsten bulb + gel light “design” of the upstairs bar, impossible to color balance is suis generis. I like it. Do stare at the red and green cross shadows of your Miller High Life.
June 2009
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Carrie Ann
Carrie Ann Li’s going away party May 30 2009 at 17 Edinboro St #3.
GAS
Kompakt founder Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas debut at Wordless Music, May 29 2009 at Miller Theatre in Columbia University, NYC.
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Ether Field
Thomas Gallagher of Ether Field May 28 2009 at Great Scott, Allston, MA
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We Need A Bass Drum: Raster Noton
We Need A Bass Drum, a dormant project of mine, was revived lst week with the performance of Carsten Nicolai (aka ALVA NOTO) and Olaf Bender (aka BYETONE) at the Middlesex Lounge, Cambridge, MA. More photos here.