Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf's "Architecture of Density" – photos which reward close inspection – from a show at the Robert Koch Gallery:
Caveh Zahedi
Autobiographical comedy about a recovering sex addict, about his obsession with prostitutes, and how that affected his relationships and his life altogether.
Gotham Awards: Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Kapitaal
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A 7 minute long "typo-animation" created by the Dutch artist-collective of Studio Smack commissioned by museum De Beyerd in Breda.
Pedestrian Levitation
The movement of the pedestrians is recorded with a camera from a high place like the roof of a building. A pattern of movement of the pedestrians is extracted by reworking this recording frame by frame with video animation software: it is as if pedestrians draw lines though the space.
From this pattern, some dominant directions can be found. These directions will not be exactly what the urbanist foresaw when designing the public space at the location, but be the real flow, the real use of the city by its inhabitants. See the video.
Audi Illusions
Framestore CFC Creates M.C. Escher "Illusions" for Audi. Click image to view youtube video.
Article June 2004
Ben Nicholson
Like the Cubists, Nicholson was interested in the ways in which paintings can represent space. In the 1930s, he made shallow reliefs in which areas of different depths define actual space. In the most radical of these, colour was reduced to just white or grey to achieve a sense of purity. Depth and plain colour make the play of light and shadow an intrinsic part of the work. This emphasis was related to new ideas about living and, especially, to modern architecture, in which natural light and formal simplicity were major concerns.
Sam Tootal
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Adam Johnson - Merck Records
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geKzixrY5Qs
Little Numba Warp Records Animate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6gsQrLMjlA
Hans Christian Schink
Empty highway bridges, gigantic concrete pillars, tracks for the Intercity railway--all devoid of humans and bathed in cool winter light.
The theme of these striking images captured by Leipzig photographer Hans-Christian Schink is the massive road-and-rail infrastructure program for eastern Germany, projects designed to transform it into "flourishing landscapes." Schink’s photographs map the violent incursions into the surroundings--"monsters of infrastructure," as the German daily newspaper FAZ aptly put it--as technology has cut and sliced its way through the countryside.
All scenes are shown from the pedestrian’s perspective, often at points destined to be bursting at the seams with traffic in the not-so-distant future. Yet despite the cool sobriety of these photographs, one also recognizes allusions to the landscape paintings of the Romantic period in images such as a roadbed disappearing into the distant mist.
The Ipcress File
Anyone who has any interest in cinematography should kill for a widescreen import. Every frame is a lesson in a long forgotten art.
The strength of the cinematography comes primarily from its use of negative space. Every frame is set up to increase a feeling of paranoia. As the film progresses, tilts are added to increase an atmosphere of uncertainty. When the film climaxes with a brainwashing sequence, we believe totally in the process because every shot has led us to an understanding of what the protagonist is going through. (More)
BAFTA Awards: Best British Art Direction (Colour), Best British Film, Best British Cinematography (Colour).
Orla Wren
An electronica recording artist signed to the influential Expanding Records label. Orla Wren released the Butterfly Wings Make album in 2006.
Website: http://www.expandingrecords.com




































