These beautiful Inuit haiku were committed to film during a NFB-sponsored workshop in 1973. The rapid pace, space and rawness I’ve come to associate with Inuit media is alive and well here. Thank you National Film Board of Canada.
Another dream, maybe a warning? Qayaq’s Dream No. 2 from listen faster on Vimeo.
Great points in this talk from Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference. Watch the whole thing, but one highlight for me, is at 7:30: artists were originally valuable to the tech world for their boundless view of the world, technologists the bound thinkers; now it’s the reverse: technologists are going crazy, artists bring the discipline and …
Qayaq’s story, as told by Tuktu, begins with a series of visions.
I first listened to Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet (1931) in a class at the University of Washington in the late 90s with Dr. Diane Thome, who would do much to broaden my musical horizons during my stay there. As a Composition major, I was stewing in music from all periods and genres that year, …
Brother in art Matt Wainwright has a music project he was showing me last night: 4shadows. I’ve already got a previous release of their’s under the name ‘Lightwind’ and a cd + book set called something like ‘Lets go buy some useless shit’ – both awesome. I think it’s down at the practice space and …
2 pieces found courtesy the excellent Flowing Data blog. Both show surprising uses of time-lapse footage. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
I’ve been an active developer on the open source project Roundware for the past few months, and it’s been very exciting. I’ve gotten the opportunity to pitch in a project used in Sound Artist Halsey Burgund‘s last few installations, as well as develop a location-based media platform geared towards ART instead of broadcast. From the …
You know who I’m talking about. I first saw Werner Herzog in high school German class, and was hooked since. I like Aguirre and Fitzcaraldo etc, but really got hooked when I saw My Best Fiend. Werner’s documentaries have a humor, philosophy and reality that is completely original and weighty. Check Mark Antony out in …