By mh
|
Posted in Composition
|
Tagged black fax, block, DIY, flag, fuckem, fun, image, joke, light, pun, ryan de la hoz, the wild, trash
|
Joshua Schwartz, ‘Holy Trip’
Schwartz asked a preacher if he would consider taking a picture with his disposable camera the next time he felt he was being touched by the hand of God. This image arrived at Schwartz’s home two months after their encounter.
By mh
|
Posted in Abstraction
|
Tagged action, camera, disposable, DIY, found, god, hand, holy trip, joshua schwartz, light, performance, photograph, picture, preacher, relational aesthetics, romance, send, touched, unknown
|
Jacques Derrida interviewed by Pascale Ogier about the ‘Science of Ghosts’ in Ken McMullen‘s film ‘Ghost Dance’ (1983)
By dd
|
Posted in Composition
|
Tagged 80s, dance, deconstruction, film, ghost, I want to believe, jacques derrida, ken mcmullen, memory, pascale ogier, philosophy, science of ghosts, spectre, telephone
|
Stills from Harun Farocki‘s ‘Die Bewerbung’ AKA ‘The Interview’ (1996)
Clip here
By mh
|
Posted in Composition
|
Tagged attitude, bewerbung, collection, documentary, german, Harun Farocki, interview, mirror, qualifications, reality, text, video
|
‘The Trainee’ (2008) by Pilvi Takala.
For a month the artist worked at the marketing department of Deloitte as trainee “Johanna Takala”. She sits at her workstation all day doing nothing, becoming a source of speculation for the other employees.
Michael Coombs, ‘Here today, gone tomorrow’ (2004)
By mh
|
Posted in Abstraction
|
Tagged bodies, body parts, collection, DIY, forest, found, gone tomorrow, here today, installation, lying, michael coombs, missing, nature, park, public space, romance, sculpture, sleeping, trees, unknown
|
Yto Barrada, from the series ‘Sleepers’, Tangier (2006)
By dd
|
Posted in Composition
|
Tagged c print, city, collection, DIY, grass, light, nature, park, presence, private public, public space, relational aesthetics, sky, sleep, tangier, unknown, yto barrada
|
‘L.A. Crash’ (2006) by Mirko Martin.
Pictures taken at film sets, mixed with street scenes in Los Angeles.
By sk
|
Posted in Abstraction
|
Tagged body, cinema, crash, L.A. crash, los angeles, mirko martin, picture, prop, scene, set, steet
|
Nicolas Provost, ‘Stardust’, 20′ (2010)
An excerpt can be seen here
Stardust is the second part of the trilogy where Provost films everyday life with a hidden high resolution camera and edits the images into a fiction film using cinematographic codes from the Hollywood film language. Starring real Hollywood stars like Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson in Las Vegas.
By dd
|
Posted in Composition
|
Tagged cctv, dennis hopper, everyday, fiction, film, hidden camera, hollywood, jack nicholson, jon voight, language, las vegas, nicolas provost, real life, star, structure
|
