Space Monkey
Posted by Fabio 11 May 2010
Created as a collaboration between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ben Lee and Leo Burnett, “Space Monkey” carries a message about our planet, and features Ben Lee’s track, “Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe”. read more
Stuck in a Groove / Phonovideo
Posted by Fabio 10 May 2010
Phonovideo by Austrian filmmaker and graphic designer Clemens Kogler, is a VJ tool or visual instrument used to display animations in an analog way without the help of a computer. “Stuck in a Groove” is the first film made with this technique, it serves also as a demo for the technique . In the future phonovideo should be used for live performances in cooperations with musicians, performancers and other artists.
www.clemenskogler.net
Beatriz Milhazes
Posted by Fabio 10 May 2010
Beatriz Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. She studied the Curso de Comunicacao Social, Facha, Brazil from 1978 to 1981 and School of Visual Arts, Parque Lage, Brazil from 1980 to 1982. read more
The International Dada Archive
Posted by Fabio 10 May 2010
Beautiful Archive of Dada publications gathered by the University of Iowa. The Archive includes materials in all formats that have been cataloged for the collection, including books, essays in books, periodical articles, manuscripts, sound and videorecordings, and other media related to the Dada movement and to the individual dadaists. read more
Chemical Brothers – SWOON
Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010
The Chemical Brothers official release of the first track from their forthcoming seventh studio album Further. Swoon was directed by the band’s longtime collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall aka Flat Nosed George.
Catalog 1961
Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010
John Whitney’s demo reel of work created with his analog computer/film camera magic machine he built from a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight. Also Whitney and the techniques he developed with this machine were what inspired Douglas Trumbull (special fx wizard) to use the slit scan technique on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
György Kepes – Vision + Value
Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010
György Kepes (October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974. read more
When You’re Strange – A Film About The Doors
Posted by Fabio 7 May 2010
The first feature documentary about The Doors comprised of entirely unseen archival footage. Narrated by Johnny Depp and directed by Tom DiCillo.