Showing posts with label studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studio. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

bookshelf



Get a pocket computer
Try to do what you used to do yeah

Saturday, 30 March 2013

decrepitude

In 1865 Baudelaire writes to Manet, in an ambiguous compliment, that he is the first in the‘decrepitude’ of his art.

Charles Baudelaire, Correspondance, Paris 1973, vol. 2, p. 497.


The quality or condition of being weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.

Friday, 4 January 2013

techniques of ecstasy


 Reification, the Marxist scholar Tom Bottomore writes, is the “most radical and widespread form of alienation characteristic of modern capitalist society,” the transformation of “human properties, relations and actions into properties, relations and actions of man-produced things which have become independent of man and govern his life

the cowboy philosopher

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

zwischenspiel

Marker 1 00:00:00:00
Empty, brown, wooden chair facing camera. Some pale paint marks on the chair. The background is a white room, a drip of paint on the wall to the upper right. Sticks lean into the wall at an angle behind the chair.

so what are you thinking?

Marker 2 00:02:30:00 traffic sounds
Figure framed head and shoulders against white wall. Single pin in wall upper left, pencil line marks a level. Shot angled upwards. Head three-quarters turned to right. Chin raised, eyes looking out of frame downwards to right. Brows furrowed.

press record as you're playing

Marker 3 00:05:00:00
Entreaty/ emphasis.
Seated figure framed centrally in shot. Left hand extended palm upwards .
Direct eye contact. Light falls obliquely from the window to the right bleaching the left side of the face.
Drips on wall, trailing electric cables, blue painted panel to right of shot.

do what I'm doing right now