Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Exit Music For a Film
Choral cover of the Radiohead song
Well that’s pretty dope.
in keeping with my general policy of always reblogging Radiohead covers
1,852 playsphoto project idea
I find the concept and manifestation of scale fascinating. Anish Kapoor’s sculpture is arresting because of the way it overwhelms the spaces it occupies. Similarly, Edward Burtynsky’s photography is affective because of the way it elides or sharply emphasizes scale; the immensity of his canvases, and the concomitant immensity of his subjects, envelope the viewer in his images.
With these ideas in mind, I want to create a print series which will envelop and overwhelm the viewer. I imagine multiple canvases, around two and a half by six feet each, featuring extreme closeups of firearms. I want to overawe the viewer with symbols of aggression, and I want every little detail, down to serial numbers engraved on slides and bits of grit in handgrips, to be available for absorption.
To put it bluntly, such a project won’t be cheap. Edmonton people, if you know any galleries who would be interested in this kind of work, do put me in contact.
I don’t know why this idea came to me, but it feels right, in the way that some things just do.
Throughout the mid to late 1970s and upwards, Hiroshi Sugimoto packed up a folding 4x5 camera & tripod, surreptitiously entered matinees (and, one can only presume, evening film events) and documented the interior of movie theatres across the United States - invoking a classic procedure borrowed from Conceptual Art. He would open the shutter just before the ‘first light’ hit the screen and close it after the credits finished rolling and before the house lights came on. Using this method he was able to invert the subject/object relationship of the movie theatre and use the film itself to illuminate the proscenium and interior. This content, largely unaddressed critically, is what lends the images their incredible power - along wtih the natural fascination of being made privy to the photography’s divine birthright - allowing us to see the normall invisible - to experience a finite collapse of time.
(via girlfriday13th)
(Trigger warning: rape, molestation)
Thoughts on the invisible issue of male-on-male sexual predation and the preservation of Joe Paterno.
do read this, it’s enormously incisive
I Got 99 Problems But A Linguistic Reminder Of The Inequal Cultural Capital Of Women, And Especially Women Of Colour, Ain’t One
Accent theme by Handsome Code
My name is Dan. I live in Edmonton. Sometimes I take pictures. Sometimes I draw things. I like cars and photography and science. You can talk to me on Twitter or ask me a question.
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