My Funny Valentine (2006, 15.1MB, 2:55 min)
Video by Michael Szpakowski.
The singer is his daughter, Anna Szpakowska.
(Michael playing the piano).
..and a happy Valentine’s Day to all from us at DVblog.org
My Funny Valentine (2006, 15.1MB, 2:55 min)
Video by Michael Szpakowski.
The singer is his daughter, Anna Szpakowska.
(Michael playing the piano).
..and a happy Valentine’s Day to all from us at DVblog.org
Untitled Iowa (2007, 31MB, 5:57 min)
Gorgeous & deft chunk of Americana from Aaron Valdez
with all the Hoppery, Wyethy, Portery &c nods
but nonetheless standing nicely on its own feet
For my taste that high reverby modal piano(?)
tiptoes along the border of clich
Brooklyn Snow Storm (2006, 4.7 MB, 1:02 min.)
From scratchvideo.tv. drums: Robin Russell.
Brooklyn, New York. Outside my kitchen window.
Sunday, February 12, 2006. 3:30pm until 4pm.
Em um campo do trabalho que
japanese tradition sushi (2003, 30MB, 8:08 min.)
from – del.icio.us
For Sore Eyes (2006, 23MB, 2:17 min)
I like this (though what I mean by that is sort of provisional; read on)
& also it, the piece, bothers me a lot.
I watched it once, context free, then I read a statement Anders Weberg supplied*
and quite honestly still felt pretty context free, and it’s that very elusiveness
which makes me say I like this and it’s that very elusiveness
which makes me say this bothers me, a lot.
Questions:
# Is the woman drowning, fighting for breath?
# If she is drowning & we find the film in some sense beautiful
are we then complicit in something terrible?
# Or is she frolicking in the water & does the slo-moness &
the sound mislead or, perhaps, just lead us.
# Is the footage appropriated or was it shot especially?
# If yes, was it slow in the original?
# Was the image treated in any way other than (possibly) being slowed down?
# Did either the music or the sound come with the original?
# Either way, is the provenance of music & sound different?
# It sounds like the sound really is the sound of something
(perhaps something terrible, I don’t like to think) happening underwater.
Is it?
# Is there a general lightening of tone just before the end?
# Does she free herself from the water?
# Is she now safe?
# We’re happy because she’s safe. Does this feeling
in us represent a cop out by either filmaker ( if there
are two, the original & the appropriator), a failure to follow
through,a failure of nerve?
# Or is she just leaping from her frolicking in the water,
shaking it from her hair in a kind of elemental ecstacy?
# Why is everything so dark?
# If everything is OK why is everything so dark?
*‘For Sore Eyes is another exploration of the ambivalence of the male
gaze and gendered (dis)order.
It is a suggestive reflection of life in the
pyrotechnic insanitarium of consumerism freedom.
But what really is freedom?’
Big I/O Brush (2004, 4.2MB, 2 min.)
‘I/O Bursh’ is a project of the Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab.
georgian songs (2006, 18MB, 2:20 min.)
“The character with the large false nose & moustache, represents the stereotyped
image that Russians have of Georgians – loud, speaking with a heavy accent and
with much hand waving. Nonetheless this image represents something serious which
can’t be seen from afar.”
thanks Genia.
1Z0-803
High and Dry Trailer (2003, 8.6MB, 1:53 min.)
Trailer for what looks like a really neat film about the Tucson music scene.
Main attraction of this trailer for me is that it features the God-like genius of Howe Gelb.
but I’m sure it has other merits too.
The Human Browser (2006, 29.7MB, 8:18 min)
Documentation recorded at last year’s transmediale in Berlin
of a quite marvellous project by Christopher Bruno which
just won the share festival & most deservedly too.
It’s a fantastic blend of technology, performance & a kind of ‘information poetry’.
In many hands it could have been smart but dullish, but this is joyous stuff.
There’s a whole load of videos up on the human browser site
& they all have their particular delights.
Bruno’s short project description goes:
Human Browser is a series of wireless Internet performances
based on a Wi-Fi Google hack.
Thanks to its headset, the actor hears a text-to-speech
audio that comes directly from the Internet in real-time.
The actor repeats the text as he hears it.
The textual flow is actually fetched by a program
(set up on a Wi-Fi laptop) that hijacks Google,
diverting it from its utilitarian functions.
Depending on the context in which the actor is,
keywords are sent to the program and used as
search strings in Google (thanks to a Wi-Fi PDA)
so that the content of the textual flow is always
related to the context.
The performer in this video is Manon Kahle.
A good deal of the charm of this project
is due to the “performances” of the actors which are
highly professional but also very human too.
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Great stuff!