installing picnurbia 08/30/2011
I had fun making a little time-lapse video of the installation process of PICNURBIA on August 9th, 2011 in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery. From the Loose Affiliates website: PICNURBIA. The Yellow Picnic Wave. In the summer, Vancouverites leave their neighbourhoods and head to the beach, thereby inhabiting the edge of the city. PICNURBIA suggests an alternative to this exodus, creating an inland zone for people to gather and picnic in the heart of downtown. At PICNURBIA, the summer act of picnicking is heightened by an über–picnic-blanket. This undulating landscape provides spaces for people to hang out and play in alternative formations, providing a new experience of urban picnicking. PICNURBIA offers space for people to come together, relax and watch. Inserted into the urban downtown neighbourhood, a community where people already live, work and visit, the site is intended to become an easily inhabited summer zone, where people may gather to enjoy the long summer days. PICNURBIA is designed to offer an ‘on-the-block’ amenity where people can drop by on purpose or stumble upon more informally as they walk or bike home. This will establish PICNURBIA as a summer node, carried on mouth-to-mouth, “Let’s meet at PICNURBIA” Picnurbia is realised in collaboration with Viva Vancouver and is supported by SYNLawn, suppliers of PICNURBIA's vibrant yellow turf. Loose Affiliates | looseaffiliates.com Viva Vancouver | vancouver.ca/viva SYNLawn | synlawn.com/ music: This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody) - The Talking Heads filmed/edited by:krista jahnke kristajahnke.com Add Comment my philosopher 06/19/2011
Slavoj Žižek is my favourite modern philosopher. He sugar coats nothing and never apologizes for it. Respect for honesty. ______________________________________________________________  Slavoj Zizek: the world’s hippest philosopher Slavoj Žižek has got an opinion on every subject from decaffeinated coffee to sex, from seagulls and swearing to the end of the world. He talks to Helen Brown. June 19, 2011 Flapping his elbows and lathered in sweat, Slavoj Žižek looks like a man in the final throes of radiation sickness doing the birdy dance. But the world’s hippest philosopher is actually miming what he imagines it would feel like to be trapped inside an all-body condom. “I saw this thing in an American store!” he explodes, lurching towards me in the quiet conservatory of a Bloomsbury hotel. “A total mask for the body! The ultimate in safe sex! So obscene! My God! But I do believe that by analysing this sort of phenomena you learn a lot about where we are. We want coffee without caffeine! Cake without sugar! And this is decaffeinated sex!” click here to continue reading.. __________________________________________________________ The article mentions Žižek's film The Pervert's Guide To Cinema (2006), I saw this a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. He brings up a lot of points that opened my eyes a little bit wider. Worth checking out..if you're into thinking..and I hope you are. triple feature 05/01/2011
This graphic, movie poster-style animation goes through Stanley Kubrick's film career This is the intro for The Beatles Rock Band that I just saw for the first time and think it's SO good! BEATLES Rock Band from alberto mielgo on Vimeo. message in a... 12/10/2010
First of all, I've always been a fan of stop motion. Second of all, I love it when simple things can speak volumes. Check out the short, "Bottle", by Kirsten Lepore. It's just simply, great. ♥♥♥ a short short 11/22/2010
I was reminded of Clifford, starring Martin Short, last night after seeing "The Lonely Guy" with Steve Martin and Charles Grodin and promptly fed my film addiction. The following is one of the many funny highlights of this movie... It makes me laugh every time. slow mo float 05/25/2010
That floating bag gets me every time. with Werner Herzog's spot-on narration as an added bonus.. I wish I could show this to everyone who questioned why I went to school for Architecture then Photography, as if they were unrelated and isolated. For me, the marriage is obvious. The artist is Alex Roman Check out his The Third & The Seventh website. "A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view, where main subjects are already- built spaces" click here to see what other people are saying.. psst...It's best if you watch it full screen gimme a break 01/12/2010
so I just watched this trailer for ♥ Valentine's Day ♥ ...starring Julia Roberts' laugh. No surprise since the director is Garry Marshall, the same one from Pretty Woman. I didn't realize 'Julia Roberts' is still a name that sells, did I miss something? This movie is clearly a cliché knock off of Love Actually, the feel-good British Christmas comedy. Say that five times fast. not just about BABIES 01/11/2010
I've never been one to goo goo gaa gaa in a baby's face but this documentary looks like it'll be about learning foreign cultures and family traditions, not just cute squishy babies. Judging by the trailer, BABIES, looks like it will be visually interesting, creating attractive and intriguing imagery of both urban and rural landscapes. song from trailer: The Perpetual Self, Or What Would Saul Alinky Do - Sufjan Steves (The Avalanche 2006) Amazing Mr. Anderson 12/06/2009
 Fantastic Mr. Fox movie poster. Cross-section technique used by Wes Anderson. I went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox last week (and also may have sneaked into Pirate Radio after... don't bother with this one) and thought it was, er, fantastic. Wes Anderson has successfully created his own visual style that can be seen in both his animated and non films. Visually his movies are appealing, with their combination of new and old so the audience never really knows what time period they're watching. His characters seem to be caught in the highlight moments of their lives, see Richie Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums. What stands out about Anderson, to me, is his attention to detail in set design, dialogue and the idiosyncrasies given to each character. He achieves these through awkward pauses, mannerisms and honest, innocent, dead-pan expression. Yet, the humour still comes through. A notable feature of Anderson's films is his cinematography style. Particularly the use of straight on shots, which helps to give the impression of stage productions. I often think of how Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was shot, using cross section views of the movement and interiors of the Belafonte, Zissou's research vessel. Before this movie, I don't remember seeing this technique used and it's visually stunning. After doing some research I found that this was done as an homage to the 1972 film Tout va bien, where the same technique was used, the film being set in a sausage factory. And this movie was a nod to the 1961 Jerry Lewis movie The Ladies Man, reputedly the largest indoor set built by Paramount, the house having sixty rooms. By panning through the spaces you get a sense of the architecture of set design and see the structure of continuity in both dialogue and experience. Fantastic Mr. Fox, of course, is an ideal situation to use such technique since the story takes place above and below ground. In this movie the use of straight on shots act like elevations drawings, which also become well composed film stills from a photographic perspective. In this movie the camera work puts the animals in an ant farm-like perspective, where we're watching from the other side of the glass.       | krista + blog = klog
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