Somehow I hadn’t heard that over the last ten years, Kenneth Anger has returned to film making. His Wikipedia page, however, lists no less than twelve new films since 2000, not counting this one…
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I expect that this will be all over the place in the wake of Jarvis Cocker’s show from Port Eliot at the weekend. If it isn’t, it ought to be.
Coates, with specialist wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample, recorded birdsong, slowed it down by a factor of twenty and then had his subjects sing the bird’s call, and accelerated the results back up to birdsong speed. Most compelling. Good with headphones.
(Also, how can this possibly not be related to anything else here, as the preview is presently advising me?)
Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world | Video on TED.com.
You’ve probably seen this linked in a dozen places already, but this draft post isn’t going to improve with age…
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More slo-mo goodness. I must say I’m not over-keen on the soundtrack, but if you are, it’s over here.
(via 3quarksdaily)
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few months ago, we had a hot lead towards immersive 3-D fractals (see Meet the Mandelbulbs) and now we have animations thereof…
Music by The Formula (there’s only a slightly alarming message loop on the link at the time of thiis posting), images by subblue (whose other efforts are worth exploring).
Also of related interest, the ferrofluid sculptures of slightly longer ago…
via Bruce Sterling.
Peter Kennard’s photomontage work was everywhere in the early to mid-80s, but I haven’t seen his name about for years. He hasn’t lost his touch.
(via the publics – who describe Kennard, Steve Bell and Banksy as contemporaries, which is a bit of a stretch, but never mind)
enthusemarc, twittering