Mike Brodie…feverishly document[ed] their grubby and exhilarating existence on the roofs of freight trains and on the banks of the railroads.
much more, here.
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Plastic Surgery. A photo essay for Little Brother Magazine No. 2 by Natasa Kajganic partnered with text by Natalie Zina Walschots.
Marcel Dzama, ‘A Game Of Chess’
Marcel Dzama, ‘A Game Of Chess’
“He’s 78, smokes two packs a day, and doesn’t give a damn what you think.”
That’s our boss Lewis Lapham and the vice he’s indulged in consistently for 61 years. As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, Lewis discusses his love affair with cigarettes with a psychiatrist at The Standard, East Village this Wednesday, April 29th, from 9-10pm (doors open at 8!)
Tickets are available here.
The Psychedelic Films of James and John Whitney, 1950-72
Yantra looks like computer animation but is, in fact, the result of almost ten years of meticulous drawing and painting. To achieve a look that seemed computer generated, James Whitney used various complex methods, including solarisation, colour filters, mask techniques, optical printers, single hand drawings, multiple exposure and mirror effects. For the first time in film history, Whitney created synthesizer music for the soundtrack.
James Whitney constructed this astonishing masterpiece Yantra by punching grid patterns in 5”x7” cards with a pin, and then painting through these pinholes onto other 5”x7” cards images of rich complexity and dynamism. Yantra is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘implement’ or ‘machine’. But you do not need to know anything about esoteric philosophies to see directly, and appreciate, the majestic visual transformations that happen in the film - from gentle flickers between frames of pure white and black with no image at all, to seething masses of hundreds of points of light, each seeming to revolve in its own circuit.
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You can watch Yantra here and Matrix here.
(Source: frenchtwist, via bbook)
The Psychedelic Films of James and John Whitney, 1950-72
Yantra looks like computer animation but is, in fact, the result of almost ten years of meticulous drawing and painting. To achieve a look that seemed computer generated, James Whitney used various complex methods, including solarisation, colour filters, mask techniques, optical printers, single hand drawings, multiple exposure and mirror effects. For the first time in film history, Whitney created synthesizer music for the soundtrack.
James Whitney constructed this astonishing masterpiece Yantra by punching grid patterns in 5”x7” cards with a pin, and then painting through these pinholes onto other 5”x7” cards images of rich complexity and dynamism. Yantra is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘implement’ or ‘machine’. But you do not need to know anything about esoteric philosophies to see directly, and appreciate, the majestic visual transformations that happen in the film - from gentle flickers between frames of pure white and black with no image at all, to seething masses of hundreds of points of light, each seeming to revolve in its own circuit.
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You can watch Yantra here and Matrix here.
(Source: frenchtwist, via bbook)
During the chaos and oppression of China’s Cultural Revolution, one curious new theatrical and operatic genre was born — and it was the child of the Communist Party.
Photos: Zhang Yaxin/Courtesy of the see Gallery, Beijing and the Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.
