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One of the world’s longest exposures ever. For 6 months between the winter and summer solstice, Justin Quinnell left open his homemade pinhole camera. The lowest arc shows the first day of exposure on the winter solstice, the top curves were captured in the middle of summer.
(via: ptrbkr)
Merkel said the International Monetary Fund has not managed to regulate global capitalism, and she called for the creation of an economy body at the United Nations, similar to the Security Council, to judge government policy.
this is a wickedly long link trail… @mcaphoto > You Ain’t No Picasso > Pitchfork.tv > Vimeo. ok, it wasn’t that long…
(video by Jade Harris, band Blitzen Trapper)
Dinner with America – Essays, Films, Images and Conversations by Rajni Shah
This sumptuous full-colour booklet includes previously unpublished writing by Rajni Shah as well as a new series of collaborative images made with Lucille Acevedo-Jones, Lucy Cash and Manuel Vason, and writing by Chris Goode and Mary Paterson. All texts and images are designed to illuminate both the core and outlying ideas explored in the performance installation Dinner with America and gently explore the question ‘What does ‘America’ mean to us today?’
Each booklet includes a copy of the DVD (PAL) of Three Short Films about Dinner with America by Lucy Cash featuring the films Voices in Transit: Amazing Grace (September 2007), Dinner with America (December 2007) and Uncertain Landmarks (March 2008).
a reading from Terence McKenna set to the music of Teflon Child (via mwesch)
avay:
Thankful for museum memberships to get me out of long lines, and anxious to see what all the fuss was about, I finally went to MoMA the other day to view Pipilotti Rist’s Pour Your Body Out, a multimedia interactive piece commissioned by MoMA, site-specific to the atrium on the 2nd floor. What resulted from the collaboration between Swiss visual artist, Rist, and MoMA is a very beautiful film that, in my mind, is about regeneration. Various elements and stages of being are depicted; the body interacts with properties of death and the cultivation of life through death…sort of.
Anyway, in the center of the atrium ia an enormous couch for visitors to lounge on, surrounded by projections of the film on all of the walls surrounding it. Visitors are encouraged to sing, dance, and react to the piece in any manner. The mission statement tells us that it is meant to get us in the mood for the rest of the art one is about to view in the rest of the museum. I went just to see this. It was enough for one day; absolutely wonderful.
I could have sat there all day. The kid friendly atmosphere would have gotten to me after awhile—I got a knee to the head once or twice, but couldn’t help but think it awesome that these kids get to experience a little of the avant-garde and taboo at such a young age—breasts, menstruation, feral animalistic behavior, dirt, garbage, sexuality; all of those elements interacting.
It is an entirely visceral as well as visual and aural experience. It fits the space perfectly. The beauty of MoMA’s structure interacts so brilliantly with the colors and aesthetics of the film. It’s only viewable until the end of February, so if you can check it out, do so before it’s too late!
i so need to find me a storm trooper suit. Tokyo Dance Trooper in Shibuya (via tokyostormtrooper)
out of all the crazy footage i shot this past year, it looks like one of my election night videos made 20/20’s year in review. warning, this video contains graphic violence and police committing deplorable acts.
