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Duku Spacemarines (by La Mécanique Du Plastique) (via boulecorp)

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:32:17 -0400

Duku Spacemarines (by La Mécanique Du Plastique) (via boulecorp)

Patti Smith: Advice to the young (by Louisiana Channel)

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:02:01 -0400

Patti Smith: Advice to the young (by Louisiana Channel)

Frenzy of Exultations Władysław Podkowiński

Thu, 30 May 2013 11:05:49 -0400

Frenzy of Exultations Władysław Podkowiński

ISAAC SKINATAS strikes once more: The Unemployment School of Photography.

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:11:45 -0400

ISAAC SKINATAS strikes once more: The Unemployment School of Photography.:

skinatas:

In those days, you were repeatedly pushing your electronic devices’ buttons and mumbling incantations while smoking yesterday’s dank THC filled doobie. In between two lethargic exhalations, Photography’s divinity spoke to you with an ô so celestial monotonous voice: “Become a Photographer!…

This is a project about the exploitation of the natural...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:21:23 -0400

This is a project about the exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America. Rather than benefit from natural resources abundance and wealth, local people living in areas of exploitation have experienced loss of livelihoods, health problems, human rights violations and environmental degradation. The pictures included in this body of work were made in Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina between 2008 and 2012.

(via RICHLAND (2008 - 2012) : Gustavo Jononovich)

Dishonesty described in a non Manichaen way (from RSA)

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:08:00 -0400

Dishonesty described in a non Manichaen way (from RSA)

"At Stanford University, nine men and eight women with no formal music training listened to obscure..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:13:14 -0400

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At Stanford University, nine men and eight women with no formal music training listened to obscure classical music (four symphonies by late-baroque composer William Boyce) while lying inside fMRI machines. The researchers used a type of imaging that let them examine all different areas of the brain over the entire time that the participants were listening to the recording.

To ensure that the brain activity they were mapping was in response to the music as a whole, and not just to one of its structural features, the researchers also had the subjects listen to altered versions of the symphonies: in one, all rhythm and timing was removed, and in the other, they were made atonal.

During the nine and a half minutes that the subjects spent listening to the music in its unadulterated form, the researchers noted a “highly distinctive and distributed set of brain regions” that was synchronized between each them. In the music from which some of the elements that make it musical were removed, on the other hand, brain activity was markedly different from subject to subject.

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- Study suggests a universal brain response to music. Still, just because you respond to it doesn’t mean you know how to listen to it – here’s a vintage guide to the art of listening well. (via explore-blog)

Interview Sluban

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:56:56 -0400

Age13 : Quel regard portez-vous sur cette période de crise actuelle ?
K-S : La crise est bénéfique. Elle montre qu’il n’y a pas un seul créneau valable. Toutes les directions sont exploitables. Quoi que l’on fasse, il faudra payer de sa personne. Alors, à partir de là, autant faire quelque chose qui nous tient à cœur. De toute façon, je suis toujours en crise. Je suis en crise depuis que je suis né.
Ce qui pose problème aujourd’hui, c’est cette facilité qu’il y a dans la réalisation d’une photographie. Avant, pour être photographe, il fallait aussi être artisan. Maintenant, les gens pensent qu’ils sont photographes du moment où ils ont réalisé 3000 clichés de l’anniversaire de leur neveu. Tout ceci est un leurre. Cette facilité ne donne pas lieu à de la qualité. Pour devenir photographe, il faut éduquer son œil et connaître son medium.

http://ourageis13.com/rencontres/portraits/klavdij-sluban-autour-de-la-mer-noire/

Magnum Photo’s Christopher Anderson on QTV. On Documentary...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:26:56 -0400

Magnum Photo’s Christopher Anderson on QTV. On Documentary photography and subjectivity.

(via BONESHAKER Have a little talk with Jesus)

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:17:58 -0400

(via BONESHAKER Have a little talk with Jesus)

"Yes, his work is powerful but he’s presenting it as photojournalism and documentary. That comes with..."

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:18:00 -0500

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Yes, his work is powerful but he’s presenting it as photojournalism and documentary. That comes with a huge responsibility and expectation. It is sad, really, that Pellegrin chose to do these things. Even without your photograph and its misrepresentation, there are people in Rochester (including me) who question his heavy-handed depiction of the real problems and issues that exist in the city. Our profession isn’t just about making pretty pictures that win awards but about making powerful photographs that may win awards because they reveal something authentic.

UPDATE:

Mr. Pellegrin, who spoke with Lens on Friday, said he could not understand how he could be accused of an ethical breach and not be given the chance to defend himself. “It seems somewhat strange to me that while mounting a purported journalistic high horse they themselves did not follow the basic tenets of fair and professional journalism,” he said in a statement.

Later, in a telephone interview, he said he stood by the photograph and never claimed that it was taken in the Crescent, but that it was part of an attempt to explore gun culture within the larger context of his project. He said the information for the description for the series that was taken from The Times was never meant to be published, but had been provided as background information. He also said he was unsure if he misunderstood Mr. Keller’s military background, but had done a portrait of him while he was going to a local shooting range.

Pellegrin’s answer on NYT lensblog

UPDATE2: On NPPA with a more extensive answer by Pellegrin

https://nppa.org/node/36604

UPDATE3: Discussion goes on as to whether Pellegrin is a journalist or not (PDN)

http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/world-press-hits-pellegrin-with-wet-noodle-and-other-contest-scandals.html

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- When Reality Isn’t Dramatic Enough: Misrepresentation in a World Press and Picture of the Year Winning Photo — BagNews

Pellegrin’s answer on NYT lensblog

Tom Waits - Got Rained On His Own 38

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:42:49 -0500

Tom Waits - Got Rained On His Own 38

"Stanley Kubrick: Yes, for those who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very..."

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:00:36 -0500

“Stanley Kubrick: Yes, for those who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre (a keen enjoyment of living), their idealism - and their assumption of immortality. As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong - and lucky - he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan (enthusiastic and assured vigour and liveliness). Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfilment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”

- Stanley Kubrick - Interviews (p. 73) - edited by Gene D. Phillips. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2001

"W. Eugene Smith - An interview by Philippe Halsmann I didn’t write the rules — why should I follow..."

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:06:15 -0500

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W. Eugene Smith - An interview by Philippe Halsmann

I didn’t write the rules — why should I follow them? Since I put a great deal of time and research to know what I am about? I ask and arrange if I feel it is legitimate. The honesty lies in my — the photographer’s — ability to understand.

Q. Why do you print your own pictures? A. The same reason a great writer doesn’t turn his draft over to a secretary… I will retouch.

Avedon said that there are three steps in making a photograph: first the taking of the pictures, then the darkroom work, then the retouching. He showed me one unretouched picture in which the girl’s skirt fell straight; in the final version it was flying out.

Q. What if nobody sees it? Besides a few friends?

A. Answer this and you will see how artists have acted throughout the bloody ages. The goal is the work itself.

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- http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/w-eugene-smith-i-didnt-write-the-rules-why-should-i-follow-them/)

Diary work getting in line for final edit -finally!-

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:05:22 -0500

Diary work getting in line for final edit -finally!-

Tree Of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick. Music by Zbigniew...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:09:00 -0500

Tree Of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick. Music by Zbigniew Preisner: Requiem for my friend (1998)

(via PICTURE PROJECTS _ Farewell to Bosnia) An interesting web...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:30:27 -0500

(via PICTURE PROJECTS _ Farewell to Bosnia) An interesting web presentation based on Peress’ Farewell to Bosnia

Historia de Lisboa - Madredeus - 1994 (Wim Wenders)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:36:00 -0500

Historia de Lisboa - Madredeus - 1994 (Wim Wenders)

Friedrich Gulda - Cello Concerto (1/5) - Overture Friedrich...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:19:08 -0500

Friedrich Gulda - Cello Concerto (1/5) - Overture

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 27 January 2000) was an Austrian pianist who performed in both the classical and jazz fields.

To understand the world is to understand in what it is able...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:03:00 -0500

To understand the world is to understand in what it is able to be transformed’ (B.Bretch)