For reasons I can’t figure out, Brandeis University is in such dire financial straights that the university has decided to sell its famed art collection housed in the Rose Art Museum.
The university is taking the line that its core mission is to educate its students, but isn’t artwork a learning tool and resource? And is [...]
For all the craziness and chaos of cities, or at least that is how we sometimes feel about them, their aural representation is consistently rhythmic, repetitious, and with a strong beat. Specifically, scores to visual representations of cities–and here I am mainly thinking of film–are never random or noise-based, but have an industrial (in the [...]
Also tagged cities, Goldie, Man with a Movie Camera, Music, noise, soundtracks, Trey ReynoldsIn early January, I went to New York with my mom for two days to visit museums. One of the days I visited the Guggenheim’s “Russia!” exhibit. Unfortunately, they did not have many postcards or affordable prints of the pieces I liked most, so I thought I would post the images I could find online [...]
Also tagged mom, NYCFirst, let’s note my word creativity in the title. While nothing is original, I don’t recall seeing this before. Google tells us this is a relatively unused word (thankfully?).
Second, the reason I post is a now-old entry on Engadget. The post is short, so I’ll quote it in its entirety:
Instead of standing around using the [...]
In the current issue of Wired, Jason Silverman writes:
Michela Ledwidge wants her film to be more than watchable. She wants it to be remixable. By February, the director plans to post all of the raw material for Sanctuary, her 10-minute sci-fi movie about a girl, her computer, and a mysterious murder, on www.modfilms.com. Expect nearly [...]