This is a piece by my friend Alexa. Aside from being the driving force behind a really fantastic Columbus based artistic collective, Veritas Art Collective, she also is a fantastic dancer.
Cinders Rising from Deb Gregory on Vimeo.
Choreographed and performed by Alex Rittichier. Original music by Leora Gardner.
What exactly constitutes a "piece of art"? Can a tree be a piece of art? A photograph? A film? How about a website or a blog?
In this case, Erin Loechner and Christa Jonathan launched This Is Home , a blog that has successfully solicited one sentence answers to the question "what is home"?
Mark Warren Jacques is a Portland based visual artist.
Mark seems to me to be the perfect example of the new Romantic movement that seems to be emerging in the visual arts. The trend is typified by the use of simplistic form and a striking combination use of color. Often the artist uses, the two to convey pseudo -religiously themed subject matter.
His Website
The idea of pairing video as a compliment to poetry is not new. Nor is this particular take on the combination of the two; it seems the video creates a plausible scene in which the poet, or speaker, have come to their particular feeling and, thus, what I would like to call the "atmosphere" of the poem.
What I find interesting about this video is the fact that it seems to be used as a device for marketing a collection of poems (as evidence, consider the we address at the end of the video).
It is an interesting sort of question to ask how people in general decide which sorts of books they choose to read or consume.
There is a realist point here that if poems can be sucessfully marketed via poem and video then no small to medium sized publishing house can afford to miss out on what is really very inexpensive marketing.
As a jury member for the Columbus International Film Festival Social Issues catagory I have been seeing ALOT of documentaries lately. I have been meaning to post a couple of them on here.
One in particular that grabbed my attention is called "A Snow Mobile for George."
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Kevork Mourad, despite the fact that he is a painter, often works with musician in the creation of his paintings.
Here is an example of his work:
Here is his website.
Issues Project Room is an innovative, exciting gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Last month, they custom-built a 15 channel hemispherical speaker system and produced what they called the Floating Points Festival. The festival featured Hisham Bharoocha, Morton Subotnick, Stephen Vitiello, Zeena Parkins, Suzanne Thorpe, C. Spencer Yeh, and Tony Conrad.
Here is a picture of some of the speakers:
Here is a great review of this years festival from blogger Obscene Jester.
Here is another review from Avant Music News.
Paddle to the Sea is a classic of childrens cinema from the late sixties. It follows the adventures of a small wooden boat from central Canada all the way to the Ocean thousands of miles away. In the process, he meets all sorts of adventures.
It is delivered in three installments:
Online journals for literature, in my opinion, have yet to live up to their potential. Remember when blogs first took off? There was so much optimism about the free, and cheap, dissemination of information.
It was more democratic, internet enthusiasts argued, for media to be spread so cheaply. Well, that may or may not be true (it seems to me that the high quality reporting of almost every major newspaper has been sacrificed in the last 5 years due to the cheap cost of accessing information causing a limiting, not expansion, of high quality journalism.
Coconut Poetry is a monthly online poetry journal that lives up to the hype of the internet and delivers consistent, diverse poetry month after month.
Here you can find more.
The Falcon from The Shamptonian Institute on Vimeo.
The Falcon is a steampunk stop-motion film in HD that stars Professor Weston (ISO 50), Silly Patty (+2/-2 EV) and 'Howell' the Owl (f/256), as they journey throughout the Focal Kingdom searching for dinner. The Falcon is composed entirely of macro-photographed hardware pieces from disassembled vintage/antique cameras and features music from eslmusic.com artist Thunderball, with sound design by Bret Johnson.
From A.gfa to Z.eiss, and whatever your (small, medium or large) format, The Falcon has a perspective for everyone. Visit thefalcon.tv for the full story/synopsis.
Special appearance by: the Aperturians, and Howell's wife Bell. Partial list of parts: Falcon Minette, Argus AF & C3, Mercury II, Yashica TL, assorted Weston Light Meters, various Polaroid Land Cameras.
Fazil Say is an amazing Turkish Piano player that combines modal techniques with an acute sense of beauty and fragility.
He has said elsewhere that he composed this while walking through a crowded fair. The experience of this piece is immediate and emotional, but some how mediated; as though the memories' recount of events that were either too painful or to wonderful to record.
For those that are unfamiliar, Alain De Botton is a New York Times best selling author of works such as "How Proust Can Change Your Life" and probably the best known philosopher of a movement of philosophers that are attempting to make Philosophy (capital P) relevant to real life without sacrificing intellectual astuteness.
Here, Botton, is exploring what seems to be Dutch village... except for one thing... it is in Japan.
Website.
There are music labels and then there MUSIC LABELS. Numero is a label that prides itself on it's obscureness and, in a way that is almost forgotten, that labels at one point represented a certain kind of endorsement and the label that a particular artist found themselves on directly reflected on the quality (or lack of quality) of the band.
Numero is refreshing and exciting. It will be interesting to see if they can create a sustainable business model with this sort of idealistic vision. Without any further ado, let me introduce you to the Numero Eccentric Group:
note: the text below is taken directly from their webpage.
"Anything but another record label. Please, we don't need another one of those clogging up the bins. Accountants with coke habits, lawyers using Pitchfork as a tip sheet, 60 year-old executives awkwardly trying to converse with 17 year-old groupies. Marketing meetings. Junior VP's.
Enter the Numero Group. Founded by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shipley in 2003, the three self-proclaimed "record obsessives" decided to approach the record business backwards. No corporate hierarchy; no company stationary. Just a big pile of music that no one had ever heard of.
The mission was simple: to dig deep into the recesses of our record collections with the goal of finding the dustiest gems begging to be released from their exile on geek street. No longer would $500 singles sit in a temperature-controlled room dying for a chance to be played. No more would the artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who made these records happen go unknown and unappreciated.
Numero releases are sound with substance, living at the nexus of song and story. Scrupulously researched, painstakingly re-mastered, and with an attention to detail that is unmatched in the reissue field, the end result is a top-of-the-line compact disc.
There is no "Numero" sound; instead, Numero offers an aesthetic. A shelf of Numero discs feels less like a "record collection" and more like a library. The library to date is a mix of thrift shop soul, skinny tie pop, Belizean funk, and hillbilly gospel. Numero makes records for people who may have everything from indigenous Central American drumming to Canadian chanteuses stacked next to their CD players."
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