Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
These fantastical, one could say phantasmagorical, images of New Orleans as taken by Frank Relle are post-Katrina documents of what’s been left behind, abandoned, and in some cases simply overgrown in Relle’s hometown.
I’ll be visiting New Orleans sometime in early January and I’m psyched to see this city, as unfortunate as the situation is – although I don’t think I’ll quite have the lenses embedded into my eyes that Relle sees the world through. (I think there are things you can ingest to achieve these effects however)
[compare with Robert Polidori's After the Flood images]
Monday, December 10th, 2007
After all these years, I’m still undecided about my definition of the Internet: it could be one of the greatest inventions ever, capable of archiving so much accessible information, or a mountain of crap, designed to waste our time. Of course, as with most definitions these days, it’s probably both, or rather a melding of the two which, like the tides of the seas changes direction with nearly every ‘open in new tab’ click I make. Below are samples and links to some random collections which have been gathering in my tabs (which I’m notorious for having many of).
Random randoms
“huh” and “hulk911″ are just two of the hundred-plus images you’ll find stashed at this random folder on negative.net – I don’t even remember where I got this link from! Seriously!
Artists Shop Windows
Peter Gerwin Hoffmann, lesbar =1+2
Art in Shop-windows, Graz, 1979. 09.21.-10.05.
collection of images of shop windows as arranged and displayed by artists around the world spanning many decades. completely random images, many of which i’ve never seen before. hosted on some hungarian server
Free Science Lectures Online
Data Mining, Algorithms, A Taste of Haskell (Functional Programming Language) – it’s all right here!
Square America
Perhaps the most ‘valuable’ collection of the bunch, this archive of square-formatted images capture a type of Folk archive, of intimate American perspectives which inadvertently underpin a lot that is great and wonderful about this land and expose our – or definitely my – obsession with visual culture.
You’ll be clicking for hours: Square America
Party Pics
Less a collection of anything specific and more another one of those random tab appearances, I have no idea where this one comes from. Some place called the cobra snake with a dizzying amount of party photos, which is impressive for a place that I can’t figure out where it is or what it’s about! But obviously somebodies are having fun! (click back to the future for the top-level collection!)
Video Data Bank
And lastly, a true resource collection.
the Video Data Bank – VDB – is quite possibly one of the greatest resources for video art in the United States if not the world! That’s saying a ton, and while the size is small and the loading questionable you can watch a few thousand works of video art here – of if you get a chance to be in Chicago, visit their facility on S. Michigan Avenue, it’s an archivist shrine!
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
This post over on jameswagner highlights a concern I’ve voiced before that I personally find problematic: galleries and museums who still restrict the use of photography (I always take my shots without flash, fyi), who fail to understand that bloggers and other networks of individuals now account for a considerable amount of their publicity and general dialogue that was previously restricted to critics and experts (whatever that means).
But James’s run-in was more unfortunate, with the gallery staff escalating the incident to a verbal altercation and subsequently leaving nasty comments on James’s blog. Tsk tsk.
Other sites that have picked this up and hashed it out in their own words:
Art Fag City says ‘no longer’
bloggy on art bloggers with cameras
Heart as Arena with interesting addendum
I restate my previously mentioned proof of concept:
Flickr search for MoMA versus Flickr search for Cooper-Hewitt – the MoMA has over 80,000 images, taken and uploaded by the public, including masses of their collection; the Cooper-Hewitt has just over 1,500, mostly of the facade and building exterior, because photography inside is not allowed.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Alexander Rodchenko versus the Arirang Festival
Alexander Rodchenko: Wikipedia entry and MoMA retrospective
Arirang: Wikipedia entry and more specifically the festival.
this juxtaposition originally inspired by this Guardian article many moons ago (those images have been sitting on my desktop since 23 December 2006!).
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
this is a pretty cool project.
http://jadedoskowworldfair.blogspot.com/
a friend of a friend left on a plane today for Barcelona, where they’ll start to photograph sites of past World Fairs around the world.
I mentioned they best be sure to swing by my hometown, St. Louis – the host of the 1904 World’s Fair. That fair took place during a time of high prosperity in St. Louis, when it was the fourth largest US city, and also host to the first US-held Olympic games (due to the hype of the fair, it actually stole this claim from Chicago). Notable structures at the 1904 expo included the Observation Wheel, a ferris wheel, which has an almost mythical presence among people (St. Louisans that is) when they talk about the expo.
Best of luck to Jade on their photography tour. Looking at the Wikipedia list of ‘registered expositions’, I realize I’ve only visited or lived in seven cities that have held world fairs (London, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle – however this year I hope to add Budapest and Brussels to that list!) whereas the artist has a good 30+ cities to get to! (that is, unless they’re following this list – and I hope they’re not because that list is comprehensive!)
Anybody else interested in the St. Louis fair site, I recommend you visit the Missouri Historical Museum on Lindell on the northern edge of Forest Park. they also have a great resource online about the fair – click here.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, might have lost their bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but they still know how to party!
This photo is from their 2007 celebration of the new year, and there’s no denying they know how to set off a firework or two… thousand.
(way more impressive than any new year’s celebrating I’ve ever done.)
[via the Almaty Development blog via the Kirill076 blog]
