When Katsushiro Otomo does something, we watch. But this time around he is going into new grounds, so watch out: Mushishi is his first live action feature, but contains elements seen on his previous animations, such as heroes, fantasy and lots of SFX. The movie was named Bugmaster for english-speaking audiences, but Mushishi sounds much better. Check out the trailer:
Mushishi’s trailer: http://www.mushishi-movie.jp/trailer/trailer.html
If you are lucky enough to be in Sundance, go watch it. And, if you are interested, some more information has popped up before.
rhwinter, January 17th, 2007
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If there is one thing a documentary must do is deal with something that draws attention so that people get interested (well, maybe not). The trailer for “I Met the Walrus” did exactly that to me. The thing is: “in 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry Levita, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, snuck into John Lennons’ hotel room for a chat”.
However interesting the trailer seems, I’m not sure I’d like to spend hours watching this and still stay interested (as is usually the case with really good documentaries).
Trailer | imetthewalrus.com
rhwinter, January 11th, 2007
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Up to the 22nd of January, the Norton Simon Museum will house an exhibition featuring Ed Ruscha’s works, called “Ooo: Early Prints by Ed Ruscha“.
‘City’ – oil on canvas (1968)
The exhibition covers the period in which he produced a series of oils on canvas with nothing (or almost nothing) more than words painted as if they were liquids. The work was developed from 1966 to 1969, and can be seen more fully on this excellent and complete official site/catalog. The paintings shown here are a small sample of the amazing things which can be found there. His work with colour is really interesting and the technique used to portray liquids is so good that it is actually scary.
‘Ruby’ – oil on linen (1968)
According to Artforum:
During his two-month fellowship at Los Angeles’s Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1969, Ed Ruscha cultivated his “liquid word” images, a theme he had developed through paintings three years earlier. These images, sometimes based on arrangements he staged in the studio, present short, often monosyllabic words, like EYE and AIR, figured as splotches of liquid on flat fields of color. Fourteen of these works, on view in this exhibition, evince Ruscha’s technical knack for graphic art while marking both his attention to language and his unmistakably American sense of humor.
‘Lisp’ – oil on canvas (1968)
The most interesting thing to me was finding out that so far back there was already a work developed which could be considered contemporary art and also dealt with type design. I acknowledge that it is closely related to Pop Art (which was interested in type studies), but even the popular stuff which was made then did not have this aspect. And more, most of the type design being made was regarded simply as design, not art. Another thing worth mentioning is how the aesthetic of Ruscha’s work is worthy of what designers are trying to achieve today using computers, especially ‘real’ textures that can fake intricate objects, some so intricate that would require a great deal of work to be actually made (despite the fact that the virtual counterparts are very hard to achieve as well). There’s been a great deal of advance in computer graphics (especially 3D) which point to a return to (and incorporation of) an organic feel through the improvement of mechanical techniques.
‘Desire’ – oil on canvas (1969)
Another thing is the proximity established by him with questions posed by linguistics, such as the relations between sign, signifier and signified; so subtly inherent to the images that can easily be overlooked. There are also some other aspects which we, who will only see these low quality images on a computer display, won’t admire: apparently Ruscha was very keen on detail (and that is easily seen on the paintings), which led him to add some small elements to them (flies, dirt, particles and other small bodies) both enlarging the significance space and adding a comic relief to his simple and complex works.
Other links
The ‘National Gallery of Art‘ in Washington has a detailed (21 pages long) discussion on another version of “Lisp”; which, by the way, can be compared to this edition of the Globe Magazine, dating back to 1937!
Another intersting organic-feel type design work is the one done by Ralph Steadman to illustrate Hunter S. Thompson‘s “The Curse of Lono“.
The series “Things I learned in my life so far” by Stefan Sagmeister (an important figure in the world of graphic design) also features some interesting type design.
rhwinter, January 10th, 2007
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rhwinter, January 6th, 2007
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Jonah Dempcy, 23, producer and jazz pianist. Together with Seamus Blake (saxophonist for Mingus Big Band), Matthew Garrison (bassist for Herbie Hancock) and Lucas Pickford (Brian Blade) crafted Increase the Dosage, which unites “electronic music with live improvisation, resulting in a style of music described variously as nu-jazz, electro-jazz or electronic breakbeat jazz”.
Recordings started back in 2000 and in 2005 the album was released under a Creative Commons license. Which means you can download it for free, listen and decide for yourself how you like it (instead of reading my ramblings):
Revolution Void’s Website | About Jonah Dempcy | Other albums by them
rhwinter, January 5th, 2007
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French photographer Barbara Bouyne displays a diverse work. So diverse, in fact, that sometimes it seems that she has not decided on what to do, which is not bad at all; it leaves a lot of room for interesting stuff.
I have to admit that the flash based site got a bit on my nerves, but that did not stop me from seeing all the images. Their size was a little too small for my liking, but well. Only after I had seen the entire thing I found out that there are two pdfs for download: [1] [2]. And in those not only the whole thing seems much more coherent, but the size makes more sense.
The pictures of ‘cables’ (book one), however cliché, seem to touch on something new. The ones of Saint Petesburg are by far the most interesting ones (last images on the second book). But who am I to judge? Go to the site and check it.
[via rojo]
rhwinter, January 4th, 2007
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Those who know Park Chan-Wook are very aware that what he accomplishes with colour, camera and, not least, his scripts is unparalleled. His so-called ‘Vengeance Trilogy’ (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) has one of the best movies in recent years, with Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, undoubtedly one of the best movies last year. For those lucky enough to be in Berlin between the 8th and the 18th of February, “I’m a Cyborg, but that’s o.k.”, his new movie, will be competing on the 57a Berlinale.The trailer, as expected, is great.
[via twitchfilm]
rhwinter, January 4th, 2007
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Woody Allen’s latest endeavour has just been released on DVD in the U.S. Haven’t watched it, but since Match Point I can’t wait for a comedy.
rhwinter, January 4th, 2007
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A mexican-born mathematician (!), born raised in Israel an living in Barcelona.
Very good work despite some exaggerations. Really worth a look.
More at: http://www.pilsjart.com/
rhwinter, January 3rd, 2007
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Yes, noise. But… what do you mean noise?
Noise is intended to be a blog about many things, among them:
- photography (photographers, techniques, images…)
- cinema (recommendations, links, trailers, animations, shorts…)
- programming (smalltalk, perl, CSS, HTML…)
- music (links, artists, recommendations…)
- design (printed, webdesign, typography…)
- art (contemporary, new media…)
- software (FLOSS, linux, proprietary…)
- the internets
- news
- hardware
- non-sense
and all these geeky stuff nerds seem to like so much. But wait, pay a lot of attention now, there are somethings you won’t find here:
- information on weather
- politics (worldwide or Brazil specific)
- the psycho-emotional welfare of someone
- useless things
- viral videos
and all these things I don’t like. Well, ok, maybe some of these you’ll eventually find here, but forgive me in advance.
The goal is noise, generating noise; after all what is another blog if not only noise?…
rhwinter, January 3rd, 2007
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