Archive for November, 2009
Daily Rotation: Battles’ “Tonto”
In Daily Rotation, bright lines on November 29, 2009 at 11:19 pmMath Rockers!
Dialog Box #2: Untitled by Carlos E. Fernández-Dieppa
In Dialog Box, The Talented Mssrs. & Mlles. I Know, all that glitters, bright lines, nerdysexycool on November 29, 2009 at 11:03 pmArtist/Designer/Thinker/Bu, Carlos E. Fernández-Dieppa, photographed this last week.
There’s something sensual about this quartet of cords, no?
I love how the vivid image of one cord pops against its blurred counterparts–as if one could pluck it right out of the picture.
I noticed my eyes struggling to focus between different parts of the image. It seems to be a matter of binocular rivalry.
“When one image is presented to one eye and a very different image is presented to the other, instead of the two images being seen superimposed, one image is seen for a few moments, then the other, then the first, and so on, randomly for as long as one cares to look.”
me: gimme a quotable quote, waxy moustaches
los.veni.vidi: This photograph illustrates a duality between clarity and abstraction. On the one hand, depth is inferred by the use of focus on the object in the foreground the silhouettes are blurred in the background. Conversely, one could interpret the image as multiple cords in front of a depthless plane.
los.veni.vidi: If you interpret the background as a depthless plane, while still illustrating depth through the use of focus, it differs in that you can speculate what you perceive as object and shadow.
(Some pretty deep thoughts after we’d hit up The Back Room –102 Norfolk @ Delancey– sippin’ on Jameson in teacups):
lustre du sein (titty chandelier):
(I happen to have some white spot on the corner of my mouth. Hm. Don’t have the Photoshop, so here you are, here I am, unadulterated.)
Little Paper Planes
In Artz on November 23, 2009 at 3:56 amAffordable prints in limited editions. Holiday gifts? Check www.littlepaperplanes.com. Most of the prints are in limited editions of 50, signed by the artist.
David Byrne & Brian Eno’s “Strange Overtones”
In Artz, Daily Rotation, bright lines, nerdysexycool on November 10, 2009 at 4:07 amCheck it–It’s not an official video–but I liked the heart monitor ala Bright Lines with this tune. “Strange Overtones” is on David Byrne and Brian Eno’s record Everything that Happens Will Happen Today.
While Brian Eno focused on instrumentals, David Byrne blessed the record with his sonorous magic–
Says Eno:
“Upon starting this project, we quickly realized we were making something like electronic gospel, music in which singing becomes the central event, but whose sonic landscapes are atypical of such vocal-centered tracks. This notion tapped into my long love affair with gospel music, which, curiously, was inadvertently initiated by David and the Talking Heads.’”
The beautiful & strange Mr. Byrne
Now, you can see the man’s genius if you read his journal, but I love this entry:
“Some years ago I visited Bell Labs and was shown the famous anechoic (perfect, sound absorbent) chamber. This was where John Cage claimed that he could hear both his heart pounding and the high-pitched whine of his nervous system. His insight was that true silence doesn’t exist — even if we can block out everything else, we can’t stop hearing ourselves.
Here is one such chamber:
He’s even got an Alien Espresso Cup line with Illy.
Change o’ Plans…
In Uncategorized on November 3, 2009 at 11:26 pmSo, the Sweet ‘N Low thang didn’t work out.
Instead, I dressed up as–
After my good friend DG bought me a syringe (sans needle) I duct taped it into my bra–
Thas’ right, Mia Wallace, played by Uma Thurman, in Pulp Fiction.
