In addition to their obsession with writing and handwritten artifacts, the Quays use a variety of print materials as elements of the décor in their films. These elements are often used denotatively, i.e. as actual advertisements, posters, signs, etc., but they are also frequently used for their graphic qualities alone. One of the more surprising print artifacts to be featured in their films is the humble yet ubiquitous bar code.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema, Print Culture
Tagged: bar code, Brothers Quay, experimental film, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Stille Nacht I
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- 09.01.2010 – 12:20 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
- Published:
- 09.01.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
sktchbook is an on-going project of images created on the iPhone using a variety of image-making and manipulating applications, primarily sktch, a generative drawing app by CreativeApplications.Net, from which the project takes its name.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics
Tagged: generative art, iPhone art, sktchbook
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- 08.22.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
Listening to the soundtrack from the Brothers’ Quay Stille Nacht III (Tales from Vienna Woods), the first thing we notice is that it’s not a soundtrack by Leszek Jankowski, who has composed the music for many of the Quays’ best-known films. Rather, it is a sound collage apparently created by the Quays themselves, as the credits at the end of the film are fictitious.
Categories: Cinema, Literature
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film, Nikolai Gogol, sountrack, Stille Nacht III
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- 08.15.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
As I scan around for interesting things to listen to on-line, I often find myself returning to Fällt Publishing’s invalidObject Series (2000), a thoughtful collection of recent electronic music ranging in style from glitch to ambient to degree-zero sound.
Categories: Internet, Music
Tagged: electronic music, internet resource, microsound
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- 08.08.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
September 5, 2001 saw the beginning of what will be, on its completion, the longest concert ever given. On that day, the birthday of John Cage, a performance of the latter’s Organ2/ASLSP (1987) was begun in the church of St. Burchardi in Halberstadt, Germany. The concert will last 639 years.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Music
Tagged: Composition 1960 #7, John Cage, Organ2/ASLSP, Vexations
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- 08.01.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
It is tempting, given the nature of A Humument, to read the textual elements of the work as so many unrelated oracular or aphoristic statements. To do so, however, is to deny the narrative qualities of the work and ignore the fact that a story is being told.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature, Print Culture, Writing
Tagged: A Human Document, A Humument, Bill Toge, Tom Phillips, W.H. Mallock
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- 07.22.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
sktchbook is an on-going project of images created on the iPhone using a variety of image-making and manipulating applications, primarily sktch, a generative drawing app by CreativeApplications.Net, from which the project takes its name.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics
Tagged: generative art, iPhone art, sktchbook
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- 07.15.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
A word to the (shortwave radio) wise: The Conet Project, a fascinating 4-CD compilation of 150 recordings of “numbers stations” put out by Irdial-Discs in 1997 and which is unfortunately long out of print, is available for either listening or download on-line.
Categories: Internet, Radio
Tagged: numbers stations, shortwave radio, the conet project
- Published:
- 07.08.2010 – 12:15 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
“Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote” is a (fictional) scholarly homage to a (equally fictional) early-20th century French neo-Symbolist poet whose crowning literary achievement was to write, some 300 years after the fact and for no apparent reason, Don Quixote.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature, Writing
Tagged: conceptual literature, J.L. Borges, Pierre Menard
- Published:
- 07.01.2010 – 12:05 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin