After the extreme close-up on the face, one of the most common shots in the Brothers Quay filmic grammar is the close-up on the hands. As these shots remind us, hands can be as expressive as faces, perhaps even more so, when it comes to conveying emotional states or revealing something about the person (or puppet) to whom they belong.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema
Tagged: Brothers Quay, experimental film, hands, Stille Nacht III, The Comb
This gallery contains a selection of stills from films by the Brothers Quay featuring close-ups on hands.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema, Gallery
Tagged: Brothers Quay, hands, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Stille Nacht III, The Comb
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
The loop fascinates, whether as idea, object, or aesthetic device. It spurs the mind on, sends it spinning, causes it to wonder: will this ever end? Technically, it shouldn’t, because the loop = infinity (whose symbol – ∞ – is itself a loop).
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Cinema, Literature, Music
Tagged: Furniture Music, Last Year at Marienbad, Stille Nacht III, tape loops, the loop
Composed in 1956, Radio Music is Cage’s second work for radio, the first being Imaginary Landscape No. 4 from 1951. Guy de Bièvre has made some interesting comments about contemporary performances of Radio Music, which are problematized by the changes, technological and otherwise, that the medium has undergone since the time the piece was created, claiming that it is not possible to give a historically accurate performance of the work, in other words to make Radio Music sound as it did at the time it was composed.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Music, Radio
Tagged: electronic music, indeterminacy, John Cage, radio art, sound collage
A Humument features a number of framing devices that, in addition to whatever narrative role they may play, further emphasize the self-reflexive character of the book. Unsurprisingly perhaps given the nature of this work, among the most common are the (book) page, the painting, and the window.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature, Writing
Tagged: A Humument, framing devices, Tom Phillips, W.H. Mallock, windows
This gallery contains contains selected pages from A Humument by Tom Phillips.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Gallery, Literature, Writing
Tagged: A Humument, framing devices, Tom Phillips, W.H. Mallock, windows
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
The window photographs represent a fascinating departure from Smith’s earlier work: a war correspondent who would come to redefine the photo essay, if not photojournalism altogether, Smith had previously turned his lens outward and focused it on capturing the event, on telling the story, on moving the viewer with that version of the truth his images could relate. When he moved into the Sixth Avenue loft, he turned his camera inward, so to speak, and trained it on the comings and goings of his own private world.
Categories: Photography, The Quotidian
Tagged: As From My Window I Sometimes Glance, Jazz Loft, W. Eugene Smith, windows
This gallery contains a selection of photographs from the series As From My Window I Sometimes Glance by W. Eugene Smith.
Categories: Gallery, Photography, The Quotidian
Tagged: Jazz Loft, W. Eugene Smith, windows