The Long Road Through the Desert
The Red Rocks
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Images from a Deserted Camera
The Long Road Through the Desert
The Red Rocks
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
On Not Losing The Capacity for Astonishment in the 3rd Act
A beautiful little piece by Hillman Curtis on Milton Glaser:
http://av.adobe.com/studio/miltonglaser/miltonglaser.html (via Jeffery Zeldman http://www.zeldman.com/)
While I am not entirely inclined towards Glaser's aesthetic, his words hammer right on the bone. What is it about artists that remain vital, astonished, in "the 3rd act"?
http://av.adobe.com/studio/miltonglaser/miltonglaser.html (via Jeffery Zeldman http://www.zeldman.com/)
While I am not entirely inclined towards Glaser's aesthetic, his words hammer right on the bone. What is it about artists that remain vital, astonished, in "the 3rd act"?
Thursday, February 10, 2005
Social Security Detournement
A litte detourned "time passing" for me with a few old Social Security Posters:
2042 Social Security Poster
You Will Die
More original Social Security Posters can be found at: http://www.ssa.gov/history/pubaffairs.html
And for those who have asked, here is a nice definition:
Detournement; "short for: detournement of pre-existing aesthetic elements. The integration of past or present artistic production into a superior construction of a milieu. In this sense there can be no Situationist painting or music, but only a Situationist use of these means.", Internationale Situationiste issue 1, June 1958.
Detournement may be understood as the opposite of 'recuperation', the process by which radical ideas and images are commodified and incorporated within the 'safe' confines of 'spectacular' society. With detournement, images produced by the spectacle are altered and subverted so that rather than supporting the status quo, their meaning is changed in order to put across a more radical or oppositionist message.
- From http://www.answers.com/detournement&r=67
2042 Social Security Poster
You Will Die
More original Social Security Posters can be found at: http://www.ssa.gov/history/pubaffairs.html
And for those who have asked, here is a nice definition:
Detournement; "short for: detournement of pre-existing aesthetic elements. The integration of past or present artistic production into a superior construction of a milieu. In this sense there can be no Situationist painting or music, but only a Situationist use of these means.", Internationale Situationiste issue 1, June 1958.
Detournement may be understood as the opposite of 'recuperation', the process by which radical ideas and images are commodified and incorporated within the 'safe' confines of 'spectacular' society. With detournement, images produced by the spectacle are altered and subverted so that rather than supporting the status quo, their meaning is changed in order to put across a more radical or oppositionist message.
- From http://www.answers.com/detournement&r=67
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Voyages: A Smithsonian Library Exhibition
Just surfaced from a couple of hours perusing the superb Voyages http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Voyages/all-items.htm exhibition from the Smithsonian. All descriptions from the Smithsonian site.
From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, and a Trip around it .
Long before men entered space, writers and artists imagined such expeditions. Jules Verne’s classic science-fiction work on space flight first appeared in English in 1874. His novel remains of interest not only to researchers studying the cultural history of space flight but also to bibliophiles comparing the various editions of Verne’s books.
Altre Scoverte Fatte Nella Luna dal Sigr. Herschel.
This portfolio of hand-tinted lithographs purports to illustrate the "discovery of life on the moon." In 1836, Richard E. Locke, writing for the New York Sun, claimed that the noted British astronomer Sir William Herschel had discovered life on the moon. Flora and fauna included bat-men, moon maidens (with luna-moth wings), moon bison, and other extravagant life forms. Locke proposed an expedition to the moon using a ship supported by hydrogen balloons.
Urformen der kunst (Art forms in nature).
Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932).
Around 1918, Blossfeldt used a microscopic lens to make detailed photographs of plant forms against a stark background. Stripped of their naturalistic quality, the plants appeared to be man-made cast-iron forms. The creation of this book coincided with the birth of the Bauhaus school of design, which emulated machine-like forms and stripped objects of ornamentation that did not contribute to their function. Design schools adopted Blossfeldt's work as a pattern book for natural forms for many decades.
George Ferris' Sky Wheel.
This standard history of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition was presented as a limited edition to fair officials and sponsors.
Die Maglichkeit der Weltraumfahrt (The feasibility of interplanetary travel).
Ley, a paleontologist, engineer, and theorist on conditions on other planets and space, edited this book of essays written by famous rocket scientists, including Hermann Oberth, Walter Hohmann, and Guido von Pirquet.
From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, and a Trip around it .
Long before men entered space, writers and artists imagined such expeditions. Jules Verne’s classic science-fiction work on space flight first appeared in English in 1874. His novel remains of interest not only to researchers studying the cultural history of space flight but also to bibliophiles comparing the various editions of Verne’s books.
Altre Scoverte Fatte Nella Luna dal Sigr. Herschel.
This portfolio of hand-tinted lithographs purports to illustrate the "discovery of life on the moon." In 1836, Richard E. Locke, writing for the New York Sun, claimed that the noted British astronomer Sir William Herschel had discovered life on the moon. Flora and fauna included bat-men, moon maidens (with luna-moth wings), moon bison, and other extravagant life forms. Locke proposed an expedition to the moon using a ship supported by hydrogen balloons.
Urformen der kunst (Art forms in nature).
Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932).
Around 1918, Blossfeldt used a microscopic lens to make detailed photographs of plant forms against a stark background. Stripped of their naturalistic quality, the plants appeared to be man-made cast-iron forms. The creation of this book coincided with the birth of the Bauhaus school of design, which emulated machine-like forms and stripped objects of ornamentation that did not contribute to their function. Design schools adopted Blossfeldt's work as a pattern book for natural forms for many decades.
George Ferris' Sky Wheel.
This standard history of the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition was presented as a limited edition to fair officials and sponsors.
Die Maglichkeit der Weltraumfahrt (The feasibility of interplanetary travel).
Ley, a paleontologist, engineer, and theorist on conditions on other planets and space, edited this book of essays written by famous rocket scientists, including Hermann Oberth, Walter Hohmann, and Guido von Pirquet.
Most Amusing Film Review I've Read in a While
From an article on the Sundance Film Festival (via the Wow Report):
And then there was Crispin Glover's What Is It?, which featured not only manual stimulation of a handicapped man (by a naked woman in an animal mask, no less), but oral sex involving someone with Down syndrome, salted snails, a minstrel in blackface, the most racist song I have ever heard and Shirley Temple juxtaposed with swastikas. This wasn't just pushing the envelope; this was shoving the entire freaking Postal Service off the rim of the Grand Canyon.
And then there was Crispin Glover's What Is It?, which featured not only manual stimulation of a handicapped man (by a naked woman in an animal mask, no less), but oral sex involving someone with Down syndrome, salted snails, a minstrel in blackface, the most racist song I have ever heard and Shirley Temple juxtaposed with swastikas. This wasn't just pushing the envelope; this was shoving the entire freaking Postal Service off the rim of the Grand Canyon.
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