A great top-to-bottom look at the camera and the "system of novelties," that make it up.
[ thx @garrytan ]
I wish this was embeddable, but click-through for:
"rare film of Merce Cunningham teaching class in Chicago in 1961, and dynamic, never before seen footage of Merce teaching Advanced Technique Class almost 50 years later."
http://dlib.nyu.edu/merce/mwm/2010-07-26/Matt Shlian is a paper engineer and makes paper do some wild things. This video seems to be from my alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he's an artist-in-residence at the Engineering School.
(I LOVED the Mini ad he did in his earlier work!)
Watching this is reminding me of (great) moments in the paper-folding documentary, Between The Folds.
[ thx @burnlab ]
Very early in my career as a programmer, I had an office in the Empire State Building, on the 39th Floor, with windows that open. I was there late one night, trying in vain to figure out which of the computers that was running my code had the bug. My problem was I had no idea how to approach the problem. That's 98 percent of the battle, clearing your mind, rolling up your sleeves, accepting the responsibility that it's your bug not some programmer in New Jersey, or the guy who wrote the operating system. I remember thinking, staring out into the NYC night that they shouldn't put young programmers in skyscrapers with windows that open.
via scripting.com
Warsaw 1983
from the comments here: "The original Art Ensemble typically rehearsed for about 8 hours a day."
Kenneth Anger's new work for the Missoni F/W 2011 campaign.
[ via Arthur ]
[ thx Sam Bennett ]
[ via Brian Doherty ]