Classical Hollywood Cinema

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Textbook example of how Classical Hollywood created a seamless diegesis through visual form. Pay particular attention to eye-line matches and relationships between cuts.

Music Visualization in the 21st Century

Having trouble embedding the video, but definitely worth a look1

http://thecreatorsproject.com/creators/united-visual-artists

[Thanks Constantine!]

A Future of ENDLESS Screens

It was seductive to me for the first minute... then I started to fear this impending future.

[Thanks Hye Won!]

TRIPPY! A strobe-light zoetrope

Installation at Burning Man 2011 that operates on the principle of the zoetrope, but appears to use strobe lights and projectors rather than regularly spaced slits. After thinking of the psychedelic light shows from last week - this certainly seems like a connection.

[Thanks Taji!]

The Most Terrifying Film Ever Made...or not. And some early special effects.

Lumiere Brothers, Arrival of a Train at the Station, 1895

Georges Melies, The Astronomer's Dream, 1898.

Unlike the factual films of the Lumiere Brothers (and Edison's company in the US), Melies used film to produce fictional scenarios where things move and appear and disappear in strange ways.

A Truly Immersive Spectator Experience

Sleep No More - an interactive performance/exploration through a hotel based loosely on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Not a lot of screens, but certainly of interest to the relationships between architecture and spectators.

[Thanks Alex!]

Upcoming event: Silent Films at the Brooklyn Library

First is on October 2nd. See link for details.

[Thanks Lesley!]

Interactive screens and advertising

Playing with surveillance for the show "Person of Interest" http://www.cbs.com/shows/person_of_interest/video/

[Thanks Charis!]

Playing with a new tablet... on a midtown office building facade(?) Spotted on Park Ave around 40-41 Sts

You take a photo of yourself, then alter it using the "Paint" function on the new HTC table, then email it to yourself (final email in bottom picture). Hopefully the actual tablets function better than the large screen... I was trying to write "Hi Class!" and ended up making an abstract mess.

Dada Cinema

Duchamp's Anemic Cinema



Richter's Ghosts before Breakfast [Thanks Ciara!]

On view until 9/24 on the Highline...

Remote Nation by Kevin Cooley.

remote nation - Kevin Cooley from KC+BB on Vimeo.

Fascinating bridge between public and private space going on here. More info available via: http://www.remotenation.tv/about.html
(Thanks, Charis!)