TORONTO CASTING CALL for Sebastien Grainger video. Girls aged 12-16 (cousins and younger sisters!) email: planetofcasting@gmail.com
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/10/2009 -
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You can audit Yale's Philosophy of Death course from your bed. Click HERE.
What should my attitude toward death be?
Labels: DEATH AND DRAMA
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/07/2009 -
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This was made in 1980 using fractal generators. I can't imagine the render times. It took me almost 8 hours or something stupid to render one of THESE.
Labels: NOBODY LIKES A NERD, VIDEO
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/07/2009 -
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Hollis Frampton's 1971 film Nostalgia is a recording of 12 photographs being burned on a stovetop one at a time while a description of each photograph is read. The descriptions, however, are not of the photograph we are watching as it burns, but rather of the next photograph that we will see. By the time we see the photograph that has already been described all we have is the memory of the story of this image. We somewhat desperately try to remember the description while listening to the description of the next image. Nostalgia (from the Latin nost meaning home and algia meaning pain) has us doing the same - desperately remembering in an achy way the lives we have lived while trying to pay attention to what is coming next. It's easy to get confused.
Labels: ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/06/2009 -
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POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/06/2009 -
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You've heard all the bad news over and over again, but when I'm assuaging my guilt for enjoying a cigarette or three I like to read THIS ARTICLE and remember the social and therapeutic benefits of cigarettes. So drop the guilt, cause feeling guilty will make it harder to put them down.
Labels: BAD DOG, DEATH AND DRAMA
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/05/2009 -
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TANYTH BERKELEY likes the special ones. She likes the pale ones, the large headed types, the big bodies and the long giraffe necks. She likes the Robert Crumb shapes and the vampire faces, the glowing white skin and the men-in-dresses with womanly laces. She likes the eyes set back in the skull or the shoulders holding up those big heads that are smashed in like a pretty pumpkin in certain places. Her specialty is the awkward, the rare flower, the big cheek boned and special feminine shells and large sizes and different races.(Doug Rickard of AMERICANSUBURB X)
This is what I mean. Not creating the awkward, and not exploiting the subject. Not glorifying it either. Just showing it for what it is - not hiding their flaws, but making such beautiful photographs that you can't help but be attracted to them. Genuinely attracted, free of irony. Some empathy from the photographer, but no pity.
Via Graham at WLYS
Labels: JEALOUSY, PHOTOGRAPHY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/02/2009 -
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POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/01/2009 -
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I don't know why I haven't posted a link to her before, but I'm going to be living with STEPHANIE NORITZ in the fall. Click HERE for her website and HERE for her blog.
Labels: PHOTOGRAPHY
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 8/01/2009 -
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