Sue-C creates beautiful live videos using a collection of various small objects and some deceptively simple Jitter patching. Watch Sue describe her unique performance approach and how it all comes together in this video interview.
This is interesting. Not sure how interesting the second video by her is, I moved on about half way through, but there is a lot of interesting things that can be done with a set up like this…
The plan for this year is to pretty much enter everything… Submit, submit, submit!
In California, I had some issues with one of my email accounts, so I am slogging through three months of old email this morning, and I found two opportunities that I am very interested in.
Of course, I am too busy to actually read all the details right now, and with Snip.it dead, I guess I am stuck posting them here for review later…
While working on this year’s One Day video, I started thinking it would be very nice to start working on some real music videos. Look what washed up this morning… Perfect?
I’ll look into this more later to make sure, but I think I found my next project.
Dead Can Dance want you to make the music video for their song Children of the Sun off Anastasis their first studio album in 16 years.
They have left the brief wide open feel free to be creative in your interpretation!
Deadline for submissions is 4 March 2013, 23:59 GMT time.
I have looked into this one less, but just off the cuff it looks like something else that is a good match for the type of work I am wanting to focus on right now, playing with abstract-ish images in a more calculated, planned way…
We've all had the experience of looking at a photograph and not being able to decipher it right away. We ask ourselves "What am I looking at?" Photographer and collector Allan Chasanoff became a connoisseur of this interval of confusion before the image resolves. He found a visceral pleasure in confronting an image that refused to make visual sense, delighting in its resistance and delighting again when that resistance was overcome - a delicious tension and release.
"To be hit by a dislocation transcends the visual alone, and there is a momentary visceral response. It stuns me. It interrupts the stare and startles me. Thus, a major part of my effort in collecting pictures was to find those that did that. The photograph, the genre, the history and the aura of the picture are secondary to this shock. That is why I collected so-called straight images, for a dislocation in the usual." - Allan Chasanoff
Mr. Chasanoff spent nearly 20 years collecting more than 1,200 of photographs, many of which embodied this optical problem in photography ("the Optical"), and donated that collection to Yale University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Now he has agreed to jury for Blue Sky a show of your (single-exposure, non-photoshop, "straight") photographs that resist immediate visual deciphering.
Allan Chasanoff relishes pictures that puzzle him, and he wants others to enjoy these surprises. He built his collection of 20th-century photographs by questioning what occurs when the camera “captures” the real world but the resulting image creates confusion rather than clarity, challenging photography's reputation as a dependable document. In 1991, the New York-based collector donated nearly 1,000 works to the MFAH by photographers ranging from Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, and Joel Peter Witkin to relatively unknown artists.
Dead Can Dance: Children of the Sun - Lyrics
Children of the Sun is the album’s 'welcome to the show'. The lyric addresses human evolution and how our genetic code is infused with ancient memory, right up to the present, celebrating nature – the Woodstock generation’s legacy.
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We are ancient, as ancient as the sun We came from the ocean, once our ancestral home So that one day we could all return To our birthright, the great celestial dome
We are the children of the sun Our journey's just begun Sunflowers in our hair We are the children of the sun There's room for everyone Sunflowers in our hair
Throughout the ages of iron, bronze and stone We marvelled at the night sky and what may lie beyond We Burned offerings to the elemental ones made sacrifices for beauty, peace and love
We are the children of the sun Our kingdom will come Sunflowers in our hair We are the children of the sun Our carnival's begun Our songs will fill the air
And you know it's time To look for reasons why Just reach up and Touch the sky To the heavens we'll ascend
We are the children of the sun Our journey has begun
All the older children come out at night Anaemic, soulless, great hunger in their eyes Unaware of the beauty that sleeps tonight And All the queen's horses and all the king's men Will never put these children back together again
Abstract. November 6, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: June 28, 2012.
Gray & Black & Green. Springwater Corridor. Gresham, Oregon. April 15, 2012. Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: June 30, 2012.
This photo of the day post is a little different and reflects a slight change in direction due to the current circumstances in my life.
My posting practice is time consuming, from selecting and editing the photos through to linking to the posts everywhere. With the time consuming needs of my family right now, I just don’t have the time to run through this process on a daily basis right now.
However, there are other ways to go about this.
Instead of posting a daily photo on Rubble, I may just post small collections of two or three photos every few days here, once a week, at least, while trying to continue with more frequent photo of the day posts on 500px and deviantArt.
Realistically, it may be hard to post daily even just to those sites, but it will mean more photo of the day posts than if I try to post everywhere every time.
