Cool sound sculpture

I'd really like to see that one in real life! Must be incredible!

It's called the "Singing Ringing Tree" designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu and stands in the Pennines in Lancashire, England. Would be worth a trip!

Keith Arnatt on tv

Back in the days when television was way more open to experiments, the artpiece "self burial" by Keith Arnatt was shown at WDR 3 programm without any announcement

Between 11th and 18th of october 1969 each evening there was shown one of eight photographies of the artist where you see him gradually sinking into the ground. The pictures where shown for several seconds right after the main news broadcast at 8.15 pm and for another time one hour later in the middle of whatever program was running.

The mystery was cleared at the end of the week by an interview with the artist.

Also nice: "Notes from Jo 1990-1994", a series of blown-up images of the notes left around the house by his wife shortly before she died.

Alternate Universe Movie Posters

I enjoyed this collection of alternate universe movie posters... there's a lot of them!

Pretty cool...

DYE "Fantasy" Official Video by JEREMIE PERIN from TIGERSUSHI on Vimeo.

Bladerunner sketchbook

This is cool stuff, great visualizations!

Weekend WTF. Nightmare fuel.

Only two posts in one month is an all time low... in before the end of 2011 with a delightful Weekend WTF. Or: "Meanwhile, in David Lynch's unconscious."

Reached a million!

Huzzah! http://youtu.be/iIq89Fftrd4

Dennis Moore

Monty Python clip of the week is making a guest appearance here again with the classic "Dennis Moore" bit. I love John Cleese's casual naturalistic acting in this.

List of Fictional Diseases

This List of Fictional Diseases on Wikipedia is very interesting and could probably form the basis for some interesting artistic projects.

(Via BoingBoing)

Lichtspiel Mutation 1: Whitechapel

I finally (finally!) got around to uploading the piece I wrote for the Unsound festival in Kraków last year. This version is based on a recording of the rehearsal with the Sinfonietta Cracovia the day before the actual performance, and has been painstakingly edited, processed and tarted up to sound as good as possible, along with the electronic music track which is loosely based on audio from the original film.

Long story short: The work is based on an old "Jack the Ripper" film from 1953, "Man in the Attic". I've used footage and audio from the film and then remixed it into something completely different, and on top of this I've composed a score for 45-piece string orchestra. The resulting work is way more abstract than the actual film it's based on, more suggestive and dreamlike. I've slowed down the footage and utilized extreme contrast and darkness to create something more like a 'shadow play', if you catch my drift.

I'm planning on making more works in the "Lichtspiel Mutations" series, all based on old films in the public domain but hopefully they'll all be very different and for different constellations. My next planned 'mutation' will probably be for solo violin, electronic music and animation. Looking forward to that!

Das Ding

Soon to be released, the prequel of The Thing, the John Carpenter movie from 1982. And the director is a Dutchman! Matthijs van heijningen has made some pretty entertaining commercials and I love his entrepreneurship. He just took off to chase his dream in Hollywood and got the opportunity to make a tribute to his favorite movie. Good luck to you Matthijs!




and some commercials, very filmy:

Alan Moore interviews Brian Eno

This is a radio interview from 2005. I've always enjoyed hearing Alan Moore speaking, and I've always enjoyed hearing Brian Eno speaking. So what could be better than the two of them in conversation? 28 mins. Enjoy!

http://n3ta.com/radio/?p=46

via Coilhouse