Monthly Archives: July 2009

Liminalis

Rather touched to have some of my photos included in the current issue of Liminalis — the Berlin-based “journal for gender emancipation and resistance”. Nice people, important work. And thanks for Rodrigo at WLTF for the introduction.

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Film Noir at Ghetto

Back home at The Ghetto…

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Lillian Bassman

NYT article here. We like. Check the slideshow, and look out for more exhibitions.

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Immemory Now Supports OS X

I claim for the image the humility and powers of a madeleine. Chris Marker’s seminal hypermedia work Immemory has been re-released in a format compatible with OS X. This is very good news for Marker fans: Immemory is an important … Continue reading

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Yugen…

And yes, yugen… To achieve the end of yugen, art had sometimes been stripped of its color and glitter lest these externals distract; a bowl of highly polished silver reflects more than it suggests, but one of oxidized silver has … Continue reading

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The Flower of Stillness

A fragmentary translation of Zeami [世阿弥 元清]‘s The Nine Stages of the Noh in Order served as both inspiration and creative headfuck for me during my time in Tokyo. As an outsider to the performance tradition in which it’s founded, … Continue reading

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Crowds…

How few crowd shots I have. Those there are, are mostly compositions of faces, foreshortened by a long lens, flattened into a single plane. And not an absence of crowds, only, in my pictures — absence of the space for … Continue reading

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Stuck/Black Ice

At Anne-Fay’s, in swine flu quarantine limbo. So no shots of Nando’s performance at EYHO last night, which saddens me. Instead, been catching up on mailing-list reading and thinking about images, in halt compensation for inability to go out and … Continue reading

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Film Noir at Dalston Superstore

The Film Noir crew took over both floors of the Superstore on the hottest Friday night of the year. Severino’s and Helen Noir’s back-to-back sets of take-no-prisoners, hands-in-the-air afterhours disco and electro set the basement on fire. Fabulous. Pix here.

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