Composition with Circles 1
Intense sun today. Dwelling on the rhythms in Bridget Riley’s Composition with Circles 1 (1998) which I was fortunate enough to have been able to buy with some options, back when having options meant anything…
Digital Test Bed
Attended the launch of the BFI’s Digital Test Bed at the NFT this morning — currently Europe’s only test laboratory for digital cinema. They are justifiably proud that they can now play everything from nitrate to pure digital feed (demonstrating the former with a lovely technicolor excerpt from The Harvey Girls (1946), and the latter with a live connection to ‘The Hall of Edoras’ set for The Return of the King in Wellington, New Zealand, with Jim Rygiel, Weta’s digital effects supervisor). I had to leave before the tour, but from their press pack, it looks as if they have …
London Bee Company / Wax
Urban honey and a favourite film.
TV Sucks
From TV Sucks, by Michael Rosenblum: Television, up until now, has been a group activity. Why? Mostly because it has been so difficult and expensive to make. After all, if Picasso had to pay $1500 a day to hire a paintbrush, and then had to deal with union canvass setters, union paint mixers and union paintbrush dippers — and then had to be an employee of the Sherman Williams company to paint, he probably would have sold life insurance instead. (Not to mention having to focus group Guerinca. “No, put the eyes back in the heads. The audience finds this …
uniqueliveevents.com
Last night, care of Helen, we blagged our way to a viewing of The Barber of Seville at the Royal Opera House, organised as a promotional evening by uniqueliveevents.com, a newish consortium formed by BT Broadcast Services and Shooting Partners. The opera was broadcast live from France, and displayed projected via JVC’s QX1 projector (“the highest quality image currently available in the world using DILA technology”). Where we were seated, there was a lot of fan noise from the projector, but the image and sound quality was very good, and the whole uniqueliveevents.com proposition is an interesting one. Their pitch …
The School of Sound
The School of Sound — ‘a unique symposium exploring the art of sound witht he moving image” happens in London in April. Shame I can’t afford to go.
The Humming Air
The second event from the TATE & EGG project – this
Friday and Saturday sees the collaboration between
Anish Kapoor, the contemporary composer Arvo P䲴
and theatre director Peter Sellars. This project originates
from a suggestion by Anish Kapoor to “temporarily
transform” his epic sculpture in the Tate Modern’s Turbine
Hall “into an instrument and invite a composer to play it”.
Bridget Riley
“…No wonder, that the mind of the beholder is deeply disquieted by the arrival of the Great Pan…”
Alexander on Carpets
Christopher Alexander’s new books are in print. As a diversion, a nice review of his book on form in early Turkish carpets…