Medical Gymnastics, by Agnieszka Polska

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Here’s a good friend of mine, Luke Rathborne, playing the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy track, “Raining In Darling” off 2005’s I See A Darkness.

1. Luke Rathborne – Raining In Darling (Tape Delay, 2009)

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2. Bonnie Prince Billy – Raining In Darling (I See A Darkness, 2005)

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Enjoy.

Roman Singer is an artist hailing from Switzerland. His works are described as ‘time-sculptures’. They combine aspects of sculpture’s physicality and video’s documentation of passing time.

“Time-sculpture investigates the transformation of materials through time, focusing the viewer’s attention on the experience of the event, the changes wrought, and the forces involved. Variously combining three-dimensional objects, live action, still photography and moving-image documentation, Signer’s time-sculptures frame episodes of the containment and release of energy ? always with ingenuity, often with captivating, epigrammatic swiftness and irresistible humour.”

– excerpt from Withers, Rachel, ‘Collector’s Choice. Roman Signer (engl.). Volume 07‘, Cologne: Dumont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2007

Singer has a pretty good site, but I was disappointed that none of his videos were shown. The stills are lovely in their own right, but the videos do his work justice. I would love to see them in person, but for now YouTube will have to suffice.

Heufieber (Hay Fever), 2006 (Video: Aleksandra Signer)

Some stills (all images copyright © 2009 Roman Singer):

Wasserstiefel, 1986

Ski, 2000

Leiter, 1995

Be sure to spend some time at Singer’s Website for more stills and information on him. There are also some great write-ups on him, which can be found here and here. Enjoy.

(images fixed) Jan 05

A film that’s shot entirely to look like a good photographic print? Do you need more than this reason to watch a film? I do not.

“François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship that would last a lifetime. The film marks Truffaut’s passage from leading critic of the French New Wave to his emergence as one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs.” — Criterion Collection Review

Watch The Trailer

Watch My Favorite Scene

All I Can Do Is Hope, 2008

Levi van Veluw, Landscape, 2008

Quote from his site:

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Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object.

‘Landscapes’. This 4-piece series reinterprets the traditional landscape painting, removing plots of grass, clusters of trees, babbling brooks from their intimate 2 dimensional formats and transposing them onto the 3 dimensional contours of his own face. Thus a fresh twist is given to the obsession inherent in the romantic landscape of recreating the world and simultaneously being part of it. The romantic landscape and self-portrait genres are combined as a means of re-examination.

Besides the four landscapes, Levi van Veluw will also present a new video piece, landscape installation and works from two other series of photographs.

Since having graduated from the Artez Art School in Arnhem the Netherlands, Levi van Veluw has enjoyed a remarkable amount of success in a short period of time, with his work being showcased in several different locations across Europe and the States, earning him a number of prestigious awards that include the Photographer of the Year Award at the IPA International Photo Awards in the USA.