Sunday July 19, 2009 at 17:04
Humans glow in the dark
Although it has been known for many years that all living creatures produce a small amount of light as a result of chemical reactions within their cells, this is the first time light produced by humans has been captured on camera.
via Guardian UK
Monday July 06, 2009 at 11:01
Soviet animation of Ray Bradbury’s “There will come soft rains”
Wednesday June 10, 2009 at 21:40
Sparrow by Johnnie To. In this trailer Simon Yam uses a Rolleiflex very much like my own.
Monday June 08, 2009 at 20:13
Wednesday May 27, 2009 at 18:42
Polaroid Lovers Try to Revive Its Instant Film
Digital cameras are ubiquitous, cheap and easy to use — the reasons Polaroid stopped making the film last year — so what this group in Enschede is attempting may seem hopelessly retrograde.
But to them, that is exactly the point. They want to recast an outdated production process in an abandoned Polaroid factory for an age that has fallen for digital pictures because they think people still have room in their hearts for retro photography that eschews airbrushing or Photoshop.
via new york times
Sunday May 03, 2009 at 9:40
Monday April 20, 2009 at 20:58
How JG Ballard cast his shadow right across the arts
Ballard was a poet of the occult fear, the subliminal horror. His work explored the unexpressed, anarchic euphoria lurking in the interstices of modern, rational civilisation, the longing to smash things up.
via Guardian UK
Sunday April 19, 2009 at 20:17
Crash author JG Ballard, 'a giant on the world literary scene', dies aged 78
The young science fiction author “wasn’t interested in the far future, spaceships and all that”, he explained; rather he was interested in “the evolving world, the world of hidden persuaders, of the communications landscape developing, of mass tourism, of the vast conformist suburbs dominated by television – that was a form of science fiction, and it was already here”.
via Guardian UK
Wednesday April 15, 2009 at 21:49
Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of the World
Herzog’s Encounters is an alternately mordant and ecstatic portrait of a harsh environment and the people who live there; not oddballs, Herzog insists, but research scientists, philosophers and vulcanologists, who we see peering into viciously active lava fields. There are the expert divers who drill 30ft vertical holes through the icecap to access its frigid, sci-fi underside, and then dive below to film. “These people only seem odd because when you look at the media and magazines, there is this kind of uniformity of people. Down there, you have characters who do not fit into magazines.”
article via Guardian UK
Monday April 13, 2009 at 10:35
Nick Cave, Dreaming the Clothing Electric, at the Yerba Buena Center
Stange art from Nick Cave- the artist, not the musician. He turns mannequins and animal shapes into surreal dream creatures. If Grant Morrison had created muppets, they might resemble the sound suits currently showing at Yerba Buena.
article via NYTimes
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