ABC
Great hand-drawn lettering by Leslie David.
09/17/08 by mark in art, design. No Comments »
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iHologram
iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo.
This video simulates a 3D animation art-as-iPhone-app that responds to rotation of the iPhone on a flat surface. It’s clearly a fake because the iPhone can’t actually measure rotation on a flat surface like this, but the video is very well executed.
09/05/08 by mark in art, technology. No Comments »
Radiohead - House of Cards Video
3d plotting and visualization are used instead of cameras for Radiohead’s new video, House of Cards
UPDATE: The 3d information is available for download and there’s a pretty cool Processing app to explore the visualization here. Also, the “making of” video is below:
Vector Portraits
Andrew Bush’s Vector Portraits are an incredible collection of “photographs made while travelling 50 to 70 mph in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States” from 1989-1997. [via Neatorama]
06/25/08 by mark in art, photography. No Comments »
Blonde Redhead + Miranda July
Miranda July changes poses every second for this Blonde Redhead video by Mike Mills. View a higher quality version.
06/11/08 by mark in art, music, video. No Comments »
Dr Steven Kurtz Cleared of All Charges
Incredible news from the Critical Art Ensemble’s Defense Fund: after four long years, all charges against Steven Kurtz were dismissed as “insufficient on its face” and the US Department of Justice did not appeal within its thirty day window to do so.
Finally vindicated after four years of struggle, Kurtz, asked for a
statement, responded stoically: “I don’t have a statement, but I do have
questions. As an innocent man, where do I go to get back the four years the
Department of Justice stole from me? As a taxpayer, where do I go to get
back the millions of dollars the FBI and Justice Department wasted
persecuting me? And as a citizen, what must I do to have a Justice
Department free of partisan corruption so profound it has turned on those it
is sworn to protect?”
If you are not familiar with what happened to Kurtz after his wife died, below is an excerpt from his wikipedia page that details some of the story of his arrest.
In May 2004, Kurtz called 911 to report the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, by congenital heart failure. In order to create their art installations the Kurtzes sometimes worked with biological equipment and had a small home lab and petri dishes containing biological specimens. At the time of Hope Kurtz’s death they were working on an exhibit about genetically modified agriculture for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Buffalo police deemed these materials suspicious and notified the FBI, who detained Kurtz for 22 hours without charge on suspicion of “bioterrorism.” Meanwhile, dozens of federal agents in hazardous material suits raided the Kurtz home, seizing books, computers, manuscripts, and art materials, and removing Hope Kurtz’s body from the county coroner for further analysis.
Kurtz was allowed to return to his home one week later, after the Commissioner of Public Health for New York State had determined that nothing in the home posed any sort of public or environmental health or safety threat, and that Hope Kurtz had died of natural causes.
In July 2004 a grand jury refused to bring any “bioterrorism” charges, but did indict Kurtz on federal criminal mail fraud and wire fraud charges. Also indicted was Dr. Robert Ferrell, Professor of Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, who served as a scientific consultant on Critical Art Ensemble’s projects. The charges concern the way Kurtz and Ferrell allegedly ordered and mailed the non-pathogenic bacteria used in several museum installations. Under the USA PATRIOT Act the maximum possible sentence for these charges has increased from five to twenty years in prison. [wikipedia link]
06/11/08 by mark in art, politics. No Comments »
murakami
I finally got to see the Murakami exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum this weekend. I cannot recommend this exhibition highly enough. The retrospective of his work is both stunning and awe-inspiring. If you are in the NYC area and haven’t seen it yet, the exhibition is up through 7/13.
05/31/08 by mark in art, photography. No Comments »
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