more pictures from re:birth

_posted in dayedayerocks | 30 November 2005

well it only seems fitting that i got a hold of more pictures from the re:birth exhibit today, seeing that today is the last day (as they say, thirty days has september,
april, june and november, sp)... so make your way over to the shutterbook photo album for re:birth... one more person to track down in hopes of getting more pics...

_in ronen news

ronen, which is one fourth me and which i heart, has opened commonwealth, so if you're interested in buying some sweet art, sanithna has some really nice pieces for sale... make your way over to the commonwealth! do. it. now.

_soundcheck: frou frou, details

new music wednesdays

_posted in new music wednesdays | 30 November 2005

here's another round of new music... loving everything listed... check it out if you get a chance...

im so preparing myself for cesaria evora at ucla in march... a friend of mine put me on to her some years ago and ive been hooked ever since... she's called the barefoot diva, and believe me its for a reason... portuguese is one of the most beautiful languages, and she makes it even more lovely...

_portuguese language albums
cesaria evora: cabo verde , cafe atlantico , sao vicente
seu jorge: cru and the life aquatic studio sessions
lura: di korpu ku alma

_other good shite
clap your hands say yeah : clap your hands say yeah
danger doom: the mouse and the mask
crooked fingers: dignity & shame

_soundcheck: seu jorge, cru

"it's worth getting on a plane"

_posted in film | interactive narratives | photography | web | 27 November 2005

been extremely busy and then took some time to enjoy the turkey holiday... hope it rocked hardcore for everyone... tons of links from the digital storytelling side of the web...

came across this organization called bridges...

_quote

Bridges to Understanding gives voice directly to youth around the world. Our interactive online program connects middle school students in the developed world with their contemporaries in indigenous communities. Central to the program is digital storytelling mentored by professionals and created by students. We provide the tools and training that enable them to tell stories from their own lives and communities.

check out two pieces that really made me smile, maji: water shapes culture in takaungu and dwight's adventure, away from the "res"


from brooklyn to pristina was a p.o.v docu that aired in july... and the from brooklyn to pristina interactive piece about how a gun can be purchased legally in the us and then end up in kosovo, in a guerilla war.

the pineros: men of the pines is a wonderful piece about the "ghost workforce" of latinos doing some serious hard, manual labor.

_quote

They are pineros, the men who work in the pines. They are the major source of manual labor in America's forest industry, the muscle behind the Healthy Forest Initiative - often paid in tax dollars to work on public lands. And they are being misused and abused under the noses of government officials.

_magnum in motion

found this awesome little treat... magnum in motion is exactly that... digital storytelling from the horses mouth, as they say... magnum photographers giving you some insight into their process, their politics and their experiences.

i found the two larry towell pieces very interesting.

backstage with larry towell is filled with little nuggets of wisdom. I love the fact that he takes a DAT with him when he photographs, to record ambient noise... viewing photography is sometimes a very isolated event, to have the sound that was at one time attached to an image, takes me a lot closer to these people with no names and somber expressions.

looking at towell's pictures of el salvador in his land and identity interactive essay, reminded me of a movie i saw some months ago, innocent voices. i can't even get into how that movie affected me. i can't recall ever seeing another movie that had me weeping and gnashing my teeth in fear and disgust... thinking about it almost brings me to tears... it was honest and brutal, about war's affect on children. if you get a chance to see innocent voices you should...

paul fusco's the bitter fruit annoyed me a great deal, in terms of how the design and the audio just didnt work well together...it made the short comments seem rather choppy and caused things to seem non-cohesive. this picture above is one of my favorite from this essay, this woman is angry and you can see it... you can check out the the bitter fruit website to see more pictures, sans audio... if you get a chance make sure you read the comments... some touching and pointed messages...

thomas dworzak's piece on new orleans and hurricane katrina, ghost town, was definitely on point... it's really interesting to see how a foreign photographer views an american tragedy...

magnum in motion's 42 seconds on 42nd street

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From New Year�s Day 2005 to the end of February, Magnum Photos altered the behavior of Times Square pedestrians. Using a digital billboard on the corner of 42nd and 8th, Magnum presented a series of photo essays that caused New York�s frantic crowds to slow down and look up.

style is the easy part of culture... jesse kornbluth offers up a personal view of the sixties, with lots of quotables... take 3: the '60s kids

_soundcheck: john lee hooker, serves you right to suffer

i'm on dat kryp-to-nite to the throat of your daughter

_posted in music | 18 November 2005

alright, too often me and the sp have conversations about how much i HATE rap... HATE southern dirty down south lame ass rap... don't get me wrong, me and the kast, as in the outkast, have had nothing but a straight love affair from day one... and that's because dre and big boi and everybody they deal with is tight, shorty... you heard... and the last "HATE rap" rant, put me on to this... cause yes, i slept on the whole big boi presents... didnt even know it existed... loving this shit... with all my southern georgia peach heart... cause yes, i am on that kryp-to-nite and its the shit... as chris said, "I've never been so proud of being from the dirty dirty."

_my favorite line

from campbellton road, to cross the water, to the throat of your daughter

_lyrics

I be on it all night, man I be on it (day day) All day straight up pimp If you want me you can find me in da [Crowd] AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it) AAAHHH, (I'm on it)

_soundcheck: big boi presents, got purp? vol. 2

three the hard way biatches...

_posted in music | 17 November 2005

Fresh dressed 'cause I shop at Models
Deep in Brooklyn I ride the elevated trains
Used to ride the D to beat the morning bell
At Edward R. Morrow out on Ave L
We be grillin' cheese and flippin' flapjacks
With the diamond stylus we cutting wax
We're the super elastic bubble plastic
Got ethereal material that's straight up classic
You try to vex reject but you should respect
Or we'll have JC send you out a FedEx * 1
So don't start to flex up in the discotheque
Or we'll make you extinct tyrannosaurus rex

_soundcheck: emiliana torrini, love in the time of science

new music wednesdays

_posted in new music wednesdays | 16 November 2005

i've been listening to some really cool music lately and thought id share the goodness...

brazillian girls: brazillian girls
discover america: psychology
griffin house: lost & found
nouvelle vague: nouvelle vague and bossa nova punk covers
the incredible moses leroy: become the soft.lighties
laura viers: carbon glacier and year of meteors

i'm back home in los angeles

_posted in art | dayedayerocks | film | interactive narratives | music | news | photography | the temple | web | 15 November 2005

well, on a bed of california stars is back, since ive been told several times i need to start it back up and i am tired of sending out emails, so here it goes...

two week vacations are freakin' long! i feel like i was in georgia for a whole month. re:birth, my first exhibit, was a blast! pictures are up… hoping to add more once i can track them down.

finally finished reading, on photography by susan sontag, while sitting in airports on saturday (as in the whole day saturday). previous to sontag's passing in 2004, i had only read one of her writings, notes on "camp," which i found to be very entertaining.

there are tons of passages from on photography that do it for me, but i think these are the most interesting...

_first quote

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. Except for those situations in which the camera is used to document, or to mark social rites, what moves people to take photographs is finding something beautiful. (The name under which Fox Talbot patented the photograph in 1841 was the calotype: from kalos, beautiful.) Nobody exclaims, "Isn't that ugly! I must take a photograph of it." Even if someone did say that, all it would mean is: "I found that ugly thing. . . beautiful."

if any photographer made the ugly beautiful, it was diane arbus.

_second quote

A photograph that brings news of some unsuspected zone of misery cannot make a dent in public opinion unless there is an appropriate context of feeling and attitude. The photographs of Mathew Brady and his colleagues took on the horrors of the battlefields did not make people any less keen to go on with the Civil War. The photographs of ill-clad, skeletal prisoners held at Andersonville inflamed Northern public opinion-against the South. (The effect of the Andersonville photographs must have been partly due to the very novelty, at the time, of seeing photographs.) ... Photographs cannot create a moral position, but they cnn reinforce one -- and can help build a nascent one.

regardless of one's views on the war in iraq, final salute is a very touching piece, and most definitely an "unsuspected zone of misery." there is a great deal of "appropriate context of feelings and attitude" on both sides of the debate on iraq.

_another quote

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again. Photographs like the one that made the front page of most newspapers in the world in 1972 -- a naked South Vietnamese child just sprayed by American napalm, running down a highway toward the camera, her opens open, screaming with pain--probably did more to increase the public revulsion against the war than a hundred hours of televised barbarities.

(nick) ut cong huynh's image of a "a naked South Vietnamese child just sprayed by American napalm, running down a highway toward the camera, her opens open, screaming with pain." Winner of the World Press Photo, 1972. a portion of the "hundred hours of televised barbarities."

_in other news

the uc system's investment committee voted to divest from sudan! the recommendation goes to the board of regents in january for an up or down vote.

well it's started... i have no idea where this damn thing is suppose to go or exactly what it's suppose to be... but hey... who doesn’t want lay their “heavy head tonight on a bed of california stars”

_soundcheck: cat power, the covers record