http://www.zazaziza.com/fornogoodreason/category/somethingscopes/

Wow.

First, Polaroid discontinues instant film and now this. It’s been an interesting month.

Awesome! There is a web community of people who like to shoot Polaroid film:http://polanoid.net/ 

In other news, Jessica and I visited the Andre Kertesz show at Silverstein Photograhy in NYC this weekend. Beautiful work. The tiny size and perfect detail really draw you in. So sad.

I feel lucky to have seen these photographs in person.

Machine with Wishbone by Arthur Ganson.

Is Arthur Ganson the turn-of-the-century Jean Tinguely? His work sure is fascinating.

More on him:
Machine with Wishbone
His MIT Museum Exhibition
from Sculpture.org

I’ve been doing some reading/digging about video art and early motion graphics. Tangentially related, I realize, but interesting simultaneously. Here’s a link pile:

Golan Levin, “Computer Vision for Artists and Designers: Pedagogic Tools and Techniques for Novice Programmers”
Jonah Warren, “Unencumbered Full Body Interaction in Video Games”
OskarFishinger, Advertisment for the Oklahoma Gas Company circe 1955
Len Lye, filmaker, Wikipedia entry
“Cross-Influence in Abstract German Animation of the Silent Era”, Jim Middleton

A collection of the work of Casey Reas, including his masters thesis on behavioral kinetic sculpture. Here’s another collection (groupc.net), and here’s the most recent collection (reas.com). His thesis references Tinguely, Calder, Gabo, Paik and others. Mentions Karl Sims’ evolved virtual creatures, which blew my mind years and years ago.

I just happened across this bit in Robert Henri’s “The Art Spirit”:

Art is not in pictures alone. It’s place is in everything, as much in one thing as another. It is up to the community as a whole, in conduct, business, government and play.

We will never have an art America until this is understood, and when this idea is really understood it will bring us about as near the millennium as we can hope to get.

“The Art Spirit” was published first in 1923. Recently we have come through a millennium, but still lack that understanding. This, of course, is the least of Americas worries in the toddling years of our new century.

Apple has posted a feature on Kerry Conran, the creator of “Sky Captain.” The step-by-step “Anatomy of a Shot” in the sidebar gives us a peek at how they got that 1930’s look.

B&W composite + Ted Turner-esque colorizing = instant pulp movie