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3D block type – Marcel Pagnol
September 20, 2008
Categories: movie, typography
Tags: 3d, block, font, title, type
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Bill Murray
Just watched the ghostbuster series. Far less exciting than when i was kid but still nice wiht a certain retro charm; i really like the car with that steampunk feel.
Later I googled for one of the actor, Bill Murray (Peter Venkman) and found out about this behaviour that reminded me of Richad Stallman’s web to email:
Being very detached from the Hollywood scene, Murray does not have an agent or manager and reportedly only fields offers for scripts and roles using a personal telephone number with a voice mailbox that he checks infrequently. This practice has the downside of sometimes preventing him from taking parts that he had auditioned for and was interested in, such as that of Sulley in Monsters, Inc, Bernard Berkman in The Squid and the Whale, Frank Ginsburg in Little Miss Sunshine and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
* Bill Murray – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
** Richard Stallman’s web to email: it is also linked to the electronic presence concept
.September 16, 2008
Categories: movie, offline
Tags: business, distant, electronic presence, telephone
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LIP
LIP logo reminded me the MIT Press logotype; we are speaking about it in R-Echos issue 1
I saw this logotype in Godard’s “Ici et ailleurs” (here and elsewhere). LIP factory was an experiment in the self management of a factory in the 70’s in France (read more about LIP factory).
August 19, 2008
Categories: designing, movie, politic
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Koyaanisqatsi, living technology
Koyaanisqatsi is a wonderful filmed statement
on how technology is shaping our world, our lives, our mind…
Yesterday, I stumbled upon a website of friends of mine ‘Un Peu De Cinema’ (a little bit of movies); I quite liked the way he summarised the movie ‘Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia’ (1974) by Sam Peckinpah (112 min) with all the killing scenes, in a post called Bang Bang. I was left wondering if I could find an excuse to do something similar with a movie I would like: not to break the plot, but just to speak about it.
I finally found an excuse.
Yesterday evening, we watched ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ – an amazing movie from 1982, directed by Godfrey Reggio, with the music composed by Philipp Glass, and a cinematography by Ron Fricke. This is a one hour twenty minute of beautiful and meaningful images: slow motion and time-lapse sequences, the movie is recording the contemporary state of our planet; with the advance of technology, automation, industrialisation.
Somehow it made me think to a couple of things:
1/ the digital pieces produced by ThomasTraum (aka Thomas Eberwein aka half of DigitalClub) with his fascination for particles and volumetrics 3d associated to electronic music. Thomas will be featured on ‘Advanced Beauty’ a massive HD-DVD project initiated and curated by Matt Pyke from Universal Everything.
2/ ‘Man with a movie camera’ – an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, by Russian director Dziga Vertov; this 1929 movie is sharing some of the cinematographic techniques and the subject with the ‘Koyaanisqatsi’. The crowded urban landscape are definitely reminiscent.
Interestingly, out of the ordinary situations, we can find beautiful instants: at some point, to illustrate this post, I decided I would take a picture of each and every scene that struck my mind and catch my attention. I would present them the same way as Harry did for his ‘Un Peu De Cinema’ – I ended up with around 70 images. Obviously it was not possible.
I then decided to select the best of the best, the one I would prefer… a hard choice to make.
First selection left me with 23 pictures. At each selection step, I was reducing the number of images you would see here; finally I was left with the 4 images below which are not supposed to be a summary of the film, but simply some sort of immobile quote of beautiful animated sequence of images.
From Wikipedia, about Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance
The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse photography of cities and natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means ‘life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance’, and the film implies that modern humanity is living in such a way.
The film is the first in the Qatsi trilogy of films: it is followed by Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002). The trilogy depicts different aspects of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Koyaanisqatsi is the best known of the trilogy and is considered a cult film. However, due to copyright issues, the film was out of print for most of the 1990s.
It’s not that we use technology,
we live technologyIn a short documentary about the film, Essence of Life (included in the 2002 DVD release), Reggio states that the Qatsi films are intended to simply create an experience and that “it is up [to] the viewer to take for herself what it is that [the film] means.” Reggio said in Essence of Life “these films have never been about the effect of technology, of industry on people. It’s been that everyone: politics, education, things of the financial structure, the nation state structure, language, the culture, religion, all of that exists within the host of technology. So it’s not the effect of it’s that everything exists within [technology]. It’s not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe…”
February 04, 2008
Categories: data beautification, experiments, movie, thinking loud
Tags: culture, movie, society, technology
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