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links for 2008-07-16
July 15, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: godard, movie
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Mon Oncle
July 09, 2008
Categories: cinemas, found image
Tags: movie, photography
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links for 2008-02-25
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Tarantino and Avary decided to write a short, on the theory that it would be easier to get made than a feature… the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. Each eventually e
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Del.icio.us API / help. This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time.
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article describing a simple use of the delicious API on a mail server
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tracking software for website statistices – tehy pretty much evolved form the evrsion i use to know a couple of years back… it seems like they developped quite neat services and smart tools
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enables you to have your posts submitted automatically to social bookmarking sites like delicio.us
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a nice summary of a few features and softwares to betterise your experience with delicious bookmarks
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this gallery has both onsite and online exhibition
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an overview of the reputation economy, using delicious – the via: tag to give credits; it’s weird this system could not be automatically generated when you use the “copy this” functions.
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a kind of GTD tricks using GMail as the main tool – it’s nice to see good old emails back on tracks in the middle of RSS. it’s a “now old” media on the internet and pretty much everybody feels comfortable with it. A bit of automation oculd bring emails to
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a unique flexible identity system which help to login multiple online services and centralise information regarding personal electronic presence
February 25, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: advertisement, aggregator, analytics, api, architecture, art, auckland, automation, body, book, business, car, code, coding, color, community, connection, delicious, dev, development, digital, documentation, electronic_presence, email, fashion, filter, gallery, get, gmail, google, gtd, ideas, identity, interface, internet, lifehack, login, management, marketing, microformats, monitoring, movie, network, networking, nz, optimization, organisation, photography, picture, plugin, post, privacy, process, productivity, protocol, reputation, RSS, r_echos, service, shoes, social, software, statistics, submission, tagging, tip, tool, tracking, traffic, twitter, url, vehicle, visualization, webdev, webservice, wikipedia, wireless, wordpress, workflow, __ofs
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links for 2008-02-22
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a mini server; quite amazing stuff: my mac mini looks like big next to it
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this post is about font size and how to determine it; very interesting reading for anyone presenting information on screen.
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how to handle hanging ponctuation on the web, with explanation on the css side of things – with pierre we are developing set of javascript to handle those. it’s nice to see many effort pointing towards betterising typography on screen/web
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how to exclude your own visit from google analytics stats, a practical howto. interesting technique involving the use of a cookie, which is signaling who you are to the tracking system.
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Today, we had a meeting Duncan and I – and it’s always a pleasure to discuss about architecture, cycling, design, business, web things, and life in general – those guys are not only doing nice products for your bicycle needs: they *are* nice!
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film director of Dead man’s shoes & This is england, both out on Warp films.
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the website state: Warp Films is an independent film production company which aims to mirror the ethos of its partner music label Warp Records
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known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues
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Warp X is hoping to “retox” the world of British film by providing a one-stop-shop for creative film talent
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php and apache to mod rewrite – the beginning of a home made class – interesting reading
February 22, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: analytics, bicycle, bike, cinema, code, company, design, dev, director, electronic_presence, england, film, filter, font, frontyard, furniture, google, hardware, howto, linux, movie, movies, music, outdoor, pc, php, ponctuation, production, rack, storage, text, typography, uk, url_rewrite, video, web, webdesign
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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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links for 2008-02-03
CountPosts v 1.0 – WordPress Plugin – Đukijev blog count visits on wp for each post (not when loged-in as admin) (tags: plugin wordpress statistics)
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (tags: wordpress xml google sitemaps)
Street fashion photos from street style blogs. Feedshion collect the best street fashion photos from all the greatest street style blogs for your viewing pleasure. (tags: blog clothes fashion feed)
r-echos » Blog Archive » Would-be skyscraper structure (tags: architecture volume preview)
Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress · Dagon Design show the latest post for each category (tags: wordpress plugin category)
r-echos » Beta version A new interface for R-Echos, with featured republished articles, most read articles and a visual zaitgeist (tags: internal interface beta r_echos visualisation project info_hub)
YouTube – The Singing, Ringing Tree Blowing wind is making music (tags: art music sculpture outdoor)
Objets livres [design éditorial] The printed thing considered as object. In french (tags: accessibility book design typography edition editorial_design)
robotlab – art | installation | research Some very nice pictures of a factory’s robot used to draw portrait: the performance enlighten proprerties of both universe: automated production and art of portraiture (tags: robot drawing portrait representation art performance)
Numéro deux – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘Am I a landscape or a factory’ Godard, via Amandine, about the industrial robot which draw portraits (tags: godard quote movie relationship)
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » 3 Sites That Had Me Thinking a nice way of introducting links and thoughts – the selected websites are very interesting too. (tags: site link blog)
February 03, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: accessibility, architecture, art, beta, blog, book, category, clothes, design, drawing, edition, editorial_design, fashion, feed, godard, google, info_hub, interface, internal, link, movie, music, outdoor, performance, plugin, portrait, preview, project, quote, relationship, representation, robot, r_echos, sculpture, site, sitemaps, statistics, typography, visualisation, volume, wordpress, xml
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