June 07, 2008
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Tags: article, computing, diffusion, digital, future, hommage, humanity, internet, lifestream, manifesto, music, organization, preservation, representation, research, scenario, science, technology, theory
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April 04, 2008
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Tags: astronomy, blog, body, culture, editor, editorial_design, gtd, howto, icd, improvement, lifehacks, logic, magazine, math, medecine, publishing, reference, science, technology, typography, visual_culture, _solaar
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Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables – About 5 ye
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March 20, 2008
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March 12, 2008
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February 20, 2008
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Tags: api, application, data, database, innovation, internet, mashup, microsoft, news, object, semantic, services, tangible, technology, tools, trend, web2.0, writing
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what vs. how (tecznotes)
nice writing about design process at stamen. It is nice to see Pierre and I, we are actually quite right with all the thoughts we are giving about ElectroNest and how to manage the company/work/life – it’s all about utopia! :)
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internet usage statistics origami – data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
a very nice tangible visualisation of internet traffic and flows; it reminded me the logo electronest designed for my own electronic presence on http://www.jeromerigaud.com
(tags: visualisation tangible schema statistics sculpture origami internet traffic paper)
Declutter Your Desk how to make space on your desk – everything is hidden in the shade, still accessible but not messing all around (tags: ***** desktop hardware ideas lifehack organization productivity)
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography I quite liked the book of Robert Bringhurst – now, it seems like there is a nice web equivalent with the very specific issues of typography on screen (lower resolution, less control) (tags: screen typography webdesign ***** design display)
Creating a Color Scheme some explanations and insights about the color parameters and values I used to manipulate in picture editing software without knowing what it meant exactly (degreee, etc.) (tags: color howto tutorial photoshop hue degree)
How To: Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks WordPress with a bit of subtlety: separating comments and trackbacks (tags: wordpress hack code custom)
Koyaanisqatsi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “It’s not that we use technology, we live technology” – amazing and brilliant movie. it is the first of a trilogy (tags: film inspiration slow_motion technology nature society explosion)
CommentPress an amazing plugin that let’s you comment posts on a per paragraph basis; it brings feelings somehow of taking notes with a pen in the margins of a real book. (tags: wordpress comment plugin textuality discussion)
February 04, 2008
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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.
In 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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