January 2012
22 posts
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Sound artist and composer Leif Inge created 9 Beet Stretch by using digital tools to stretch a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony so that it takes twenty-four hours to unfold.
The result is a remarkable remaking of Beethoven as massive soundscape: a piece in which familiar motifs develop twenty times more slowly than we’re used to, at times lovely, at times overwhelming.
It is...
Watch“But what you always strive for is an intensification of nature…so often the northern landscape is a cloud of confusion of shapes and colours and you have to reduce it to some kind of order…that tree sticking up in the centre is better moved to the side…anything you need you will find.”
December 2011
22 posts
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Automatism, Causality and Realism: Foundational Problems in the Philosophy of Photography. (Link)
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In August 1922, Scientific American published an article explaining their position that a silent film would be unsuccessful in presenting Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity to the general public. They argued that only as part of a broader educational package including lecture and text would such a film be successful. Scientific American then went on to review frames from an unnamed...
WatchAnathema (2011), 60s loop, Microsoft Powerpoint projection
by David Semeniuk
Watchotto-obrien:
Canadian Landscape
Radford Crawley, 1941, 17 min 28 s
This documentary follows painter A.Y. Jackson on his canoe trips and on foot to the northern wilderness of Canada in autumn. This leading member of the Group of Seven discusses his approach to his subject matter and shows some of his paintings.
Canadian Landscape by Radford Crawley - NFB
The Call of the North
Excerpt of a speech given by PM Stephen Harper to an audience in Yellowknife (source):
The understanding that most Southerners have of the North has been shaped more by romantic imagery than practical experience. We grew up on the history of explorers like Hudson, Franklin, Frobisher and Amundsen. We read the stories of writers like Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Jack London...
Paris, cultural capital of the world.
Paris of the East may refer to:
Baku, Azerbaijan
Beirut, Lebanon
Bucharest, Romania
Budapest, Hungary
Casablanca, Morocco
Ghazni, Afghanistan
Hanoi, Vietnam
Kolkata, India
Lahore, Pakistan
Shanghai, China
Warsaw, Poland
November 2011
23 posts
WatchDavid Semeniuk, 2011