GIMME A GUMMO OFFICE

Cupboards and tables and whiskers on kittens

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with strings

These are a few of my favorite flings

Marktplaats and second hand poodles

Doorknobs and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles

Kringloop that sell the moon and weird things

These are a few of my favorite flings

Girls in black dresses, white masks against splashes

  Paint that stays on their nose and eyelashes

Black from what melts into things

These are a few of their favorite flings

Then there's spraypaint

And the guys sing

When I'm feeling had

I simply remember my favorite things

And then I don't feel bad

Watch that film now

And be amazed

NINO ROTA

A special selection of the composers work:

8 1/2

LA STRADA

LA DOLCE VITA

ROMEO AND JULLIET

AMACORD

IL GATTOPARDO

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

I was struck by the works of artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. You can browse his website and see so many interesting ideas  / photos / films. There is enough for everybody. Some things will remind you of Eliason, some of Abramovich. But it's more this time captured then looking like.

Lozano's Website

Here are some of his videos:

It also reminded me of an interview by Chris Dercon in Dutch Newspaper NRC [5-3-2012] where he makes a statement about the enormous lust for participation, visitor's of museums have nowadays. There is a link, but only available for subscribers of NRC

Quote: 'De Tate biedt een vorm van troost' Volgens Chris Dercon, directeur van Tate Modern, is de nieuwe museumbezoeker geen consument meer maar deelnemer. Er is een enorme zucht naar participatie ... 

GARDENING [6] DEREK JARMAN DUNGENESS

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was an English film director who made a famous garden on the shingle shore near Dungeness nuclear power station. The barren grounds on which he planted his garden was always under attack of the sea winds. So he went with the flow...

http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/derek_jarman_garden_prospect_cottage_dungeness

And there is a fantastic book:

SONARSOUNDS 4 CHRISTMAS

Old already but a delight to watch whenever...


Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
The man, the maker: Renaud Hallee

WHERE IS ROB?

Let ImprovEverywhere entertain you with their film "Where is Rob?"  
Improv Everywhere, if you don't yet know them, do improvisations in which they ask a lot of amateurs to participate. Never out to harm anyone, always on the go to surprise and awe.
More? Have a look at The Grocery Store Musical.

AUSTIN KLEON

Austin Kleon is a poet.
Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need.

Watch his site www.austinkleon.com and permanently new work on his blog.

There's also a revealing review of his book [and more] on YouTube.

DEBT & TETRIS = DEBTRIS

Visualising the UK's national debt: David McCandless updates Tetris for the recession.

Visualizing something we all think about some moment of the day, can be rather scary... Yes we know, but all those naughts, don't make it easy ot comprehend. Well, for me this film visualizes but the dept of our depths... it goes much to fast...

This is brought to you by my favorite website: information is beautiful

There is also an US version.... Waiting for a Greek one.

And then [august 1 / 11] I found this: The Truth About the Economy

CLEARLY VISIBLE CLAIRE DE LUNE

Music to look at:

Either like this...

Or like this:

Or in an orchestral version, made by Stokowski.

 

It could end up in a Fantasia and being left out...

Or even end up in the Fellini movie "E Le Nave Va..."

HERZOG AND DE MEURON PRESSING ON A KAPOOR

There, a new building by Herzog & De Meuron, New York. Sustained by a Sculpture by Anish Kapoor.

Not a fan? Never mind, images and film will do their work!

Press here, to see Kapoor's inspiration.

Look at this great film!


56_Leonard_Herzog_and_Demeuron from TronicStudio on Vimeo.


Mmm, if the link is not working, press here to see the film.

GARDENING [1] PATRICK DOUGHERTY

Sculptor Patrick Dougherty has been creating stick-work since 1982. He has exhibited all over the world, from the swamps of Ireland to American city centres. The scale and beauty of his work has kept him in constant demanD. There are films of his works op both YouTube and Vimeo.

Present absences: A peripatetic video of a temporary site-specific sculpture by Patrick Dougherty from Ian Russell on Vimeo.

ABOUT DANCE [5] NDT ROTATING ROOM

ABOUT DANCE [1] IL CONFORMISTA [dance scene]

DO SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY?

On his YouTube channel TEDtalksDirector, Ken Robinson lectures on creativity. He can talk with wit and humor, like any intelligent stand-upper ...  
In the lecture: "Do schools Kill Creativity?" he shows, how the world is changing and must change with education.
I watched it, thaught and made some wishes for this school year!

ABOUT FILM [2] WOMEN IN FILM

Same recipe as the male version, again Philip Scott Johnson, now presenting 80 Years of Female Actresses in Cinema...

Her are; Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry

Music this time: Bach's Prelude from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, performed by Yo-Yo Ma


Women In Film from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

ABOUT FILM [1] MEN / CLEVER COMPILATION

On Bach's Allemande from 'Suite for Solo Cello No. 3 in C Major', Philip Scott Johnson compiled some of the most beautiful actors, in an overwhelming chain of changing faces...
80 Years of Male Actors in Cinema in 80 faces.

Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Jack Lemmon, Sean Connery, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Peter O'Toole, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Warren Beatty, Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Harrison Ford, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Tim Robbins, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, George Clooney


Men In Film from Philip Scott Johnson on Vimeo.

SNOW BY TOKUIJN YOSHIOKA

Tokujin Yoshioka, the man that designed the fabulous Hermès window display december 2009 [see previous post] did an installation september 2010 [both in Tokyo] called SNOW. Rather appropiate these days... It was a feather snowscape, build up in a 15-metre wide glass space. The dynamic installation was made to move by visitors passing by and was part of the Sensing Nature exhibition at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum.

Watch the video:


Snow by Tokujin Yoshioka from mocoloco on Vimeo.

And watch Tokujin's website for more fascinating venues.

HOW TIME LAPSES

Natalie's parents decided at birth, like any new parents, to take a lot of pictures of their daughter. But where most parents desire to record daily how their child grows up, waines after a few weeks, they kept up with it for ten years, every day.
Finally they put all these pictures in, what they call "stop motion human growth". This gives a pretty cool overview of Nathalie growing up.

NARCISSUS

This little bewildering piece of film already left quite some of my friends in awe...
It rumbles through your mind...
What do we see?
Is this what we see?
Is it what we want to see? 
What does the actor want us to see?
Does he want us to see this?

I [honestly] did not know James Franco, so I did my googling and first of all found quite some articles about him; putting the G question... Is he, is he not? To tell the truth, this film gives an answer. To put it bluntly, he loves himself. We see a boy leaning over in a pond, staring at his reflection and falling in love... The fascination comes from the privilege presented to us, to be able to witness this...

For meeting Narcissus.... Watch: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/12/12/magazine/14actors.html#2

EAMES & EAMES X 10 : 10

Sure we have seen it all and it was already awsome in its days. But nevertheless let's take another look and appreciate what the Eameses did for us. At the speed light up and down again. Times ten or divided by it... Here goes.