Aug 27 2010

Pocket cinema: Paradjanov – A Requiem by Ron Holloway

Documentary film ‘Paradjanov – A Requiem’ (1994) by film historian and critic Ron Holloway is a real gem. Armenian Sergei Paradjanov is one of my favorite film directors and Sayat Nova, a piece of art that always leaves me speechless… pure beauty…

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Aug 20 2010

Announcing ‘Arduino – The documentary’

The first documentary about open source micro-controller Arduino and synonymous software, the main suspect for lots of great DIY inventions in wearable technology and performance, will be on view during summer 2010 according to the website Arduino: The Documentary

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Photo above: Arduino Duemilanove taken from www.smartprj.com
Photo bellow: Lilypad Arduino taken from clemenswinkler.com

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Aug 20 2010

Body cinema: William Forsythe – One Flat Thing

Ivana Jozic‘s interview came just in time to start my covering of William Forsythe‘s web project and data vizualization concept titled  Synchronous Objects… Let’s check his piece One Flat Thing – Reproduced (2000) as a first post regarding this topic.

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One Flat Thing by William Forsythe
Photo bellow: Michel Cavalca (c)

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Aug 11 2010

Body cinema: Agata Olek’s actions and performances

She will crochet us all, my dear friendz… her finger army has no mercy… Agata Olek‘s designs, actions and performances recorded by Andreas Troeger aka TechonologyArtist…

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Agata Olek: Crocheted Bike, photo by Christopher Stribley (c)

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Jul 30 2010

Knitting, embroidery, crocheting and needlepoint in animation and stop motion

Animation, stop motion and computing have a lot of possibilities and techniques for expressing ideas and stories… Following last posts regarding textiles, I simply got an idea to collect few animated and stop motion films which were designed with the help of knitting, crocheting, embroidery and needlepoint…

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Science Project: Temperature by Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
hand-stitched cotton doily, 2005

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