a wind recording in olivebridge
The rain is just starting but the wind is really picking up. We’re expecting to lose power any gust now…
In the recording the wind may sound light at first – wait for it…
hand over the seeds and nobody gets hurt.
made contact with a new friend today.
TEATROROTATE, screening at the French Academy in Rome, 3-4 October
As part of the “Theatre of Exhibitions #3” at the French Academy in Rome, Artist, Filmmaker and French Academy Resident Laurent Montaron is presenting TEATROROTATE, a film screening including 175 Rome Churches and The Syphilis of Sisyphus.
Bionic Eyes: Sensors that use lookout’s brainwaves to spot trouble | Ars Technica
The system is basically an automated way of flagging every image that the visual system thinks may contain something different, and ensuring that the operator becomes aware of it.
via Bionic Eyes: Sensors that use lookout’s brainwaves to spot trouble | Ars Technica.
Photos of Rome Mosaics in NY Review of Books
I’ve got a couple photos in the current issue of The New York Review of Books, to accompany the article “A Masterpiece on the Rise of Christianity” by Garry Wills.
The apse mosaic of Santa Pudenziana and a detail of the apse in Santa Maria in Domnica. Thanks again, Jana!
175 Rome Churches (animation)
175 Rome Churches sequence – online version and documentation. Includes a list and interactive map of all the churches.
During a period of 11 months I walked and explored the city, visiting, documenting, and researching 175 churches from paleochristian to baroque. I was drawn to the inherent desire in classic church architecture – the focus, symmetry, and implied movement. Over time I found that I was making the same photograph in each space - aligning myself to the center axis, focusing on the apse of the church.
All churches are thinly present throughout the sequence. As the animation progresses each image becomes more opaque and then recedes into the mix.
An earlier version of the sequence, 129 Rome Churches, was presented 30 May 2012 at the American Academy in Rome during the School of Fine Arts Concert. It was shown as a visual complement to Lei Liang’s In Praise of Shadows (2005), a piece for solo flute.
maryreidkelley.com – site update
I’ve updated maryreidkelley.com with Mary’s new drawings, and also made it compatible with more devices (iphones, ipads, etc).
MOCA And The Art Of Being Unreasonable – Rob Storr
“The business model that Broad and Deitch have brought to MOCA isn’t the wave of the future, it is the wave of the recent past and the cause for the economic disaster were are mired in nationally.”
Analysis of the MOCA situation by Rob Storr – Huffington Post article
We’ve Seen This Movie Before – Roger Ebert on Aurora Shooting
“Should this young man — whose nature was apparently so obvious to his mother that, when a ABC News reporter called, she said “You have the right person” — have been able to buy guns, ammunition and explosives? The gun lobby will say yes.”
