Art & Design, Whatever Else - Friday, July 3, 2009
Drunk in an Elevator
The Standard Hotel in NYC worked with artist Marco Brambilla on a video installation for the hotel elevator titled “Civilization. When you go up in the elevator, the video goes down towards hell and when you go down, it goes up towards heaven. In a Q&A session with the artist posted on Glossy, he discusses how they tried inducing motion sickness on 30 individuals with moving footage on the elevators before the installation, with no one getting sick. Well, you might not hurl while sober, but the general demographic that frequents the Standard Hotel probably has a few drinks and lines of cocaine in them when taking the trick up to their room, so I bet there have been few 3AM elevator mishaps since the video was installed.
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Art & Design - Jun 9, 2009
Welcome to Your Future
These are digital illustrations, from Berlin-based artist/designer David Löhr, commissioned by the agency Generation Digitale. These images might seem like a new form of Futurism for their embrace of technological hybridism, but the minimal softness doesn’t suggest the fascist ideology, of the futurists, that war and industrialism will save the world. Rather they seem to convey a romantic notion of cybernetic organisms as a future utopia without the industrial straight lines of modernism. Continue…
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Film & Video - Jun 25, 2009
Will You Please Keep That Alien Quiet, I Am Trying To Sleep
Here is the 2005 short film Alive in Joburg, which sets up the premise for the upcoming film District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp. The film takes depicts aliens that are stranded in South Africa and quarantined in a slum of Johannesburg called District 9. You might already know that I am referring to aliens in the extraterrestrial sense but the human social commentary is apparent. District 9 is set to be released in August 2009.
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Auditory - Jun 7, 2009
End of the World Playlist
It’s been a crazy week and I am just now getting around to an update, so I thought I would just add to your anxieties with an end of the world playlist. So load them on up your technologic audio device and head to the park for some ultraviolet rays.
There are some pretty amazing mixes on here including a super friendly dance floor mix of Heads Will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “Off with your head, dance till you’re dead, heads will roll”.
Playlist
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