yasujiro ozu - hitokomakura & one stone. and arcs and ears.

2 recent releases of sound artists dealing with "transcendental" filmmakers (ozu & bresson).yasujiro ozu:and/oar's 2 cd set: yasujiro ozu - hitokomakuraand/oar has invited sound artists to choose one or more "pillow shots" from ozu's films and create sound works.and/oar goes on to explain: "pillow shots" are short poetic pauses that appear between the acting segments of his films. the term "

edward hopper

east river 1920-23the sheridan theatre 1937new york movie 1939r3017 r3170i have been drooling over the edward hopper catalogue raisonné now for a while (it is $250.00). since i can't afford it, i look at it from time to time at work. here are some images from volume IV, the cd-rom of his works, including his journals.a great book on hopper's journals/notebooks is: edward hopper: a journal of

«der process»

page 1page 30from the kafka project the trial, "im dom" chapter

venezia, ghost

venice at night

fritz arno wagner, cinematographer & 13 stills from mabuse

fritz arno wagner (1894-1958)key cinematographer of the german expressionist movement, wagner worked most notable with directors f.w. murnau, g.w. pabst and fritz lang. wagner received his training from the academy of fine arts in paris, then went on to work at pathe film company as a clerk.his most noteworthy contributions can be seen in murnau's nosferatu, pabst's die liebe der jeanne ney and

dreaming out of windows

joseph cornell's dreamsdecember 18, 1965:dreaming out of windowsmarch 8, 1968:surprise span of the night - going on 5 amvs. earlier awakenings in halluc. experience...eggs + nest converted into childrennovember 15, 1969:field mousedream of mouselive coals walking right into them unscathednew book of catherine corman's anthology of dream entries from cornell's diaries, published by exact change of

antonio lópez garcía, from la mancha

maria, 1972, pencil on paperhome of antonio lópez torres (uncle), 1972-75, pencil on paper2 drawings by antonio lópez garcía, painter from la manchasome fine sites to cogitate on:tim lowly siteantonio lópez garcía: timeless realism in a spanish key(which has this quote from lópez garcía: "the best art of [antiquity] achieves an emotional intensity that transcends individual achievement, its

bright lights of moscow stations flashing into view and vanishing again behind me

i was on a train, travelling by day, but it was winter-time - late december, the very depths - and to add to it the train was heading north - to leningrad - so it was quickly darkening on the other side of the windows - bright lights of moscow stations flashing into view and vanishing again behind me like the scattering of some invisible hand - each snow-veiled suburban platform with its fleeting

extract - portraits of soundartists

new release from nonvisualobjectsformat: book (hardcover, 96 pages) + 2 cdslimited edition: 500graphic design my raphael mosercd 101 keith berry | finger pointing at the moon02 richard chartier | a field for recordings 203 taylor deupree | live in osaka04 heribert friedl | nbvto05 richard garet | précis06 andy graydon | microclimates for paliku07 bernhard günter | listen to what you see (audio---

having replied with his "good evening", he became surpised at himself

many fine books on melancholia,that i look forward to browsing when visiting the home of mr. arthur de eriomémtitle from f. dostoevsky: the eternal husband 1870 (page 154 pevear/volokhonsky)

untitled 1978, michael heizer

from wright auction catalogue 22 may 2007, lot 508

prehistoric architecture in the eastern united states

page 75, perkins: scott, mississippiprehistoric architecture in the eastern united states by william n. morgan, 1980 mit pressgreat book on pre-land art structures in the united states, specifically native american architecture from about 2200 bc to ad 1500.

the essential cinema, condensed

top 30 from the essential cinema list1. robert bresson: pickpocket 19592. andrei tarkovsky: andrei rublev 19693. akira kurosawa: seven samurai 19544. michael snow: la région centrale 19715. ernie gehr: signal-germany on the air 1982-856. jean-pierre melville: le samouraï 19677. john ford: my darling clementine 19468. william wellman: the ox-bow incident 19439. bela tarr: satantango 199410. howard

the tin star

an exciting opening sequence found in anthony mann's the tin star, 1957.masterfully photographed by loyal griggs.the sequence is 10 shots over 2 minutes and thirty seconds. henry fonda as a bounty hunter rides into town with a dead man.reminiscent of tarkovsky, or the ending of the passenger, but with less attention to its form.also, take a look at this months film comment for an interesting

prouvé in queens

jean prouvé house beside the queensboro bridge, awaiting its sale at christie's.more images here

the dark side of nature

some nice books to read during the summer or just finished:-fyodor dostoevsky, the idiot 1898 (everyman's library)-konstantin mochulsky, dostoevsky: his life and work 1967 (princeton)-leonid tsypkin, summer in baden-baden 1981 (new directions)-robert walser, selected stories 1907-1929 (nyrb)-francis ponge, selected poems 1935-1974 (faber and faber)-george macdonald, the complete fairy tales mid

parker 51 & chopin

some beautiful things (shot in soft focus like garbo)parker 51sparker 51 ink montblanc meisterstück hommage à frédéric chopin