"'Creating the Spectacle!' is a ground-breaking series of live art and film events that record an underwater wheelchair as it flies through the water with its human occupant."
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302 PostsHamburg's garbage men portray their city in the Trashcam Project — with their garbage containers. Standard 1.100 litre containers are transformed to giant pinhole cameras. With these cameras the binmen take pictures of their favourite places to show the beauty and the changes of the city they keep clean every day.
And here's a shot of one of the men positioning the camera:
The entire set is on the project's Flickr page.
A while ago, I received a text from my friend, Nirvan Mullick, asking if I was going to be in LA soon as he was working on a film project he thought I might want to join in. "Sort of a flash mob situation." Unfortunately, I was in going to be in Toronto on the event date so wasn't able to participate.
Lo-and-behold, the film is now finished and it's lovely:
Update for A Tiny Bell :
You probably had already seen that video as it went crazy viral, inspired a movement, and resulted in this sequel:
What's Nirvan up to now? His latest project is What a Trip: The Rick Doblin Story. You can watch the trailer below and donate to the film on its GoFundMe. More films and info at Nirvan.com.
"As long as something creates a reaction it’s alive," says Maurizio Anzeri, the Italian born artist from the city of Loano. Known for his series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures, a term used by himself to describe his portraits.
More of Anzeri's work can be seen in this Yatzer profile:
The Embroidered Secrets of Maurizio Anzeri | Yatzer
Known for his series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures, a term used by himself to describe his portraits, Maurizio Anzeri’s work will be presented this month at the Baltic and will mark his first solo show in a major UK institution. Yatzer caught up with Maurizio Anzeri and discovered the man behind the embroidered vintage photographs who is enjoying an extraordinary moment in his career.
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Dirtbombs' drummer Ben Blackwell has created a map of Detroit of labels offering "vinyl releases throughout all eras". He also has a blog.
The Kelly Writers House is a 13-room house on the University of Pennsylvania campus that serves as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region at large.
Archives of the Fellows from the Kelly Writers House - mp3s and videos from some great writers, including my main dude, David Milch, Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Didion, Art Spiegelman, EL Doctorow, Richard Ford, Robert Creeley and many others.
Terrific short film on custom motorcycle builder Shinya Kimura of Chabott Engineering.
More on Shinya Kimura on his official site:
shinya kimura|chabott engineering
After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark Hogancamp built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populated the town he dubbed "Marwencol" with dolls representing his friends and family and created life-like photographs detailing the town's many relationships and dramas. Playing in the town and photographing the action helped Mark to recover his hand-eye coordination and deal with the psychic wounds from the attack.
Here's the trailer for the documentary about Marwencol:
As I write this, the film is streamable on Kanopy, the terrific streaming service that's free to sign up to with most library cards.
And you can visit Mark's website at Marwencol.com.
Update, 2018: they made a pretty bad movie out of this, starring Steve Carrel.
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