Robert Frank

An older doc on Robert Frank that popped-up on YouTube;

 

Sarah Greenough on "The Americans";

 

 

 

 

Stan Brackhage's Mothlight

 The most extraordinary experimental film we'll be looking at is Mothlight, a physical object collage on film. Although viewing it in facsimile digital video form rather film is not ideal, the magic still comes through...what is projected here is not an optical rendering of things, instead it's the semi-transparent things themselves. 

Writer J. Hoberman explains thus...

...Mothlight was created by painstakingly collaging bits and pieces of organic matter—moth wings, most notably, as well as flowers, seeds, leaves, and blades of grass—and sandwiching them between two layers of clear 16-mm Mylar editing tape."

 And points out that the significance is this...

"NOT THE CAMERA BUT THE PROJECTOR; not a representation but the thing itself, a ribbon of once-living stuff preserved in celluloid coursing along, flashing before our eyes: It was neither Muybridge’s 1879 motion studies nor the Lumière brothers’ 1895 actualités nor even Peter Kubelka’s imageless flicker film Arnulf Rainer (1960) that truly manifested the very essence of cinema but the film-object Mothlight, a three-minute-thirteen-second motion-picture collage assembled and printed by Stan Brakhage..."

You can find the entire article here...

https://www.artforum.com/print/201207/j-hoberman-on-stan-brakhage-s-mothlight-31955

The question we're left with is this...can digital technology be similarly manipulated to bring us so close to the real?

Princesse Elena: Yves Klein's Favorite Model

How many paintings did you take part in?

Quite a lot - we were doing steady ones and ones where he was pulling me and it looked like I was diving and there were the ones on round paper, then there were the fire and water prints.
He was a hard worker.

Did you feel like you were being exploited?

No, not at all. When an actress does what a film director asks her to do, she's not exploited, she's just co-operating.
He was like a director in a way and we were doing exactly what he wanted us to do, but we also wanted to do it.

Did he ask men to do the same?

I think he did it with himself and perhaps a couple of men.
There are some. I think there is a huge one where there is a man flying around in space in a print.
But perhaps it was a hint to the fact there should be more women artists.
There are not so many in history so far.

A lot of people would say he was the artist and you were the object.

No, we were subjects.
The model traditionally was always an object for the painting, object for the public.
But there, especially when we did the presentation in public, we were all subjects.
Also, for the public, we were acting.
We were not just still objects.
I think things are a bit more complex.

How do you feel about the works now?

Oh, I like it very much.
I will disappear sooner or later, unfortunately quite sooner because I'm nearly 82.
But there will be some prints of mine around.
There could be some DNA in the blue paint!

Elena Palumbo-Mosca interviewed by the BBC on October 21, 2016.

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Sky Hopinka

This is a certain body
2019
Inkjet print, etching
13h x 13w in

Sky has made a huge impact on a little corner of the artworld over the last decade. The work is strongly content driven and considerably more poetic than narrative. Although working primarily in video his work meanders into whatever territory it needs to medium wise, with projects often combining many forms as listed in the Series of Work section of the artist's web site;

http://www.skyhopinka.com/

Also from the website is this bio;

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside, California, Portland, Oregon, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media. 

Unlike most of us Sky can really do well as an interview subject;

https://www.pbs.org/video/native-filmmaker-1674509247/

 

Garageband How-To

So Charles Cleyn, a popular Logic Pro tutorialist, has put out a large number of Garageband tutorials in the last year that are really well done! 

https://www.youtube.com/@CharlesCleyn/videos

This would be a good one on the basics;

If you want to try out the midi controllers in the lab this will get you going;

The only thing that may be lacking in Charles's offerings is a quick video dedicated to pro-level mastering in Garageband. This one by Colin Cross would get my recommendation;