there are several good cinema bookshops in london. well worth checking out are
- the filmstore at the bfi on the southbank, very good selection of books on all aspects of film including storyboarding, techniques and sections on individual direcctors,+ good selection of dvd's including those by artists. www.filmstore.bfi.org.uk
- cinéphilia 17 sclater st at the top of brick lane, again a good selection including some more esoteric stuff. www.cinephilia. co.uk
- walter koenig books 80 charing cross road. also at the serpentine gallery in kensington gardens. some unusual stuff, imported from the main store in cologne. many artists books.
w
Sunday 28 December 2008
Saturday 22 November 2008
Wednesday 19 November 2008
digital cities
Digital Cities exhibition, Building Centre
Digital Cities looks at how digital technology helps us understand and improve the planning and experience of our city. It looks at the impact on movement in cities: how communication and information technologies enhance a person´s experience of place; how people interpret cities with the use of technology; and how mapping influences the design and planning of cities. It also discusses some of the 'big brother' issues such as privacy and security.
The exhibition is presented through a number of research and commercial projects which use technology to provide planning and design and communication tool for the city. It contains live and interactive presentations in a number of digital media, showcasing work by Aedas, atmos, BT, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Cityware, Colin Buchanan, Farrells, GMJ, Hank Haeusler, Intelligent Space, Minimaforms, Ordnance Survey, Proboscis, SENSEable, Smartslab, Space Syntax, UCL, Zmapping
Private View: Thursday 20 November 18.30-21.00
Digital Cities: London's Future
http://www.buildingcentre.co.
The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
21 November - 24 January 2009
Sunday 9 November 2008
Thursday 30 October 2008
early films
it may have been made in 1929 but check out dziga vertov's man with a movie camera. pretty much all the tricks you need had already been invented then...
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=man+with+a+movie+camera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
the lumière brothers first films, dating from the last years of the 19th century are on
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj0vEO4Q6s
most of moholy nagy's films can be found on line. there is an interesting film on marseille, le vieux port
http://de.youtube.com/results?search_query=moholy+nagy&search_type=
moving up to date check out bill viola's reflecting pool (you need to be patient and stay with it...)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4498864086957786589
a book of bill viola's writings on video and installation is/was avaliable - bill viola reasons for knocking at an empty house, writings 1973-1994.
w
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=man+with+a+movie+camera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
the lumière brothers first films, dating from the last years of the 19th century are on
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj0vEO4Q6s
most of moholy nagy's films can be found on line. there is an interesting film on marseille, le vieux port
http://de.youtube.com/results?search_query=moholy+nagy&search_type=
moving up to date check out bill viola's reflecting pool (you need to be patient and stay with it...)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4498864086957786589
a book of bill viola's writings on video and installation is/was avaliable - bill viola reasons for knocking at an empty house, writings 1973-1994.
w
Tuesday 21 October 2008
camera novels
Today on this island summer came ahead of time...
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
pub New York Review Book Classics
A strange but excellent novel of a mysterious island with cinematic connections. The atmosphere of this book was used in the long and intriguing (and frustrating!) french film Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Resnais.
Nobody knows how to tell this story, in the first or second person singular or in the third person plural...
Blow Up and other stories
by Julio Cortazar
paperback
A series of tales of the unexpected, often involving parallel worlds, and including the short story Blow Up about the curious relationship between a man and his camera. This story was later made into the film Blow Up by Michangelo Antonioni, a swinging London mystery, well worth checking out.
w
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
pub New York Review Book Classics
A strange but excellent novel of a mysterious island with cinematic connections. The atmosphere of this book was used in the long and intriguing (and frustrating!) french film Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Resnais.
Nobody knows how to tell this story, in the first or second person singular or in the third person plural...
Blow Up and other stories
by Julio Cortazar
paperback
A series of tales of the unexpected, often involving parallel worlds, and including the short story Blow Up about the curious relationship between a man and his camera. This story was later made into the film Blow Up by Michangelo Antonioni, a swinging London mystery, well worth checking out.
w
Monday 20 October 2008
TESTING...
Hello,
David Lynch seems to be getting his name mentioned a fair amount in tutorials so thought it might be worth mentioning him on here as someone that people might want to check out. I made films in the 3rd year of my degree in Manchester and I found his stuff very useful as it's not necessarily complex technically (in some instances) but extremely effective.
His stuff, on the whole, is very stange, but he has a knack for taking the familiar and sometimes banal and creating amazingly extraordinary narratives within them. Films like Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive do this.
I have quite a few of his films on DVD / on my computer so I'm sure i could share these should anyone wish to watch some.
Sorry if you already know this, but thought it was worth mentioning just in case.
Bye!
Stuart
David Lynch seems to be getting his name mentioned a fair amount in tutorials so thought it might be worth mentioning him on here as someone that people might want to check out. I made films in the 3rd year of my degree in Manchester and I found his stuff very useful as it's not necessarily complex technically (in some instances) but extremely effective.
His stuff, on the whole, is very stange, but he has a knack for taking the familiar and sometimes banal and creating amazingly extraordinary narratives within them. Films like Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive do this.
I have quite a few of his films on DVD / on my computer so I'm sure i could share these should anyone wish to watch some.
Sorry if you already know this, but thought it was worth mentioning just in case.
Bye!
Stuart
Knowledge Pool Initiation
Below is the start of a DS17 knowledge pool. A databse of books, films, web sites, reference material and events listing etc. that members of the unit contribute to.
Films:
"Short Cuts" (1993) by Robert Altman
"Slacker" 1991 by Richard Linklater
"Wings of Desire" (1987) by Wim Wenders
"The End of Violence" by Wim Wenders
"London / Robinson In Space [1994]" by Paul Scofield
"Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003) by Thom Andersen
Animations:
BLU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
Artists working with time sensitive installations :
Stan Douglas
Usman Haque
Jim Campbell
Danny Rozin
Jeff Wall
Diller and Scofidi o
Lorenzo Hemmer (currently at the barbican)
reading
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" By Edward R. Tufte "Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions): Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)" By Steven D. Katz
"Fabrication: The Designers Guide" By Peter Silver, William McLean, Simon Veglio
"Learning from Las Vegas" Venturi Scott Brown Iconography and Electronics Upon A Generic Architecture, A View From The Drafting Room," by Robert Venturi, MIT Press, 1996
"4dspace: Interactive Architecture" (Architectural Design)by Lucy Bullivan "Event Cities" by Bernard Tschumi "The Manhattan Transcripts" By Bernard Tschumi
"Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today" by Brian McGrath and Jean Gardner "Cinematic storyboarding"
"envisaging information" edward tufte
Websites:
http://architectradure.blogspot.com/
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=32
http://dorkbot.org/
http://www.aether.hu/
http://www.dillerscofidio.com/
www.kinetica-museum.org/new_site/newsletter/BishopsgateFlyer.htm
Storyboard Sites:
http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource
http://www.qui-gonline.org/features/storyboarding.htm
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html
https://secure.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/movingshorts/mediastudies/materials.html#storyboards
https://secure.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/movingshorts/glossary.html#focal
Films:
"Short Cuts" (1993) by Robert Altman
"Slacker" 1991 by Richard Linklater
"Wings of Desire" (1987) by Wim Wenders
"The End of Violence" by Wim Wenders
"London / Robinson In Space [1994]" by Paul Scofield
"Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003) by Thom Andersen
Animations:
BLU: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
Artists working with time sensitive installations :
Stan Douglas
Usman Haque
Jim Campbell
Danny Rozin
Jeff Wall
Diller and Scofidi o
Lorenzo Hemmer (currently at the barbican)
reading
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" By Edward R. Tufte "Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions): Visualizing from Concept to Screen (Michael Wiese Productions)" By Steven D. Katz
"Fabrication: The Designers Guide" By Peter Silver, William McLean, Simon Veglio
"Learning from Las Vegas" Venturi Scott Brown Iconography and Electronics Upon A Generic Architecture, A View From The Drafting Room," by Robert Venturi, MIT Press, 1996
"4dspace: Interactive Architecture" (Architectural Design)by Lucy Bullivan "Event Cities" by Bernard Tschumi "The Manhattan Transcripts" By Bernard Tschumi
"Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today" by Brian McGrath and Jean Gardner "Cinematic storyboarding"
"envisaging information" edward tufte
Websites:
http://architectradure.blogspot.com/
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=32
http://dorkbot.org/
http://www.aether.hu/
http://www.dillerscofidio.com/
www.kinetica-museum.org/new_site/newsletter/BishopsgateFlyer.htm
Storyboard Sites:
http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource
http://www.qui-gonline.org/features/storyboarding.htm
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/gramtv.html
https://secure.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/movingshorts/mediastudies/materials.html#storyboards
https://secure.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/movingshorts/glossary.html#focal
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