SaltWater Cat

George_Hendrik_Breitner Amsterdam

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:21:42 +0200

George_Hendrik_Breitner
Amsterdam

building a pictureTake 1Aidan Celeste...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:27:00 +0200

building a picture
Take 1
Aidan Celeste 2012

www.saltwatercat.tumblr.com

building a picturetake 2Aidan Celeste...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:19:00 +0200

building a picture
take 2
Aidan Celeste 2012

www.saltwatercat.tumblr.com

kit3an: Credits: Chelsea College Art & Design (not trying...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:59:15 +0200

kit3an:

Credits: Chelsea College Art & Design

(not trying to rip this off, page just can’t be found)

gamblinginresistance: Denis Diderot “True, it is this personal...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:06:39 +0100

gamblinginresistance:

Denis Diderot

“True, it is this personal performance by recombination that may subversively elude the rigidity of a fixed medium such as the printed book or the voice on TV. Such an act of actively detouring information in a non-sequential manner by liberating thought through careful mapping was initially adopted in the enlightenment. A canonical book of the French enlightenment in 1751 was the design of Denis Diderot’s and Jean le Rond d’Alambert’s “Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers” as a descendant of one of the first books to apply cross referencing, the Cyclopaedia, published by Ephraim Chambers in London in 1728,a system of knowledge which had already prioritized an alphabetical rather then hierarchical classification (Zimmer, 2008). These actions which Michael Zimmer refers to as “Renvois”, within the hands of Diderot and D’Alambert took on a revolutionary role by the tactical restructuring of information through their Encyclopédie to inspire the reader’s own active detouring (Knabb, 1981).

Zimmer, M. (2008). RENVOIS OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. The Long History of New Media, (p. 29). Montreal, Canada.

Knabb, K. (1981). Situationist International anthology. Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets.

From,
“Exposing a Fixed Narrative in a live Network” – Aidan Celeste
Master in Fine Art, Digital Art Student at the University of Malta
Semester 1 ending February 2012

chagalov: Marcel Duchamp at home, New York, 1962 -by Duane...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:46:51 +0100

chagalov:

Marcel Duchamp at home, New York, 1962 -by Duane Michals

As I age, while I still have time, I yearn to know now, more than ever, my true self, that random and illusive thing, decorated with personality. We believe ourselves to be this kaleidoscope of passions and distractions. We are a brilliant and unknown moment, suspended between memory and anticipation, anxious in our uncertainties, and doomed to fade with our consciousness. How can such a mystery be photographed? What is left for us but amazement?
— Duane Michals, in ‘I Am Much Nicer Than My Face: and other thoughts about portraiture’ - from Los Angeles Times (1989)

from PdP

imightjustbewrong: “Are you such a dreamer, to put the world to...

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:55:52 +0100

imightjustbewrong:

“Are you such a dreamer, to put the world to rights? I’ll stay home forever, where 2 and 2 always make a five.”

"“To avoid the wrath of the authorities, Diderot and d’Alembert relied on irony, innuendo and..."

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:23:20 +0100

“

“To avoid the wrath of the authorities, Diderot and d’Alembert relied on irony,
innuendo and indirection.”

ALLOW POP UP from temporary sight ?

“For example, comments on injustice to the poor were hidden in articles on such mundane things as salt, while objectionable concepts such as “fornication” were scattered among unrelated terminology in articles on theology”

”

- ALLOW POP UP from temporary sight (?)

Charulata (Bengali: চারুলতা) (English: The Lonely Wife), is a...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:03:58 +0100

Charulata (Bengali: চারুলতা) (English: The Lonely Wife), is a beautiful film by Satyajit Ray, based upon the novel Nastanirh (“The Broken Nest”) by Rabindranath Tagore. It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Sailen Mukherjee.The film tells the story of a lonely housewife, known as Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee), who lives a wealthy, secluded and idle life in 1870’s Calcutta.

Photo

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:43:17 +0100

chagalov: Alexander Sokurov on the set of ‘Alexandra’...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:51:43 +0100

chagalov:

Alexander Sokurov on the set of ‘Alexandra’ (2007)

As soon as we cross the door [of a movie theater], one and a half hour of our life is inevitably gone. That time will never come back. Imagine what is the responsability of a filmmaker in front of those who will lose one hour and a half of their life to see his work!
— Alexander Sokurov, Interviewed by Antoine de Baecque and Olivier Joyard, Cahiers du cinéma, Janv. 1998

Just watched ‘Russian Ark’ and I can’t say that I have lost my time!… far from it.

photo from toutlecine

Carnage

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:49:52 +0100

Carnage

portisquai: Don’t question my authority or put me in the boxCos...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:25:44 +0100

portisquai:

Don’t question my authority or put me in the box
Cos I’m not
Cos I’m not
Oh go up to the king, and the sky is falling in
But it’s not
But it’s not
Maybe not
Maybe not

ikaristwin: Sight and Sound, Summer 1968

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:23:17 +0100

ikaristwin:

Sight and Sound, Summer 1968

Members of the cast & crew of Rashōmon/羅生門 (Akira Kurosawa...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:18:35 +0100

Members of the cast & crew of Rashōmon/羅生門 (Akira Kurosawa - 1950)

thedailywhat: Reimagination of the Day: In his ongoing poster...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:09:29 +0100

thedailywhat:

Reimagination of the Day: In his ongoing poster series “Movies from an Alternate Universe,” illustrator Peter Stults imagines what it might look like if modern-day movies were made during previous Hollywood eras. “Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are.”

Check out the rest here.

[mefi.]

marlboroandwhisky: “Hold me”

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:44:43 +0100

marlboroandwhisky:

“Hold me”

marlboroandwhisky: “Hard to say. Hey, you know that thing...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:32:27 +0100

marlboroandwhisky:

“Hard to say. Hey, you know that thing Dostoevsky wrote on

gambling? It’s like that. When you’re surrounded by endless

possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up. See

what I mean?”

Nagasawa

Carnage - Roman Polanski

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:50:00 +0100

Carnage - Roman Polanski

from “The Shelf Life” “Translation as...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:04:16 +0100

from “The Shelf Life”
“Translation as Detour” through Murakami.