lately

A year of many new beginnings, a lot of hard work, new connections & revisiting old, family histories & adventures. And it's only just begun.

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spinning in the boiler house // John Singer of fieldtone at MassMoCA in Stephen Vitiello's All Those Vanished Engines

a short film by my man, as we continue to spin up some new creative projects & release them into the world

melting men

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Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo's Melting Men is a series of installations exhibited in public places around the world, designed to bring attention to global warming & its disastrous effects on the world's ice caps & climate in general. Made of 1000 figures cast in ice & seated on the sunlit steps of a Berlin concert hall, the piece pictured above was sponsored by the WWF to coincide with their release of a report detailing the effects of climate change in the Arctic.

Interview with Azevedo here

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mechanical device from 1890 that mimics birdsong // via taste of thunder

happy weekend

I.
What we call a beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.

II.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

--T.S. Eliot

Thanks, Sara xo

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Blood on a Feather // Sarah Hepburn & Mikkel Elzer at the Festival of Endless Gratitude

the glowing word

Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus flooded Melbourne's Federation Square for the month of June with 10,000 glowing books that flowed into a street below. Literature versus Traffic, an installation for the city's Light in Winter festival, was created from books taken out of circulation by area public libraries & affixed with LED lights. Taking over a public square and a lane on a busy thoroughfare, the illuminated pages created a temporary reading library that invited people to stop & browse. Words as fuel & vehicles.

from here via here

thank you, fieldwire

humanæ

Brazilian artist Angelica Dass has embarked upon an ambitious project, Humanæ, where she hopes to document the full range of human skin tones. Sampling pixels from a photograph she's taken of the model's face, she matches their skin tone to a specific pantone color. The background is then colored in the same pantone hue, creating not only a compelling document, but a beautiful & timeless portrait.

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photobooth

I love photobooth shots. Who doesn't? Such magical lighting, makes everyone look famous & other-worldly.

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listen

It's World Listening Day.

new revolutionists

Laura Burhenn, singer-songwriter & frontwoman for the Mynabirds, has launched a photographic campaign to capture images of modern female revolutionaries. Launched in conjuction with their latest album, Generals, The New Revolutionists was inspired by the album's namesake photograph, Richard Avedon's The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Unlike the rather smug looking woman bedecked in their sashes & finery, Burhenn's vision of a revolutionary is someone who is ready for action, & not afraid to get their hands dirty in the process. The portraits she is collecting are commissioned on a nominative basis, and, according to Burhenn:

... are visually inspired by Avedon’s classic portraiture, Native American and soldier portraits, and iconic photos of notable women who are looking directly into the camera with an intensity, a ferocity — total and clear vision — and power. The image is meant to capture the spirit of a woman the instant before she would go into a metaphoric battle for everything she believes in.

...this project aims to shine a light on women making a difference — often on shoestring or nonexistent budgets — in their own communities all over America, despite the powers that be.

from here

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In Ictu Oculi by Greta Alfaro. Thanks, Willow!

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Vieux Kanté au kamélen goni. Incroyable.

behind a hill

documentary of modern New England musicians, featuring many friends, by friends

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Iva Bittova / Ne nehledej / concert with Bang on a Can Allstars

tantric modernism

At first glance these might appear to be newly discovered works by abstract master Robert Ryman or suprematist maestro Kasimir Malevich. They are, in fact, Tantric paintings by Hindu devotees from a tradition dating back as far as the 1600s. Franck André Jamme, French poet & traveler, began collecting pieces of this nearly forgotten artistic tradition while on expedition in India in the 1980s. Tantra Song, available at Siglio Press, is a published collection of Jamme's finds, uncannily modern feeling works with timeless devotional & spiritual qualities.

In Jamme's words:

Perhaps rarely in the universal history of painting have works at once so mysterious and simple, yet so powerful and pure, ever been produced – a bit as if, here, man's genius had been able to assemble almost  everything in almost nothing.

from here

book here

interview here