A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Photography
One Flickr user‘s view of the LomoWall in Trafalgar Square, an exhibition of Lomography, as Lomo-style camera use is called. The exhibit runs until Sunday by which time the organisers are hoping to have accumulated 100,000 Lomography pictures, making it the largest LomoWall to date.
Update: the BBC discovers the Cult of the Lomo.
Out this evening to Trinity Church again to see Deaf Center as part of a Type Records-themed event. Greg Haines set things rolling with a mysterious e-bow/autoharp performance where he managed to coax from a stringed instrument the kind of sounds more usually associated with electronic music.
Deaf Center are Norwegians Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland who were assisted this evening by Kristin Evensen Giæver on wordless vocals. Much of their set seemed to be versions of their Pale Ravine album which sounded a lot more substantial played live. Especially good were the clouds of noise with shifting harmonic layers, the kind of thing Boards of Canada do then often spoil by introducing a plodding rhythm. Deaf Center avoid plodding rhythms and are all the better for it.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Machinefabriek in Manchester
• Trinity rendezvous
• Helios in Manchester
Nijinski I (2006).
More photographs and montages by Hernan Gimenez at his ArtsCad pages. Via Fabulon.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The art of Andrey Avinoff, 1884–1949
• The Decorative Age
• Images of Nijinsky
Queensboro Bridge, exposures made for experiment, February 9, 1910.
From New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac at the Museum of the City of New York until October 28th. Via Boing Boing.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Luther Gerlach’s Los Angeles
• The Bradbury Building: Looking Backward from the Future
• Karel Plicka’s views of Prague
• Downtown LA by Ansel Adams
South London Dreaming by Tom Phillips (2007).
Tom Phillips’ ongoing art project, 20 Sites n Years, is now presented on his site with a facility which allows the viewing of all the photos for each location. (And if you haven’t come across the project before, the specifications are here.) Nice being able to step through the photos year by year especially if you don’t have a copy of Phillips’ Works and Texts. In an earlier description of the project he speculates on its possible manifestations in the future since the plan is that it be continued indefinitely after its creator’s death. This small web manifestation is one development that wouldn’t have been anticipated in 1973. Other possibilities, such as the likelihood of South London being eventually submerged by a rising Thames, were fanciful in the Seventies but no longer seem so remote.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Tom Phillips blog
• 20 Sites n Years by Tom Phillips