A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
Another European artist who enjoys invented and ruined architecture. There seems to be little information about him or his work online, however, aside from the links below.
• Interview at ArtsLivre (in French)
• A gallery page
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The fantastic art archive
Michael Moorcock: His own private multiverse
| Andrew McKie reviews The Metatemporal Detective.
After writing about Abelardo Morell’s remarkable camera obscura photographs last month, filmmaker Allie Humenuk left a comment about her documentary which explores Morell’s work and working methods.
Shadow of the House is about looking closely. Filmed over seven years, it is an intimate portrait of photographer Abelardo Morell, revealing the mystery and method of his artistic process. The narrative skips across time and space from his early childhood escape from Castro’s regime to his status as a world-renowned photographer. The film explores his daily working life as an artist and his eventual return to Cuba after 40 years of living in exile. Shadow of the House uncovers the deep layers of a man who is pushed to confront his past and his familial allegiances as it explores his unique artistic vision.
The film website has a lot more information, including details of North American screenings, and a trailer.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Abelardo Morell’s camera obscura
• Abelardo Morell
It wouldn’t surprise me if there are more examples of the fashion world borrowing the Flandrin pose but this is the only one I’ve seen so far, part of a 1998 art-inspired photo series by Mario Sorrenti for Yves Saint-Laurent. There don’t seem to be any larger copies available, unfortunately.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Last Suppers and last straws
• The last circle of the Inferno
left: tits t-shirt by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren.
right: the Hipp Chronoscope via io9.
A new year brings new blogs which is perhaps just as well seeing as the old year drew a line under some regular reads.
The Look, “Adventures in pop and rock fashion”, began posting a couple of weeks ago, spinning off from Paul Gorman’s book of the same name. Pieces there which immediately catch my eye are a skate through Billy Bowers’ outrageous clothing designs and a nice potted-history of the “tits tee”. I’d not realised before that the history of this latter creation goes back beyond punk to the early Seventies, another example of the evolution from post-psychedelic freakery to punk being a process of gradual elision, not the clean break that lazy commentary often suggests.
Also arriving (and noted everywhere by now) is io9, a new addition to the Gawker network, which looks at sf-related culture. I’ve already had a traffic spike from there after they linked to my Hugh Ferriss post and it’s good to see that Bldg Blog‘s Geoff Manaugh is among their contributors.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Ave Atque Vale!