The past inside the present

Camilla Akrans borrows some Thirties’ style for the New York Times.

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Horst Torso by George Hoyningen-Huene (1931).

“Horst” was Horst P Horst, Hoyningen-Huene’s lover at the
time and later a respected fashion photographer for Vogue.

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Divers by George Hoyningen-Huene (1930).

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Fashion shoot by Camilla Akrans for the New York Times, March 2007.

Previously on { feuilleton }
• The Decorative Age
• Vintage magazine art II

Moonlight in Glory

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Great abstract animation from the Trollbäck design company for Moonlight in Glory, a track from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne. Via Design Observer.

In a similar vein there’s Bruce Connor‘s 1981 film for another track, Mea Culpa. Connor also produced a film for America is Waiting from the same album. Continuing the interpretative theme, Eno & Byrne made the album tracks publicly available in 2006 to potential remixers. Some results of that, Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet, can be found here and here.

Update: the original Moonlight link was deleted but you can still see the video on their site if you hunt through the sample of works shown on the Trollbäck home page.

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The abstract cinema archive

Previously on { feuilleton }
• Tiger Mountain Strategies
• Generative culture
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts