photo – Evi Numen/College of Physicians of Philadelphia
“Through eyes as blank as a tilapia’s Stephen and Timothy Quay
contemplate a world that is curious, doubtful, beastly and deranged.
These identical twins, 63, have chronicled their world in more than two
dozen richly detailed short and full-length animated films known for
their gloomy beauty and haunting weirdness. ”
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test – some of the earliest color film…
reblogged
a website with a endless cloudy descent…
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
nicholas ray article in the
nyt…
“Working with astronomers from the Mauna Kea Volcano telescope, an
image of ‘ancient darkness’
was transmitted on New York television station MNN. Broadcast
for one minute, it revealed
darkness from the furthest point of the observed universe, 13.2
billion years ago, shortly
after the Big Bang and before Earth existed, when stars,
galaxies and the first light began to form.”
– originally seen on rhizome
‘sunset solitaire’ – 2005, joe mckay –
remixing a sunset live…originally seen on rhizome
ennio morricone interviewed over at The Quietus
Maska is the title of the new brothers quay short. Apparently it is an adaptation of a Stanislaw Lem (Solaris) story…
“Internal noise from a CCD in a light tight box is mapped to audio by sampling pixels in a Quicktime matrix and using those values to manipulate white noise. Software looks for similarity between spectrograms of the noise and a very large set of spectrograms of spoken words. When two are congruent enough the results are spoken by the computer and projected into the space. Software pans across, zooms, and changes the blur, brightness, and contrast of the camera noise, as it looks for hidden images. These are standard EVP strategies for teasing images and sounds from visual and audio noise.” – alan dunning and paul woodrow
…This space functions as a metaphor for the unstable identity of the costumed and masked female figure roaming the screen, negotiating the rolling barrier of the screen’s bottom edge.” – from medienkunstnetz