"Cinema, it is the age of the machine. Theatre, it is the age of the horse." Leger fascination with film was deep-seated. He belief that "the lens of the motion-picture camera was the eye of the truly modern man". Leger explained that "cinema turned my head around" and I wanted to make a film at any cost and I made Ballet mecanique. The title alone suggests that, like the Purist, Leger was striving to combine the contemporary and the timeless, in this case the energy of the machine and the elegance of the classical ballet. Leger in Ballet mecanique firmily rejected abstraction: "This film is objective, realistic, and in no way abstract". The film -which, though not abstract, is certainly not narrative- opens with images of a marionette in relief (based on Charlie Chaplin and related to an earlier, unrealized film project of Leger's) and soon moves into images of a girl on a swing (Katherine Murphy, wife of Dudley Murphy also composer of the film), followed by images of a woman's lips and teeth as well as ordinary household objects (wines, bottles, a straw hat, etc.), isolated in space and photographed in close-up. The film explores notions of rhythm (both fast and slow) and of the integration of man and the machine; as in Leger's paintings, "the machinery becomes anthropomorphized, the figures mechanized". For example, a washerwoman is shown climbing a flight of steps from the Seine carrying a load of laundry on her shoulder. As soon as she reaches the top step, she reappears, Sisyhus-like at the bottom. This sequence is repeated in the film a total of twenty three times, interspersed with imaginery of a machine piston in motion, suggesting a parallel between the two repetitive actions.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Bush Bye Bye Party
Cualquier excusa es buena para armar una fiesta!
Pero esta es simplemente genial...!
Tenemos que decirle adios a este "idiota"
Y asegurarnos que no venga otro Bush
Entra al siguiente link:
blow job - "ARTE" (a huevo..!)
Para empezar este '09, los dejo con este videito, por si acaso alguien todavia duda que un "blow job" no sea arte.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Friday, December 19, 2008
MY PLAYGROUND - TEASER
My Playground es un documental que juega con el espacio público. Su estreno sera en el verano de 2009, y podras disfrutar de interesantes perspectivas de arquitectos, filosofos, urbanistas, politiocs, entre otros. Asi como de la participacion del team jiyo (de la disciplina denominada: parkour); de tomas hechas con gran angular y en cámara lenta. Disfruta el Teaser, con el edificio Mountain Dwellings de la firma de arquitectos daneses Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) reciente ganadores del premio al mejor edificio de viviendas en el World Architectural Forum.
Diesel Wall - Barcelona '08
The sky above is the only constant factor on any building (façade) for sure, always present, with clouds circling around it, creating a natural atmosphere. Inside the building we have another type of sky: full of wires, ducts, and pipes that give life to the building, forming lines of communication, air condition, power, and electricity. This image is a contrast between natural and artificial sky, a wire/cloud passing by and reflected on the wall of the building.Diesel Wall N.Y. '08 - Competiton
The flatness of the wall gets disturbed with his own trace. Virtually manipulated by the chaos of the surrounding environment. Having 'natural and artificial' conditions: the street's dynamics, like the cars movement, the intersection of daily pedestrian, and the conglomeration of people around a point at certain hours, plus air flow waves, or the shape of passing clouds. The result is a deformed vector and/or wire, which starts to sew him. Forming 'a cross section' and creating a series of shadows on the canvas wall; overlapping one another, until giving birth to his halo: - the bluish tone on the image ghosted out behind the main vein (the continuos reddish line).
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