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Rineke Дейкстра-Buzz Клуб / MysteryworldПетък, 28 август, 2009 Аз изследване на проекта в момента, това е свързани с потапяне и включва деца, слушане на музика. Танцът е нещо, което съм мислил за преди и понякога пост за нещо, което аз винаги съм се чувствал сякаш отивам да се стигне, в някакъв момент. Така че моите криволичещ път ме доведе до тази брилянтна работа, която съм отчаян, за да видите изложени. Спомням си, за да видите Дейкстра изложени в Амстердам и имаше фантастична видео на тийнейджърка пее песен, самостоятелно съзнание и колеблив. Това ме накара да мисля за "Сватбата на Мюриел", сцена, където тя седи Пред огледалото пеене "Dancing Queen". Тези танцови видеоклипове изглежда да има тези качества и др. Аз се опитвах да мисля за начини за изолиране на този въпрос в открит събитие с помощта на осветление. Но това работи прекрасно, само с използване на фона близо до действието. Време е да преосмислим малко и идват в една и съща тема от малко по-различна посока, може би в ситуацията в страната или нещо ...
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These Japanese commercials made me think, not for the first time, that pretty soon some bright spark’s going to make a “live action” TV show that stars both toys and children; Toy Story except with the product actually on-screen. They’re for a Japanese pasta sauce (the pepper characters are the product’s mascot). The styling reminds me of Loretta Lux and there’s a similarly weird off-kilter vibe to them. Salon reports on a new USAF ad campaign in “War Is Not A Video Game”. The ad, above, looks exactly like it should be one of the fake ads in “Starship Troopers”, except without the irony, the intelligence, or the bugs. I’m researching a project at the moment, that’s related to Immersion and involves kids listening to music. Dance is something I’ve thought about before and occasionally post about- something I’ve always felt like I’m going to arrive at, at some point. So my meanderings have brought me to this brilliant work, which I’m now desperate to see exhibited. I remember going to see Dijkstra exhibited in Amsterdam and there was a fantastic video of a teenage girl singing a song; self conscious and hesitant. It made me think of “Muriel’s Wedding”, the scene where she’s sitting infront of the mirror singing “Dancing Queen”. These dance videos seem to have those qualities and more. I was trying to think of ways to isolate the subject at an outdoor event- by using lighting. But this works beautifully; simply using a backdrop close to the action. Time to rethink a bit and come at the same subject from a slightly different direction, maybe in a domestic situation or something… I was approached recently by Weiden Kennedy in Tokyo to pitch for a Playstation ad called Playface. The agency ended up going with Timothy Saccenti, who pitched the idea of ramping and making the ad very macro, really zeroing in on each expression. Just after the ad came out, Kotaku reported on Phil Toledano’s reaction to it; the guy never tires of making accusations, even though he must know by now that he wasn’t even the first to shoot this generic subject in this particular way. I wasn’t going to post about this because it’s too boring for words, but one good thing has come out of it- I’ve come across some more people who’ve done similar things, by looking through the comments sections of some of the posts about the ad. Anyone who reads this blog will have seen a bunch of stuff that I’ve posted before about people who’re inspiring to me in this respect- everyone from Andy Warhol to Francois Truffaut to Godfrey Reggio. This video has a quality to it that’s remarkable. A group of young soldiers alternate between trying to flush out some insurgents from a building and pounding it with heavy fire. Eventually they hit it with a barrage, go back in and find the corpses. It’s the mixture of palpable terror and the weird spacial relationship between them and the insurgents, that makes the video so extraordinary. There’s only a few feet between the spot where they’re being shot at and flee for their lives, screaming, to the place where they feel safe enough to let their weapons drop and curse in frustration. As if it’s a game or a hunt. Their dialogue is also amazing- there’s a rawness to it that says everything about their youth and the pressure they’re under. Mind Hacks has an interesting post giving links to videos and articles about trance states in various cultures; Trance is usually described as involving ‘dissociation’ – originally defined by the French psychiatrist Pierre Janet as the ‘unconscious compartmentalisation of normally integrated mental functions’. Dissociation is thought to underlie a wide range of phenomena, including hypnosis, reaction to trauma, trance and some forms of spirit possession, hysteria, conversion disorder and, more controversially, multiple personality disorder. One of the best guides to the range of experiences and the possible neuroscience behind these states is an excellent article by anthropologists Rebecca Seligman and Laurence Kirmayer. One notable omission from the list on Neuroanthropology is video of the female possession rituals of the Zar Cult from Northern Sudan which has been quite widely discussed in the anthropology literature. There’s some brief footage of it online and in another video anthropologist Gerasimos Makris discusses the structure and social meaning of the possession rituals. The Wallpaper July Issue is devoted to sex and features a video and stills they commissioned for “Immersion”. You can see the video above, or go to their site, where the screen is a lot bigger. A friend of mine saw the images in the magazine and pointed out that they’re stylistically very similar to my gamer kids pictures, and had I considered exhibiting them together? Bless. But it was gratifying that the thought occurred to him as soon as he saw the images. The experience of doing the shoot was actually really nice, very relaxed and easygoing. The idea was to create a shoot that didn’t feel like a shoot- and certainly in the kitchen area, where the crew were, it felt like an open house rather than a studio. It’s an area that I’ll develop further, for sure. Anna, an acquaintance who works at Jezebel, put up a story on the Wallpaper video. It’s pretty clear from the comments that people like the subjects of the video, which is great. Normally when you watch a porn video your brain is almost short-circuited by the action- I posted quite recently about how fMRI studies show that the brain starts simulating sex as soon as you see the action. So it’s interesting to record this type of activity without the part of the image that’s going to limit it to titillation. And I think the combination of that, with the further intimacy of them talking about their experience of porn is quite powerful. However, if they came across badly or were unsympathetic, it would be exploitative. This video made me do a double-take and think “is that CGI?” I guess the dubbed sound doesn’t help, but the way the phone transforms is straight out of a horror movie. The Thing maybe. Oh wait a minute, there’s a web address at the end- www.no-evil.net. It’s a viral! An odd one though- probably not CGI and yet somehow not real. Probably just that the sound effects are too much. Although I won’t sacrifice my own microwave to replicate this experiment showing the surprising effects of nuking a mobile phone, I’m glad that one of the web’s many amateur scientists did so and recorded the outcome.