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This piece is a tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe and is comprised of photographs, a video and a slide show that present selected works dating from 1969 to 1988. The photographs focus on three traditional genres: still life, nudes and portraits. Mapplethorpe’s photography captures a stark beauty, often implying a more ominous and forbidding world of sexuality and violence. His artistic work, frequently controversial, invests his still life and portrait subjects with an erotic charge that transforms and ennobles them. Mapplethorpe’s photography captures the peak of bloom, the apogee of power, the most seductive instant and the ultimate present that stops time and delivers the perfect moment into history. Speaking to his influence on the world of modern art, photography will never be the same.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution photographs, an HD short film and a remarkable, memorable slide show.
Please visit my website to view the photographs and slide show, and to watch this short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/the-controversial-art-of-robert-mapplethorpe/This piece is a tribute to Robert Mapplethorpe and is comprised of photographs, a... more
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“Please Say Something” is a groundbreaking contemporary 3D animated short film by Irish filmmaker David O’Reilly. Currently being shown at The Sundance Film Festival, this ten-minute masterpiece firmly establishes O’Reilly as one of the most exciting and inventive young animators working today. “Please Say Something” won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and the prestigious Cartoon d’Or 2009 for Best European Animated Short Film. The film, set in the far-off future, is the story of a difficult relationship between a very emotional cat and her husband, a mouse. The raft of marital crises is shown in a jigsaw-like puzzle of 23 distinct episodes, lasting 25 seconds each, which O’Reilly describes as a “30-Second Breakneck Heartbreak Uncut Turbodrama.” The film presents a very humane story, with characters who can make you laugh and feel sad at the same time
This piece presents a number of illustrations from the film, a slide show and the animated short, “Please Say Something.”
Please visit my website to view the illustrations and slide show, and to watch this award-winning animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/please-say-something-a-breakneck-heartbreak-uncut-turbodrama/“Please Say Something” is a groundbreaking contemporary 3D animated short... more
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“Bird” is an astonishing, thought-provoking 2 1/2-minute short film by the photographer and filmmaker Andrew Zuckerman. His short film “High Falls” won the award for Best Short Narrative at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2007. “Bird” captures its subjects through a contemporary and minimalist approach, with each bird showcased on a background of pure white that illuminates its color and plumage in a way that is rarely ever seen.
One reviewer wrote, “The birds, from the intimacy of the very small to the majesty of the very large, acquire a transcendental dignity, each one becoming a god in its own universe. The powerful white light transfers its own intensity to the birds and transforms them into mythical objects of paradise, newly resplendent in all their colors.”
This piece presents a number of stunning high-resolution photographs, a remarkable slideshow and the beautiful, hypnotic short film in HD, “Bird.”
Please visit my website to view the wonderful photographs and slide show, and to watch this amazing short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/bird-resplendent-birds-on-glorious-pure-white/“Bird” is an astonishing, thought-provoking 2 1/2-minute short film by the... more
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In 2008, Patti Smith was the subject of “Patti Smith: Land 250” at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporaine, Paris. This short film was Patti Smith’s introduction to her rich multi-layered installation at Fondation Cartier in Paris, which reflected 40 years of her more personal visual art-making and creative expression. Her most recent photographic exhibition, “Objects of Life,” opened in New York City in January, 2010. Inspired by the process of discovery during 11 years of filming, this installation features a selection of photographs, video, and a rare unseen painting by Smith, as well as some of her personal belongings.
This piece presents the short film from Patti Smith’s 2008 appearance at the Fondation Cartier, photographs from that installation, photographs from her new exhibition, “Objects of Life” and an extensive slide show that includes photographs from both exhibitions.
Please visit my website to view these wonderful high-resolution photographs and the slide show, and to watch the rare short film from the Fondation Cartier:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/patti-smiths-objects-of-life-melancholy-meditations/In 2008, Patti Smith was the subject of “Patti Smith: Land 250” at the... more
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“The Third & The Seventh” is an artistic, soulful full-CG animated short film by Alex Roman. The film illustrates architectural art from a photographic point of view, where the main subjects are already-built spaces, sometimes in an abstract way, sometimes surreal. It’s the “Avatar” of the unheralded archviz genre, a video design niche that produces visualizations of architectural projects for firms and developers.
The film is an exploration of architectural design that exploits the freedom of 3D virtual space, treating the viewer to a new and magnificent way of appreciating one of the most heralded of arts. The somewhat ambiguous title refers to a philosophy of aesthetics that proclaims architecture and cinema as the third and seventh pillars of art respectively.
There isn’t any plot, but the film is quite the piece of eye candy!
This piece presents a number of wonderful high-resolution photographs from the film, a slide show and the magnificent animated architectural art film, “The Third & The Seventh.”
Please visit my website to view the stunning photographs and slide show, and to watch this amazing animated 3D short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/the-third-and-the-seventh-an-architectural-dreamscape/“The Third & The Seventh” is an artistic, soulful full-CG animated... more
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“Patti Smith: Dream of Life” is a film that’s been 12 years in the making, a work that reveals an intimate, impressionistic portrait of a woman who is still blazing her own trail through late middle age, a woman who has seen and suffered great loss and who is perhaps the only major surviving connection from New York City’s Beat generation, to the 1970s Manhattan art scene, to the birth of punk, to the present. The film has been described as a paean to life, resoundingly joyous and elegiac, warm and vibrantly present, a collage of moods and moments from one immensely talented woman’s richly lived time on earth.
Patti Smith arrived in the big city 40 years ago and made her first residence in a room at The Chelsea Hotel, which in those days was also home to William S. Burroughs, Jefferson Airplane, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard, Arthur Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe and some of the Warhol crowd. Patti soon became the muse, friend and partner of Robert Mapplethorpe, became a poet, then a performance poet, then an underground rock musician and then a rock star.
“Dream of Life” is a beautiful and occasionally haunting artistic creation, a meditation on aging and mortality, an intimate study of an unusual kind of fame and the portrait of a genuinely remarkable person. The film was received with great acclaim at The Sundance Film Festival last year, as well as in Berlin and all over the film-festival world.
This piece presents a short film comprised of number of vignettes from the longer documentary, the official trailer of “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” a rare short documentary about Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and a short film about the Chelsea Hotel. In addition, it presents two remarkable photo-galleries.
Please visit my website to view the wonderful high-resolution photographs and the stunning slide shows, and to watch these short films:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/the-world-of-patti-smith-dream-of-life/“Patti Smith: Dream of Life” is a film that’s been 12 years in the... more
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W. Eugene Smith was one of mid-century America’s greatest photojournalists. In 1957, Smith moved into a loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, near West 28th Street, in the heart of what was then Manhattan’s commercial flower market. Over the next eight years, he shot over 1,000 rolls of film, many of them from his window, capturing a world in one block.
As it happened, Smith's next-door neighbor was jazz composer-arranger Hall Overton, and Smith was letting him use his loft as a rehearsal space for some of the era’s great jazz musicians. Not only did Smith photograph the musicians, he wired the whole building for sound, hooked up several tape recorders, and let the spools spin till they ran out, recording everything from jam sessions to conversations in the hallway.
This piece presents a number of great b&w photographs, two videos and a wonderful slide show.
Please visit my website to view the photographs and slide show, and to watch these two very remarkable videos:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/the-jazz-loft-photos-of-a-lost-new-york/W. Eugene Smith was one of mid-century America’s greatest photojournalists. In... more
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This piece presents a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs of Christmas at the White House, a wonderful slide show with additional photographs and two videos, including a music video.
Please visit my website to view these stunning photographs and slide show, and to watch the cheerful holiday videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/im-dreaming-of-a-white-house-christmas/This piece presents a number of stunning high-resolution color photographs of... more
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President Obama used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Thursday to defend the idea that some wars were necessary and just, reminding the world of the burden the United States had borne in the fight against oppression and appealing for greater international efforts for peace. He embraced the concept of American exceptionalism, the idea that the United States has a special role as a defender of liberty, even as he promoted multi-lateralism.
His address contained a mix of realism and idealism, implicitly criticizing both the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as inadequately appreciating the dangers of the world, and President George W. Bush as too quick to set aside fundamental American values in pursuit of security.
This piece presents a number of color photographs, a link to the transcript of Obama's speech, a video of President Obama's full acceptance speech and a slide show of photographs from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
Please visit my website to view the photographs and slide show, and to watch the video of President Obama's address:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/on-war-and-peace-president-obamas-nobel-prize-acceptance-speech/President Obama used his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Thursday to defend the... more
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“Ghosts of Shopping Past” is a photo-documentary by Brian Ulrich, a photographer who lives and works in Chicago. His work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. He is a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.
Brian Ulrich’s photographs of closed-down malls and big-box retail stores reveal the potential ghost towns lying inside successful shopping complexes all across America. His photo-documentary is a testament to the devastating impact of the current financial recession, as well as to the failed illusions of a lifestyle based upon unbridled American consumerism.
This piece includes a number of very memorable high-resolution photographs, as well as a remarkable, haunting slide show.
Please visit my website to view these stunning photographs, and the memorable slide show:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/ghosts-of-shopping-past-the-failed-illusions-of-american-consumerism/“Ghosts of Shopping Past” is a photo-documentary by Brian Ulrich, a... more
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“Madame Tutli-Putli” is a 2007 Academy Award nominated, stop-motion animated short film that takes viewers on a breath-taking odyssey into the world of Madame Tutli-Putli. Her journey proves to be a difficult, terrifying one: a combination of Hitchcock for the unexplained dangers and Alien for the other-worldly interruptions that go well beyond just about anything one has previously experienced in a puppet, stop-frame movie.
Traveling alone on the night train, weighed down with the ghosts of her past, she faces both the kindness and menace of strangers. Finding herself caught up in a desperate adventure, adrift between real and imagined worlds, she is forced to confront her demons.
Includes a number of color illustrations from the film, a wonderful slide show and the acclaimed animated short, “Madame Tutli-Putli.”
Please visit my website to view the illustrations and slide show, and to watch this amazing animated short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/madame-tutli-putli-a-lonely-terrifying-journey-with-ghosts-of-the-past/“Madame Tutli-Putli” is a 2007 Academy Award nominated, stop-motion... more
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“That Sticky Candy” is a series of figurative art pieces by Scott Hunt, an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and whose art is part of the permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. These charcoal and pastel drawings take their inspiration from 1940s and 50s photography; they present and subvert conventional perceptions of gay identity. Hunt tackles the theme of homosexuality without the demure or closeted strategies often associated with gay subject matter in art. In doing so, one discovers that his direct approach to homosexuality and gay male sexuality in visual art is, in a way, surreal as well.
For Hunt, the title of this series refers to a metaphor that speaks about how something that one might crave and be pleasured by can become messy and constricting. In particular, gay men have been yoked to the idea that they are hypersexual beings, and in this work Hunt attempts to point out how limiting that is, that a gay identity is infinitely more complex and broad than that.
This piece presents a number of these figurative art works, as well as a memorable slide show of additional art pieces from Scott Hunt's series, “That Sticky Candy.”
Please visit my website to view these figurative art pieces and the notable slide show:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/that-sticky-candy-subverting-conventional-stereotypes-of-gay-identity/“That Sticky Candy” is a series of figurative art pieces by Scott Hunt, an... more
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The artwork presented here is by Scott Hunt, a figurative artist whose discipline is drawing (charcoal and pastel on paper). He has shown internationally, and his work is part of the permanent collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Hunt’s drawings have a very droll, subtly wry quality and take their inspiration from mysterious, uncomfortable, hilarious and sad moments in 1940s and 50s amateur photography, conferring upon them a new sense of life.
Hunt describes other people’s snapshots as “little mysteries; they have a history that’s lost and that can’t be accessed. That severed link to the past fascinates me and gives me a vague sense of anxiety that compels me to create my own stories about who these people were, what brought them to this particular moment in time, and what preceded and followed the snap of the shutter.”
This piece presents a number of Scott Hunt's remarkable figurative art pieces based upon vintage amateur American photography, as well as a wonderful slide show of additional drawings.
Please visit my website to view these wickedly brilliant figurative art pieces and the wonderful slide show:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/the-art-of-mysterious-old-american-snapshots/The artwork presented here is by Scott Hunt, a figurative artist whose discipline is... more
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“Times Square” is an ongoing project by John Aron, a photographer who lives near Times Square/Hell’s Kitchen. Aron uses both traditional and modern techniques to achieve his goal of narrowing the focus of his black and white photographs in order to show what is most important in the scene. Monochrome seems well-suited to the city; New York City is best described in black and white, which captures it in a way that’s simply more dramatic, perhaps romantic.
The infatuation of photographers with Times Square must be almost as old as the square itself, and no wonder. It’s been the perfect place for the dramas and encounters that make great pictures, whether in the happy honky-tonk of the area’s glamorous days, decades ago when the neon lights really were the brightest on Broadway, or more recently, when squalor and crime overtook the area and the facades of the great theaters of the 1890’s along 42nd Street disappeared behind porn parlor marquees.
This piece presents a number of John Aron’s striking photographs of people in Times Square, a slide show of his remarkable photographs and two short videos.
To view these wonderful photographs, slide show and videos, please visit my website:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/times-square-the-characters-dramas-and-encounters-of-the-square/“Times Square” is an ongoing project by John Aron, a photographer who... more
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Steven Wiltshire (born in 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been diagnosed with an autistic spectrum disorder. Wiltshire’s work has been the subject of many television documentaries; neurologist Oliver Sacks praised his artistic work in the chapter “Prodigies” in his book “An Anthropologist on Mars.” Stephen Wiltshire’s many published art books include “Cities” (1989), “Floating Cities” (1991) and “Stephen Wiltshire’s American Dream” (1993).
Wiltshire is presently working to complete his last drawing in a series of city panoramas, this time of his spiritual home, New York City. Wiltshire’s collection of already completed works depicting some of the world’s most iconic cities already includes London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Rome, Madrid, Frankfurt, Dubai and Jerusalem. A 20-minute fly-over Manhattan this past weekend provided the memory for a 20-foot panorama of the city that he’s drawing throughout this week at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute. Viewers can watch his progress on a live web cam or by visiting the Institute while he works from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday, Oct. 26 to Friday, Oct. 30, 2009.
This piece includes a number photographs, a slide show of Stephen Wiltshire's work, a video of Wiltshire's current work drawing the panorama of New York City and a live web cam of him at work on the panorama.Steven Wiltshire (born in 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been... more
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“On the Street” is a collection of photographs by Amy Arbus; the photographs presented here were selected from Arbus’s original photo-column that ran in “The Village Voice” between 1980 and 1990, a page that documented New York City’s downtown area’s most vibrant, creative dressers and personalities.
Now that Manhattan is only habitable for the very rich, many New Yorkers love to reminiscently look back to the truly mad and crazy ‘80s, an era when the Bowery could be quite dangerous and apartments were still fairly affordable. Back in the original 1980s and 1990s, Amy Arbus found the subjects for her extremely unique photographs mostly by just wandering around the Village, looking for people who were wearing visually creative and unusual outfits, a lot of polka dots, or stripes, or everyone wearing hats in the summertime. At the time, there was nothing else like it. Until Arbus's photographic work, there hadn’t been any kind of record of the East Village scene when it was comprised of this particularly promising, hopeful group of talented, interesting people.
Describing her pictures from this 1980s to 1990s collection, Arbus stated, “In terms of the clothes, I think they were fantastic and funny and outrageous and silly….There was no kind of judgment going on at the time. Everyone wanted to be noticed, no matter what it was for. That’s completely gone. Being noticed is irrelevant now. You have to make such waves to be a success at things now that dressing differently may make an impression, but it’s not going to get you a career.”
Included here are a large number of wonderful vintage Arbus photographs, a video from her documentary film “On the Street,” a remarkable full-screen high-resolution slide show and an additional audio-slide show of Amy Arbus’s photography.“On the Street” is a collection of photographs by Amy Arbus; the... more
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“Construct” is an ongoing project by photographer Laura Kicey, which represents the interplay between architecture and visual culture. The series of images presented here is a collection of architectural building facades in Philadelphia that do not exist. The combined details of the buildings are the artistic result of Laura Kicey’s ongoing photo-explorations that use photographic parts blended together; the intricate details of doors, bricks, peeling paint and mortar are blended in ways that give each of the recreated buildings new perspectives, colors and settings.
The “Construct” series began about two years ago, when Kicey began experiencing health problems that prevented her from being as mobile as she previously had been. It occurred to Kicey that she could use her archive of architectural detail photographs to build her own buildings, so that while she was no longer able to be out exploring, she could make her own places of imaginary escape. Kicey began creating places that were comprised of detailed images from settings and locations to which she had been in the past. Laura Kicey's imaginary, recreated buildings represent places that Kicey wishes she could visit and see, and she finds that the process of creating them is quite comforting.
Includes a number of high-res. color photographs of Laura Kicey's very creative work, as well as an extensive, full-view slide show of additional fascinating photographs.“Construct” is an ongoing project by photographer Laura Kicey, which... more
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Irving Penn, a renowned master of American fashion photography who combined a simple aesthetic with with an often startling erotic sensuality, has died at the age of 92. In 1943, Penn started contributing to Vogue magazine, becoming one of the first commercial photographers to cross the schism that had separated commercial from art photography. Art critics have long considered Penn's photographs to be icons, not just images, each one more artistically powerful than the person or object in the frame.
He traveled widely to photograph Peruvians in native dress, veiled Moroccan women or the Mudmen of New Guinea. Despite his appreciation for the art and craft of beautifully designed fashion, Penn later reached outside of the unreachable world it represents. To escape or perhaps contest it, in the late 1960s he started photographing crushed cigarette butts and street debris, using the same graphic precision that he used to photograph fashionable designer dresses. New York’s Museum of Modern Art found the cigarette butts exhibit-worthy in 1975.
In 1950, while in Paris he went from a session of photographing the famous Italian sculptor Alberto Giacometti to photographing French butchers. His collection of more than 250 photos of butchers, bakers, street workers and others was acquired last year by the J. Paul Getty Museum and is on view now through January 10th.
This piece includes a number of stunning high-resolution photographs from Penn's body of work, a musical short film tribute and a remarkable, historic slide show of Penn's photography.Irving Penn, a renowned master of American fashion photography who combined a simple... more
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