…the date is 1609, Italy, late night at Galileo Galilei’s workplace watching the sky, studying celestial bodies focusing on the moon. He prepares to see this unexplored world with his customized telescope while some of his sketches and notes rest on the floor…
nice animation from recent graduate juan behrens (via cpluv)
in theory… in theory, i’m attending an event in the royal palace on dam square this afternoon, in the presence of queen beatrix and (close to 500) guests for the annual ‘prince claus fund’ art prize ceremony, in other words all the effort put into my string titles sequence is going to fly by in a few seconds… gone
i still can’t show the final thing here (beatrix first…) but here’s a new test section with some of the finished title pieces… the music was custom made by ‘music skeleton’ and the film will be divided up onto three separate projection screens, should be fun…
on a sidenote: the fact that my personal invite still hasn’t arrived makes me wonder whether the secret police will let me in… we’ll see, wish me luck
for the tenth consecutive december in a row, the ‘new york times magazine’ …has chosen to look back on the past year through a distinctive prism: ideas… and well worth a look it is too some really nice, silly, smart and odd ideas bundled together… as americans tend to say ‘that’s neat’
dutch photography portal ‘photo Q’ has another online auction of oddities & gems, bidding ends late next tuesday…
a fruit ‘brand’ sticker imitating a leaf… it might not be new but i haven’t seen it before, nice… but why not green?