Our minds organize visual data in a very specific way. This article is a pretty good intro to the priciples of gestalt applied in design. [Read More...]
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense Re-Release
Stop Making Sense – Jonathan Demme/Talking Heads collaboration 15th BDay re-release @ Red Vic in SF.
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AIGA Relaunch its Archives
Aiga made again its archives available. You can access then here.
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Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
The de Young, in San Francisco, CA, presents two consecutive special exhibitions from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The first exhibition, Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, debuts at the de Young on May 22 and runs through September 6, 2010.
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, 1947 Richard Neutra, Architect
Just watched “Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman“, the documentary about Julius Shulman, one of the greatest architectural photographers and probably the most important ambassador of California’s modernism. A good documentary, great architecture and an exceptional man.
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Gang of Four new album
They are about to release a new album – “Content”. Check it out some Gang of Four stuff at their pledgemusic page. http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/gangoffour
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La Gaîté Lyrique
An interactive intro to “La Gaîté Lyrique“, a new space dedicated to the digital arts that will open in Paris Dec 2010. This is the kind of a web site that inspires, keeps me wanting more. And it’s only an intro.
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A close view of “Aguirre, the Wrath of God”
Roger Ebert and Werner Herzog talk about “Aguirre, the Wrath of God”. This is a really interesting insight into the making of one of the greatest movies of the 20th century. [ More here... ]
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The Jazz Loft Project
From 1957 to 1965 photographer W. Eugene Smith made 1,740 reel-to-reel tape recordings (approx. 4000 hours) and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan’s wholesale flower district where hundreds of jazz musician, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus gathered after-hours and jammed. Information about the book, the radio series and more at the The Jazz Loft Project web site.
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Massive Attack video: United Snakes
United Snakes from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.