I can’t believe I actually lived though the full transition from VHS to DVD. Like there are people alive who have never seen a VHS tape….I remember when we were still tryna figure out how the fuck they got a full movie onto a cd.
Stephan Crasneanscki, What We Leave Behind - Jean-Luc Godard Archives, 2014.
Stephan Crasneanscki’s photographs are taken from a genuine yet largely forgotten audio-visual archive of Jean-Luc Godard, (re)discovered by chance somewhere in France. The images are mostly documentary in nature and feature vast piles of cardboard crates, packaging, reels and VHS tapes. They offer, directly or indirectly, an impression of the life of the film-maker and his works.
As is often the case with archives, the sheer volume of content is sometimes overwhelming, perhaps even disheartening. Where do we start in our efforts to make sense of it all? Is this attempt to find meaning even a worthwhile pursuit? It is a collection that titillates and evokes memory.
From this apparently chaotic arrangement, he captures a number of more abstract images, with superimposed documents, scribbles, papers and notes, some of which are reminiscent of the style of Cy Twombly. They may offer some important insights, but they also add to the confusion. The eye is keen to understand; what it may learn from this encoded mystery is the fact that the pen, the visual quality of the ellipses and the imprint are the bedrock of indexing. Yet the spirit is keen to know. What can we learn from these archives? Are they used? Can they even be used?
Costa Rica Covered in Flower Pedals | Nick Meek | Via
Worldwide advertising agency mccann has commissioned photographer Nick Meek to visualize the images for the campaign of sony‘s new 4k TV, a monitor which promises four times the detail of full high definition. The team flew to the colorful tropics of costa rica, where they collected thousands of lush, vibrant botanical life — like multicolored flower petals and leaves — for more than two weeks. These materials would become the fundamental medium for the project: to illustrate the excellence in focus, the petals were blown and exploded throughout the island landscape, whirled through the prismatic suburban streets, blasted out from a neighboring volcano, and blanketed on a pathway where a young skateboarder drifts past. the detailed vistas, which describe the extreme caliber of sony’s new device, are so sharp and clear that the viewer is immediately enveloped in the hyper-realism.
“Great Escapes”, VOGUE UK, December 1986
Photographer: Arthur Elgort
Model: Christy Turlington
Invitation to an Area night club party. The capsule was placed in water and the invitation appeared. Area was open from 1983 to 1987.
God damn 80s can’t you do anything normal.
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