Gum says #neverletmego

         

                      'Money Cup,' East NY

DM private screening.

If you took French as a 2nd language in high school (which unfortunately is rare these days - not debating DACA vs public/private education here although I'd love to), avant-garde means the “vanguard” or the “advance guard” — basically the people and ideas that are ahead of their time. Usually it refers to a movement in the arts, like Dadaism, or in politics, like anarchism. Avant-garde can also be used as an adjective to describe something that's cutting-edge. Or it could mean when people privately get together in a studio space somewhere in New Yawk City to screen works made and in progress on a policy of invitation only basis. bye.

P. Adams Sitney (film historian/Princeton professor) discusses the experimental writings, photography and films Hollis Frampton, Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage. bye.

https://tribecafilm.com/filmguide/departure-2017

  

DIY Maker Faire 2017

https://makerfaire.com/makerfairehistory/

https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/63189

https://vimeo.com/jphfilm

Interview with Fred Wiseman on The Close-Up

                            

     http://platonphoto.com/menu/

After working for British Vogue for several years, Platon was invited to NYC to work for the late John Kennedy Jr. and his political magazine, 'George.’

Shooting portraits for a range of international publications including Rolling Stone, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ and the Sunday Times Magazine, Platon developed a special relationship with Time magazine, producing over 20 covers for them. In 2007, he photographed Russian Premier Vladimir Putin for Time Magazine's Person Of The Year cover. This image was awarded 1st prize at the World Press Photo Contest.

In 2008 he signed a multi-year contract with the New Yorker. As the staff photographer, he has produced several large-scale photo essays, two of which won ASME Awards in 2009 and 2010. Platon's New Yorker portfolios have focused on themes including the U.S Military, portraits of world leaders and the Civil Rights Movement.

In 2009, Platon teamed up with Human Rights Watch to help them celebrate those who fight for equality and justice in countries suppressed by political forces. These projects have highlighted human rights defenders from Burma as well as the leaders of the Egyptian revolution. Following his coverage of Burma, Platon photographed Aung San Suu Kyi for the cover of Time - days after her release from house arrest. In 2011, Platon was honored with a Peabody Award for collaboration on the topic of Russia's Civil Society with The New Yorker magazine and Human Rights Watch. 

Platon has published four book of his work: PLATON’S REPUBLIC [Phaidon Press, 2004], a retrospective of his early work; POWER [Chronicle, 2011], one hundred portraits of the world’s most powerful leaders; CHINA: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS [The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015], in collaboration with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and SERVICE [Prestel, 2016], dedicated to the men and women in the United States Military, their physical and psychological wounds, their extraordinary valor, and the fierce emotions that surround those who serve.

Platon is a communicator and storyteller and is represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau. He has been invited to be a keynote speaker on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Chanel, Nike, Yale University, Oxford University, Wharton University, the National Portrait Gallery in London and International Center of Photography in NY. He has also appeared on a range of television media including Charlie Rose (PBS), Morning Joe (MSNBC), Fareed Zakaria's GPS (CNN) and the BBC World News.

Platon's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums both domestically and abroad. He has exhibited in New York at the Matthew Marks Gallery and the Howard Greenberg Gallery, as well as internationally at the Colette Gallery in Paris, France. The New York Historical Society has exhibited a solo show of Platon's Civil Rights photographs, which remain as part of the museum's permanent collection. Other permanent collections holding Platon's photography include The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa, Florida and The Westlicht Museum for Photography in Vienna, Austria and the Scotland National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

In 2013, Platon founded a non-profit foundation named The People's Portfolio. The foundation aspires to create a visual language that breaks barriers, expands dignity, fights discrimination, and enlists the public to support human rights around the world. He serves as the Creative Director at Large for the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, GA.

Platon is currently on the board for Arts and Culture at the World Economic Forum and serves as a steward for the Economic Growth and Social Inclusion Initiative.  bye.

This is what someone's 'home sweet home' looks like. bye.

http://axwonline.com/artist-shows/joey-huertas/

The French Border.

Copyright, 2017.  JanePublic_Inc.
Location: The Basque Country, Spain. Coastal border to France.

Greta Gerwig's directorial film debut, 'Lady Bird'

Congrats Greta, I have a feeling this is gonna be well received... it's your singular voice -captured.

 

Paying respects to Ingmar - Sweden, Faro

                                       http://www.bergmangardarna.se/en/

 #neverforgotten
#ingmarbergman
#baltic_sea

Great seeing Spicey at last night's Emmys back - at his flying podium again - and with a really great sense of humor.
bye.

 

tired

ˈtī(ə)rd/

adjective

 

'Lines Of Resolution' being published internationally in the UK/US next month.

A critique that I was asked to write and design about the current state of tangible, and non-tangible, states of DIY technology. bye.

tan·gi·ble

ˈtanjəb(ə)l/

adjective

1. 1. 

   perceptible by touch.

   
   
   

   "the atmosphere of neglect and abandonment was almost tangible"

   
   

   antonyms:

   abstract

   • clear and definite; real.

     
     

     "the emphasis is now on tangible results"

     antonyms:

     abstract

     #FILMSTRUCK

     #Criterioncollection

     #FILMCOMMENT

     
     

     
     purchase order link:
     

     http://millenniumfilmjnl.tumblr.com/post/164264952473/joey-huertas-lines-of-resolution-artist-pages

     
     
     

     
     

Just got my editing laptop back from the tech nerd lab, as it has been recovering from a 3-month long open-heart surgery stint. New board (used+cheap), upgraded memory and faster graphics CPU speed now- so he claims. Still getting used to being back in the saddle again with my existing portable technology, and have my fingers crossed that everything will work now as planned and that the dreaded Apple spinning wheel will not come back to haunt. Battery life and climate change are not debatable matters anymore, as they both now have concrete storming evidence, with victims present. I should be lucky, the month for Halloween hauntings is a few months away and the computer should work at least until then. High Hopes, like the Amityville house on Ocean Drive once proclaimed on its pretty green front lawn. bye.

  

Rat Ward Radio

https://m.mixcloud.com/ratward/rat-ward-radio-006-september-15th-2017-wclm-1450-am/

RIP

" I'm 87 years old...I only eat so I can smoke and stay alive.. The only fear I have is how long consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just hope there's nothing. Like there was before I was born. I'm not really into religion, they're all macrocosms of the ego. When man began to think he was a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation.

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you've interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta take this call..... Hey, brother. That's great, man. Yeah, I'm being interviewed... We're talking about nothing. I've got him well-steeped in nothing right now. He's stopped asking questions."

~ HARRY DEAN STANTON

               

'Don't Steal This Pen,' Bronx, NY.  2017

#lackofcommunicationskills

   The new 'age' of plugging into your convo.  bye.

   

The 'Slaying of the Spaniards' and the recent Basque decree repeal.

   https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/basques-safe-iceland-district-repeals-decree-kill-on-sight

 

 

              

          

  

            http://www.nabasque.org/whaling.html

 

Until only recently, Spaniards could be shot- and killed- legally on sight in Iceland.

 

The Beguiling nature of Fashion Week 2017.

#Kirsten Dunst

#theBeguiled

#givemearidetotheeventplease

 

1. A green screen or a blue trench coat jacket is used as a backdrop in chroma key Joker card photography, which is a process that replaces a solid-colored background from behind the living or deceased actor subject of a photo (or video) with a new background. ... 2.Removing and replacing photo backgrounds requires two things besides the subject matter ... 3. Digital camera. ... 4. A computer. bye.

To embrace a fog.

/fôɡ,fäɡ/ noun noun: fog 1. a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface that obscures or restricts visibility (to a greater extent than mist; strictly, reducing visibility to below 1 km). "the collision occurred in thick fog" synonyms: mist, smog, murk, haze, ice fog; More archaic sea smoke; literary brume, fume "we can't set sail in this fog" •an opaque mass of something in the atmosphere. "a whirling fog of dust" •Photography cloudiness that obscures the image on a developed negative or print. 2. something that obscures and confuses a situation or someone's thought processes. "the origins of local government are lost in a fog of detail"

 #nofilters

9.11 #NEVERFORGET

  

rip  Jimmy R. and Sarah L.(2nd tower)  Never forgotten. ever. promise.

            https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2017/

The White Rose memorial visit (Munich).

 

r.i.p. Sophie Scholl.
#neverforget

The date was February 22, 1943. Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, along with their best friend, Christoph Probst, were scheduled to be executed by Nazi officials that afternoon. The prison guards were so impressed with the calm and bravery of the prisoners in the face of impending death that they violated regulations by permitting them to meet together one last time. Hans, a medical student at the University of Munich, was 24. Sophie, a student, was 21. Christoph, a medical student, was 22. One day in 1942, copies of a leaflet entitled “The White Rose” suddenly appeared at the University of Munich. The leaflet contained an anonymous essay that said that the Nazi system had slowly imprisoned the German people and was now destroying them. The Nazi regime had turned evil. It was time, the essay said, for Germans to rise up and resist the tyranny of their own government. At the bottom of the essay, the following request appeared: “Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them.” The leaflet caused a tremendous stir among the student body. It was the first time that internal dissent against the Nazi regime had surfaced in Germany. The essay had been secretly written and distributed by Hans Scholl and his friends. Sophie Scholl and her brother were arrested in the lobby of their university and later executed by beheading by Hitler's Nazi regime for treason based on the leaflets they had created and printed to educate other students.

                 

                                

                            

                           

Freisler and the other accusers could not understand what had happened to these German youths. After all, they all came from nice German families. They all had attended German schools. They had been members of the Hitler Youth. How could they have turned out to be traitors? What had so twisted and warped their minds? Sophie Scholl shocked everyone in the courtroom when she remarked to Freisler: “Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare to express themselves as we did.” Later in the proceedings, she said to him: “You know the war is lost. Why don't you have the courage to face it?”

bye.

 

Ode to Tobe Hooper.

 

RIP Tobe Hooper and Marilyn Burns.

#whydthevanhavetorunoutofgasinTexas!!?

Wiseman speaks in new interview.

link: http://www.purenonfiction.net/pn-55-frederick-wiseman-titicut-follies-ex-libris/

                                                                        

Congratulations, Leslie. I'm still blown away.
Let's see what Jerry Brown does this time.

In Bavaria.

Meeting with the nuns of the Dachau concentration camp.

 The Nuns of Dachau.
 copyright, 2017.

Heinrich Himmler, as police president of Munich, officially described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners." It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich in southern Germany. Many Catholic priests were arrested and placed into the camp, and to this day nuns pray for the priests that died in the barracks under the Nazi regime.

https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/stop12.html

bye.