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MEDIA LOG 2012

Submitted by Zacharyyy on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 16:38
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  1. February.

  2. MOVIE: Nostalghia (1983)-- Andrei Tarkovsky.
  3. slgnslnkfh I just went to this film (twice in three days) at a theatre, on a 35mm print. The print was very old and on occasions you could see where it was spliced together, but the glow of colour and depth of the darks was absolutely beautiful (and looking at versions online, evidently cannot be matched digitally!). It was really strange to watch the way light was used in the film; the way aperture changed, unlike anything I'd really seen before.

Most intense art-related experiences I've had

Submitted by Zacharyyy on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 13:29
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  1. Seeing Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 in a theatre.
  2. Seeing Chris Marker's Sans Soleil in a theatre.
  3. First live opera I went to: Verdi's Macbeth done on a tiny intimate stage with just singers and piano as accompaniment (particularly the finale of every act).
  4. Reading Plato's Euthypro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo (the last days of Socrates) and feeling simultaneously completely stupid/in awe/warm and positive because of them.
  5. Discovering the portraits of John Singer Sargent (via google image search).
  6. Performing Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
  7. Wordsworth's

20 Classic Coffee Table Books of All Time

Submitted by Harumi Sama on Fri, 06/17/2011 - 23:10
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  • Here are twenty classic coffee table books of all time:
  • 1) Life: 70 Years of Extraordinary Photography



Recurrant Impulsive Self-Harm Actions That I Have Successfully Avoided, Arranged By Descending Strength/Frequency

Submitted by Zacharyyy on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 20:54
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  • Punch self in face and head indefinitely.

  • Fall into traffic/onto train track.

  • Saw fingers off in the middle of a bone with anything dull.

  • Batter lower body indefinitely.

  • Remove bottom jaw.

  • Slam teeth into a corner to break them; swallow the shards.

  • Bite thumbs off.

  • Punch a hard surface until my hands shatter, rendering them permanently useless.

  • Stop taking medications cold.

  • Chew on, and then eat, my tongue.

  • Remove eyes with spoons.

  • Break a window with my head.

My Top 5 Media for Visual Art

Submitted by WanderingStar on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 21:35
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  1. Oil Paint
  2. Charcoal
  3. Photography
  4. Graphite
  5. Clay

University Classes I Have Taken Listed From Best To Worst

Submitted by Zacharyyy on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 13:11
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  1. FVIM-213 Intermedia. While many classmates were either pretentious ass-hats or dolts, the class was mostly inhabited by sincere and interesting people. I guess also this is he class where I produced more of my better ideas..
  2. HUMN-313 Script Writing/Concept Develop. How to write screenplays by a conceptual artist sculptor. Was a bunch of exercises to show the possibilities of narrative forms; half the class left after the first three classes for being "too weird"..
  3. MHIS-329 SU01 Studies in Current Film/Video.

What I Look For in Art

Submitted by AfterHours on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 20:05
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Basically speaking, my artistic ideals are works possessing:

1. Expressed Emotional Conviction

Whether the artist is "acting" (such as theatre) or invested in the material on a personal basis, I prefer it is expressed with a high degree of emotional conviction.

Some famous "Top Tier" examples of "expressed emotional conviction":
Symphony #5-Beethoven
Symphony #9-Beethoven
The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady-Charles Mingus
A Love Supreme-John Coltrane
The Doors-The Doors
Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
Metropolis-Lang
The Godfather, Part 2-Coppola

Author Comments: 

Open for discussion, questions, etc.

Greatest Works of Art of All Time (In-Progress: Currently Featuring Rock, Jazz & Classical Music, Films & Paintings)

Submitted by AfterHours on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 16:28
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  1. 9.5/10
  2. Symphony #9 in D Major-Mahler (1910)
  3. The Garden of Delights-Bosch (1504)
  4. The Sistine Chapel-Michelangelo (1541)
  5. Symphony #9 in D Minor "Choral"-Beethoven (1824)
  6. The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady-Charles Mingus (1963)
  7. Metropolis-Lang (1926) [Restored Edition, 124 minutes]
  8. Europe After The Rain II-Ernst (1942)
  9. Trout Mask Replica-Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band (1969)
  10. Requiem-Verdi (1874)
  11. A Symphony of Three Orchestras-Carter (1976)
  12. Rock Bottom-Robert Wyatt (1974)
  13. Beethovenfries-Klimt (1902)
  14. A Love Supreme-John Coltrane (1964)
  15. Tabula Rasa-Part (1977)
  16. Nostalghia-Ta

1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die

Submitted by Stacey_Vagabond... on Thu, 12/09/2010 - 20:17
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  1. 1411-1375 BCE - Unknown - Goldsmiths at Work - Tomb 181, Valley of the Nobles, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Egypt
  2. 1420-1375 BCE - Unknown - Garden with Pool - British Museum, London, UK
  3. 1330 BCE - Unknown - Sailing Barge of Amenhotep Huy - Tomb of Huy, Qurnet Murai, Thebes, Egypt
  4. 1280 BCE - Unknown - Sethos I before Horus - Temple of Sethos I, Abydos, Egypt
  5. 550 BCE - Unknown - Etruscan Erotic Scene - Tomb of the Bulls, Monterozzi Necopolis, Tarquinia, Italy
  6. 480 BCE - Unknown - Painting from the Tomb of the Diver - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, Italy
  7. 60-50 BCE - Unknown -

100 Greatest Works Of Art (from the last 1000 years)

Submitted by jjimmyson on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 09:16
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  1. Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony 9 (1824) - Classical Music
  2. William Shakespeare - Hamlet (1601) - Theatre
  3. Michelangelo Buonarroti - Universal Judgement (1541) - Painting
  4. Dante Aligheri - Commedia (1321) - Poetry
  5. Heironymus Bosch - The Garden Of Delights (1504) - Painting
  6. Gustav Mahler - Symphony 9 (1910) - Classical Music
  7. Franz Kafka - Der Prozess (1915) - Fiction
  8. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Faust (1832) - Theatre
  9. John Milton - Paradise Lost (1667) - Poetry
  10. Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1880) - Fiction
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem (1791) - Classical Music
  12. Gustav K