DOLL FACE

Check the "Doll Face" short movie by Andrew Thomas Huang

http://www.andrewthomashuang.com/MOV_Doll_Face.htm ;

a mechanic female creature tries to emulate the "doll face" she sees in an old TV that moves away from her... interesting visualization of the dynamics media and visual technologies create around the female (traditionally, but increasingly no longer exclusively female) body. A process of "dollification" if you will...

(image from http://dekku.nofatclips.com/2007/03/andy-huang-doll-face.html)

Top 3 Selling Photography Books of All Time

1977 NYC Camera World & Sound Store Window By Whiskeygonebad

I am thinking a lot about photography these days... check the "Top 3 Selling Photography Books of All Time" http://elizabethavedon.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-3-selling-photography-books-of-all.html by ELIZABETH AVEDON. I still remember vividly the first time I read On Photography by Susan Sontag and Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes; both very small (materially speaking) books with almost no photographs in them, manage to embody much of the essence of the way “we” (as 20^th century westerners) relate to photographs and photography.

Photographs 'toohardtokeep'

a project on photographs that are 'too hard to keep'... exactly like the photographs I am currently thinking about...

read the article http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/11/09/131188172/snapshots?ft=1&f=97635953&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter by MITO HABE-EVANS

an archive project by --Jason Lazarus see http://toohardtokeep.blogspot.com/

Text/textuality/data in the digital world

an old video but I just discovered it... made by (then?) Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology Micheal Wesch the video briefly explores language, text and textuality (and importantly data...) in the digital ecosystem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

photo By eyesplash Mikul @Flikr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyesplash/4121161376/

(here you can add tags if you recognise the languages in the sculpture)

Dancing with death - Clint Eastwood 'Hereafter'

Lives mixed with death and what is next... sounds interesting to me! Coming out in January in Europe, I believe.

Read the review here http://www.economist.com/node/17305452?story_id=17305452&fsrc=scn/tw/te/rss/pe

photograph from http://damnexpensivepopcorn.blogspot.com/

The Pearce Sisters

a beautiful grim story for the approaching Day of the Dead and All Saints: Happy Halloween! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqi5ol2TjKI&feature=player_embedded

"the pearce sisters is a tale of love, loneliness, guts, gore, nudity, violence, smoking and cups of tea." check the website: http://www.pearcesisters.co.uk/

"Digital Death Day" London 09/10/10

photo by Tomas Valenzula Blejer

...if you are in London go and attend!

http://digitaldeathday.com/

on a similar note the 15/11 in London there will be the DDB conference; theme: Death and the Media (http://www.britsoc.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/AD88E198-9497-4FE3-84A0-5DE1084A00D2/0/Media_DDB_cfp_2010.pdf)