Adam Frelin


So Amazing. Just look at it. Adam Frelin has an amazing way with light. Staging it and capturing it. Check out the rest of his portfolio. He has some more conceptual pieces too, all of which he explains thusly:

“I find myself drawn to particular objects, images or scenes I find significant on their own. In my mind I extract these moments, focusing on them as finished works”

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Quote

“I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.”

— Olafur Eliasson

Whispering Pines 10

I got to catch this performance, Shana Moulton’s one-act opera, at the New Museum. I missed it when it was at the Kitchen and I have a feeling I would have enjoyed it there even more. I love the Kitchen and its space, as much as I dislike the oddly conference roomy feel of the space at the New Museum. Though oddly, both performances I’ve seen at the Museum so far, seemed to have been served well by that atmosphere.

Anyhoo – Whsipering Pines 10 – I really enjoyed this show. There was a vibrance too it, a liveness if you will, despite the heavily reliant on digital projection set, that I really enjoyed. It mighty have had something to do with the live singing. Also it was unapolegetically kitschy! And funny! Whimsical? “In touch with current trends in performance.” A fun ride, even the digital backdrop, as super-low tech as it was, was engaging. Does any of this make any sense? no? well, the point is – I really enjoyed the show!

january 8 – 9
the new museum
new york, ny

Impossible!

Video of a Shaolin Monk throwing a needle through a piece of glass (shot at 1000 frames per second). This can’t possibly be real?

Word of the Day

KOJO MOE

“Reservations for a nighttime boat cruise around Kawasaki’s illuminated chemical factories, steel plants and oil refineries are booked up months in advance. For 4,000 yen per adult—about $48—a vessel resembling a houseboat carries tourists past mammoth, brightly lit factories sending clouds of smoke into the air.” – WSJ

Not weird at all. Not to me. I too share a fascination with looking at and photographing industrial buildings and factories. I absolutely see the beauty in them. Read more about “Kojo Moe” at WSJ.com

(image via japantrends.com via tabism.com)

Gone to New York: Adventures in the City

Ian Frazier’s book is awesome. For a NYC Ex-Pat like me it is perfect. It captures the crazyness and amazingness of New York amazingly well, and reminds you of all the little things that make new york what it is. My only issue in recomending it is that I fear for any non-new yorkers it will simply read as a work of fiction. Why would anyone go through the trouble of making up such odd stories? The trouble is, of course that based on my own experiences they are all true. There in lies the trouble. New York is sometimes really hard to explain, and the fantastic stories you tell of it to friends are often met with looks saying “stop exagerating.” No matter, if you don’t believe Ian and I, then just read this as an amusing collection of short stories. For the rest of us with first hand experiences of the madness and wonderfulness that is NYC, this will be an excellent reference book.