Cultural Fusion Through a Camera

Cultural Fusion Through a Camera

Rare Photos Reveal Tibet 100 Years Ago - NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/10/04/130328968/tibet

Anatomy of a Wave

Intertwangleism of Butch Anthony

Artist-collector Butch Anthony is a contemporary adherent to an art form once dubbed assemblage/collage/montage or just plain dada. Yet he has renamed the collecting of flotsam and jetsam to form his own movement of intertwangleism. As a long term collector of stuff, he has imbued his objects with meaning from his own mind, whether humorous, satirical, of the spirit, or as scientific evidence.

What is intertwangleism? Part deception, part simplicity, part mystery, part everyday object reworked or rethought, part cultural anthropology and part geological find.

In the words of Fred C. Fussell, it is:
"an artistic style, appears to be part cubism, part da-da, part expressionism, part science, part spirit, and, not at all least, part tongue-in-cheek. Intertwangleism takes a thing, any thing, and breaks it apart into its basic elements, elements not of science, but of another scheme, a scheme found only in Butch Anthony’s mind. Butch discovered the rudimentary rules of intertwangleism many years ago, when as child he collected stuff. But back then he didn’t know what to call it."

Visit the work of Butch Anthony at:
http://www.museumofwonder.com/Art/Intertwangleism.htm

Notes:
http://www.museumofwonder.com/Art/Intertwangleism4.htm

Notebook 2, c. 2000 by SD

Notebook 1, c. 2000 by SD

Original Copy of 'Metropolis' Located

Argentine film archivist, Fernando Peña locates an original
copy of Fritz Lang's Metropolis at the Museo del Cine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/movies/05metropolis.html?hpw

Obama's People

Great set of portraits of the Obama Administration:
Obama's People, as seen in the New York Times.
Photos by Nadav Kander

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/2009-inauguration-gallery/index.html

The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman

We all need a good dose of beauty in our lives.
Libraries are peaceful places filled with heartfelt
words.

The digital art, motionography, of Alex Roman is
too beautiful to pass up, so I am posting his
full-CG animated piece here. It has also made me
aware of the CG Society: Society of Digital Artists.

The motionagraphy in this vimeo is in part, an homage
to the Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum, a library-
museum designed by Tadao Ando, as well as an
homage to other locations.

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman

on Vimeo.

Website for the museum:
http://www.shibazaidan.or.jp/00info/english.html