Saturday 23 April 2011

music

Photography

Ai Weiwei's series 'studies in perspective'








Artist

Vanessa Beecroft


















Culture

                                                             New age musician


Barbra Marx New age thinker


Reptiles the reptilian agenda David Ike


20th century culture












Potrait

Jean Seaberg

Photography

Aziz and Cucher's 'Dystopia' potrait series









Music







Links

Here are my best links that I regularly check on :





Photography black and white





Mark Steinmetz     http://www.marksteinmetz.net/



kohei yoshiyuki the park series




John Divola 'continuity' series , hallways


http://www.divola.com/




Miroslav Tichy http://tichyocean.com/




Jeff Wall http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2007/jeffwall/






Robert Adams






William Eggleston 


http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/12/william-eggleston-before-color-2010.html





Friday 22 April 2011

Living in the world realities





Kowloon walled city, Hong Kong China ( look up the history of this place amazing)

Architecture

Bernard Tschumi Architecture counter culture posters.









Cinema

A few presentations of a sublime notion in cinema. The edit and pacing in long takes allows the experience of time to become a vessel of involvement.



Michael Haneke '71 fragments of a chronology of chance'






Apichatpong Weerasethakul 'Sang Sattawat' 







Andrei Tarkovsky 'Solaris'








Chantal Akerman 'Hotel Monterey' 









Gus Van Sant 'Gerry' ( the sequence I am referring to starts at 11:00)


Thursday 21 April 2011

music

















work

One of my photo / installation based works in process at the moment.




All photos copyright Hamish Macdonald ©

Architecture

I have aquired quite a liking to the Architectural mid century Modernist trend of 'Brutalism' and other repercussions of this trend, with concretes use as zero degree structure element.























These next ones are photographs by Jan Kampenaers of Eastern European Soviet monuments which are very Brutalist in nature.