December 2009
33 posts
Bartlebooth's Plan.
Thus a concrete programme was designed, which can be stated succinctly as follows.
For ten years, from 1925 to 1935, Bartlebooth would acquire the art of painting watercolours.
For twenty years, from 1935 to 1955, he would travel the world, painting, at the rate of one watercolour each fortnight, five hundred seascapes of identical format (royal, 65cm x 50cm) depicting seaports. When each view...
“Verily I beseech you:
depart from me,
and guard yourself against Zarathustra!...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche / Roxy Music.
Once upon a time a story was told. It went as...
The epoch in which we live, the epoch which is now drawing to a close, is characterised by a belief in the Book. In this Book is held a description of our world. It is a true and accurate description of how things are, and of how they were. This Book is in the process of being completed; at present we have only fragments. Fragments to which others are being added - painstakingly determined through...
BC crit feedback.
part one; terms and conditions.
What are the major themes?
What kind of film do i want to make?
What story do i want to tell?
What kind of narrative do i want?
How can i play with the expectations of the narrative?
What happens between pieces?
Am i interested in making sense?
What is it symbolic of?
What is important?
part two; in tennis we trust; the rhythm of the edit.
David Foster...
WatchBC; Test sequence; camera mapping using vignettes and quotes.
WatchBC; Early test sequence; development of camera mapping technique.
The three types of tennis player by David Foster...
The “offensive” style
Based on the serve and the net game and is ideally suited to slick, or “fast,” surfaces like grass and cement. John McEnroe.
The “defensive,” or “baseline,” style
Built around foot speed, consistency, and ground strokes accurate enough to hit effective passing shots against a serve-and-volleyer; this style is most effective on “slow” surfaces like clay and Har-True...
An alphabetised list of the words; synonyms of...
break
disarticulate
disconnect
disengage
disjoint
disorder
disrupt
disturb
disunite
divide
jumble
misplace
mix up
move
put out of joint
remove
rummage
separate
shift
transfer
unhinge
upset
Two valuable words and their definitions; slippage...
Slippage;
1. The act or an instance of slipping, especially movement away from an original or secure place.
2. The amount or extent of slipping.
3. A decline in level, performance, or achievement.
4. Loss of motion or power because of slipping.
Dislocate;
1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship.
2. To displace (a body part), especially to displace a bone from its...
“A candy-colored clown they call the sandman.”
– Roy Orbison.
WatchActaeon and the Temple of the Sun; Camera mapping test.
“D.Lynch knows that an act of violence in an American film has, through...”
– More more David Foster Wallace on David Lynch.
“Lynch, three times in five minutes, says “Golly!” Not one of these...”
– More David Foster Wallace on David Lynch.
“It’s hard to tell whether the director’s a genius or an idiot. This,...”
– David Foster Wallace on David Lynch.
"David Lynch Keeps His Head" (Premiere 1996),...
Robert Loggia in particular likes to come out and stand around chatting with his stand-in, who’s of the same meaty build and olive complexion and strand-intensive balding pattern and craggy facial menace as Loggia, and of course is identically dressed in mobster Armani, so that from the distance of the roadside hill their conversation looks like its own surreal commentary on parallel...
A list of amusing tennis player names; David...
Mahesh Bhudapathi
Luis Lobo
Martin Sinner
Guy Forget
Adolf Musil
Jonathan Venison
Javier Frana
Leander Paes
Cyril Suk
Rodolfo Ramos
Paganini
Alex Lopez-Moron
Gilad Bloom
Zoltan Nagy
Udo Riglewski
Louis Gloria
Francisco Roig
Alexander Mronz
Slava Dosedel
Claude N’Goran
Han-Cheol Shin
Horacio de la Peña
Marcus Barbosa
Amos Mansdorf
Mariano Hood
Andres Zingman
Sander Groen
...
“Alas,” said the mouse, “the world is growing smaller every day. At...”
– Kafka.
"Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional...
“As Joyce on the forehand makes contact with the tennis ball, his left hand behind him opens up, as if he were releasing something, a decorative gesture that has nothing to do with the mechanics of the stroke. Michael Joyce doesn’t know that his left hand opens up at impact on forehands: It is unconscious, some aesthetic tic that started when he was a child and is now inextricably hardwired into a...
WatchCinema 4d camera mapping test; theatre painting with exaggerated camera movement.
WatchCamera mapping test using theatre drawing; with light, platonic object and shadows cast onto 3d geometry of drawing.
WatchTheatre; camera mapping test using photoshop image + hand drawing.
WatchTheatre with AMiBA telescope; cinema 4d camera mapping test.