A skateboard short film by Brett Novak.

Links
Directed, filmed and edited by Brett Novak
Artwork & concept by Kay Walkowiak
Skater Kilian Martin
The short movie on Vimeo

The discovery of Vivian Maier’s work was definitely one of the most amazing things that happened in the world of photography in the last couple of years. And the documentary movie about her story and her street photography will be one of my personal highlights in 2013. I can’t wait to see it. Please check the official trailer in the link section below the screen captures and you will know why.

Links
Official movie website: www.findingvivianmaier.com
Official website of Vivian Maier: www.vivianmaier.com
Trailer on Vimeo by DEVELOP Tube: Finding Vivian Maier – Trailer

The exhibition “Gute Aussichten” is one of the most important Germany prize competitions for up and coming photographers in contemporary photo art. It can currently be seen until March at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

Among the seven awarded artists are Henning Bode with “The Children of King Cotton”..

..and Swetlana Mychkine “Sugar Blue” which are my personal favorites.

More information and the catalogue can be found on the website.

Exhibition
January 26th – March 3rd 2013

Location
Deichtorhallen – Internationale Kunst und Fotografie
Hamburg

Links
Gute Aussichten, www.guteaussichten.org
Deichtorhallen, www.deichtorhallen.de
Henning Bode, http://www.henningbode.com
Svetlana Mychkine, http://svetlana-mychkine.com

My photos of the post-apocalyptic athmosphere in NYC before hurricane sandy arrived are published on the Leica Blog. That’s pretty cool and now it was definitely worth that I was stuck in New York – beside the fact that NYC is not the worst place to be stuck.

This is really one of the coolest and most inspiring things I have seen in a very long time – maximum awesomeness!

The idea behind “unnamed soundsculpture”“unnamed soundsculpture” from Daniel Franke is the creation of a moving sculpture based on the recorded motion data of a real person. For their work Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by Machinenfabriek) by movements of her body. The dancer was filmed with three Kinect cameras generating a real 3D image.

“The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer, as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.

The body – constant and indefinite at the same time – “bursts” the space already with its mere physicality, creating a first distinction between the self and its environment. Only the body movements create a reference to the otherwise invisible space, much like the dots bounce on the ground to give it a physical dimension. Thus, the sound-dance constellation in the video does not only simulate a purely virtual space. The complex dynamics of the body movements is also strongly self-referential. With the complex quasi-static, inconsistent forms the body is “painting”, a new reality space emerges whose simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes.

Similar to painting, a single point appears to be still very abstract, but the more points are connected to each other, the more complex and concrete the image seems. The more perfect and complex the “alternative worlds” we project (Vilém Flusser) and the closer together their point elements, the more tangible they become. A digital body, consisting of 22 000 points, thus seems so real that it comes to life again.”

Links
Video – “unnamed soundsculpture” in full HD resolution
Video – Making of “unnamed soundsculpture”
Animation – We Are Chopchop
Generative Design – onformative – a studio for generative design
Music – The Naked and Famous – “The Sun”

Beautiful new styles from France: the new Spring/Summer Colletion by sessun. Some of the best styles are now available at VERVE-Shop.