As American photographer Gregory Crewdson celebrates his 46th birthday today, let’s take a look at his life and methods. (Shown above is one of his untitled photographs from 2004.)
1. Remember that song “Let Me Take Your Photo” that played during Hewlett Packard’s digital camera commercials? The song was the first single released by The Speedies , a punk rock band. Crewdson and his friends Eric Hoffert and Allen Hurkin-Torres had formed the band as teens.
2. During his childhood, Crewdson would sometimes try to eavesdrop on his psychoanalyst dad’s sessions (his office was in the basement). Crewdson explains, “I could never really hear anything. All I knew was that it was secret and that it was forbidden. And there you have it. That’s my work in a nutshell. ”
3. Crewdson’s photography, often compared to cinematography, has been influenced by several films. Crewdson lists Alfred Hitchcock ’s “Vertigo,” “Rear Window,”...
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It was a photographic version of the colorful phrase, drinking from the firehose . Thursday night I attended a lecture by Magnum photographer Paul Fusco and then Friday, an opening of a show by National Geographic photographer Cary Wolinsky, both events presented by the Photographic Resource Center .
Paul Fusco spoke softly but passionately to a packed BU auditorium where he discarded the podium and sat on the stage, insisting on near-total darkness so the images (projected from an au... more
Sol Lewitt From: slog.thestranger.com Post Date: 2008-11-18 09:35:23
Photo by Lacayo
Richard Lacayo’s got the best images, impressions, and interviews from the huge Sol Lewitt drawing retrospective that opened Sunday — and is up for 25 years —in Massachusetts.
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Metaphors of the Mind : Why Loneliness Feels Cold and Sins Feel Dirty. Also contains some observations about creativity and self-identity. (via Boing Boing )
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Hybrids are yesterday’s news by Nissan’s standards. They see all-electric vehicles as the wave of the future.
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American Circus and Carnival Slang . If you’ve ever wondered what these guys were saying, now you can look it up. (via Metafilter )
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Today marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), a Latvian-American artist who believed “pictures must be miraculous.” In honor of Rothko, and at the request of reader nikki, today we’ll take a look at Rothko’s life and art. (Shown above is his 1938 “Entrance to Subway,” part of his Subway Scenes series.)
1. Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rothkowitz to a highly-educated family fluent in Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew. At the age... more
What can a team of design students create in just 24 hours? How about a complete video game level, crammed with animation, danger, and innovative art?
Last weekend, students from New York City’s slightly awkwardly-named Parsons The New School for Design divided themselves into teams to design levels for an upcoming PlayStation 3 game called LittleBigPlanet . In the game, the player controls a little “sackboy” (with what appears to be a hacky sack for a head) as ... more
I have a weird fascination with underground rivers, be they natural, man-made, or just plain awesome. In a recent post about phobias, many people expressed fear of things lurking beneath murky bodies of water; what could be darker, or stranger or scarier than something lurking in a body of water that is itself lurking underground? There are many in the world: here’s one of our favorites.
London’s River Fleet
The largest of the so-called “lost” tributaries of the Tham... more
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