If you need something to relax your students before an exam, or just to make you laugh, have a look at this video for the song “70 Million”. It’s by “Hold Your Horses”, a French pop/indie group. I can’t imagine how much fun it must have been to make the video. Also a good…
Aerial photos of the September 11 attack on New York were released, as reported in the LA Times: “The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained by ABC after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request…
For a breathtaking look at one filmmaker’s visual dialogue with the built environment, check out the short film The Third & and The Seventh, a “FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art [sic] across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.” Among…
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art now offers its first online Reading Room. This “room” holds ten rare exhibition catalogues, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s, of Southern California contemporary art. For more information and upcoming projects, see Culture Monster.
The Big Picture, part of the Boston Globe online, is a massive archive of browsable and downloadable news photos. The up-to-the-minute images are organized by month and by categories such as Middle East, Religion, Daily Life, Disasters, etc. Each topic includes several photos, and in some cases (such as the post-Hurricane Ike group under “Disasters”)…
If you are in LA this week you should try to attend “In the Wake of Progress: An Evening with Edward Burtynsky”. It takes place Thursday, January 28, 7pm, at the Gin D. Wong FAIA Conference Center/ Auditorium, Harris Hall 101 at USC as part of the “Visions and Voices” program. Admission is free. Canadian…