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sight unseen: the hows and whys of invisibility

April 20, 2015 by slow shimo

Sight Unseen: The Hows and Whys of Invisibility (kathryn schulz) The New Yorker, April 13 2015 It is possible, according to many sources, to become invisible, but you must be patient, methodical, and willing to eat almost anything. One characteristic spell, recorded by the British polymath John Aubrey around 1680, instructs you to begin by acquiring the severed head of a man who has committed suicide. You then bury the head, together with seven black beans, on a Wednesday morning […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: invisibility, Philip Ball

to leave a light impression

March 22, 2015 by slow shimo

darren almond (b. 1971, wigan, uk) at whitecube, bermondsey white cube, south galleries, bermondsey. 22 january to 13 april 2014 This exhibition included photographs from the ‘Fullmoon’ and ‘Present Form’ series as well as a group of small-scale bronze sculptures. The ‘Fullmoon’ series of photographs, which have taken Almond to every continent over a period of 13 years, are taken under the light of a full moon using long exposure, enabling details undetectable to the human eye to be revealed. […]

Categories: art i like, artstatic • Tags: darren almond, to leave a light impression, white cube

fashion illustrators 10

March 22, 2015 by slow shimo

in no particular order (10 of 10) jordi labanda (b. mercedes, uruguay. lives and works in new york) bil donovan (lives and works in new york) uses selectivity as a backdrop for his work. His ability to capture the essence of a fleeting moment or spirit of a personality with a minimal amount of time and detail initiated a working relationship with vogue which commissioned bil to capture events and create portraits of the attendees at various vogue special […]

Categories: cloth threads, fashion illustrators • Tags: bil donovan, jason brooks, jean philippe delhomme, jordi labanda, tina berning

fashion illustrators 09

March 22, 2015 by slow shimo

in no particular order (09 of 10) jeanette getrost (born in los angeles) is a fashion illustrator with a background in figure drawing. kareem iliya (born in beirut. lives and works in vermont, usa) illustrations have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including The New York Times, W Magazine, WWD, Harper’s Bazaar, Los Angeles TIme, Chicago Tribune, among others. stina persson (lives and works in stockholm, sweden) izak zenou is a stylishly quirky presence in the world of […]

Categories: cloth threads, fashion illustrators • Tags: autumn whitehurst, izak zenou, jeanette getrost, kareem iliya, stina persson

trisha brown

March 10, 2015 by slow shimo

Trisha Brown (b. Aberdeen, Washington) “I decided I should make the structure as visible as the dancing.” After graduating from Mills College in Oakland, California, studying with Anna Halprin and teaching at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Trisha Brown moved to New York City in 1961. Instantly immersed in what was to become the post-modern phenomena of Judson Dance Theater, her movement investigations found the extraordinary in the everyday and challenged existing perceptions of what constitutes performance. In this “hot-bed […]

Categories: contact improvisation, free flow • Tags: contemporary dance, trisha brown

floor of the forest

March 8, 2015 by slow shimo

First performed in 1970 in New York City’s downtown Soho neighbourhood by Trisha Brown and Carmen Beuchat, “Floor of the Forest” consists of a sculptural steel frame holding up a web of ropes that have been threaded with colourful used clothing. Placed at eye-level, this horizontal plane becomes a soft platform for two dancers to negotiate. Climbing onto the apparatus, the dancers weave their way across the structure by putting on and then taking off the clothing, occasionally pausing to […]

Categories: contact improvisation, free flow • Tags: contemporary dance, floor of the forest, trisha brown

minima moralia: gaps

March 7, 2015 by slow shimo

entry 50, minima moralia (t.w.adorno) Gaps. — The injunction to practise intellectual honesty usually amounts to sabotage of thought. The writer is urged to show explicitly all the steps that have led him to his conclusion, so enabling every reader to follow the process through and, where possible – in the academic industry – to duplicate it. This demand not only invokes the liberal fiction of the universal communicability of each and every thought and so inhibits their objectively appropriate […]

Categories: literat, philo & crit • Tags: adorno, gaps, minima moralia

the young painters

March 6, 2015 by slow shimo

The Young Painters (nicole krauss) The New Yorker, June 28, 2010 Four or five years after we got married, Your Honor, S. and I were invited to a dinner party at the home of a German dancer, who was then living in New York. At the time, S. worked at a theatre where the dancer was performing a solo piece. The apartment was small and filled with the dancer’s unusual possessions, things he had been given or had found on […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat

aoshima cats

March 5, 2015 by slow shimo

Curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village, an army of feral cats rules a remote island in southern Japan outnumbering humans six to one. Originally introduced to the mile-long island of Aoshima to deal with mice that plagued fishermen’s boats, the cats stayed on – and multiplied. Aoshima, a 30-minute ferry ride off the coast of Ehime prefecture, had been home to 900 people in 1945. The only sign of human activity now is the boatload of […]

Categories: free flow, move my dog • Tags: aoshima, cats

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