Oasis - Morning Glory

A video which shows the mundaneness and difficulties of living in a Tower Block.

Four Yorkshire Men

Following on from Wednesday’s lecture and how we regard the home and it’s meaning. Have a look at the video below to see what these four Yorkshire men regard as being home.

Homefront Dissolve

Source: BLDGBLOG

Keiichi Matsuda, a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, produced this fantastic short video in the final year of his M.Arch. It was, he writes, "part of a larger project about the social and architectural consequences of new media and augmented reality."  The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it.  The bewildering groundlessness of surfaces within surfaces is beautifully captured by this video, and its portrayal of drop-down menus and the future hand gestures needed to access them is also pretty great. Augmented-reality drop-down menus are the Gothic ornamentation of tomorrow.  Now how do we use all that home-jamming ad space for something other than Coke and Tesco? What other subscription-content feeds can be plugged into this vertiginous interface?

Take a look—and you can find more thoughts, and another video, on Matsuda's own blog. http://keiichimatsuda.tumblr.com/

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Music Video With Animated Brutalism

Visual Music - Amon Tobin music video from 12FRAMES on Vimeo.
Making Of: http://12frames.de/motion.html
This short was selected by ONEDOTZERO and will be screened as a part of "terrain" 08/09.

My graduation film. It´s a music video about a man trapped in a dream. His world, consisting of "plattenbauten" (buildings made with precast concrete slabs) begins to fall apart...

Phenomenology & Semiotics of House Video Clips

This and the following posts relate to the lecture this morning and couldn't be shown, please check it out here:

Michael Landy on Breakdown


Tornado: The Solid and the Ephemeral


Jean Cocteau: La Belle et la Bette [Beauty and the Beast], 1946


MTV Cribs Episode: Akon
Can't embed this, so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7T7np6HetU&feature=related

space & identity

This is a very moving movie! It highlights space in memory, utopian visions, identity, escapism. Restlessness in a space. Wanting to get somewhere better. For what?

Link to Blog Site 'Gameology'

Video Game Blog has section with essays and bibliography

Anish Kapoor Video

Hi Guys. Link to a recent programme about the work of Sculptor Anish Kapoor, who certainly breaks the Gallery. Hope you enjoy. Rich

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ex45vAUPU

"For Sally"

Here is some background information regarding Brunel's statue at Pennycomequick Roundabout. I carried out some research for the City and Archive task last as it had puzzled me as to why the statue had been commissioned and also sited at the roundabout. Accompanying information and photographs (of it sited on the Hoe were kindly supplied by Brian Webber, Parks Services Technical Officer. Plymouth City Council. The one of it sited at the roundabout is my own photograph.)


Hi Richard
Thanks for your enquiry about the Brunel statue on Pennycomequick
Roundabout. The sculpture was commissioned in 2006 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of
Brunel's birth in 1806. The sculpture was carved by Lee Dickenson of 'Squashed Apple' who is based in Dorset.Parks Services celebrated Brunel's achievements in 2006 by placing the
sculpture in the Hoe Front Garden. In 2007 it was placed on the roundabout at Pennycomequick.

Also to celebrate the anniversary we had a flower bed planted out in the shape
of the Royal Albert Bridge.
Hope this has been of help
Brian

Little footnote, during my research I did try to contact Squashed Apple and never got beyond their website home page ???

http://www.squashedapplewoodcarving.co.uk/

J. Morgan Puett

Another link from the lecture, as I don't think I put them in the presentation docs.

Richard Wilson: Turning The Place Over, 2008

Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing 'window', offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours.



Media responses are here:

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_headline=city--8217-s-new-room-with-a-view----but-is-it-art-&method=full&objectid=19259774&siteid=50061-name_page.html

Matt Colishaw at the Freud Museum

This short film was what I intended for the lecture... hope it works this time!

identity

a sculpture/statue called "the meeting place" by Paul Day is at St.Pancras station. Representing lots of notions, amongst which was the idea of british reserve, part of our identity, because of the delicate departing embrace..?

Videos. Streets in the Sky. The City

Hi Guys

Here is a link to some videos I have posted on youtube. Streets in the Sky documents some of the history and redevelopment of Park Hill Flats in Sheffield. Whilst The City focuses on the people of Bath's fight to stop the redevelopment of the city by Patrick Abercrombie after World War 2. Apologies for each video being in four parts, but youtube won't accept clips longer than 10 minutes. Hope you enjoy. Rich

www.youtube.com/user/richmellowyellow

Heterotopias in Cinema

More on Utopia/Heterotopia:  I've just been forwarded this link from a french blog site, not all the movies are mainstream but there are some very well known movies in the list, it does help with definitions of the term Heterotopia....

Andrei Tarkosvky: Stalker (1979)

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema

He's one of the most interesting writers on space, architecture and film but also the dominance of the 'scopic' [meaning the visual and the eye] in visual culture, [another book ref here:  The Eyes of the Skin.]  This would be great for those of you who are researching set design and spatial concepts in film and media, but also refers back to painting, which is quite an exotic mix, but he successfully synthesises interdisciplinarity.  Please also note that the link takes you to a good synopsis of the book which is informative for your annotated bibliography.

Andrei Tarkovski: Solyaris

Solyaris (1972) is my personal choice for the 'film dystopia hell space' category, although I couldn't quite get the clip I was looking for, but this one of the famous highway scene will do - I think it was shot in Osaka, Japan. The story was also made into a film by Stephen Soderbergh, Solaris (2002) which fleshes out the narrative more or reinterprets differently?  Both are from the book Solaris (1961), by Stanislaw Lem.  It is one of the most engaging movies I have ever seen - but it takes a couple of viewings but also patience, because it's slow, quiet and, well, dreamy...

Michel Foucault: Of Other Spaces

Here's the text by Foucault which is the basis of a lecture he gave in 1967 on the subject of Utopias and Heterotopias...

Brutalism Web Links

Hi Guys

Found today's Lecture really interesting as Brutalism/Modernism is the area my essay is based around. I have added some web links on the subject that you may find interesting. Hope you enjoy. Rich

www.open2.net/modernity
www.open2.net/modernity/4_15.htm
www.riskybuildings.org.uk/index.html
www.sarahjduncan.com/index.html
www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.00100300200l003
www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/image_galleries/park_hill_gallery.shtm

Jacob's Lader - Vision of Hell Scene

I have recently rediscovered a film i have be trying to track down for quite some time.
I first watched this film at a very young age and this scene in the film was the most memorable for me as it gave me nightmares for a very long time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXXbIOc9h4g&NR=1

just thought id share it with everyone ..