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FOR THE GUGGENHEIM

Published by admin on November 25, 2008 in ART and REVLOG. Closed
FOR THE GUGGENHEIM


author video: VERNISSAGE TV – artist: JENNY HOLZER – duration: 06:16

Sit down, relax. Click to enlarge the video (below in the frame, on the right). Take 6 minutes of your lunch hour and watch. This is a work of Jenny Holzer made especially for the Guggenheim Museum in New York in celebration of the restoration. As the Guggenheim writes:

“Her transformative work will cast large-scale texts—comprising the artist’s own writings and poems—directly onto Frank Lloyd Wright’s curving architecture. Suffused with a play of light and changing language, the building and its surroundings will become an environment for looking, discussing, and gathering.”

It will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday through December 31.

The video was shot by Heinrich Schmidt from VernissageTV, an art video blog with it’s homebase in Basel, Switzerland.

Link to the original posting: CLICK HERE
Jenny Holzer @ the Guggenheim: CLICK HERE
VernissageTV: CLICK HERE
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More on Jenny Holzer: CLICK HERE



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BEIRUT – NANTES (TAKE AWAY SHOW #64.1)

Published by admin on October 23, 2007 in MUSIC and REVLOG. 2 Comments
BEIRUT - <em>NANTES</em> (TAKE AWAY SHOW #64.1)

authors: BEIRUT for THE TAKE AWAY SHOWS from LA BLOGOTHEQUE – duration: 05:37

We wouldn’t be surprised if many of you remember the revlog we did of TOM BROSSEAU, singing with his beautiful hair-raising voice in a macho New York barbershop. Now for those of you who don’t: All this fantastic material is shot and produced by Les Concerts A Emporter, aka THE TAKE AWAY SHOWS and to be more precise: By Vincent Moon and Chryde as part of their French weblog LA BLOGOTHEQUE. The idea is as sweet and simple:

“You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens… Every week, we give away a session, shot with a band, in an unusual, urban environment. Sessions are always filmed as a unique shot, without any cut, recorded live. We usually haven’t much time to record them, so the groups have to be spontaneous, to improvise, play with what they have with them, and with their environment, whether there’s a public or not.”

Well… this particular posting is very very extra ordinary. For anybody unknown to the new rising star and soon to be legendary ZACH CONDON & his band BEIRUT we vehemently advice to go check them out. For those of you who already know: Enjoy this one… Take it away Zach! As Chryde writes:

“…Today, Beirut has grown from a solo bedroom project to a band of up to ten people; it’s a band, but not a band. It’s a happy mistake; a mess. A group of noisy, undisciplined, joyful people who took over an entire terrace on Oberkampf, gathering around the tables, spreading their instruments and cases, everyone playing songs in their own world… Such a messy, smiling anarchy that we thought we’d never manage to play the song.

And in the middle, there’s Zach. Frail Zach, with his skinny yet magical arms. One can read his excitement in them, as he communicates to his band through them; a conductor, pointing to instruments and melodies as he sees momentum gather in the song. this had been one of the first times the band had played Nantes outside of the studio, and Zach looked as if he was explaining the song to his band as he was singing it, his arms dancing around his body.”

Permalink to the original posting: CLICK HERE
The Take Away Shows (English): CLICK HERE
Les Concerts A Emporter (French): CLICK HERE
BEIRUT (fantastic music – check it out): CLICK HERE
More on Zach Condon: CLICK HERE
Subscribe to The Take Away Show (English): CLICK HERE
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TOM BROSSEAU – DARLING COREY

Published by admin on May 3, 2007 in MUSIC and REVLOG. 3 Comments
TOM BROSSEAU - DARLING COREY

authors: ONE TAKE NEW YORK for THE TAKE AWAY SHOWS from LA BLOGOTHEQUE
duration: 05:12

Exactly one year ago Vincent Moon started THE TAKE AWAY SHOWS as part of the French weblog Blogotheque. Moon’s idea was sweet and simple:

“You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens… Every week, we give away a session, shot with a band, in an unusual, urban environment. Sessions are always filmed as a unique shot, without any cut, recorded live. We usually haven’t much time to record them, so the groups have to be spontaneous, to improvise, play with what they have with them, and with their environment, whether there’s a public or not.”

About a week ago a great spin-off launched: ONE TAKE NEW YORK, made by Ben Cramer, David Sampliner and Hope Hall, a young NYC based documentary filmmaker. Their first recording is just mesmerizing: Tom Brosseau, a folksinger gifted with a bewitching voice, performing the traditional bluegrass song Darling Corey in a very large and noisy barber shop. As Hope Hall writes:

“One of the things we like best about Tom and his music is how sincerely a throwback he is. He dresses and acts the part of a guy from a small town and a bygone age but he’s not winking at it or us. He means it. That’s why we loved the idea of plunking him down Joe Buck-like in the middle of mod Manhattan amid all its aggressive cacophony and hipster posing to see how his gentle, very unhip presence would fare…

In Astor Hair, the idea was to let Tom stroll about the place, sure that his angelic singing and playing would eventually turn every shaved and mohawked head his way, at the very least to see why there was a guy in cowboy boots singing a country song in the middle of a barber shop. We let the owner know what we were up to, but no one else was in on it, so we were sure we’d rigged a surprise that would provoke a response. Not to be — the thing we like best about what happened is the last thing we would have predicted. Once Tom started playing, virtually no one seemed to pay him or us any mind. It’s just his lonesome voice alongside the din of barbershop activity, each oblivious to the other, like he was a ghost only we (and the camera) could see.”

Permalink to the original posting: CLICK HERE
The Take Away Shows (English): CLICK HERE
Les Concerts A Emporter (French): CLICK HERE
One Take New York: CLICK HERE
Tom Brosseau’s website: CLICK HERE
Hope Halls’s website: CLICK HERE
Subscribe to The Take Away Show (English): CLICK HERE
Subscribe to The Take Away Show (French): CLICK HERE



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