Archive for August, 2009

Blowin’ in the Wind in Japanese, kind of…

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

What happens when you translate the first line of a Dylan song into Japanese and back over and over again until it translates into the same English phrase twice?
You get a very mangled lyric which somehow still scans.

A Lesson in Framing and Disclosure

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Chris Marker’s Junkopia is watchable online. I really love the framing and the rhythm of the cutting in this piece, and the way each shot of an object reveals a different aspect depending on angle and context, both spatially and within the film’s own timeline (”narrative” seems too strong a word). There is something reminiscent [...]